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There was a time, unremembered by most Americans, when Burger King and Pizza Hut and Dunkin' Donuts did not dominate the nation's highways and boulevards. ! The proliferation of chain restaurants (60,000 at last count) is a signal social fact of the past four decades, a transformation of the commercial landscape more swift and radical than any other in U.S. history. Strung out along main drags in every city, fast-food franchises become the strip, identically chaotic collages of glowing signs and prefab construction. The helter-skelter of the strip is the urban critic's most convenient cliche --cheap...
Concerns about traffic and crime problems, for example, motivated the Fund's efforts to block the building of a Dunkin' Donuts in Harvard Square in the mid-1970's. "We studied the Dunkin' Donuts in Porter Square and counted something like 40 or 50 trucks stopped there between 8:00 and 10:00 a.m. Can you imagine that in Harvard Square?" she added. The rate of "incidents of trouble" was also augmented at the two stores which were open all night, she said...
...battle between Quebec's French separatists and its anglophone minority, violent verbal gestures are made. The provincial government forbids the use of the English word hamburger; "hambourgeois" is the meat substitute. In Montreal, police become provincial celebrities not by seizing heroin but by impounding 15,000 Dunkin' Donut bags because the printing is not bilingual...
...husband to go on to yet another branch of the same bank to no avail. The cab driver then took him to two places where the driver knew the proprietor, but neither would cash the money order, despite being apprised of the situation. Finally, by happenstance, they tried a Dunkin Donuts, where the money order was cashed, and my husband was able to pay the accumulated cabfare, plus that accrued in getting him back to his car. Luckily, since the tire only suffered a slow leak, it wasn't ruined, and he was able to pay the attendant his 50cents...
John Grimes, 41, of Cambridge, was stabbed to death at about 2 a.m. Saturday in front of the Porter Square Dunkin' Donuts...