Giada vs Rachel Ray - Page 2

Food Network Fan · 11-30-2007, 08:34 PM

Count me as a male preferer too.

italianatheart4407 · 01-04-2008, 12:17 AM

I dislike Sandra Lee. I find her very obnoxious and could care less for her recipes. I just don't like how every epidosde she matches her house. It urks me. I like Rachel Ray but I find her commercials on Dunkin Doughnuts with the use of the word "De-lish" is over used in countless amounts of ways. Giada De Laurentiis is my favorite chef on foodnetwork, sorry. I love her style of cooking.

Food Network Fan · 01-04-2008, 12:19 AM

I haven't seen the commercials. I don't think we have dunkin donuts here though.

italianatheart4407 · 01-04-2008, 12:43 AM

You are extremley lucky.

Food Network Fan · 01-04-2008, 12:44 AM

I guess there are perks to not having some chains available to me.

BerryBaby · 01-04-2008, 11:07 AM

All the Dunkin' Donuts closed in Portland so we don't have the commercial.

Although, the other day, I saw Dunkin' Donuts coffee in the grocery store. Heard it is suppose to be good coffee.

Wonder what type of market niche they will get in the PNW, if any. We are the land of Starbucks and TONS of independent coffee producers and cafes. There is coffee on every corner!

Clove · 01-04-2008, 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by BerryBaby

All the Dunkin' Donuts closed in Portland so we don't have the commercial.

Although, the other day, I saw Dunkin' Donuts coffee in the grocery store. Heard it is suppose to be good coffee.

Wonder what type of market niche they will get in the PNW, if any. We are the land of Starbucks and TONS of independent coffee producers and cafes. There is coffee on every corner!

Dunkin' Donuts is re-inventing themselves in a Starbucks / Panera mode.
They are trying to move into more city-like locations and get into the high-end coffee, sandwich, bakery business.
They seem to have the coffee and bakery established. Now can they break into the lunch and "sort of" dinner business?
There seem to be lots of "holes" appearing in the Starbucks balloon, so maybe DD can find a new niche.

BerryBaby · 01-04-2008, 06:22 PM

Maybe, but they would have to open stores here, which they seem to have closed many years ago.

Dunkin' Donuts just won't ever be a Starbucks to me unless they drastically change the atmosphere. From I remember of Dunkin' Donuts, the atmosphere didn't make me want to eat there, just buy a donut and leave. But then, that must have been about 1971? Haven't been to one in that long...