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A Great Place to Receive Poor Customer Service and the Wrong Order.
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Rating: 1/51

FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA -- I have been a regular customer at Dunkin Donuts for a few months now. I go by and grab a coffee on my way to work. Everyday the employees (especially the morning manager) have a terrible attitude and become upset if you ask them to repeat the order back to you or to check your order after you give it. On several occasions I have also been given the wrong order or incorrect coffee.

During my most recent experience I actually decided to call and let them know that they had indeed given me the wrong product (I have never called to complain before, this was my first time; although I continuously have been given the wrong order) I was assured by the manager they would replace it upon my next visit.

As I went this morning to get my free replacement coffee after explaining that it was I who had called; I was REFUSED service by the manager since he "recognized me as being a regular customer". I didn't realize giving consistent business to a company was perceived as a bad thing, when I was working in customer service jobs I always took it as a positive connotation.

I must say that besides the terrible customer service, the coffee quality here is iffy as well. Even when it isn't busy and you're the only person in line there is a 5-10 minute wait. After this incident I will no longer be a customer of this Dunkin Donuts, I will be taking my business to Starbucks from now on...

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1/2 hour for 2 wrong coffees
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ASPEN HILL, MARYLAND -- This morning it took me about half of an hour to obtain two cups of coffee, which is thoroughly unacceptable. At 5:54 A.M on July 7 2005, I drove up to the TOGO's/Dunkin' Donuts store at 13810 Connecticut Avenue in Aspen Hill Maryland, and found one vehicle at the window in the drive-through lane.

Outside of the entrance on the parking lot side, there was a gentleman employee with a headset on, motioning to a bus driver to park in the parking lot to come inside. There were no other passengers on that bus, just the driver. I waited until the employee with the headset was inside and through the speaker he said that he would be with me in a minute.

Meanwhile, the early morning rush hour was beginning to get underway. Six of the seven vehicles which had driven in behind me pulled out of the line to go through the Connecticut Avenue exit. Each potential customer was quickly replaced with another. By this time, the gentleman driving ahead of me had also left. I drove forward to the window to take his place in line. I had thought the long wait was due to a staffing issue, but now I saw that there were three people behind the counter.

When I pulled up to the window, one female employee told the other that customer in front of me had left. “Don't worry about it,” replied the second female employee. “It happens all the time.” This nonchalant attitude struck me as quite unethical. When I was handed the wrong order, I repeated the correction politely. I had ordered two large coffees, not one. The employee rolled her eyes and I patiently waited eight and a half more minutes for one additional coffee.

By now there were no less than nine vehicles behind me in line, with eight more additional drivers who decided not even to wait – but to look at the length of the unmoving line and continued to drive through the parking lot. (One had the audacity to blare his horn at me as if I had been holding up the line. I was humiliated to take blame from a stranger for the lack of professionalism on the part of Dunkin' Donuts employees.) I personally counted a loss of twenty-four customers in approximately half of an hour.

I was able to finish getting my order by 6:29 A.M.; neither coffee was as I requested it, but I hadn't the time to get the coffees I ordered about half an hour ago. Needless to say, I am quite livid about this experience. This is ultimately a milestone of a marked decline in the quality of service of this venue, which I had thought was one of the better Dunkin' Donuts. Although this morning was by no means and anomaly, this was the worst experience I have had to-date.

I look forward to hearing how you plan to address this disheartening issue. As a loyal customer, I expect that this will be addressed quickly and will not happen again with the proper training and guidance of effective management.

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All for some coffee
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NEW YORK, NEW YORK -- I walked in, second time in my day, to order a medium hot coffee. My order was being taken care of from another employee whom I don't remember her name **, was in the side room yelling and complaining about how she could only depend on another employee to not "** things up" (pardon the foul language.) She was going on about how if she could leave the store, that she could depend on this employee to not mess things up and that another employee is very undependable. I don't recall the name of the employees she mentioned.

Back to my order, once I received my coffee and my receipt, paid by my debit card, I noticed when I was leaving the store that the receipt was marked incorrect. I was charged for a small iced coffee priced 2.33 (?) when the medium hot coffee itself is just 1.98. The price difference didn't matter to me, it was just a couple of cents. However, I still wanted a correct receipt for my records, so I went back to the cashier who gave me my order (again not sure what her name was, might have been **). She didn't know how to refund the money back to my debit card so she called over **.

