Diggity said:

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isn't Dunkin more of a coffee chain these days?

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Pretty much. Its part of why they dropped the Donut part of their name. When they first came to the area a few years ago i figured I'd give them a shot. The donuts were just meh. It made me wonder how the hell this became a large national chain. Then i picked up their coffee on the way to a work training and the amount of sugar they shoved in the drink made me realize how this became a popular breakfast spot in the NE before Starbucks fully took over. When you think of it as a coffee shop with donuts it changes the expectation completely than if you go to it thinking its a donut shop that happens to have coffee (like shipley's)

TXAG 05 said:

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Dunkin Donuts is opening a store practically across the street front the Ella Shipley store. Bold move.

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So lines of cars down both sides of the street.

Maybe they'll have a dance off like the Thriller video.

The Wonderer said:

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TXAG 05 said:

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Dunkin Donuts is opening a store practically across the street front the Ella Shipley store. Bold move.

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Where?

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In the old Carl's Jr. building.

TXAG 05 said:

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The Wonderer said:

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TXAG 05 said:

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Dunkin Donuts is opening a store practically across the street front the Ella Shipley store. Bold move.

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Where?

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In the old Carl's Jr. building.

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Yikes, Ella/610 corner is going to be even more of a CF in the morning.

The wife and I were considering GO/OF. A few weeks ago we had an early dinner at Aladdins so dealt with rush hour traffic. We quickly realized we want to have no part in dealing with that crap daily.

htxag09 said:

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The wife and I were considering GO/OF. A few weeks ago we had an early dinner at Aladdins so dealt with rush hour traffic. We quickly realized we want to have no part in dealing with that crap daily.

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If you know the other roads, you can avoid most of that crap. I live on Wakefield and office at 290/610 and never deal with rush hour traffic by taking other non-major routes.

Dunkin : Boston :: Shipley : Houston

Realizing that Dunkin is more national than Shipley and all of that, the comparison fails in some ways. But knowing people from Boston and that area, you would think that Dunkin glazed their donuts and sweetened their coffee with actual gold dust. Those same people will trash Shipley to no end.

htxag09 said:

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The wife and I were considering GO/OF. A few weeks ago we had an early dinner at Aladdins so dealt with rush hour traffic. We quickly realized we want to have no part in dealing with that crap daily.

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You're getting your wife an OnlyFans account? Bold move, Cotton

Doesn't dunkin pump their donuts full of preservatives and ship their donuts to all this locations? They are definitely trash.

I don't see a new Dunkin putting that much more strain on Ella. The Dunkin on Yale is a ghost town most of the time because their donuts suck. I agree that it is a bold, but stupid, move.

That's like putting an On The Border next to a Ninfa's or El Tiempo.

Yes the Dunkin donuts are basically shipped in frozen.

ChipFTAC01 said:

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Yes the Dunkin donuts are basically shipped in frozen.

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Sounds like the donut discussion between the two is over with. No doubter.

Shipleys coffee is roadhouse style. I would assume dunkins is better but that's not the argument.

I worked at Dunkin for their aborted growth into Houston back in 08. The real strategy/goal was to just get by on selling you donuts until they became your goto stop for a cup of coffee. Obviously the profit margins on coffee are astomoically hire on coffee than food.