The rapid expansion of the world’s leading coffee retailer had recently hit a ceiling when it was discovered that there were no more local corner cafés or small businesses to take over and replace with the global coffee giant. There were simply no more sites left to dedicate to selling disappointingly stodgy muffins or frothing luke warm milk for a 7,000 per cent profit.

Head of Marketing at Starbucks, Brian Monckton, explained: ‘Then we realized that we had acres of prime commercial space inside our own shops, and thought we could exploit that.’ Staff will be encouraged to compete against each other for customers and will be able to launch take-overs if particularly successful.

Monckton also revealed that the laboratories at the Seattle HQ of Starbucks were close to perfecting the ‘Nano-Latte’, a caffeine hit that could be inserted directly into the body at molecular level, thus ensuring greater coffee saturation of the world market. ‘The possibilities are endless,’ Monckton enthused. ‘By 2030 we are planning to have nano-Starbucks outlets surgically implanted in every stomach.’

Indy Joe plans to attend the casting call, "I'm the best spokesperson for Dunkin' Donuts Franchise Owners"

Dunkin’ Donuts coffee fans with some star quality have a chance to appear in a national television commercial for the Canton coffee and doughnut chain.

Boston Casting will hold an open casting call on Sunday from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at the Media Performance Institute, 129 Braintree St. in Allston. A current photo is required.

“All we want to do is ask you a few questions about Dunkin’ Donuts and coffee,” Boston Casting said in an e-mail alert. “Nothing to prepare! We’re looking for personality and honesty!”

Those auditioning for the paid job, which is open to Dunkin’ lovers ages 18-40 and up, must be available Nov. 12 for a possible second audition and Nov. 22 and/or Nov. 23 for the shoot in the Boston metro area.

An illustration of a Dunkin' Donuts sign on Edward Hopper's "Nighthawks" painting. (Courtesy of The Art Institue of Chicago)

The other night I sat in a Dunkin’ Donuts and watched the world push through and buy dollhouse-shaped boxes of Munchkins and mortar-shell-size coffees. I watched old men rest on padded stools at the counter and a father come in with his kids and buy a dozen green-sprinkled doughnuts for St. Patrick’s Day. I took notes and I ate an unadorned Old Fashioned Cake Donut and sipped an iced coffee (which seems to come in Sugary, Too Sugary and Delectably Diabetic) and I considered why a doughnut shop that refuses to spell “doughnut” correctly has hung on for decades. Dunkin’ Donuts just turned 60. But you probably didn’t know because you probably take Dunkin’ Donuts for granted.

As did I, once.

Until a couple of years ago, when I headed back to my hometown of Providence, R.I., and ran across this wonderful headline in the Providence Journal: “Midget racing at the Dunk this weekend.”

Allow me to translate. Midget racing is a “sport” that involves small cars moving at high speeds along short tracks. It rarely involves physically diminutive people. The Dunk is the nickname of the Dunkin’ Donuts Center, and so entrenched is Dunkin’ Donuts in New England — and particularly my hometown, which claims both the most Catholics and most Dunkin’ Donuts per capita of any city in the U.S. — that Dunkin’ won naming rights to the Providence Civic Center, where I saw Rush twice and Springsteen three times and the Clash once. The arena is outfitted with Dunkin’s signature post- World War II-pre-Reagan-era pinks and oranges, its bulbous arena architecture a pleasant match with the plump lettering and obscenely sunny Carter-era Dunkin’ Donuts logo design.

It made me nostalgic, because Dunkin’ Donuts has become the ’70s AM radio of the fast-food world: cheap and forgiving.

Growing up, I had thought of Dunkin’ Donuts as gaudy and garish when I thought of it at all, a constant that always was and always would be — the plastic sheen of its atmosphere not so much warm as it was a ubiquitous reminder of the frosting on its pastries, which came in colors that did not occur in nature. Growing up (and maybe a bit still), I thought of Dunkin’ Donuts as New England’s bathroom — because there was always a Dunkin’ within blocks of where I was, no matter where I was, an easy, guilt-free, sorta public restroom always around the corner. In the winter, it was a place to wait out a snow squall, and in summer, when leaving the beach, it was a place to clean the sand from your toes and change out of swim trunks.

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Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Reena Hammer run on Dunkins

Jonathan Rhys Meyers and his girlfriend, Reena Hammer, head back to their NYC hotel together with a pick-me-up from Dunkin Donuts on Tuesday (February 2).

The 32-year-old Irish actor flashed a peace sign at photographers before heading inside.

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Could you create the finest donut known to mankind – a monument to the art of the fried cake itself? Last year around this time, Dunkin Donuts posed this very question via a contest. If you could come up with an incredibly original donut, they would give you credit and let you name it and then they would sell it and give you some money for it. This year, not so incredibly, they have launched the 2nd Annual Create Dunkin’s Next Donut Contest. Entries will be accepted starting Feb. 8 and the winner will receive $12,000 and… whoa, whoa, whoa.

 The trouble is, when you go to the Web site that Dunkin has created for this contest, the ingredients are limited to those that any Dunkin Donut shop could reasonably sell on a normal day. You are given a number of choices – warning, this process is so addicting, you will not get any work done for the next hour – and many options (glaze, stuffing, shape, etc.), but the options subject to what can be accomplished in an average donut shop, including the more than 475 Dunkin Donut shops that are in the Chicago area.

So, no bacon cruller or wood-roasted sunflower seed long john topped Vermont maple glaze.

I came up with a pumpkin cake ring coated in a French cruller glaze and topped with a Graham Cracker crust. I called it “Man’s Inhumanity to Man,” but it was woefully lacking. I felt constrained by THE MAN.

Last year’s winner was a guy named Jeff from Alabama who came up with a toffee-sour-cream cake.

You can do better Chicago. You gonna let Alabama tell you they know better when it comes to fried food? Go to the Dunkin web site and submit your masterpiece and let us know here what you came up with.

Better yet, give us a donut that those corporate donut guys wouldn’t dare trot out. An okra and kimchi stuffed round boy coated in a glaze of BBQ and sprinkled with fried M&M’s? Well, yes we can, Chicago.

 Chicago Tribune

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A Dunkin’ Donuts employee gets a drive thru baby shower.

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