When ** came to the cashier after seeming quite upset, she looked at me and asked me "okay so what's the problem?" I told her the order on the receipt was wrong, and she responded something like 'my god these people' or 'I'm not going to be able to even leave today,' very loud and totally inappropriate. She took the receipt and started subtracting from what the iced coffee was priced, to the medium hot coffee that I ordered. She looked like she was having trouble also putting the money back on the card, so I simply said just give it back to me in cash. When she was planning on giving me back cents, I told her about her store's policy.

When I showed her the store policy which was stamped all over the store (which stated if your order is incorrect on the receipt your order is free) she flipped. She yelled at me, asking me if I was "busting her balls" and if I was "** serious." I asked her to calm down, that its your store's policy to do what is required. She continued to yell and say "your ** kidding me", and asked me what is it that I wanted for free. I told her that again, that her policy was that my order was free, so I would just take my coffee. And again, she yelled and responded back that if I was "** with [her]" I told her she needs to calm down, and asked her for her name.

She wrote it on the receipt and practically threw it at me, saying **. She then yells at me saying shes having a "Great day" so I responded when I received the receipt "Yea I'm having a great day too, and its about to be wonderful once I make this complaint." She told me that I can do a complaint online (which I know is not true, and if it was, I would rather speak to someone directly in charge.)

So she continued to yell, and stated that she was going to call her boss. I told her that's great, because I can talk to him as well. She told me "Oh well, that's your problem now isn't it. Your not going to speak to my boss." And I told her, so let me speak to your manager. She snapped back at me telling me that she is the manager. I told her "that's great, your showing your employees how real customer service works." She started to call her boss saying out loud that she doesn't "need this." While she was speaking to her boss, she asked him "do you want to speak with this sir, because hes just standing here and wants to speak with you."

Seconds after talking to him about the incident, ** was yelling in the background saying that "Don't lie sir, don't lie." I simply told her "I'm lying? Sorry, but lying isn't something I do." Then she was screaming to get her cellphone back, which I did shortly after I asked her boss for his cellphone number. I called him on his cellular phone and he told me he will send me an email and try to deal with this incident.

I called him the next day and asked him as a reminder on what was the manager's name. He said **. I asked for a last name and he simply said he didn't know. I then asked him for his full name which I didn't get when I first spoke to him. He said **. I asked for a last name and he refused to give it. I reminded him that he hasn't send me the email, and email that I thought was to report the incident. The email he said, was only just to receive a complimentary meal at his establishment. That's not what I wanted however, I wanted a professional email to receive my complaint and save it on file.

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Dunkin Donuts - Charging Tax on Coffee Beans in NJ REPLY
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ROCHELLE PARK, NEW JERSEY -- It is illegal to charge tax on coffee beans. If a franchisee advertises one price and tries to sell for a higher price, then justifies the higher price by saying that they are charging tax, it would seem to me that this goes beyond just a slap on the wrist. I think the IRS would be interested to know that this is going on with some of the franchisees. Wouldn't that also be considered breaking the franchise rules? Dunkin Donuts is getting quite a bad reputation in my area for poor customer service.

By telling me "We will be happy to make the franchisee of this location aware of your concerns regarding their pricing.", just to appease me tells me that you may not condone such behavior but you certainly aren't going to do anything about it. I get the feeling that nobody seems to care what the franchisees do or don't do.

In your reply to me you said "At Dunkin' Donuts we value our customers and are committed to making your visits to our stores a pleasant experience." If that is really true then I feel my wife and I are owed an apology and the right to make purchases from this store for the advertised price without any self imposed tax. Most of all we could do without the condescending attitude which we experienced that day. This is how you can live up to your mission statement instead of just making empty promises.

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Customer Service Doesn't Exist!
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WELLSVILLE, NEW YORK -- I am getting beyond furious with Dunkin Donuts. I visited their store in Wellsville, NY and had to deal with a snobby little teen who was the only one working the counter. She acted as though doing her job was a huge burden. Due to a lack of options for a latte, I decided to place an order, anyway. I ordered a large latte and a donut. My latte was only filled 1/2 way full... quite literally. So by this point, my blood was starting to boil. I couldn't believe she had the nerve to had me a large cup that was filled only halfway full! The donut was disgusting and stale. I'm NOT the type to gripe about hot coffee... I expect it hot.

