How America Runs On Dunkin' Donuts
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ธ.ค. 2023
- Weird History Food is goin' for some Dunkin' Donuts History. Whether you’re into coffee, donuts, munchkins, or any one of the bazillion breakfast sandwiches they sling every morning, Dunkin Donuts has something for everyone. Get some coffee for this, we're going into where Dunkin' was started and how Dunkin' Donuts has been doing.
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Dunkin: *Stops baking donuts fresh and instead bakes them in a factory and freezes them*
Also Dunkin: "Wow! People are loving our coffee, but just aren't going for our donuts anymore. Total mystery as to why that could be."
Their coffee is very good for mid tier fast food brand coffee! Their doughnuts are worth avoiding!
I prefer their coffee over McDonald's any day.
Go get Krispy Kreme! It's a real donut! Get that cake crap outta here!
@@calvinthurston1441krispy kreme is for when you wanna go crazy with the toppings
@@calvinthurston1441there's no Krispy Kreme around here
The story about the beloved mascot actor Fred is so heartwarming.
Meanwhile, McDonalds fired Ronald like it was nothing.
never was an actual fan and didn't even know of the bigger cast by my childhood days, but I found it extremely weirded out how they've just dismissed an old-time mascot.
McDonalds pretty much succeeded due to children marketing and it makes me laugh how they've tried being 'adult'/'chic' in recent years.
They never fired Ronald!
When I was in college, I would go to a Dunkin’s in the mall I worked in quite often. One year, the employees were wearing shirts that said, “Friends don’t let friends drink Starbucks.”
Considering the proud provinciality we have here in New England, those shirts were a hit.
One thing that may or may not still be true is that there’s a bit of a perceived class divide between Dunkin and Starbucks. Starbucks is for the upper class west coast hippies, while Dunkin is for the working class in and around Boston (which isn’t true anymore because Boston is pretty cosmopolitan these days).
Not sure how often people comment on this particularly, but the narration in Weird History Food's videos are unique and engaging. The videos are akin to premium television programming. Keep up the great work! :D
Paid bots are getting better.
@@CordeliaWagner1999you’re a paid bot. Nothing you say could have been your own thought.
It's not unique but it is engaging. It is, without exception, corporate propaganda told exactly the way the company would tell it. I think if the narrator says a single true but unflattering thing about any of these subjects, he gets whacked--or, more likely, loses a sponsor.
Wrong. It IS unique AND engaging.
Occasionally they use a lady that can not land the jokes at all
Boston cream donuts is my favorite donut flavor. The fact that it is one of Dunkin's least popular flavors wounds me deeply.
Why is that?
@@streetwatcher_ I thought other people liked Boston cream. I guess I'm just a weird person.
@@spartanwarrior9755the survey is dead wrong. If Boston Creme was so unpopular, then why do they deliver more trays of Boston Creme than any other flavor? And why is it among the first to still sell out?
@@NikoBellaKhouf2 right?
@@spartanwarrior9755 I got into Boston crème cuz I was the last to get donuts in elementary school
So surprised to find out that the Boston Cream is not that popular in America 😳
Here in the Philippines, it's always TOP 2 (surpassed only by the Choco Butternut) 🍩
I personally think this poll is inaccurate.
My girlfriend was also shocked, and we both live in, not only America, but New England, so idk how accurate the poll is
I don't like DD their donuts are too thick and coffee isn't that great and all overpriced in 2023 AF
I definitely love Boston cream thanks to being last for donuts in 5th grade but remember that carnival theme they did in mid 00s?
They're lying. Boston Creme is one of the most popular ones
If you're not from Boston or New England, I don't think you understand how deep Dunks runs through our veins and through our cities. You will find 4 Dunks on the same street directly across from each other or two buildings away from the other that all make good enough money each to be non-competitive. You'll find 10 of them before you find a hospital, and we have dozens of those too. It's a common thing to get a hot in the morning and double back in the afternoon for an iced, no matter how hot or cold the weather is (and it's New England, soo). Also, one thing: only chain smokers call it Dunkies
Well, it's not like Boston is well regarded for having good taste in anything. Dunkins is abhorrent.
