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Business Wars Daily

Doubling Down on Dunkin’

Business Wars Daily

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Business, Business News, News, Daily News

4.6717 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Today is Wednesday, August 8, and we’re looking at Dunkin’ Donuts vs. Starbucks.

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From Wondery, I'm Elaine Appleton Grant, and this is Business Wars Daily.

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It's Wednesday, August 8th.

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It's starting to look like a cup of Joe and a chocolate crawler might be a better business bet than a caramel macchiato and a cage-free egg sandwich. On the East Coast, the rivalry between Boston-based Dunkin' Donuts and Seattle-based

1:20.0

Starbucks is iconic, the grassroots versus the elite. Since the early 2000s, Duncan Donuts

1:27.2

has been taking on Starbucks directly

1:29.2

one delicious fried donut hole after another. This year, could Duncan Donuts, which once

1:35.9

taunted its rival with the slogan, Friends Don't Let Friends Drink Starbucks, be winning?

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Over the last two years, Duncan's stock price jumped more than 50%. Starbucks

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was down about 10% over the same time, CNBC reports. And of course, Starbucks stumbled in a big

1:54.5

way in April when two African American men awaiting a business meeting in a Philadelphia store

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were arrested. A video of the

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