However, there is hot, then there is the point of scalding where it is ridiculous. When I took my first drink of coffee, it scalded my mouth to the point where the roof of my mouth literally peeled off, and it burnt my throat the whole way down. That coffee sat in the car in cold weather and was undrinkably hot for over 15 minutes. Trying to get my money's worth, I let the drink cool and decided to give it another try. Not only was it ENTIRELY too hot, but it tasted like CRAP!!! That is by far one of the worst tasting excuses for a latte I've ever put in my mouth.

I wrote to Dunkin Donuts through their website's customer service and received the generic "I'm sorry you had a problem" ** where they told me they were going to forward the message on to the district manager. After two weeks of not hearing a WORD, I was pissed and decided to write them YET AGAIN. I'm now going on ONE MONTH after the incident and have YET to be contacted regarding the matter! I will NEVER AGAIN buy so much as a pack of sugar from this piece of crap establishment. I think that in an economy as bad as this one, businesses can't afford to have such crappy customer service.

I will SMILE when this company falls under for their crappy business plan and complete and utter lack of customer service. They lost me as a customer for life, and I will do my best to pass on the word of just how crappy they are.
Word of mouth advertising is one of the most effective... guess they never learned that, or they just don't give a crap. Either way, I'm DONE. Give me Starbucks!!!

I worked at Disney World and received numerous guest applause-o-grams for outstanding customer service. I understand the need to please the customer, and I expect to be welcomed with a smile when I enter an establishment.

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Employee Errors, Customer Mistreatment, Mismanagement
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Rating: 1/51

NORTH SYRACUSE, NEW YORK -- Dunkin' Donuts on Taft Road, North Syracuse NY... All the employees and managers there know that my coffee is made wrong nearly every day. Yesterday, it was made wrong and the manager Briana told me to go somewhere else to get my coffee. I was dumbfounded and told her "I cannot believe you are turning a customer away because you can't get my order right" (simple - medium iced coffee extra cream, extra sugar, light ice).

I asked for contact information for someone above her, which she refused - telling me that there is no one above her. I insisted that since she doesn't own the store, there is higher management. She advised me that this was coming from upper management. I found the number for the exec offices and attempted to contact one of the franchisees (owners) and they weren't in.

I reported the incident to the DD 800#, and then I found a cell number to Roy ** (franchisee). I spoke with him and he referred this to Marcia, a district manager. She called me and told me that Briana, the store manager, said that I show up there WITHOUT the coffee that was made wrong all in an attempt to get free coffee. This is NOT the case!

I went there today and Briana is on vacation, but a manager in training is there as was Marcia. I spoke to the manager in training first, and he acknowledged that "we screw up your coffee almost every day" as well as "you circle back around to the drive-through with the coffee that is wrong to have it replaced". I even have this on tape now. He brought Marcia over to talk to me, and repeated for her what he had said- that I am not trying to get free coffee out of nowhere, that I drive back around WITH the coffee that needs to be replaced.

I ask that you call Roy ** and let him know how disgusting it is that the manager Briana is treating a customer this way and that she should indeed be fired for doing so. To tell a customer to shop somewhere else because they can't get an order right, and subsequently lie about the customer is simply unacceptable.

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Overcharging of 23 cents loses 40 year customer.
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DORCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS -- Hello, I am a long time DD customer (over 40 years) and I frequent the DD's on Morrissey Blvd in Dorchester Ma. every single day of the year and order the same thing every day - a medium hot coffee, dark no sugar, and a bagel with cream cheese which is a # 3 combo. This past Saturday, June 19th, 2010 at 12:17 pm I entered DD's on Morrissey Blvd. I ordered my usual # 3 combo from a gentleman who was then interrupted by the manager to reconcile the cash drawer, so he passed my order to the next register, where a woman (**) submitted my order into the computer.

When she entered the order the total came to $4.12, and I said that it should be $3.69 for the combo plus tax for a total of $3.89, which happens quite frequently if they enter it as separate items. "Well", ** said "well that's what it comes to, and there is nothing I can do". Mind you, I come in every day, and they all know me, I've never had a problem, and I always leave a $1.00 tip. I'm always very courteous, and was this day as well. So I asked Linda if I could speak with the manager. She kindly obliged. The manager, **, came over and I explained the situation.

