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@Whoisjohngalt: Thanks again for helping above! I am glad to see mention of the new concept locations and CEO transition in 2018, but I've identified a few other updates for the article, all of which are confirmed by multiple reliable sources. Please see the following claims for consideration:

  • In February 2018, Dunkin' announced plans to phase out polystyrene foam cups globally for environmental purposes by April 2020.[1][2][3]
  • In late 2018, Dunkin' installed espresso machines at all possible locations and launched espresso products using a new recipe.[4][5]
  • In June 2019, Dunkin' partnered with Grubhub to begin the rollout of its new Dunkin' Delivers service.[6][7]
  • In July 2019, Dunkin' partnered with Beyond Meat to introduce a meatless breakfast sandwich in Manhattan, becoming the first U.S. restaurant brand to serve Beyond Sausage.[8] The sandwich launched nationally later in 2019.[9][10]

References

  1. ^ Sanicola, Laura (February 8, 2018). "Dunkin' Donuts pledges to ditch foam cups". CNN Business. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  2. ^ Callahan, Chrissy (November 15, 2019). "Dunkin's cups are getting an environmentally friendly upgrade". Today. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  3. ^ Prior, Ryan (November 16, 2019). "Conscious un-cup-ling: Dunkin' is breaking up with foam coffee cups". CNN. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  4. ^ Whitten, Sarah (November 13, 2018). "Dunkin' says its new espresso is so good, 'you don't have to go to Starbucks'". CNBC. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  5. ^ Tyler, Jessica (November 25, 2018). "Dunkin' is doubling down on fancy espresso, but says it has a key advantage over Starbucks". Business Insider. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  6. ^ Mercado, Mia (June 19, 2019). "Dunkin' Delivers Through Grubhub In Select Parts Of The U.S. Now". Bustle. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  7. ^ Ng, Shelley (June 17, 2019). "Dunkin' and Grubhub roll out new food delivery service called Dunkin' Delivers". Fox Business.
  8. ^ Lucas, Amelia (July 24, 2019). "Dunkin' adds Beyond Meat's sausage to its menu, starting in New York". CNBC. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  9. ^ Lucas, Amelia (October 21, 2019). "Dunkin' accelerates nationwide launch of Beyond Meat". CNBC. Retrieved May 5, 2020.
  10. ^ Wiener-Bronner, Danielle (October 21, 2019). "Dunkin' is launching its Beyond Meat sandwich nationally". CNN Business. Retrieved May 5, 2020.

I've strived to provide neutral, non-promotional language. My goal is to update the article with some of the most recent major changes to the company's operations, products and partnerships. @Whoisjohngalt: You've been so helpful reviewing requests so far, would you be willing to take a look at this one as well and add these 4–5 sentences appropriately? Thanks! Caroline at Dunkin' (talk) 17:49, 11 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

 Done I changed some of the bulleted text to prose.Whoisjohngalt (talk) 18:17, 13 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
@Whoisjohngalt: I wanted to share some more recent third party sourcing regarding the foam cup removal, if you find this helpful for updating the article:
Thanks! Caroline at Dunkin' (talk) 15:12, 2 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Sale confirmed: Inspire Brands will buy Dunkin'. Will make Inspire second largest US firm in its category https://www.wcvb.com/article/dunkin-to-be-sold-to-inspire-brands-11-billion-report/34538231 Kdammers (talk) 02:47, 31 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 1 May 2021

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Not moved and closed early per WP:SNOW (closed by non-admin page mover) -- Calidum 18:10, 6 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]


Dunkin' Donuts → Dunkin' – Company's new name. UserTwoSix (talk) 00:06, 1 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:45, 1 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Not doughnuts

Dunkin' Donuts does not make or sell doughnuts (US: 'donuts'). It makes cakes. Doughnuts are deep-fried. The products sold by this company are baked. 2A01:4C8:D20:AB17:1:1:3E9E:FFB2 (talk) 14:25, 16 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I dont think the marketing department would approve of "Dunkin' Cakes" !! -Roxy the grumpy dog. wooF 06:46, 24 March 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Sports Sponsorship

Among others, Dunkin' Donuts is also an official partner with the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles and Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys, MLS Chicago Fire, MLB's New York Yankees and New York Mets and the NHL's Boston Bruins and Washington Capitals. 73.86.123.197 (talk) 19:57, 3 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 7 April 2022

Dunkin' Donuts → Dunkin' – Per WP:NAMECHANGES and WP:COMMONNAME. A brief search on Google News yields the following examples of reliable independent third party sources that use Dunkin' as the name of the company:

In addition, both the company's website and the parent company's website list Dunkin' as the name of the company:

The company is traded on the stock market as Dunkin' Brands Group Inc.

