Mar 06 2006
Hath Carroll Gardens No Shame?
Brownstoner has already jumped into the Dunkin’ Donuts fray by reporting that people who eat and drink at the establishment are lazy about where they throw their trash. I will make no such assertion, but I will start what I hope is a trend: calling out local businesses caught with their hands in the Dunkin’ Donuts cookie jar. The first award goes to the workers at 9-D Thai who on Saturday night had a box of the donuts out for all their customers to see. Please send your DD box and crumb sightings our way.
The amusing cartoon image is from a Fast Company story about the chain’s encroachment into Starbucks territory.
9 Responses to “Hath Carroll Gardens No Shame?”
Saw something disturbing at the Donut House Diner last Sunday while having breakfast. Inside the glass case was a boxful of donuts from Dunkin Donuts which I assume was meant for the customers.
Right across the diner, D’Amicos posted an advert for their own kind of donuts which they’re now selling.
extrapolating from an errant coffee cup that DD’s patrons are litterbugs, hmmm, making a judgment about an entire demographic based on an individual, unwitnessed action – how incredibly liberal and progressive.
maybe my outrage hot button isn’t as sensitive as it should be, but I can’t quite figure out why I would be perturbed at a local business for using to their own advantage the presence of an independently-owned formerly-local-gone-national-after-catapulted-to-success-by-local-community franchise … we do want our local businesses to be successful, right? just not too successful?
You obviously don’t have to live across the street from one, bee-atch.
This is a great comment on a number of levels.
1. it suggests that since I don’t (you assume) live across the street from a DD, I am not qualified to ask questions or participate in the discussion. Maybe the comment function should include a quick survey to determine whether a person is worthy of contributing.
2. It suggests that the truly objectionable aspect of DD is not its business practices, the quality of its product, its hiring policies, its status as an equal-opportunity employer, etc., but rather the aesthetic impact of its presence in one’s view.
3. It suggests that the ability to ask reasonable, if dissenting, questions about why some members of a community are bothered by local business practices (which is what I was doing) is totally precluded by the apparently hypnotic effect of a nearby DD (“Clearly you don’t live across the street from one.”).
4. It is cleverly punctuated with name-calling. Nice rhetorical flourish.
SNAP!
I think that fast food companies do produce a lot of waste that we see while walking around New York City and they make people obese but we can’t be so quick to blame the establishments when humans are the one’s who do the physical act of littering. People don’t even think twice these days about it. I would like to walk into these people’s apartments or houses and just litter on their floor and see how it makes them feel.
‘Tis true. My particular favorite is when I see people get into their car, gather up all their car trash, and then re-open their door to toss it under their car and drive away.
Did anyone out there see the episode of The Boondocks called “The Itis”?
DD is like Grandpa’s restaurant. Everyone will be seduced by the comforting donuts… next the whole neighborhood will to to hell.
While I love the graphic, the Fast Co. article was IMHO a great example of PR trumping sense. If I’m remembering the correct one it was all about the coffee push of DD, and how they were going to have “almost as good” coffee. To my palate they failed pretty badly. I’d still rather drink coffee from a truck than DD, it’ll burn your tongue and offend the few taste buds left over.