Krispy Kreme Reports 79 Percent Drop in Third Quarter Earnings

TBO ^ | Nov 22, 2004

[RaginRak]

Dunkin' Donuts are my favorite. Kripsies taste like crap. And the new store they opened in my area has an empty parking lot after nine months of operation. Part of the reason may be the lack of hygiene I witnessed by some of the workers. They wear those plastic throw away gloves to keep food handling germ free. But they are wearing the gloves when they make change and clean off the tables and wipe down the counters after spraying them with some cleaning chemical! Barf

[xsmommy]

Dunkin' Donuts are my favorite. Kripsies taste like crap

YOU have a discriminating palate... : ) I totally agree!

[EdReform]

Donut ping!

:o)

[freepertoo]

(((I was referring to the KK fad. You can get them everywhere now - including grocery stores. I'm dating myself, but I remember when Coors beer could not be had here. People would bring cases back from Colorado in the trunks of their cars. We thought it was great. Then Coors became available and I stopped drinking it - realized that it wasn't as good as I thought. Same way with the KK's.)))

Yes, red face...I realized that after I hit SEND! Automatic reaction...I keep hearing about how "the low carb" diet is trending down...and I always jump on that with righteous indignation! :-D

[SteveMcKing]

I prefer Honey Dew, maybe just for the checkered-ambience and the teddy bear...

[Final Authority]

I'm not on the Atkin's diet, but I know good donuts when I eat them and Krispy Cremes aren't too good. They are small, usually undercooked, and have no flavor other than cane sugar syrup. I like yeasty tasting donuts or the cake kind with a crunchy exterior with a nutmeg flavor, and as little sugar as required to make them just a bit sweet. Local bakeshops are the only way to go if one desires a good tasty treat.

[Aquinasfan]

Livengood said the low-carb dieting phenomenon is still a factor in the company's soft sales, but he believes the trend might have peaked.

Buy low.

[Armed Civilian]

I've been on a diet lately.

[Aquinasfan]

"Donuts --is there anything they can't do?"
--Homer J. Simpson.

My sentiments exactly. (And no, I'm not overweight!)

[brewcrew]

I don't doubt you, HJ. Just making a point about how things we remember from our childhood seem so much larger than life.

[secret garden]

They're working on it.

[Trident/Delta]

Yeah, too bad Starbucks isn't listening.

Semper Caffine

[Paridel]

I agree 100%. I'm getting hungry just thinking about their donuts. I used to eat them all the time in Atlanta back in the late-90s pre KK-expansion, so I was quite sad when I moved up north to give them up.

Then when they opened up one in Albany my friends and I would go all the time ~2am (only time we could actually get them for the first month or so) to pick up donuts. We would typically get 1 dozen for every two people in the van, and quite often finish them before the 15 min drive back home was over. Sooo good.

The one thing that Dunkin' Donuts has over KK is the coffee. Dunkin' easily has good coffee, and at least at the ones I've been to they make fresh pots every 18 minutes. There are a lot of Dunkin' Donuts in the north east especially in New England, and because of the coffee are great places to make pit stops on trips.

-paridel

[Paridel]

Do you remember that episode of the Simpson's where Homer keeps changing the past and creating alternate dimensions? He finally get to one that seems perfect... and then asks for a donut and no one knows what one is?

Then, right after he leaves with the time machine they start raining from the sky.

I'm not a big fan of the Simpson's in general, I find a lot of their humor crass, but sometimes when I close my eyes I can still see that beautiful image of raining donuts.

-paridel

[Aquinasfan]

but sometimes when I close my eyes I can still see that beautiful image of raining donuts.

8-)

[Nataku X]

you need to be pun-ished for that!

[Nataku X]

I can't taste the donut at all in a KK. The glazing is overwhelming, it tastes like frosting. Also, the chocolate icing tastes pretty odd, kind of bitter.

I used to dislike donuts growing up, but the only donuts we had were KKs. Now I've discovered the joys of Wegman's, Tim Hurton's, and that old standby DD's. :)

[Nataku X]

sweetened air

BINGO! How succinct!

[freedumb2003]

A lesson Krispy Kreme should have learned from Italian Oven and Boston Market.

I dunno. The other day I saw them building a Starbucks -- INSIDE A STARBUCKS! ;)