Dunkin’ Donuts Aren’t in California… Yet?
It’s July 4th weekend and I’m in Cape Cod… which means that I’ve now enjoyed several Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffees and wondered why the only DD coffee I can enjoy in California is brewed at home.
Every day, my blog gets a fair amount of traffic coming from Google for search terms like:
- Dunkin Donuts California
- Dunkin Donuts in CA
- No Dunkin Donuts in California
And so on. Those aren’t short / intuitive queries … and they occur thousands of times a week. I’ve even gone as far as to suggest a business model around natural search logs considering that Dunkin Donuts would likely find this information interesting. I’ve received offers to sponsor pages based specifically on the keywords it ranks well for. According to Compete, “Dunkin Donuts California” is the #1 affinity query to my site (I wouldn’t go quite so far…):
Search Google Maps for Dunkin Donuts and the only result is in California… and it’s a closed location that has a request to shut down this listing:
According to Quantcast, “Dunkin Donuts” is the 1,700th most common search query on the web… yet despite California’s size, population and collection of Boston-transplants, there isn’t a single Dunkin Donuts in California. Why?!
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July 5th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
I’m guessing it has to do with the combo of strong California-native coffeehouses like Peet’s that compete on the coffee end of things, and the local donut shops that California seems to have a surprising amount of.
it also amazes me that Krispy Kreme seems to have at least a moderate following in CA, but there are no Dunkin’ Donuts. Culturally I would expect the opposite, but maybe there are more Californians endulging their inner redneck than their inner cah pahka.
July 5th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Maybe, long time ago, all the Donut Godfathers signed a pack diving the country - KK would get California and DD would get East Coast, and its been like that ever since?
July 7th, 2008 at 5:01 am
Count your blessings! Dunkin Donuts Coffee is brown water with a little odor mixed in. Much like the Charles River.
July 7th, 2008 at 5:04 am
Weird… there used to be 3 in my area. Never realized they left.
July 9th, 2008 at 10:55 am
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July 13th, 2008 at 7:04 am
Yes, I am not a fan of Starbucks and there 4 dollar cups of coffee. I love DD coffee and this is the time for them to get going on this and have DD in CA.
July 18th, 2008 at 11:21 am
I know! I grew up in NH and I’m wondering how CA lives with out Dunkins! Everyone out here loves Starbucks… but seriously… Ughhhh- Gross! That’s pretty much how I feel about Starbucks. First of all- they are overpriced and second of all their coffee and sandwhiches just can not compare to Dunkins… especially because Dunkin Donuts continues to improve its product… and all of it at a resonable price. I’ve personally written to Dunkins begging them to put more stores out here… especially in Orange County~!!!!!!!!!!!!
July 19th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
Just got back from a road trip from LA to Vegas and I’m VERY happy to report that on my way back to LA on the 15-South was a huge billboard touting the new Dunkin’ Donuts Blueberry Iced Coffee. I followed the directions and sure enough… there it was! A real life Dunkin’ Donuts in Las Vegas. This is a sign of good things to come. When I was back on the East Coast last year, Dunkin’ Donuts corporation was holding franchising meetings specifically for West Coast operators. So it’s looking like DD is moving West! But if you can’t wait till they get to California… make the drive to Vegas!!!!
July 27th, 2008 at 9:12 am
put dunkin donuts in california! i’ll run the franchise if that’s what it takes.
August 3rd, 2008 at 7:42 pm
I am from the east coast and miss dunkin donuts so much!!!
Hopefully soon the folks on the west coast will have the great taste pleasure of dunkin donuts.
August 4th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
Hopefully the Bay area first!
I am North Carolina rasied, so had some allegiance to KK, but all that changed in grad school at BU.
I too will run a franchise- just get me a hazelnut iced with cream and sugar!
August 21st, 2008 at 7:45 am
My wife who went to school in Boston can’t stop talking about DD. We go to the closest DD to San Jose every other month - the one in Vegas - just for iced coffee and donuts. Really DD, this is quite sad that you see people going to these lengths and can’t open up one store in Cal. Well at least we got In N’ Out burger…