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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.
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Busy Dunkies?
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.
I'm old enough to remember...
...when that location used to be a Brighams.
And I'm old enough
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.
Brighams and Fanny Farmer
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".
Is this it?
Is the bubble bursting?
Wow, and on national donut
Wow, and on national donut day. Talk about irony.
DD
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!
Wasn't the idea there was a
Wasn't the idea there was a DD in the lobby of one of their dorms a selling point for Emerson to prospective students?
There's a Dunkin Donuts on
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.
Think people are reading too
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...
yup, just emerson taking over
yup, just emerson taking over the neighborhood--nothing to see here.
another building gone "non-profit" and no taxes to the city of boston.
Emerson already owned the
Emerson already owned the building. Above the Dunk is ~13 floors of dorm. Been like that for decades.
can we just stop
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.
I think this is because of construction on the Little Building
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.
Dunkins on Boylston Street closed
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 ??
Construction? Hah!
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.
They are starting major
They are starting major renovations on the Little Building so the DD had to leave the space.
Moving
That's because they're moving to a 2 story location just up the street next to the mcdonald's
Moving?
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.
Ugh. I wish that permanent
Ugh. I wish that permanent scaffolding which has been there forever and too long would just LEAVE!!!!!
Could it have been the service??
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.
If the service was that bad....
...why did people (including you) keep going there and waiting in that line?