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Whoa: A Boston Dunkin' Donuts shuts down

By adamg on Fri, 06/02/2017 - 6:16pm

The Dunkin' Donuts in the Little Building at Tremont and Boylston streets has ceased to be.

Neighborhoods: 
Chinatown
Downtown
Topics: 
Dining
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Dunkin' Donuts
Coffee


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Comments

By b from Ros on Fri, 06/02/2017 - 6:20pm.

And they always seemed to have a doorman...

Wonder if they were priced out. That scaffolding has been there for years without any work being done.

By anon on Fri, 06/02/2017 - 6:49pm.

...when that location used to be a Brighams.

By Ward8Mahatma on Sat, 06/03/2017 - 9:08am.

to be an exhibit in a Museum of Natural history, so can recall when that space was two separate storefronts, one of which was a Fanny Farmer candy store. The chain sold large, uniquely shaped lollipops- rectangular with a flat back & curved front. They were indivdualy wrapped in cellophane and displayed in tiered ranks which were a tempting riot of color. My favorite flavor was root beer. There was also a Fanny Farmer in South Station . One of those lollipops was perfect for a long train trip.

By anon on Sat, 06/03/2017 - 11:19am.

Both Brighams and Fanny Farmer were ubiquitous in downtown Boston back in the 60s and 70s. Even into the 80s. There were practically as many of them as there are Dunkin Donuts and Starbucks now (well, OK, not THAT many, but you get the idea). Fanny Farmer was always staffed exclusively with older women, what in our youthful and politically incorrect days we called "old ladies".

By anon on Fri, 06/02/2017 - 7:28pm.

Is the bubble bursting?

By anon on Fri, 06/02/2017 - 7:38pm.

Wow, and on national donut day. Talk about irony.

By Bugs Bunny on Fri, 06/02/2017 - 7:51pm.

Just walked by it 6 hours ago, looked liked they were already deconstructing some of the fixtures/tables. Can't believe they closed, that's a high traffic area. There's one at the next block near the Chinatown stop at least!

By anon_wd on Fri, 06/02/2017 - 8:16pm.

Wasn't the idea there was a DD in the lobby of one of their dorms a selling point for Emerson to prospective students?

By Cute Username on Sat, 06/03/2017 - 12:09am.

There's a Dunkin Donuts on the other side of the block in the Transportation Building, which is sort of on campus, in as much as Emerson has a campus.

By anon on Fri, 06/02/2017 - 11:23pm.

Think people are reading too much into it. Word on the street is they have to empty the whole building to renovate/repair it. See also, this: http://www.emerson.edu/about-emerson/administration/president/speeches-r...

By Pork Chop on Sat, 06/03/2017 - 10:09am.

yup, just emerson taking over the neighborhood--nothing to see here.

another building gone "non-profit" and no taxes to the city of boston.

By anon on Sat, 06/03/2017 - 1:10pm.

Emerson already owned the building. Above the Dunk is ~13 floors of dorm. Been like that for decades.

By hux on Mon, 06/05/2017 - 8:54am.

With the ridiculous complaint about "non-profit" colleges taking over the city and providing absolutely no public benefit. If you can't understand the benefit having top colleges in a city provides, please just leave.

By Ron Newman on Fri, 06/02/2017 - 11:49pm.

The photo shows scaffolding, and it may be impossible to operate a business there while Emerson does whatever it is currently doing to this building.

By Gordon Fong on Fri, 06/02/2017 - 11:56pm.

The Dunkins and the Einstein Bagels are now both closed in the Emerson College owned Little Building. The Main entrance is closed due to construction. Emerson may want use the space for a college cafeteria ??

By roadman on Mon, 06/05/2017 - 12:15pm.

The scaffolding has been there for several years now, and there's absolutely no evidence that they've been doing ANY work on that building.

By anon on Fri, 06/02/2017 - 11:52pm.

They are starting major renovations on the Little Building so the DD had to leave the space.

By Jin on Sat, 06/03/2017 - 9:31am.

That's because they're moving to a 2 story location just up the street next to the mcdonald's

By Waquiot on Sat, 06/03/2017 - 11:00am.

I don't think you know how DD works. They don't move. They just open a new location in addition to the old one. They didn't move the location at Back Bay Station. They just opened a new one and left the old one open.

By anon on Sun, 06/04/2017 - 12:36pm.

Ugh. I wish that permanent scaffolding which has been there forever and too long would just LEAVE!!!!!

By steveinboston on Mon, 06/05/2017 - 2:29am.

I lived just up the street for a few years.
Went to this DD every morning on my way to work.
There were days when the line was zig zag all the way to the door.
Not because so much business but because they were painfully slow.
My routine was: If I saw more than 5 people in line then across the street to Starbucks I went.

By Ron Newman on Mon, 06/05/2017 - 12:16pm.

...why did people (including you) keep going there and waiting in that line?