Also, there is precedent on Wikipedia for companies that have rebranded to be moved to their new name, especially if the new name is used in reliable independent third party sources. See Meta Platforms for an example, which was formerly known as Facebook, Inc.. 130.126.255.134 (talk) 22:05, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Those are not all reliable sources. New York Post is not, and your CNN content is not from the CNN newsroom, it appears to be user generated. GA-RT-22 (talk) 22:26, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Replaced the CNN source with two different CNN Business sources. 130.126.255.134 (talk) 22:36, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
I don't see how WP:NAMECHANGE is relevant here. GA-RT-22 (talk) 22:56, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
They clearly meant WP:NAMECHANGES. Calidum 16:31, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support – This question was snow closed less than a year ago, but I would support the change now. I was in a Dunkin recently and they didn't even have any donuts for sale. GA-RT-22 (talk) 23:00, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. I'm not a fan of this form of "link dump" nomination, since all it shows is that there are, in this case, 15 RS articles that use the proposed name, but tells us nothing about what overall proportion of RS use that name. But based on browsing Google News results for this year, I'm satisfied that a clear majority of RS coverage uses the new name (though the old one has certainly not disappeared - even in some of the sources cited in the nom, e.g. WaPo, Newsweek). Colin M (talk) 23:43, 7 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment: The issue in last year's discussion for me, that I wrote above, was that "the company has been slow to adopt the shortened Dunkin' brand name across a majority of its over 12,900 locations in 42 countries. In many countries [where the company operates], the longer Dunkin' Donuts brand remains the common name". So far the OP has only cited reliable sources from the U.S. What is currently happening in most of those other countries? Like Germany. I would like to see some of that recent evidence from other countries besides the U.S. before I change my vote. Zzyzx11 (talk) 04:00, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose - Still stand by my previous opinion. Known as "Dunkin' Donuts" for 70 years, versus (less than) 3 years under the shortened name; the original name is still embedded in the minds of the general public (myself included). I do not see how the span of 11 months since the last vote drastically changes things, WP:COMMONNAME still applies. --Apple2gs (talk) 06:10, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    In other words, the common name is Dunkin' Donuts for 72 years and Dunkin' for 0 years, not 69 and 3 respectively. Georgia guy (talk) 11:41, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    Honestly, the number of years that have passed under the new name is irrelevant, as long as there's a generation of people who still remember and maintain a familiarity with the original name and use it. Good example, see the Howard Johnson's article. For 97 years the restaurant/hotel company was known as "Howard Johnson's", and about 15+ years ago officially changed its name to "Howard Johnson by Wyndham". Yet the article title is STILL using the common name of "Howard Johnson's", even with the restaurants gone where the name originated from, almost no one in the public refers to it as Howard Johnson by Wyndham...and we're a decade and a half in. Eventually that'll change, when a whole new generation grows up and only knows of the hotel chain with the Wyndham name or without the plural 'S, but we go by what the general public still uses. I still call their hotels Howard Johnson's, and I still call Dunkin'...Dunkin' Donuts.--Apple2gs (talk) 00:24, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    In your example, the number of years "Howard Johnson's" was the official name was 97 and the number of years for "Howard Johnson's by Wyndham" is 15, but if we change "official name" to "common name", then they're 112 and 0. Georgia guy (talk) 00:50, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
    The key here is COMMON NAME supersedes official name, it's not necessarily what the legal name is, but what the average person (the majority really) calls said thing. As another example, also 15 years ago, "Apple Computer" officially renamed itself "Apple". For some time I still called them Apple Computer out of habit and what I was familiar with, but these days, unlike Howard Johnson's, most people, myself included, just call them Apple. I suppose it's because it was only 30 years as Apple Computer and 15 years as Apple (versus 72 and 3 with Dunkin' Donuts, or 92 and 15 with HJ's) but also because they had expanded to more than just computers by that point. Back in the 80's and 90's, all Apple did was computers, but by 2007 they were making all kinds of gadgets and appliances. In the case of Apple, the article was renamed because the consensus is that is now their common name.--Apple2gs (talk) 03:24, 9 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose, per common name and May, 2021, RM snow close (nominator, please ping 2021 RM participants, thanks). Randy Kryn (talk) 11:34, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Strong Oppose, per common name. Esolo5002 (talk) 12:25, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Oppose move. It's been a year, but there's still no evidence the shortened name is the common name. The links above show evidence of a potential shift, but in the public consciousness, they're still Dunkin' Donuts. O.N.R. (talk) 16:13, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Per WP:NAMECHANGES, "If the reliable sources written after the change is announced routinely use the new name, Wikipedia should follow suit and change relevant titles to match." We do not title our articles based on how long a name has been in use compared to a former name, nor do we consider "the public consciousness" (and if we did, the article would be at Dunks, not Dunkin' Donuts). Calidum 16:30, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Dunks? Never heard that one. And don't forget Dunkin' Donuts Center still reflecting the common name. Randy Kryn (talk) 16:54, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
The naming rights deal for the arena expires this month [6] Calidum 17:24, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Will the name then be Dunkin' Center or sold to another corporation to tag? Randy Kryn (talk) 17:34, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
They haven't announced it yet. Calidum 17:35, 8 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]
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