Switzerland has its first Dunkin' Donuts

[Paws]

A single donut costs CHF 3.20, which equals the same amount in $!

Image that shows the queue, DD is just next to the right of McD:
http://www.20min.ch/diashow/163425/big/49E77BFC0E9468AF17716972FA4633FC.jpg

(Image is too big to post it here)

 

[rareboy]

In a land of pastries...

But I imagine that a lot of American tourists will rush to have one of these before they try 'foreign' nonsense.

 

[eastofeden]

Are those the really sickening sweet ones? I forget the name of them...everyone raves about them.....

 

[Alnitak]

Why do people flock to these chains? There's so much better to be had and of great variety among locals.

 

[rareboy]

^ The day we arrived in Marrakesh with a group of 10 other US travellers on a tour.....they all went out to the suburbs to eat at Pizza Hut.

We had our dinner in the market square at the food stalls.

 

[Alnitak]

^ The day we arrived in Marrakesh with a group of 10 other US travellers on a tour.....they all went out to the suburbs to eat at Pizza Hut.

We had our dinner in the market square at the food stalls.

Look people stick to what they know; it's a trust thing, reliability, consistency, comfort, etc., but isn't the point of travel exploring what is beyond our every day lives? Breaking up the monotony? Broadening horizons?

 

[FPNY]

UGH....you poor things. Ignore it, maybe it will go away....and to those in Marakesh who ate Pizza Hut, they should stay the fuck home next time. How stupid to travel all that way and eat Pizza Hut...

 

[purina]

They'll never know Amy Joy.

 

[SaskGuy]

^ The day we arrived in Marrakesh with a group of 10 other US travellers on a tour.....they all went out to the suburbs to eat at Pizza Hut.

We had our dinner in the market square at the food stalls.

Oh man, I can't stand that. Depending on where you're from and where you're going, it might be interesting to see what the difference is between the chains, but to refuse to eat anything but what you can get at home is absurd. I guess they figure they'd get diarrhea from the local food or something, but still. With thoughts like that, why bother going there at all.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

banks ins trubuulls agains?

tinku

 

[gsdx]

Quite the opposite in Canada. Dunkin' Donuts has all but disappeared here. We love our Timmies:

In Canada, Dunkin' Donuts and its market share have all but vanished. In the late 1990s to early 2000s, the chain began disappearing from all regions of Canada, with its last foothold in the province of Quebec. However its decline is most apparent in Quebec, where the chain once had 210 stores but by mid-2014 had only 4—the last franchisees in the country.[92] Only one Canadian store has the facilities to make donuts fresh on site; the others are merely shopping-mall food-court stands, dependent on the delivery of baked goods. One of the main reasons for Dunkin' Donuts's decline was competition with Tim Hortons, similar to Tim Hortons' own decline in the northeastern United States due to heavy competition from Dunkin' Donuts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkin'_Donuts#Canadian_decline

 

[NotHardUp1]

How are the mighty fallen!

As for Canadian toffee noses, Tim Horton's is every bit as frightening as some Trapperkeeper hybrid of Dunkin Donuts interbreeding with Burger King.

 

[SaskGuy]

Personally, I'm a bigger fan of Robins Donuts.