Dunkin’ Donuts

GOOD LORD this location blows… if you don’t sit in the drive-​thru during peak morning hours for more than 15 minutes (a LONG time when you’re in line in a car AND rushing to work), you go there at lunch time to find out they don’t have food promoted on their display boards and then you order a completely different sandwich with a hash brown, drive back to the office and discover they forgot the hash brown… and I was the ONLY customer in the place so it wasn’t like they were busy! While I love Dunkin’ Donuts, I am DONE with this location. And unfortunately the other closest location has been closed due to a rat infestation… so WHAT is a girl to do?! BEWARE of Transit Road Amherst/​Depew. The wait is nuts and they don;t get your order right even when you are the only customer in the place.

Stopped in to grab a quick breakfast and my visit was nothing but quick. I ordered a egg & cheese on a croissant with a chai tea. There was no one in the place and 1 person at the drive thru window. It took about 13 minutes to get my simple order. My sandwich and tea were hit and good but they need to improve on their service times.

What do you call it if LeBron James and Michael Jordan are eating cruellers and glazed Bavarian Cremes? Dunkin’ Donuts! OK, that was awful. But there’s so much junkin donuts these days, isn’t there? I’m here to set the record straight about these little baked goodies. Call it Debunkin’ Donuts if you want.
Raising this place to a 4 because they consistently get my hot chocolate EXACTLY RIGHT and they don’t close early like some other locations. They also get my order right, are friendly, and are for some reason a little cheaper than some locations.
Original review.
Dunkin will always score decently from me, because unlike Starbucks and co, they’re not centrally owned, they’re often franchised, which gives each store slightly more local flavour. Plus they have — by far — the best hot chocolate of any of the chains — infinitely better than the gross and overpriced version served at Starbucks, and the watered down weird version at Tim Hortons. It’s just so creamy and delicious that I love it.
This one has the great hot chocolate, and plenty more. Give it a try, and enjoy :) I strayed above my 1 or 2 out of 5 only because of the lovely hot chocolate and because of a nice experience at this particular store.
I should mention, I only rate national and global chains on a scale of 1 – 2 with a 3 and a 4 only in extremely rare circumstances. I rate family businesses on a scale of 3 – 5. Here is why:
Would you rather support the local family coffee shop, or the multi national corporations and the rich men on yachts in the Carribbean? Why are the parking lots of the awesome local places usually half empty (or completely empty)? Why are the national and international coffee chains always so busy? Why can they afford to open so late and get all the TV advertising and all the prime intersection locations? Why are they taking over all the airports, stations, and rest stops? Why go and support Starbucks, Tim Hortons, and so on? These places have systematically and coldly taken over the national coffee scene by using cheap ingredients, pre-​packaged frozen systematic snacks that are identical across the nation, overrated products, overpricing for everything, often rude underpaid baristas, and a ridiculously expensive mass brand advertising campaign that gets inside the heads of all the kids and the 20somethings and keeps them under the illusion that if it’s not a brand name, it’s not worth visiting. They spend all the money they should be investing in drinks and food and service, in advertising and cornering the market — the local places can’t compete — and someday all we will be left with is the same chains serving the same drinks all over the world. That is our future. It’s the way we’re heading and you know it. Every time you eat at a bland national chain, you buy into that, you support that. Boycott chains. Support your local places. It’s an embarrassment that generic brand national chains are even listed on a proper foodie website like Unilocal,let alone getting 4 and 5 stars from so called foodies. Wake up, America, before we’re all just batteries in the matrix.

Dunkin dunkin. I like the coffee, it’s usually my alternative when I’m on the run! Usually a fast in and out! The way it should be! I like the bagels and the donuts are ok. This place will usually cure my coffee kick.