@@Adrian-wd4rn When did I say it was good? The slogan of Boston is "love that dirty water" lmao
@@Adrian-wd4rnThere was a time when Dunkin Donuts was great. It died like a decade ago
@@locamoceanDunkin ain't that great tbh
show me where i said it was lmao
@@redline1916
We need individual episodes on the southeast US kings of chicken. Chick Fil A and Zaxby’s. Love this channel!
You mean the whole chicken sandwich war thing.
@@Sacto1654 that would be cool, too!
Um, Raising Cane's is way better and more famous than Zaxby's, lol.
@@MatthewTheWanderer Hence my suggestion this channel needs to do a full video on the chicken sandwich wars that Popeye's (more or less) kicked off.
Love me some Zaxby's
The They Might Be Giants joke literally made me burst out loud laughing. Good job 😂
Also I’m from Maine and remember my dad bringing me to the little Waterville Dunkin when I was a kid. My favorite donut of all time is a Dunkin chocolate glazed (cake!)
Another Mainer here, does everyone just call them "Dunks" where you are? I can't recall the last time I heard it called anything else.
Tell the narrator we love him .
For those of you watching tv in the 70’s-early 80’s you’ll remember Michael Vale was also Sam Breakstone, the demanding creator of cottage cheese of the same name. Remember the little dog who loved to grab his pants leg? Since Sam was only seen in flashbacks, maybe him and Fred could be related?
Food preparation must run in that family
My favorite donut at Dunkin is vanilla and chocolate creme filled. It's basically a powdered sugar donut filled with vanilla or chocolate frosting.
My favorite donut over all is the plain glazed from Krispy Kreme. Maybe it's the chance of getting a free one when you go to buy them, but mostly they just taste better. They almost melt in your mouth. I call it "legal crack".....lol
That's my favorite too. When I was a kid I always thought it was boston cream, so I was always mad at my parents when they got me a boston cream donuts.. I hate boston cream with a passion.
I LOVED the Chocolate filled powdered donut!!
I'm from the west coast and Dunkin is practically unheard of. This video was my introduction to the commercial theme with the guy waking up to make the doughnuts. And I was born in '77
I remember there being some in the Portland, Oregon area up until the early 2000s, but they all disappeared after that. Funny that you can still purchase their coffee beans at a lot of stores
@@buckysrevenge I definitely remember seeing some, just never saw or heard any commercials. It has never permeated the culture on the west the way it has out east.
@@buckysrevenge Did you have Winchells in Portland? That was the popular one in Seattle in the 80's, but was dying out by the late 90's
@@gabrielford3473 I remember the name, but I moved to Portland in the early 90s, I'm not sure I remember them here
Looked it up, they stopped being a Portland thing in the early 2000s. Guess I don't go to enough donut shops to notice 😂
Please do The History of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts!
Dude Krispy Kreme beats all
I second that! Krispy Kreme are THE BEST by far!
Or, better still, Winchell's.
Yeah, their motto should be "A pound of sugar in every donut."🤣🤣🤣
I love all four of the least popular listed donuts. Never had the "plain stick" but I bet it's great.
Growing up in the San Jose CA suburbs it was a Winchell's Donuts town until one Dunkin Donuts came along! The regular kinds of donuts were pretty much the same thing, but what I loved were the varieties of jelly filled Dunkin offered in addition to the wonderful raspberry ones at Winchell's! I looked it up and now there are only about three of them down there including the original location on Winchester Blvd and one near SFO, so no boom on their expansion! Unfortunately Winchell's is long gone!
Winchell's is still the better donut place but yeah that's unfortunate
Currently in san jose. On blossom hill theres a dunkins and a yum yum.
Yum yum shits on dunkin 10 ways to sunday, period. Dunkin has a distinct chemical/synthetic taste.
We still have Winchell's here in Las Vegas. Stress a strong business.
I'll always love and be partial to Winchell's.
