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August 24, 2006

dunkin donuts. no joke.

posted by Jasmine in boston; and life; and nashville @ 6:44 pm

I’ve bitched a fair amount the past year about the lack of a Dunkin Donuts here in Nashville. Well, yesterday, on the day before my 28th birthday, my prayers were answered.

Yesterday was the grand opening of an official Dunkin Donuts down in Franklin. It’s the inspirational story of someone who didn’t like something about how things are, and did something about it. Joe Rando moved to Nashville, discovered that there are no Dunkins here, and opened some. Simply brilliant. Mr. Rando, if you are out there, my hat is off to you. And ps, can you open one on West End? Or closer to Sylvan Heights? Just sayin’.

Anyway, my new little buddy who I’ll probably talk about later drove down with me this afternoon to check it out. There are some confusing things on the menu (like pizza – have I been away from Dunkin for so long?), but the basics felt right. When The Little Red Haired Girl came home I let her have the rest of my iced coffee, and it was kinda like watching one of those Herbal Essences ads. So I think we’ll be visiting Cool Springs a bit more often from now on.

  • The restaurant on 21st avenue that is now Jackson's Bistro was, for many years, a Dunkin Donuts.

    There was also one downtown and one on Murfreesboro Rd. The problem was that around 1992 or 1993 (?damn, I'm getting old) they changed ownership. The new franchisers would never clean the stores, never restock the merchandise and basically ran a shoddy operation. Eventually all the local stores shut down. Then another family took over the Murfreesboro Rd. location and did a good job. But they had such a hard time building the business back up because people still had the negative associaton that they eventually closed that store as well. That was maybe 2 years ago.

    I think enough time has passed in the collective Nashville memory to enable people to enjoy DD again without the crap association from the old owners.

    I'm sure once the Franklin store makes a good showing he'll go back to the college neighborhood at least.
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