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Stale donuts and bad coffee returning to BR: Dunkin Donuts buys land near LSU

Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:33 am
Posted by member12
Bob's Country Bunker
Member since May 2008
32246 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:33 am
All 3 Dunkin Donuts locations in Baton Rouge went out of business - the last one in 2018. If you ever tried their coffee or donuts, you'd know why they failed.

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A tract near the intersection of West Lee and Burbank drives has been sold for $1.5 million to a Texas fast food franchisee, who plans to put a Dunkin' on the site.

Baton Rouge hasn't had a Dunkin', previously Dunkin' Donuts, since 2018.

Tasty Delites Southeast LLC of Plano, Texas, bought the 1.2 acre site in a deal that was filed Wednesday with the East Baton Rouge Clerk of Court’s office. The seller was Asterrone LLC of Metairie, a group made up of the family of late auto dealer Price LeBlanc.


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I guess they want to try to compete against Mary Lee and Shipley's again.
This post was edited on 3/15/24 at 9:34 am
Posted by Roy Curado
Member since Jul 2021
1185 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:34 am to
DD aint got nothing on KK.
Posted by LSUcdro
Republic of West Florida
Member since Sep 2009
11277 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:35 am to
dont frick with Mary Lee
Posted by yellowfin
Coastal Bar
Member since May 2006
98083 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:36 am to
Donuts are terrible but I like the coffee.
Posted by Darth_Vader
A galaxy far, far away
Member since Dec 2011
66003 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:36 am to
Krispy Kream is the walking dog of the coffee and doughnuts world.
Posted by tigerpawl
Can't get there from here.
Member since Dec 2003
22628 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:37 am to
quote:

Donuts are terrible but I like the coffee.
Why is their retail coffee so incredibly expensive? Is it that much better than Folgers?

Folgers: $0.28/oz
Dunkin: $0.49/oz
This post was edited on 3/15/24 at 9:41 am
Posted by Dawgfanman
Member since Jun 2015
24237 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:37 am to
Good coffee, bad donuts.
Posted by dewster
Chicago
Member since Aug 2006
25657 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:38 am to
If you want donuts, this is your approximate hierarchy in terms of taste and quality:

1. Krispy Kreme
2. Mary Lee or Shipley's
3. Literally any indie donut shop in the back corner of a run down shopping center
4. Grocery Store donuts from Albertsons, Brookshires, or any other mid market chain that doesn't try anymore
5. A deep fried piece of celery tied into a circle
6. An old tennis shoe
7. A friend's old tennis shoe
8. Dunkin Donuts
This post was edited on 3/15/24 at 9:40 am
Posted by CocomoLSU
Inside your dome.
Member since Feb 2004
151707 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:38 am to
I never got the DD hype. I haven't had it often (because it sucks), but most times in my life that I have had it, it was pretty terrible.
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
37037 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:40 am to
Posted by TJack
BR
Member since Dec 2018
2203 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:41 am to
Back in the 70’s in Boston anytime we went to Dunkin Donuts it was as crowded as a McDonald’s on them cold New England winters.
Posted by MrJimBeam
Member since Apr 2009
12695 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:49 am to
It's Dunkin now. Donuts are the worst on the planet. Coffee is decent. I used to pick up a box of joe to bring to the office from time to time for meetings with clients and it was always a hit with Rand and the other fellas
Posted by DiamondDog
Louisiana
Member since Nov 2019
10962 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:49 am to
Dunkin food/donuts is terrible. I don't know why anybody would willingly eat that. Gas station day olds are better.
Posted by goofball
Member since Mar 2015
17019 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:50 am to
I thought Dunkin was just inconsistent and I happened to just try a couple of bad locations in the midwest. Then I stayed in a hotel next to one in Texas and tried it there too.

Now I'm pretty convinced that all of them are terrible. Doesn't matter where it's located. Everything they sell sucks, and their employees all seem like depressed robots.
Posted by alajones
Huntsvegas
Member since Oct 2005
34751 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:54 am to
Dunkin is all over Huntsville. I don't get the appeal. Their donuts aren't fresh and their coffee is anything that I can't get at the local MAPCO. I have to drive 20 minutes to a local donut place that actually makes theirs in store and pass three DDs along the way.
Posted by In The Know
City of St George, La
Member since Jan 2005
5505 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:55 am to
I heard somewhere they have to defrost their frozen donuts and don’t make them fresh. True? That would explain the shittiness.
Posted by Pettifogger
Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone
Member since Feb 2012
80869 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:55 am to
I like having DDs as an option. The coffee is bearable (it's not good, it's better than fast food and gas station coffee). The donuts are pretty bad but a bad donut is tolerable. I like them because they're fast and surprisingly, all the ones here (Atlanta) have pretty pleasant service.
Posted by grizzlylongcut
Member since Sep 2021
10705 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 9:57 am to
Krispy Kream ain’t got shite on Southern Maid. Iykyk
Posted by CSinLC
Member since May 2018
787 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 10:19 am to
Not Surprised they went outta business in BR. Every time I went in they were out of almost all their donuts.

I stopped at one (Bluebonnet) on my way home from work one mid afternoon day to get a cup of coffee for the ride home in BR traffic. Watched the girl go to three pots to fill my cup. I took one sip and it was cold and stale. Handed it back to her and left. That was my last trip to a Dunkin.
This post was edited on 3/15/24 at 10:20 am
Posted by teke184
Zachary, LA
Member since Jan 2007
98967 posts
Posted on 3/15/24 at 10:30 am to
One was at Florida and Airport, which was a shitty location.

Where were the other two?
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