Dunkin Donuts is heading to NC, where it has a lot to contend with. In addition to the deliciousness of Krispy Kreme donuts themselves, Dunkin will also have to fight giant catfish and grass slippers if it's to survive. A man in Elkin, near Winston-Salem, caught a record-breaking 21-pound catfish with his granddaughter's Barbie fishing rod earlier this month. Now, Krispy Kreme is breaking out the grass flip-flops to celebrate summer and de-stress employees. Made (apparently) of real, living, growing grass (over 5000 blades on each shoe), the sandals are meant to "bring summer magic to the city." The grass can live for months if cared for properly. Though the sandals seem to be the product of a UK marketing firm, we retain some hope that the idea hatched in the mind of a southerner reminiscing fondly of grassy meadows. What's next, tobacco Tevas?
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Dunkin' Donuts is gettin' serious. The Quincy-founded donut chain is infringing on southern-born Krispy Kreme's home territory, plotting a location in Krispy headquarters of Winston-Salem, NC. There are no Krispy Kremes in Massachusetts right now, so Dunkin is definitely throwing down the gauntlet and declaring donut war. Who will emerge victorious?
How do you write a treatise on Dunkin' Donuts? With five dollar words like "inculcated" and "extant." Mike Miliard writes such a tome for the Phoenix titled "Choosing our Religion" about the rise and embrace of Boston's beloved coffee and donut shop. It's not clear if people outside New England identify our chain the same way we see Starbucks as something coming from Seattle, but it really doesn’t matter – we drink it, and love...
The BPD rounded up 21 perps for smuggling pot and Ecstasy in "Operation Polar Express." Actually, judging from how bags of Ecstasy looked in this picture available at the Globe, the law should have called it "Operation Popcorn." This drug bust involved Vietnamese drug rings tied to Canada. These people were busy bees: "Investigators seized 85,000 ecstasy pills, worth nearly $2.6 million on the street, 130 pounds of marijuana, five guns, and $25,000." The BPD...
Just as Krispy Kreme starts to make an ignominious exit from the Commonwealth due to insufficient profits, mighty Dunkin' Donuts is at the height of its profitability and power, which is apparently the best time for its French owners, Pernod Ricard S.A., to sell it, along with its corporate siblings Baskin Robbins and Togo's (pronounced like the country, not like "to go"), a sandwich chain with two Mass. locations and many more on the west coast. (By the way, if, like Bostonist, you enjoy reading awkward English translations, the Pernod Ricard website is worth a look. In addition to being the "second operator worldwide in spirits and wine," the company describes itself in a way Bostonist hopes someday to be known: "A 'Pure Player' in Spirits and Wine with unlimited horizons.") Bids were due on Friday and were expected to be over $2 billion (which could only be made available in cash or stock, a fact Bostonist learned when our offer, which included a '98 Corolla and three minor-league infielders, was rejected). For those folks who like to patronize businesses that are not just locally based (as DD is, operating out of Canton), but locally owned, the sale provides some hope: Reports suggest that among the bidders are two different consortia of fabulously wealthy companies from our region: One group includes Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners, both of Boston, and another includes Providence Equity Partners (of Providence, of course). No word yet on whether local ownership will encourage the highly profitable chain to stop letting Commonwealth taxpayers cover its healthcare costs, but Bostonist has a guess.
When Krispy Kreme doughnuts first came to the Commonwealth, lo those many years ago (OK, three years), Bostonist was excited. Sure, this is Dunkin' Donuts territory, but damn! Krispy Kreme's doughnuts tasted wicked good, like eating flavored fat with sugar on top (yum!). But now, it appears the frail craft that was our doughnut enthusiasm has been cruelly dashed against the rocky shoals of business futility: Krispy Kreme has now closed two of its Massachusetts...
Free Doughnuts! Best Day Ever! Austinist deserves a thousand thanks for telling us about Doughnut Day at Krispy Kreme. We're sure the Prudential shop has a line all the way to library, but we're still going down there for a free caramel kreme crunch.