What Dunkin has/or had, they likely don't anymore, that I loved was the Creullers. The yeasty tall donut, with chocolate frosting, strawberry, maple and cherry frosting too. When you but into them the swirls of the donut are mostly empty, except for the delicious moist parts you just pull off and savor. I love those! I never see them though anymore, when I do go for a cup of coffee.
The only other place I've found then were at Vons, but not for awhile now.
I'll stick with Winchell's though, they give me structure, consistency, and yummy donuts!
Best best claws ever too.
My dad used to work at a Dunkin Donuts in the 1970s when in college. He got up and made the donuts. To this DAY his taste in donuts is extremely particular. He was so sad the day they went to shipping in donuts. He can taste the difference and as someone who was proud to make the donuts, it was disappointing.
I LOVE Donuts [especially the chocolate donuts], but I've sadly never been to a Dunkin' Donuts before. But I believe they SHOULD start baking the donuts fresh in store again, for higher quality and better tastes. A Weird History Food video on Long John Silver's Seafood Shoppes would be amazing! I really wish the chain was doing better both performance and quality-wise, because I love the story of Treasure Island, and I feel like the restaurant chain should have kept Treasure Island theming.
Founder: *Cuts out everything except coffee and donuts to streamline the menu*
Founder's son: "It's all coming back"
They used to sell this cherry glazed cake doughnut that was delicious! Sadly, it’s gone forever. Plus, I live on the west coast now. Nothing but Starbucks where I live.
That Letitia James impression was extremely weird…
"Time to make the donuts!"
So did anyone notice something odd about the Dunkin' Donuts current location map for the lower 48? The Pacific northwest, including Idaho, has no locations to get any of the donuts. It's not as if was don't like donuts, but as far as that type of baked good goes, Dunkin' bought up all the local chains, the left the location when Starbucks decided to expand beyond Pike Place Market. and as for the only a third percentage in terms of Seattlites running on Starbucks, well that's because the other 66% goes to the local coffee roaster of their choice. It isn't all just craft beer in terms of local watering holes up here.
Because America runs on dunkin...Dunkins are usually in places with higher foot traffic with people coming and going, they're known as the place to go to quickly grab a coffee and donut and leave. Idaho has like...Zero population density. lol. Ya'll could be 30 minutes late to work, and still make it to work on time.
I absolutely remember going to that original Dunkies every Sunday after church! Damn I’m old! 🍩 ☕
I literally can't recall the last time i went to a Dunkin Donuts. I don't like coffee and I have like 2 donuts in a decade. BUT, I knew there would be section on Fred...and that did NOT disappoint.
Dunkin' Donuts for all practical purposes really no longer exists. I will tell you why. I was a kid of the 1970's . I spent every other weekend with my divorced dad .Every time we would go to Ducan and get a dozen or more donuts. There was a whole BIG wall of donuts behind the counter. At least 40 donut varietes. They made their donuts fresh in house every day. These were specialty donuts. I remember my favorite was called a Dutch Crumble. All was good till about 20 years ago ( just as guess ). My theory: The Duncan downfall all began with coffee. My guess is Duncan execs saw more profit in coffee over donuts. They began by making less and less donut varieties. I went in one last month . There donuts were in a small cabinet. Only like 9 donut types. I tied 2 . they were totally generic. I can get betterand fresher donuts at Kroger next door. They are now a coffee shop that sells donuts on the side. Did no one notice on the new stores they no longer even have the word donut? It is really a shame. I suggest you look up old pics from the 70's to 90's of Duncan Donuts and all the wonderful varieties of donuts they had. Maybe someone will do a video on that.
Gonna need a Tim Hortons video now
Thank you for this video. Dunkin’ Donuts reminds me of my late uncle who passed on two years ago from COVID and this was his favorite place for donuts and coffee. When he visited us from San Antonio more than 10 years ago, he asked where was the nearest DD but we didn’t have one at that time here in South Texas until about three years ago. I miss him a lot and remember him when I see the DD commercials or coffee at stores and even the boxes from our local DD people would bring from work.
A+ video!
Fascinating history about the franchise!
