Dunkin' - Scottsdale

Not very smart staff at this location. One girl has zero personality or customer service skills. The only reason to go here is for the coffee and despite Starbucks prices, it is still worth once a month. The donuts are all horrible...these are donuts from a bygone era. Instead of all the other food they try to serve, how about making a better tasting donut. Any chain or people from Boston should stay in Boston and that includes all the old timers who spend 5 hours sitting in the corner of the store.

I go here for coffee, never had a donut from this location. They do amuse me because I take a couple minutes to fill out the surveys on the receipt for a free donut. If you don't want a donut it's good for $1 off. I found that out at another @DunkinDonuts . Except at this one, whenever I order my large hot or iced coffee and give them the coupon it comes out at .29 cents. Cool. Otherwise, this DD is not well run judging from the 6-7 times I've been in. There is usually a harried middle aged guy running around trying to speed things up and causing confusion among the several young women that also work there and move at a leisurely pace. It's kind of amusing except that the drinks get screwed up with regularly.

It goes without saying, Dunkin' Donuts is pretty damn good. This one in Scottsdale is pretty awesome. I don't know about you, but I'm definitely not above ignoring national chains like DD in Yelp reviews. Coming from Southern California, we're not getting any in my home region until 2015. That's two years too long, and so Las Vegas, Nevada and the Phoenix, Arizona metros are the closest places to get my fix in the interim. This location is close to the home of my college roommate, and, while visiting him a few weeks ago, this particular DD would be where you can find me most mornings, getting a donuts and loading up on caffeine. I would make it a point to get up early before anyone in the house was awake and walk on over (one of the few instances of getting any real physical activity while visiting and a vain attempt to offset the donut I would be consuming . It's that good. It literally got me out of bed early while on vacation. Scottsdale is a pretty affluent community, and so it's only appropriate that their local DD is pretty nice. Their charity donation boxes were full of dollar bills (the first time I've seen such a full donation box! as well. Though located in a nondescript strip mall, the store itself is well kept and still feels new. The inside is large enough and employees here are friendly. During my week-long visit, there were a few snowbirds visiting from the East Coast each morning (which you were able to determine by their accents and the license plates of cars outside . Obviously, DD brought back memories of the northeast for them as well. The quality of the donuts here were consistently fresh and well-stocked. I usually go for an old fashioned chocolate donut or a chocolate sprinkle donut to go with my raspberry coffee (creamed and sugared, naturally . The Scottsdale location participates in all the promos (including the trivia scratchers game on medium and large coffees, whereby you can win more free stuff like another donut or another coffee . If you plan on visiting regularly, you can download the app or take their online surveys on the receipt, many of which I was able to complete while still in the store and write down for a future visit. This place also had more variety of flavors for their Munchkins (at least compared to the other one I frequent in Las Vegas whenever I'm there . By request from members of my traveling party, I got an assortment for take-out during one of my visits. It was then that I noticed that they had more than just powdered sugar and chocolate to pick from (they also had cinnamon and a seasonal flavor I couldn't quite remember...but it was four total choices . Man, DD needs to hurry the hell up and open one in my hometown already! With the rising costs of plane tickets to Phoenix, this habit is becoming increasingly unsustainable.

Bumping DD up to 3 stars, and honestly, I was considering 4. Crazy, huh? For whatever reason, I woke up thinking about that veggie egg white turkey sausage flatbread sandwich this morning... (Maybe it was because several yelpers told me it was pretty good when i wrote my last review). So, I decided to give them another chance. This time, i called ahead to make sure that they had eggs, specifically the sandwich I was thinking about, in stock. Sure enough, they did! I went with the combo that included a hot coffee, and this time, everything tasted really good! The sandwich is pre made, but it was honestly pretty f 'in delicious. It was perfectly toasted multigrain flatbread, and inside was an eggwhite omelette with veggies and turkey sausage, and there was some melted cheese on it as well... it was the perfect size too. What makes me feel even better is that I just went online to DD website and looked up the nutrition info for the sandwich I had, and it 's not so bad! One sandwich has 280 calories, 19 grams of protein, and 6 grams of fat. You may see me update this review again if I become a regular at DD, but I won 't get too excited yet... I guess the key may be to call ahead, or maybe I just had a really unlucky first experience? Either way, today I am a satisfied DD customer! PS for any of you girls or boys that are into firemen, there was a firetruck parked outside this DD when I stopped by and a table full of firemen enjoying their DD too... I would guess they are regulars, so you may want to stop by sometime around 9am to check 'em out!

My iced coffee was good. The boy helping me couldn't tell me if the donuts contained milk of eggs. One of the employees was sitting down and talking to someone else the other kid that helped me when i left got on his phone. All awhile literally there were puddles of coffee on the floor throughout the store. I've never seen this before. They weren't even concerned about cleaning it up.