Framer wrote:Wow! Who'd have thought that a donut joint could move so many people to tears?
Personally, I don't get it. The donuts and bagels are subpar and I don't drink coffee, so the place gets little business from me.
Personally, I don't get it. The donuts and bagels are subpar and I don't drink coffee, so the place gets little business from me.
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Xing wrote:brickandmortar wrote:There's one in Fairview Heights, so technically they never left.
That's not a Dunkin Donuts, but it use to be. It's a Donut King or something like that. It's basically the same thing, but they changed the name.
That place has a lot of good memories for me. It's in the area of FH where I grew up. Most of the stores there are ma and pa types, although everything is starting to close down and move further east.
I haven't been over in that part of Fairview for a couple years now. I think that was the only one in this area at the time. Does anyone remember Mister Donut? I miss those. I saw one in Alton last year, wonder if that's still open.
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RBB wrote:A Freestanding Dunkin' Donuts in Orlando, FL:
A "new concept" freestanding Dunkin' Donuts in Philadelphia:
Those look pretty good, but I'm sure we'll get the standard issue Ballwinesque rubbish designs if any freestanding stores are built within the city. Too few of our aldermen care about urban design, probably because too few of the citizens that elect them care about urban design. In some ways we live in a much more progressive city than just a few years ago, and in others, we still have a very long way to go.
(And yes, I know I'm talking about something that's seemingly trivial like the design of fast food restaurants, but I think aesthetics, urban scale, and the relation of new construction to our unique and beautiful built environment deserve far more consideration than what passes for appropriate scrutiny of such matters at City Hall.)
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The design of fast food restaurants is anything but trivial, given how many of them we have in this country. Ugly-ass, large setback-having, fry grease-stinking abominations.
JMedwick wrote:Framer wrote:Wow! Who'd have thought that a donut joint could move so many people to tears?
Personally, I don't get it. The donuts and bagels are subpar and I don't drink coffee, so the place gets little business from me.
You don't drink coffee, and that's the key. The thing that made Dunkin Donuts come back from the dead was its coffee. In Chicago, the fight at the office was always between Dunkin Donut's Coffee, or Starbucks. A lot of people preferred Dunkin Donuts. Personally, it never made a difference to me.
brickandmortar wrote:I haven't been over in that part of Fairview for a couple years now. I think that was the only one in this area at the time. Does anyone remember Mister Donut? I miss those. I saw one in Alton last year, wonder if that's still open.
I had no idea that there was such a long history behind Mister Donut, or even that it's now the largest donut chain in Japan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mister_Donut
Of the surviving 11 Mister Donut stores in the USA, one is in Godfrey.
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^^ That's actually quite a hilarious picture if you imagine that the 2 signs only make up 1 sign.
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In retrospect, that was a bit of a jack*ss comment by me. Clearly if you have half a brain, that was the point of the picture.
I used to love their donut holes-- from the Pasta House Pronto location. Good to hear they're coming back.
I am so glad to have them back in St. Louis! I moved to St. Louis in 1999 and that was one of many things we are missing out on. I asked around and found out they were open in Ballwin on Manchester through the late 1990s. However 100 stores seems like a lot...Back home in Boston, there is literally a Dunkin Donuts on ever corner! They have fantastic coffee and great doughnuts along with bagels and breakfast sandwiches. I think they will first open in urban areas such as the CWE, Loop, Clayton, and hopefully DT. I like their concept more than Krispy Kreme. I feel like Krispy Kreme set themselves up to fail as they grew too fast and at the wrong time.
Starbucks really needs to reconsider their plans for St. Louis with this announcement. IMO Starbucks coffee is better hands down.
What is the next Boston based chain coming to St. Louis? Au Bon Pain?
Starbucks really needs to reconsider their plans for St. Louis with this announcement. IMO Starbucks coffee is better hands down.
What is the next Boston based chain coming to St. Louis? Au Bon Pain?
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b777stl wrote:What is the next Boston based chain coming to St. Louis? Au Bon Pain?
LOL! That is a joke, right?
One of my good friends was back in town from NYC last night looking at real estate in the area. We caught up over drinks and I have some good news to share. Her family owns a fair amount of Dunkin Donuts back home and plans on opening twelve Dunkin Donuts in St. Louis with the first to open up around the August timeframe.
In other news, another one of my friends is a commercial producer and got a recent promotion to staff a production office in St. Louis. This means they won't have to piggyback on NY, Miami or LA. It won't be publicly unveiled until this fall, so I can't share any more information at this time.
In other news, another one of my friends is a commercial producer and got a recent promotion to staff a production office in St. Louis. This means they won't have to piggyback on NY, Miami or LA. It won't be publicly unveiled until this fall, so I can't share any more information at this time.
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innov8ion wrote:One of my good friends was back in town from NYC last night looking at real estate in the area. We caught up over drinks and I have some good news to share. Her family owns a fair amount of Dunkin Donuts back home and plans on opening twelve Dunkin Donuts in St. Louis with the first to open up around the August timeframe.
I hope you put a good word in for downtown!
excellent! my wife and i moved from boston about 6 years ago and have been w/o DD coffee and french crullers for way too long! i'm already salivating at the thought of slurping down a coffee coolatta.
The Central Scrutinizer wrote:b777stl wrote:What is the next Boston based chain coming to St. Louis? Au Bon Pain?
LOL! That is a joke, right?
are there any other locations in stl besides the one in SLU's student center?
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Time to Make the Donuts!
http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stloui ... rround=lfn
The franchisee’s plans call for one unit to open by 2011 and the rest within the next several years, the donut and coffee shop chain said Thursday.
http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stloui ... rround=lfn
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Man, I wish DD's re-entry into the St. Louis market was on a faster track, but it'll still be nice to have them here again.
^ That's just one franchisee. You're forgetting about the others.
Mmm. Box of coffee and donut holes. Best morning treat for the office/store.
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innov8ion wrote:^ That's just one franchisee. You're forgetting about the others.
Actually, I didn't forget, but when I didn't hear any more news about the first round of new stores, I assumed those plans were shelved.
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The Central Scrutinizer wrote:b777stl wrote:What is the next Boston based chain coming to St. Louis? Au Bon Pain?
LOL! That is a joke, right?
Classic.
By the way - I do love Dunkin' Donuts. I'm in Boston a dozen times a year and always stop in once or twice a trip. The best thing is that DD can help a midwesterner make a delicious mistake - order a "regular coffee" and get equal parts sugar, cream and coffee - "Hey, that's not what I . . . sip . . . mmm mmmm mmmm. Thank you".