** stated that "we have a new computer system, and there is nothing she can do" continued on next additional email... Continued from earlier post... When ** informed me there is nothing she could do to adjust the cost to $3.89, I informed her the I've been coming in here every single day for over 20 years, never had a problem, and you're over charging me, which is also very illegal. She repeated that she was sorry but there was nothing she could do. I said well I'm sorry, but you will never see me in here again, for 23 cents, you're going to lose a long time customer. She shrugged her shoulders, and I left, very very upset.

I've since posted the story on Facebook and Twitter and everyone cannot believe what happened. The common consensus is that ** should have done something to make the customer happy. I will be forwarding this on to the Massachusetts Attorney General's office in the hopes that illegal overcharging by Dunkin Donuts comes to an end. Thank you.

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COFFEE QUALITY
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MULTIPLE LOCATIONS, NEW JERSEY -- My wife and I were regular Dunkin' Donuts customers - sometimes going even 3 times each in a day. I say WE'RE because this is no longer the case. Recently, we have noticed a difference in the quality of our beverages. Specifically, the coffee which was the reason we went there in the first place. If it doesn't taste like water lately, it is just not good. It tastes much different than it did before. We know that one of the reasons is the way they now make the flavored coffee - with syrup instead of brewing the flavored beans the way they used to.

Another difference is the use of those industrial coffee urns - the decline in quality seems to have started when those were brought in. Even the regular coffee is awful lately, unless you are a fan of a warm (NEVER hot anymore) watery milky brownish beverage (which we are not). After finally snapping out of denial, thinking that we were hitting it at wrong times, or maybe there were new people who didn't know how to make it, we decided to simply cut our losses and stop going.

This is NOT how we want things, but the decisions that they have made about how to make their coffee has left us with no choice. We now buy their beans and brew them at home, that is, until they decide to mess that up too. We have talked to many others who feel the same way and have stopped going too. I wonder if they are noticing a revenue drop in the last few months.

Hey, Dunkin' Donuts Execs - Way to ruin our favorite cup of coffee and drive customers away. It would be nice if someone who is in a position to make changes in the DD organization would read this and make this all just a bad dream. I would defitely go back if I could just have a good HOT delicious cup o' joe - like the old days.

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Charging Tax on Coffee Beans in NJ
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ROCHELLE PARK, NEW JERSEY -- On July 1st my wife and I went into the Dunkin Donuts on Rochelle Avenue in Rochelle Park New Jersey to buy 2 lbs. of coffee beans for the advertised price of $10.99. When the register rang up $12.00, I questioned why they were charging more than a dollar more than the advertised price. First, I was told that the register automatically rang up that price. I asked them to fix it. The person said she could not fix it. Then, I was told that it was tax. In New Jersey the sales tax is 6% which does not add up to $12.00. Also, there is NO sales tax on coffee in New Jersey.

When I asked the person to correct the price to the advertised price of $10.99, she refused and said she could not. Either I would have to pay an extra dollar with what they called tax, or not take the coffee. We did not buy the coffee. This is not the first time I have heard of Dunkin Donuts charging tax on coffee beans just to justify the additional cost.

Further, I feel it is rude of someone behind the counter of a fast food establishment to speak to me in a condescending manner. I will be notifying my local newspaper about our experience at this local Dunkin Donuts in an effort to alert anyone who is not aware that Dunkin Donuts chooses to conduct their franchises in such a manner. Thank you.

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Disrespect of My Wife by Employee
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Rating: 1/51

LYNDHURST, NEW JERSEY -- On the afternoon of 08/26/12 my wife had stopped with my mother-in-law for a coffee and a little time together to talk. When they were on their way out, my wife had decided to purchase a pound of coffee. My mother-in-law had mentioned "why don't you purchase the one at 10% off?" My wife decided to do just that and mentioned to the employee behind the counter that it said the product was 10% off. The employee went on to say sarcastically, "That's not 10% off! Where did you go to school? Can't you read!"

My wife was shocked and immediately left the establishment, as the employee sarcastically yelled, "Pick it up! Put it back." When I was told about this needless to say I was infuriated, but knew what could I do, but tell her, never go back there again. They don't know how to treat their customers.

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