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Dutch Bros…never been…what’s it like? More like SB or Dunkin? (1 Viewer)
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nirad3
Footballguy
Yeah, this. It's even less coffee-centric than Starbucks. Like said here, super-sugary stuff that kids and non coffee drinkers gravitate to for some reason.
There's one by my house and when it first opened there was a line halfway down the street during all of their operating hours. Even now when I drive by there'll be a lot of people waiting for a sugar fix.
Drunken knight
Footballguy
Daughter really likes them. Closest one is in Sonoma (about 20 min away). I like to do Dutch runs with her when she is in town. I’ll get a zero sugar blended coffee drink.
Zow
Footballguy
I nearly started a thread on this awhile back.
I genuinely don't understand them. We have two in my large college town/small city and they are packed at all hours of the day. I assume they lace their coffee with cocaine or something. That said, I've never had one myself, nor seen my wife (loves buying overpaid coffee) or a colleague with one.
I assume it's a college kid thing or something.
I genuinely don't understand them. We have two in my large college town/small city and they are packed at all hours of the day. I assume they lace their coffee with cocaine or something. That said, I've never had one myself, nor seen my wife (loves buying overpaid coffee) or a colleague with one.
I assume it's a college kid thing or something.
Bob Sacamano
Footballguy
Bob Sacamano
Footballguy
Take, like, a Monster. Mix it with, like, a red bull. Pour in like a case of Pixie Sticks and like 4 cups of ice. Blend. Top with like your favorite snow cone flavor mixed with Bang. Drink through like a paper straw and then go to the end of the line so you can get another one tomorrow.
BassNBrew
Footballguy
FarFromHome
Footballguy
I'm a coffee guy. I never put anything in it. Just coffee. Dark. I also never pay money for Starbucks, my morning Keurig is just fine. My wife? It's like a problem. It's therapy for her she says. I guess the whole process of it makes her feel good. She makes good money so I don't gripe too much other then playful comments. Those damn drinks are like 6 plus bucks or something a pop. She actually prefers Dutch Brothers over all of em and was super excited when one opened a few miles from our house. Do I like Dutch Brothers? It's cheaper so hell ya I like Dutch Brothers.
Zow
Footballguy
That guy was probably more fun.
Hastur
Footballguy
I went on their website to view the menu. This doesn't seem very far off.
rockaction
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
Have you had our new energy drink? It's called Okayne!
Okayne! For those days you're just not feeling that bing.
Okayne! For those days you're just not feeling that bing.
General Malaise
Footballguy
I'm going to push back a little here - BROS was founded on a vibe. It was dudes in Grants Pass, OR serving up coffee drinks out of a cart with music bumping. Vibe is what keeps the teens returning. It's why you see BROS bumper stickers and merch quite often. When was the last time you saw somebody rocking a Starbucks sticker on their back windshield?
Their coffee is terrible - they don't even have drip coffee available, but they aren't trying to compete with Starbucks - they want Starbucks' customers' children and they got 'em hooked, boy.
And, the footprint is tiny with efficient drive-thrus. You don't get people sitting on their laptops all day sucking up the free wifi. They want their customers in line and out line and back in line tomorrow.
Dunken Donuts is mostly east coast and their coffee is horrendous. For a dark roast drip coffee drinker, Dunken isn't even a consideration. It's Folgers.
Bob Sacamano
Footballguy
Waiting for the pushback.
General Malaise
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
Dunkin' Donuts coffee sits in those pots all day, festering and cooking. There's nothing fresh about it. I'm totally nodding about the Folgers comment. That's what I always think. Oh, we can get the nice, fresh, French Roast at Starbucks (still not as good as other coffee shops or the smoothness of an Italian espresso), or we get da Maxwell House at Dunkin' and imitate Ben and Casey Affleck like we're in on the New England brother/celebrity joke.
No thanks, fellas. They did have a great SNL skit with Casey Affleck, though. That was enough to begrudgingly get my business when in Boston. But Dunkin' coffee—drink it black? No thank you.
