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Saturday, February 23, 2013

Dunkin' Brands Takes Stand Against Obamacare

The company is lobbying the White House to changes its definition of full-time work from 30 hours a week to 40 or more per week, according to reports.

Dunkin' Brands, parent company of Dunkin' Donuts, has joined the fight against Obamacare.  The coffee and baked goods company is working to overturn a major provision of Obamacare, according to a Newsmax.com report this week. There are three Dunkin' Donut locations in Bristol, on Metacom Avenue and Hope Street. Specifically, Dunkin' is lobbying the White House to change its definition of full-time work from at least 30 hours a week to 40 or more per week, CEO Nigel Travis told the Financial Times, according to The Huffington Post. The change would leave Dunkin', as well as other companies, with fewer workers to insure under the health care reform law, which requires large employers to provide health coverage to all full-time workers and …

Margaret

6:20 pm on Sunday, February 24, 2013

before you assume it would be as easy as upping the price of coffee by a dime....do some actual human research and find out the actual cost-call your local dunkin employees & discover employees paychecks now avg under $200 because their avg hours cut from 35 avg to 25 in order to avoid the 30 hr mandate this is quite more expensive to society than a dime up in coffee Dunkin is a source of …   more ›

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Sweet: Friday Is National Donut Day

Alexandria area shops are handing out free donuts Friday.

Well, I... walked around the corner and I walked around the block and I walked right into a donut shop...  - from a children's song ----- It seems like there is a special day for just about everything these days and the donut is no exception. National Donut Day is Friday and in honor of their big day, donut shops across the nation — including many in Bristol-Warren — will hand out free donuts to customers. For a free donut, you'll need to purchase a beverage (hot or cold), according to their "Behind the Beans" blog. You might want to do this in the morning. They say that they'll hand out one free donut of your choice "while supplies last." (Could Dunkin' Donuts ever really run out of donuts?) Dunkin' Donuts — as all Rhode Islanders know — …

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