Daylight Savings Time started on a very bad weekend for us. We had an morning commitment on Sunday, which meant we had to get up earlier than usual the day after we lost an hour of sleep.
To try and help everyone get through the day, I suggested a trip for coffee and donuts after church.
As we sat at Dunkin’ Donuts enjoying our breakfast, I heard something very strange as someone else placed their order.
They ordered pizza. Or a flatbread sandwich. I don’t know which, but I had seen signs advertising both in the store. That had totally flummoxed me.
What is the world coming to when you go to a donut shop for pizza?
I know that pressure has increased on businesses to branch out in order to survive, but some things are sacred.
If I remember correctly, the guy in the commercials didn’t get up in the middle of the night and say, “Time to make the pizza.” It was time to make the donuts. That’s all.
I shouldn’t throw Dunkin’ Donuts under the bus though because they are merely one of many people who have seem to forgotten how the world works.
Kentucky Fried Chicken has thrown lots of different twists into their chicken for years. They even branched out into some strange amalgamation of chicken, potatoes and corn in a bowl.
Their recent commercials, however, make me blink a few times to check my TV screen. KFC has cake. That’s right, the Colonel has expanded from frying into baking. He’s versatile, that Sanders guy.
I don’t know about you, but I just can’t trust a cake coming from a chicken place. Especially a chocolate cake. Chocolate and chicken just don’t mix.
The mother of all fast food companies is also getting in on the action. McDonald’s has tested pizza and added soups and all other kinds of stuff. Now, they’re moving into coffee.
Not just that lukewarm, black coffee that grandmothers have bought there for years. They want to make a run at places like Starbucks and have introduced lattes and all those other overpriced (but pretty delicious) drinks to their menus.
Executives say that the chain will hopefully lure customers into Mickey D’s in the middle of the day, when they would not usually think of coming there for a drink or a snack. Late afternoon snacks at McDonald’s were always great because no one was there. You could totally get away with it.
I don’t know about you, but I don’t want any latte-sipping freak catching me trying to sneak a six-piece McNugget in before dinner. And since the chain has introduced wireless Internet to many of their stores, the word can spread about that pretty quickly.
But not as quickly as the news about your pizza delivery, Domino’s has a new service that keeps you up to date on the status of your delivery. While they try to get the pizza to you in 30 minutes, you can see when it went into the over, who is working on it, and when it leaves the store.
I can live without knowing all of that. Just as long as they just stick to pizzas. Because if Domino’s gets into breakfast to try and challenge Dunkin’ Donuts, I might just give up completely.