Showing posts with label latte. Show all posts
Showing posts with label latte. Show all posts

Monday, May 4, 2009

The coffee (plot) thickens

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to get the jump on Dunkin’ Donuts, a concept that once advertised how ridiculously early it arises to make the doughnuts.   

McDonald’s is rolling its McCafe line-up of beverages into the Greater New York area. Starbucks announces that it’ll be selectively reducing prices in some markets, which means some stores in the Tri-State Area could be among the discounters. So what’s Dunkin’ doing? Rolling back its latte prices in a pre-emptive strike.   

The chain announced today that it’ll be permanently discounting the prices of “all sizes, flavors and varieties” of latte drinks by about 15%. No reason was given in English for the haircut, though there was some corpo-blather about the changes being consistent with the current “You ‘kin do it” ad slogan.