Dunkin Donuts/Baskin Robbins bought by Carlyle Group

Time to find a new fix, caffeine junkies. While I've hate DD's truck-stop coffee for years, they're ubiquitous, and do a lot of business.

Hopefully, with our help, they'll now do a lot LESS business.

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So you will be hurting a lot of local store owners with a boycott like that.

The owners should sell their franchises.

I'm deadly serious. We need to stop saying "Oh, poor mom and pop!" Mom and pop are paying exhorbitant franchise fees to Carlyle for the "privilege" of making money for them. Money that gets pooled into the bomb-making money and the child-killing money and the anti-free-choice money, and the prop-up-King-George money. Fuck mom and pop. The country is calling upon them to sell their stake in the war machine.

Drink up. Remember, two donuts with your coffee makes it Special.

all born-agains? Or will it be the gun lovers. Or will the right wing CIA FBI DIA NSA operatives be there?

We should phone tap all Dunkin Donuts and make sure they aren't importing any coffee beans from any blue states...LOL

think is the firm Mitt Romney used to be involved with.

Take preference and choice out of the equation and corner markets by your shear size and monetary clout. The only thing that matters is getting every last dime out of our pockets, close to home, on the road, in the morning, or for dessert. Send your hard-earned money to BushCo, so we don't have to pay tax on it!

I still prefer Equal Exchange, but Newman's Own and Green Mountain Coffee are now supplying all of McDonald's coffee and it is all fair trade coffee.

poison us one way or the other.

from BR. I stopped a long time ago. They're way to stingy with their ice cream. As for DD, yechhh--pure sugar poison.

DD customers don't actually like coffee...the like ice cream. They like sweets. That's why they go to a DOUGHNUT shop for their coffee..."gee, as long as I'm here, gimme a Bear Claw, a honey glazed, and the new Donut Stuffed Cruller!" Have you ever seen the way they make "regular" coffee? Start by using a small snow shovel to heap about 12 tablespoons of sugar into the cup, then fill the cup half way with cream; top it off with a splash of actual coffee. Before the Carlyle buyout, I didn't buy coffee there just because it was too difficult to get an order the way I wanted it. I drink it black, but my wife likes hers with a small splash of skim milk, or "dark." DD workers can't handle that. They're used to serving melted ice cream to their customers.

No more pralines and cream for me. I'm pissed. :(

the neocon fops & dandies will be sitting there in their metallic ties. A few copies of the moonie times "gratuit" as they say in french.

I've never liked the coffee at DD.

I guess he knew too much. ;-)

Looks like I have another excuse besides avoiding Type 2 Diabetes for not going to Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins. Now if we could just get more right wingers to go to those places to counter the boycott...