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I like their coffee, especially the iced coffee. The thing about Dunkin Donuts is a lot depends on how good the management of the location is. If it's good, you get a decent cup of coffee or donut or breakfast sandwich quickly. Some of them you barely have to slow down at the drive-thru, it's that quick. But if the management of a location is poor it really shows.

And I bet the location is near I-35 south of the QT and Culvers. There's a new plaza there they're building and it has a drive-thru on the end. I was thinking it would eb a Starbucks, but I bet it's the Dunkin Donuts.

Google tells me it will actually be in OP, not Olathe. 151st and 69.

http://www.kansascity.com/199/story/1283014.html

When we drove through eastern Texas to get to Galveston there was a donut shop on nearly every block.

Usually Shipley Donuts down there. There's tons of kolache shops down there too, which are 1,000 times better than doughnuts as a breakfast food.

You are correct, I have seen the building, it is by that Culvers over there.

Dunkin , Krispy Kreme, Lamars,...... Who the F*** ever donuts .... Does anyone really have to be HUNGRY to eat a donut?

I don't.



I wonder if they have a lot of crime in them parts?

I love DD coffee. Kicks the crap out of Starbucks, which I'm not a fan of, or any other chain. It's why they rule here in the Northeast.

That said, their donuts have been mediocre ever since they took out the TransFats. To me, if you want a donut, you're not trying to eat healthy, so just leave in the bad stuff that makes them delicious. NOw, it's not worth the calories to eat a mediocre donut.

Krispy Kreme donuts were much better, but their coffee sucked, so they died up here. Starbucks is the only decent sized competitor. We also have Pete's, which isn't bad, but there's not many of them around.

This.

McD's coffee is now acceptable since they made the big switch to promote it. Their old junk was undrinkable swill.

it's ALL about the drive-thru. The busiest DD in the world is a few miles from my house and it has a "double drive thru". There's the regular drive through, and then a separate lane that is serviced by a little, errr, hut I guess you'd call it. It's basically a shed. They only serve coffee out of there.

Yeah, a good location can just move cars in and out so fast you barely have a chance to get your money ready.

Do they still have any Daylight Donut shops around? Best donuts ever....

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Okay, here's the deal when it comes to Dunkin' Donuts. They started in Massachusetts back in the 50s IIRC, so they are ubiquitous in New England (with many 24-hour locations) and have spread down the east coast as well as westward. They got their name because at one time they actually had a donut called a "dunkin' donut", a plain cake donut with a handle on it (looked like a tire with an air bubble in it) so you could dunk the donut in your coffee and not get your fingers wet, LOL.

Up until the mid 1980s, their coffee was awesome. They used to use a smooth mocha java blend that made the best cup of coffee. However, since the mid-80s, the coffee quality has gone downhill. Even if the pot's not too old it has a bit of a bitter afterkick. I don't know if this is a result of a.) cheaper beans, b.) a decline in overall bean quality on the planet, c.) the fact that disgusting strong coffee like Starbucks is now popular, or d.) a combination of the above.

However, their coffee is pretty consistent. It'll rarely knock your socks off, but it'll rarely make you grimace and throw it away. It's "consistently average", I guess you could say. The ice coffee seems better than the hot coffee.

We had Krispy Kreme here briefly. Their coffee was atrocious. And the donuts, while good as a guilty treat now and then, were just too sugary to eat on a consistent basis.

We also have Tim Horton's. Nothing to write home about, really.

Dunkin' has managed to keep afloat because they know how to diversify. They sell a lot of coffee and a lot of donuts. But they also do hot chocolate, chai tea, cappucchino, frozen coffee "smoothie-style" drinks with crushed ice, fruit smoothies, muffins (very well), bagels, croissants, danish, cookies, egg sandwiches (on bagel, English, or croissant, with a variety of meats), flatbread egg sandwiches, hash browns, and they now have egg wraps (a small tortilla). And I might have missed a few menu items there. (Frankly, as a kid I got coffee and donuts constantly, but I can't remember the last time I actually got a donut from them; I usually get coffee and an egg-and-cheese bagel, sometimes with hash browns, sometimes instead I'll get a danish or muffin.)

If you like Starbucks coffee, you probably won't like Dunkin'. On the other hand, it won't cost you four bucks for a coffee like it does at Starbucks. I absolutely detest Starbucks (to me it tastes like a four-day old cup of Dunkin' that was used as a Marlboro ashtray).

McDonald's coffee, up until the mid 1980s, was only good as a weapon since it was so hot. (I know, I used to drink it constantly when I worked at a liquor store.) However, recently they've changed to a blend of Newman's Own Organics and Green Mountain Coffee, and their coffee is actually pretty damn good now. Not too long ago, I'd stop at Dunkin' for a coffee and then at McDonald's for some breakfast; now I just get the coffee at Mickey D's as well.

Burger King coffee still sucks ass.