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Post by Ralph on Mar 29, 2008 11:03:53 GMT -5
For those of you who enjoy coffee, donuts and such and who missed the news on WKTV......we just opened out newest Dunkin Donuts on the corner of Oriskany and Schuyler Streets. And remember................ 
UPD Runs on Dunkin
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Post by WestmoGuy on Mar 29, 2008 11:23:02 GMT -5
LOL ;D
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Post by Clipper on Mar 29, 2008 11:30:21 GMT -5
 Which corner is it on Ralph. I am trying to envision the corners. Is it where there was a used car lot, a piano place, a locksmith, or a vacant lot next to where Dellers used to be? I was never a great Dunkin Donuts fan with all the really good bakeries around the Utica area, but man, what I wouldn't give for a Dunkin Donut franchise down here in Tennessee, where bakeries are something you only see on TV. We have a choice of either Krisp Kreme, or the stale shit that you buy at Walmart and K-mart, that is supposedly "made in the store daily"  Dunkin sure has good coffee though. I recently bought some of their coffee down here in a grocery store. It surprised me to find it in an area that has never tasted a Dunkin Donut. It was like $6 a pound, and I only bought it to try it. Not the same brewed at home as it is in a Bunn commercial coffee maker. Any new business is a good thing.
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Post by Ralph on Mar 29, 2008 11:40:09 GMT -5
It's on the same corner as Oriskany Garage. They managed to stuff it on the corner between the edge of the road and the train tracks.
When the train goes through the whole damn building resonates!!!
Clipper, check that coffee you bought. It's not a whole pound and the cost is more like $10 a lb.
They started selling it in Price Chopper up here like that. It's still cheaper if you go into Dunkin and get an actual POUND of it for $8.
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Post by frankcor on Mar 29, 2008 12:23:47 GMT -5
Congrats, Ralph. Good luck with the new store!
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Post by WestmoGuy on Mar 29, 2008 14:05:22 GMT -5
We shall have one in Westmo supposedly in the next year or so also.
I can't wait!!
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Post by countrygal on Mar 29, 2008 14:46:45 GMT -5
There is one going up in the Marcy plaza too.
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Post by Ralph on Mar 29, 2008 15:06:40 GMT -5
Thanks Frank, it's always a challenge at the beginning. I was down there last night doing the bake and didn't get out till 3 this morning!  Next Thursdays the Grand Opening..............then they all truck over to East Utica for the groundbreaking on another! I am aware of the others as well. They are all owned by the same franchisee/management company that we work for. |
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Post by countrygal on Mar 29, 2008 15:18:34 GMT -5
I saw your new one. I'll have to stop in when I'm down that way. I don't drink coffee though but I LOVE the Coolatas! I usually go to the Whitesboro one. I kept stopping to try the Milkyway Hot Chocolate but they were always out of it.  |
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Post by kim on Mar 29, 2008 20:40:21 GMT -5
I want a Dunkin' Donut and coffee. RIGHT NOW!
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Post by Clipper on Mar 29, 2008 21:53:52 GMT -5
 You are right Ralph. I threw out the bag when I dumped the coffee into the container we keep on the counter, but now that I think about it, I am sure it wasn't a pound, because it was $6.95. The bag was not tall enough to be a pound either. Old fashioned I guess, but although I like a cup of gourmet coffee once in a while, I love my strongly brewed Folgers Classic Roast. I like it made just like a jamaican call girl, hot, black and bitter! haha.  I used to go to the store on Black River Blvd. in Rome once in a while when I worked at the base. A guy named John, and his wife ran that store. I think they owned it. Is that who you work for Ralph?
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Post by Ralph on Mar 30, 2008 3:10:04 GMT -5
Nope.....that store was bought out a while ago and re-done Clipper.
All but 3 of the Dunkins around here are own and operated by Cafua Management out of Andover, Mass. They own over 130 Dunkin Donuts in Mass and New York. I have a feeling from what I know that they will own the 3 that Bull Bros. runs shortly, if they don't already.
I am just a tiny little cog in a very big machine. Though I have been "black balled" to the max in Utica I managed to secure this position as I have known one of the managers there for 30+ years.
Now they love me!! Only because I don't give a crap about internal politics, moving up, running a store or anything.
My Ops Manager would give me my own store to run if I wanted it, but I refuse to deal with the public anymore. I won't wait on customers, work the line or deal with money in any way, shape or form.
But I do have a blast doing what I do, which is pretty much anything I am asked and anything I want. I'm one of the few people, I think, that gives them an honest opinion and does exactly what I tell them I will do. One of the few marketable qualities I have left to offer! LOL!!!
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Post by thelma on Mar 30, 2008 7:34:44 GMT -5
Ralph - You are very fortunate that you have a "boss" that values your honest opinion. There are too many Executives that are too scared to hear an "honest opinion" as it shatters their ego image of themselves.
I had an Executive at the Insurance Company I retired from that would put out a Memo to the Staff and then call me into his office and ask for my "honest opinion" of how the staff took the meaning of the Memo. I am a very honest person and never played the politics that are in Corporate American - so, he always got my honest opinion; good and bad!
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Post by bobbbiez on Mar 30, 2008 11:55:17 GMT -5
 Ralph, good luck with the new store.  I did see it opened up where the old Dellers restaurant use to be. Not a big fan of sweets so wasn't impressed they opened up there which isn't too far from my home but then again neither is the one in Whitesboro and in between many other sweet shops. It's no wonder why we Americans are so overweight. Nothing at all against you Ralph or the new store but how I wish they used that sight for something W.Utica really desperately needs and that's a grocery store. We have to travel to N. Utica, S. Utica or New Hartford to do our grocery shopping and many in W. Utica do not own vehicles. Well, at least now they won't starve. They can now walk to get a donut. Can you tell I'm rather upset with what our Officials seem to think is more important for the people in W. Utica. 
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Post by Clipper on Mar 30, 2008 12:16:52 GMT -5
Probably the old Foster paper or somewhere with more land would be a better place for a grocery store. The site on the corner where Dellers was would not have enough room for much more than a convenience store. Also Bosserts would have room for a well located, and large supermarket. It is sad to see the west end going downhill. It will be hard to get a market chain to build in neighborhood that is going in the wrong direction. Hopefully, with more people like yourself, that love the city and the west end, there will be a revival and the area will be saved. I love the city, and it makes me very sad to drive around my hometown and see the decay and lack of ambition of homeowners to keep things up. I don't know the answers, but when I return, I will be standing with those that are eagerly and actively seeking out the correct course to follow to save our hometown.
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Which corner is it on Ralph. I am trying to envision the corners. Is it where there was a used car lot, a piano place, a locksmith, or a vacant lot next to where Dellers used to be?
You are right Ralph. I threw out the bag when I dumped the coffee into the container we keep on the counter, but now that I think about it, I am sure it wasn't a pound, because it was $6.95. The bag was not tall enough to be a pound either. 
Ralph, good luck with the new store. 
I did see it opened up where the old Dellers restaurant use to be. 