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Dunkin' Donuts to launch 99-cent menu in Chicago

Dunkin' Donuts said Friday it will launch a new 99-cent menu at 500 Chicago locations on Monday and hand out 20,000 gift cards pre-loaded with $2 each to lure customers.

Dunkin' Donuts pulls drinks in salmonella concern

Dunkin' Donuts has temporarily stopped selling hot chocolate and Dunkaccino brand beverages after learning equipment used at a supplier's facility might have been contaminated with salmonella.

Man with no pants at doughnut shop pleads guilty

A man who took his pants off before going out for doughnuts at a shop just north of New York City has pleaded guilty to public lewdness. John Greco admits he exposed his genitals in February while placing an order at a Dunkin Donuts drive-through in Yorktown.

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Dunkin' Donuts: 58 percent plan Turkey Day naps
Source: The Associated Press

CANTON, Mass. -- Falling asleep has apparently become as much a Thanksgiving Day tradition in America as carving the turkey or watching football.

Foie Gras Palates, Hot Dog Pocketbooks
Source: The New York Times

"The donut wars," several blogs and news organizations called them, as if a platoon of cinnamon crullers were advancing on a phalanx of glazed. The dispatches from the front were numerous — and impassioned. This was clearly a contest of the utmost consequence.

Faceoff With Canada, but Not on Ice (mmmmmm Tim Hortons)
Source: The New York Times

Tim Hortons doughnuts are freshly made at each location, so when the Dining staff gathered for a blind tasting of doughnuts from Dunkin' Donuts and the newly arrived Tim Hortons, we expected to find traditional flavor in the box of upstarts. The results were more complicated.

Trouble brewing - Donut Wars
Source: torontosun.com

NEW YORK -- There is about to be a doughnut war in New York. Canadian institution Tim Hortons has announced that it will open 12 outlets in Manhattan on Monday, marking its first excursion into the Big Apple.

Repentant robber returns cash, apologizes
Source: ABC Local Affiliates

A repentant robber who held up a suburban store returned a day later to apologize to the woman he robbed. And a surveillance camera was rolling as it all played out.

Muslim who won't sell pork loses franchise
Source: chicagobreakingnews.com

An Arab-American owner of a Chicago-area Dunkin' Donuts store has to give up his franchise after he lost his long-running legal battle with the restaurant chain over his religious objections to selling pork products.

Donut Extortion
Source: witn.com

Excerpt: Police arrested a man after he reportedly reached into his pocket like he had a gun and forced a customer in front of him at a Dunkin Donuts to pay for his order. Jacksonville Police say it happened at the Dunkin Donuts at 301 North Marine Boulevard Friday night.

Defending Rick Warren Amid The Donut :: Austin Hill
Source: townhall.com

Breaking News: Pastor Rick Warren may be about to receive a bunch of gift cards.

Dirty Dining: A Special Undercover Investigation
Source: cbs12

Excerpt: You use your hands all the time, but do you wash them just as often? Every day people are touching dirty surfaces, bodily fluids and then other people. You wouldn't go under the knife with surgeons who hadn't washed their hands.

Dunkin Donuts v. Starbucks = GOP v. Dem????
Source: brandcurve

Has anyone seen this commercial? It says that more "hardworking Americans" prefer Dunkin Donuts coffee over Starbucks. That sounds an awful lot like GOP campaign rhetoric to me. You know, "Pro-America", "Anti-America" .

VP Candidate Apologizes for Racist Remark
Source: msnbc.com

You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking," Biden said. ... "The point Senator Biden was making is that there has been a vibrant Indian-American community in Delaware for decades.

Hundreds Victimized In Soft Drink Swindle
Source: thebostonchannel.com

" A man was accused Wednesday of using stolen credit cards to buy thousands of dollars worth of Dunkin' Donuts gift cards. He then used the stolen cards to purchase soft drinks from the chain and resell them to other stores, according to Boston Police."

Ridwan Laher: Is McCain's daughter mainstreaming terrorism?
Source: ridwanlaher.blogspot.com

Ummmm, so in this picture you see Cindy McCain with her daughter Meghan. Yep those are personalized pillows. And yes that looks like a keffiyeh around Meghan s neck. How did this issue of national security slip by Michelle Malkin's attention?

Rachel Ray and Her Kaffiyeh (Bad Temptress!)

I just became acquainted today with the paisley neckerchief that was the harbinger of doom and the end of time. The scarf of the Apocalypse...

The blogger, the chef and the terrorist
Source: Chicago Tribune

That a near hysterical, publicity seeking blogger could bring Dunkin' Donuts to its knees over something so ridiculous is insanity.

Dunkin' Donuts pulls Rachael Ray ad after complaints
Source: CNN

Dunkin' Donuts has pulled an online advertisement featuring Rachael Ray after complaints that a fringed black-and-white scarf that the celebrity chef wore in the ad offers symbolic support for Muslim extremism and terrorism.

Rachael Ray ad pulled as pundit sees terror link
Source: msnbc.com

Dunkin' Donuts pulled a television spot featuring talk show host and Food Network personality Rachael Ray this weekend after a Fox news commentator associated it with terrorists.

Dunkin' Donuts is systematically forcing its small franchisees out of business
Source: NY Daily News

Dunkin' Donuts is waiting for its small franchisees to make any mistake, then suing them out of existence whether they're profitable or not.

Seattle Starbucks tests $1 coffee and free refills
Source: msnbc.com

Seattle is primed to become the most productive city in the United States.

Rachael Ray Doesn't Like Dunkin' Donuts Coffee
Source: New York Magazine

What? A celebrity who doesn't actually like the product they are paid to promote? What's this world coming to!

Footprints in snow lead police from Dunkin' Donuts to robber. And probably back again
Source: Somerville Journal Homepage RSS

The man suspected of robbing a Porter Square Dunkin' Donuts Thursday night left behind a trail of footprints in the snow for police. The night manager told police he was cleaning the donut shop at 1 White St. Dec. 20 at 4 a.m.

Where's the Beef? Same %$#@ Different Bun!

There's a new AP headline story about Mitt Romney and his position on immigration. Here's the angle they took.

Archrivals Storm Starbucks
Source: Business Week

McDonald's is making serious inroads in the coffee wars, while Dunkin' Donuts and Tim Hortons are rapidly expanding.

Too Fattening, Or Not?
Source: The Hartford Courant

Connecticut is looking to pass a bill that will make chain restaurants post their caloric count on all regular menu items.

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