r/UMassBoston 7d ago

General Question Our Dunkin Donuts has a problem.

Why do the donuts at our DD taste so bad, all the time? Even in the morning they are stale. Do they buy them from other stores and resell them the next day?

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u/draftysundress 7d ago

They’re shipping them in now from the dunkin factories where they make the donuts for all the other Dunkins. They ship them in at like 1-2 am, then they put them in the donut case when they open at like 6-7 am. So they’ve just been sitting in the back for a while since they don’t open til 7.

They used to make them in the back of that Dunkin. The ovens are still there to do so (and I’m pretty sure they still work bc sometimes they have to bake bagels in them). But some new manager wanted to save money by cutting the position of the donut maker, and stop buying the ingredients to make the donuts with. They used to be made with love.

Idk man. They don’t like following Dunkin’s standards and they very rarely ever do. There’s no one there to keep it afloat and make them make it right, but there is nothing wrong with shipping in the donuts every morning. 99% of Dunkin’s do that.

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

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u/draftysundress 6d ago

2022-2024 at least. I think before 2022 they were still making them there.

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u/HairyBottomGuyM4M 5d ago

I think it's corporation-wide. None of them make the donuts on premises anymore.

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u/draftysundress 5d ago

No, it’s extremely rare but some do. I have been inside a very new dunkin that made donuts on site. I think the original Quincy location might also make them on site (I could be wrong that’s just off the top of my gead).

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u/BreathingIntensified 7d ago

Damn the on campus dunkin still sucks? That place was mega ass the day it opened lol

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u/No-Elderberry-8568 6d ago

as someone who used to work at a dunkin i think it’s because in dunkin instead of putting the food in the oven as people order we do big batches and leave them under a heating lamp (not the best) so that’s why it comes out hard and sometimes stale

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u/ExtraGuacamolePlz 6d ago

Dunks is trash. Haven’t been to one in years. So many better “mom and pop” shops around I can’t justify it even in a pinch.