Perfect timing of the video as I got Dunkin for breakfast! Their coffee is great and their menu more satisfying, something I can’t say for Starbucks or other competitors. Enjoy how Dunkin keep things simple!
Simple and fat
Congrats on being part of the masses, enjoy your diabetes
Starbucks is like peak italian/french coffee compared to dunkin. LOL.
They're right about Americans, yall like some god awful stuff. Their breakfast sandwiches have no flavor, the donuts taste like chemicals, and their coffee is just pathetic sewer water.
Simple? Lol, how could you possibly think their menu is simple!?
The donut quality really crashed when they stopped making them fresh, to the point where I now prefer Krispy Kreme for donuts. I'm surprised there was no mention of the Dunkin' donut with the handle*, it was sad when they cancelled that; they claimed it was too expensive to make because of the shape. At one time they discarded donuts after a certain amount of hours so they were always fresh, now they still sell them. But the coffee is still way better than Starbucks!
*for those who never saw one, it was a plain donut shaped like the letter Q, you could dunk all of it without sticking your fingers in the coffee.
Dunkin' Donuts Boston cream donuts have always been my most favorite donut of any donut from anywhere.
I still miss the Butternut donut. Please bring it back DD
Just Dunkin' now. Those poor donuts
It will always be Dunkin Donuts to me dammit
Bring back the doughnuts in the name. We weirdos demand respect 😊
You mean "donuts", since that is how Dunkin' spells it. Krispy Kreme spell it "doughnuts".
Every Affleck on the east coast just stood up and perked their ears... but didn't know why.
My dad was an auto mechanic and he said that many donuts were so greasy that you could use them to give a car a lube job!
This was eye opening!! In Japan we both have Dunkin Doughnuts and Mister Doughnut...but I thought the latter was founded here in Japan!
We got Dunkin' Donuts in Sweden a few years back, and then it went out of business again after a couple of years. I ate there once, before they closed down.
It was sickly sweet. You know how ordinary jam is sweet, but still tastes good and you can usually taste the berry it's made with.
Dunkin' Donut filling is just like colored sugar paste with a hint of berry flavor. I bought three different donuts, to try a variety. But damn. I couldn't even finish one of them.
American palates don't general deviate beyond sugar, salt & fat.
Well most things in America are processed with sugar, salt, and even more sugar. Everything tastes cheap here compared to Europe. Even the meat has a lot of sugar added to it
I had them one or 2 times (netherlands). It's a nice donut, but the dunkin donuts are like 3 euro / piece, while Lidl sells decorated donuts for 0,40 / piece, which aren't that much different.
Never really understood how this company could be so large
That was my experience as well. Way too sweet and most donuts taste the same. Can never finish more than one.
I just finished a Dunkin breakfast while watching this video. The algorithm knows too much.
That was a good one Tom. Keep up the good work. Hoping to see back soon on WHF
"I was a 'Fred'.. !" In 1973, I became a DD baker, pink shirt an all.. 😃 Some of the best people you'll ever meet.. Got to travel across this Country and experience life..
Sadly it ended with the closing of the "in-house baker".. 30 years later, and I miss those days.. Even had my product show cases in a DD commercial, 😃.. (circa 1974-75)
As a Canadian, I laugh in Tim Horton!😁
Wooo! Dunkin is my happy place 🩷🧡🩷🧡
I'm from Boston originally, so a fiercely dedicated Dunkin' man. But I now live in Canada, where Tim Horton's reigns supreme. That would be a spectacular topic for this channel. Tim Horton himself was a hockey player, and was eventually screwed out of his share of the huge chain that still bears his name. He died penniless, I believe.
There's nothing being said that he died penniless.
Which is better? I've never had Tim Hortons
@@NikoBellaKhouf2Tims is mediocre. The only thing going for them is cheap coffee.
@@sumfagola thanks for the reply
He died in a car crash. He was still CEO and a pro hockey player at the time.
I was waiting for the usage of "pivot", knowing it would come sooner or later. And I was not disappointed as it was uttered at 11:09.
PIVOT!
"time to make the donuts" _core childhood memory unlocked_
I havent heard that since I was 5 lol....
