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...walk away. But if you feel you've earned a treat, the restaurants, cafés and bars of Bali's lively nightlife area, Seminyak, are only a 10-minute drive from Desa Seni. Rates start from $120 a night for a one-bedroom house, including airport transfers and breakfast...
...Aniello. Carlyle, together with Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners, bought Dunkin' Brands from the French beverage giant Pernod Ricard for $2.4 billion in March 2006. To make that investment pay off, Dunkin' will have to fend off competitors trying to take a bite out of its core breakfast business while it hopes to eat some of their lunch. "The biggest challenge is to be able to achieve growth, given the competitiveness of the market," says D'Aniello. "That's the whole deal...
Dunkin' Donuts, which is based in Canton, Mass., had comfortably enjoyed the second spot in the breakfast market for years. Customers relied on Dunkin' for a doughnut and a cup of joe; they went to McDonald's for anything more. That easy division worked for years. Dunkin' rang up more than $3 billion in U.S. breakfast sales last year, compared with the Golden Arches' $7 billion, according to research firm A.G. Edwards. But the heat is on. In January McDonald's, which is in the middle of its own revival, scored big when its coffee beat Dunkin...
...find a dollar doughnut menu at Dunkin'. Rather than engage in a price war with the fast-food giants, Dunkin' is trying to close the gap between itself and Starbucks. Although it makes more money on breakfast sales overall than the Seattle-based chain, the average Dunkin' check is just $1.85, vs. $3.75 at Starbucks, notes food analyst Tom Miner of research firm Technomic. Dunkin' has positioned its breakfast sandwiches as quick quality, at the same price as Starbucks, $2.99. "I think they're in a good position against their competitors," says Miner. "Their biggest challenge is to focus...
...look, mandatory by 2015, will cost more than $200,000 per store, wiping out a year's worth of profits. And some question whether the $7,500 TurboChef ovens are worth buying when the new hot food items may bring only marginal sales increases. Microwaves work fine for breakfast sandwiches, they say. Currently 63% of revenues in a typical store comes from coffee and 17% from doughnuts. "We like innovation, but we don't want to lose any ground," says Mark Dubinsky, president of Dunkin' Donuts Independent Franchise Owners, which represents about 200 owners of 1,500 stores...