Don’t ever change the narrator. This is what makes the show!
Growing up in Delaware, we hit Dunkin’ Donuts almost every other day. I still love Dunkin. And if anyone has a problem with Boston cream, donuts, we need to talk. they are the best as well as Bavarian cream. Seeing how the stores are compared to the way they were in the 70s and 80s in the big change. No big huge rose and racks of donuts filling the wall. Fred was my favorite commercial. I always loved and still quote “time to make the donuts” when getting ready for work. Lol. Starbucks is OK.
In Spain they cannot use the word Donut because its a registered brand by Bimbo 😉
Those damned Donettes son a puta ostia, tio!!
Dude, seriously! Dunkin and Starbucks are rivals? I thought it would be Starbucks and Costa Coffee.
A lot of people prefer Dunkin' coffee to Starbucks.
Coasta is barely even in the conversation of rivalry
The people keepin Dunkin open are the same ones keepin McNasty i mean McDonald's in business
This was my favorite place as a kid for Donuts. Best donuts I’ve ever had.
As a Massachusetts born man i appreciate thia episode very much
I enjoy your videos. Keep it up.
(12:07) why give NY AG Letitia James that weird mocking voice for fighting for consumer rights/security?
I really enjoyed this video and I hope it has the ability to continue to be awesome the way it's been this whole time. Thank you. ❣️😁
I never heard anyone ever call them "Dunkies"... and I never want to hear them called that ever again.
Boston Creme was a fav among the students of State Universary of Albany in 1980-1985 and was sold to students on campus
Can't believe Mr Donut got a mention. I remember them growing up in Scranton in the 80's!
"America's got the runs"🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I used to live near that first Dunkin Donuts, they have a cool set of framed photos showcasing the evolution of the Dunkin logo on the wall!
We had Amy Joy for fresh doughnuts when I was a kid. What a delight it was to hear *those* five words, "Let's go to Amy Joy," knowing a warm treat was in your future.
👏 I think Dunkin’ Donuts did a really good job in succeeding throughout the years and getting more customers. Plus they had great marketing and a really good product. That’s why people keep coming back. I see a lot of stories about food companies and eventually you see that they are going down in business, but Dunkin’ Donuts is doing pretty good. I’m actually going to stop going to Starbucks (not that I go that often) and try out Dunkin’ Donuts coffee. I wonder if I tell them what I usually get at Starbucks that they might be able to make the same thing. Probably for less money.
Around here they barely do doughnuts anymore. It's all sandwiches and wraps now. It makes me sad.
Just so you know: Dunkin doesn't bake their donuts on site. They get baked in a factory and shipped frozen to stores where the employees defrost them and put frosting on them when they are at room temperature.
😮😮😮
They actually used to bake them on site...decades ago. They were better then
Now they have to do that whole shipping business just to compete with Starbucks
They didn’t used to do this. They used to bake them on site. Back in the 70’s and 80’s, I loved getting to see the process as a kid up close. Maybe it was me being a kid and nostalgia, but they used to be the best donuts I ever had. Dunkin’ was my favorite donut place growing up but I could tell when the quality stopped being there. I haven’t been back in years. As an adult, they aren’t anything more special to me than any other donut place in America. 😔
Wait, what? The hole in the wall store doesn't have a Tardis in the back where they keep the donut factory?
That means if I want Hot Donuts Now, I have to go to Krispy Kreme where they do have a factory in the back of the store.
The only area in the continental US where Dunkin does not have a presence when it comes to locations is the Pacific Northwest (though you can buy their iced coffee & beans in grocery stores). The closest Dunkin location to the Pacific Northwest is in Sacramento. As someone who lives in the PNW, I think they would do well if they expanded here especially since they have better coffee than Starbucks. Since we are on the topic of coffee, you should do an episode on the origins of Tim Hortons which is Canada's most popular coffee chain & has far more locations there than Starbucks does.
The Dunkin' in my small town in the South always has a line of cars for the drive thru. Sometimes even out onto the street. It's weird. I mean, Dunkin' is good, but not that good.
I love the voice over man! Hilarious I almost dropped my phone
Your videos are great. Keep em comin' thanks!
The facts in this video really got me dunkin'
Mike Vale AKA "Fred, The Baker" was also "Sam Breakstone," the spokesman for "Breakstone" Sour Cream and Cottage Cheese company.
We've got a Dunkin donuts finally under construction in my small town and I can't wait
When they were Dunkin Donuts and just sold ☕️ and 🍩 times were good... The coffee was great they made fresh donuts in house every day... now they have a ridiculously large menu of food and drinks and it's all terrible... the coffee is disappointing and the donuts are stale because they're a day old by the time they reach the shops... disgrace 😠😔
I worked at one of the main bakeries in Ringgold GA where they made almost all the donuts for the Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia area. Interesting place..
I live in Connecticut (CT), and let me tell you Dunkin is serious business over here. I absolutely love Dunkin and I feel like a kid back in the 90's going to McDonald's every time I go to Dunkin for a coffee, which is nearly every day. The term "Dunkin run" is typical slang here in CT being so close to Mass, a widely understood euphonism for work break-coffee runs. Heck, if you look at my avatar thumbnail image, I'm actually holding a Dunkin cup! 🤣Our capitol city, Hartford CT, actually has our baseball stadium named after Dunkin -- Dunkin' Park! Much like in MA, here in CT, Dunkin is part of our cultural identity.
Time to make the doughnuts !!!
My go to drink is a hot coffee with French vanilla swirl and one extra cream and sugar. I go between their vanilla frosted or blueberry glazed donut. I want dunking now!
I grew up in Boston, it's still Dunkies to me!
The biggest problem with Dunkin Donuts, is that there's usually a local, much higher quality donut and coffee shop not too far away.
Where? The few places that sell donuts all use lard to fry them🤢🤮
Maple Donuts in York PA is the best donut shop in the country
I have never been in a Starbucks in my life. I go to Dunkin Donuts, that it!
America truly runs on Dunkin
Yeah, Starbucks is somewhat a competitor to Dunkin' in the beverage category, but Starbucks has never sold doughnuts. I'd say Dunkin's most direct competitor is Krispy Kreme, and that's a battle Dunkin' is winning.
I have a real hard time getting a dozen now that it's almost $15 a dozen...
We used to go on road trips and stop by DD for a dozen, and a thermos of coffee. Less than $5 total. O tempora, o mores!
Back in the 80s their cream puffs were outstanding.
They Might Be Giants is everywhere. You can't escape them.
As someone who was heavily involved with the company from my early childhood in the early 90’s until about 2010, missing a lot of behind the scenes stuff. Enjoyable video as always though!
I've never been to DD lol but I've always wanted to try them.
When I visited Indonesia in 2000, they had durian flavored donuts at a Dunkin Donuts. I don't know how they kept the place from smelling like rotten garbage 🤢
I still say the best Dunkin' donuts ad is the one with Al Pacino from Jack and Jill
I need to get some donuts rn but also can you do a vid on Panda Express?
I really miss the biscuit breakfast sandwich that they used to serve.
Maple glazed is their best donut, Boston cream is one of their best sellers. I don’t know who they surveyed?
Hipsters who buy the more expensive drinks
I've never been. Dunkin' isn't in Canada. They left in 2018, but Baskin Robbins is still here.
The main donut shops I remember going to were Robin's Donuts and Tim Horton's.
Years ago I had a job where a lot of customers would give me gift cards for Christmas, with Dunkin Donuts being the most common. Coffee doesn't work for me and I keep sugar and carbs to a minimum, so that puts out donuts and bagels too. The last time I was there, I remember looking at the sandwiches on the menu and realizing there was nothing there I wanted, even for free.
lol the pulp fiction joke
In Boston we've just called it Dunkies for as long as I can remember.
im so glad Dunkin got back on track. I remember in the late 90's early 2000's dunkin had an identity crisis, they forgot they were supposed to be a breakfast shop.
then someone in early 2010's said "hey we used to make donuts and coffee.. let's go back to that"
and BTW Boston creme is my favorite, screw you guys if you don't like them