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7 Brew has a location near me and sounds a lot like Dutch Bros. It's new and I've been by it a few times and the line for the double drive thru was on the street. The menu is all sugar and energy.
https://7brew.com/
https://7brew.com/
Major
Footballguy
Yep. Crazy when you look at research studies and how sugar basically effects your dopamine receptors the same way as coke. No wonder why I loved sugar so much as a kid (and cocaine as an adult
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eighsse2
Footballguy
I tried them once. Way too expensive, but I liked the taste, got an Irish cream iced coffee.
Mr. Mojo
Footballguy
They opened one in my small city about a year ago and it was bedlam for months. Long lines in the drive through, dozens of people with walk up orders, etc.
Sometimes it would be packed on Sunday night at 8:30 pm.
They finally opened a 2nd one about a mile from the first one and things have finally calmed down.
Sometimes it would be packed on Sunday night at 8:30 pm.
They finally opened a 2nd one about a mile from the first one and things have finally calmed down.
Don Quixote
Footballguy
Yeah, I went to the website to check out the menu since I had never heard of them. Don’t look like any franchises out by me. Looking at the menu, I’m okay with that, but I’m more of a black coffee/espresso type and it does not look like those are even menu options.
Dr. Octopus
Footballguy
I'm a stockholder, so drink up boys.
I've never actually seen one - but like the business model and their rate of expansion.
I've never actually seen one - but like the business model and their rate of expansion.
rockaction
Footballguy
I just looked at their menu. They have plenty of sugar-fied, wonderful iced coffees and lattes and stuff. You guys are making it seem like all they do is fruit-flavored. When I go to Starbucks I get a Caramel Ribbon Frappuccino. These drinks seem no different. The six shots of espresso is a bit overboard on that 9-1-1 drink they have. I'll pass on that. Be so wired and jacked only to come crashing back to earth like a NASA rocket headed for the moon.
eta* I got thirsty, that's for sure. Good on Dutch Bros, aside from the name.
eta* I got thirsty, that's for sure. Good on Dutch Bros, aside from the name.
urbanhack
Fight The Power!
All good. Pretty judgy from my part as having never set foot in.
General Malaise
Footballguy
All good. Pretty judgy from my part as having never set foot in.
Well that's the thing.....you CAN'T set foot in it!
There's no 'it' to 'set in'. But let's use a real life example: Let's say you and our buddy @SFBayDuck and I go to an Oregon Ducks' game this fall, maybe when the temps are cooler and the leaves are changing. There is (or was) a Dutch Bros coffee truck parked right outside the stadium. HUGE speakers just bumping and as a guy who likes the DJ/Electro/dance like you do, it's definitely got a vibe going. The line for coffees here? Like Star Wars on opening weekend and I'm not exaggerating. Moms, college kids, little kids all in line the get their sugary caffeinated fizzy drinks while the portly middle aged dads like me are in line for an IPA across the way.
If that's a Starbucks cart or a Dunken Donuts cart, I don't think you generate that sort of buzz. And you can't just snap your fingers and create it out of thin air - this is what BROS is all about at its core. They've hooked their customers and know precisely how to reel in more.
Senor Schmutzig
Footballguy
Been looking at them for a while since I discovered BROS a few years ago. Been thinking about buying into the recent dip but I should have done that two weeks ago.
Sugar Free Golden Eagle for the win.
Also looking at CAVA. Which I should have also bought into two weeks ago. LOL
General Malaise
Footballguy
There's a *TON* of info on BROS in the stock thread, but since this is a stand alone....
Before they went public and this goes back 15+ years, the ones around our area were pretty well known for staffing their coffee huts with very attractive young gals who would flirt with middle aged fatties and get them to return for no other reason than the primal ID of man thinking that the pretty young things actually liked them. You'd see a handful of F150s in the drive-thru line with Curtis Construction leaning out, leering and laughing with the lasses who were just wanting him to leave a fat tip. And it worked! Plenty of men out there wanting to get their caffeine fix from the pretty girls vs waddling into Starbucks or god forbid bringing their coffee from home.
They've buttoned that up and have gotten away from the flirty girls in short-shorts and now when I roll by, I'll see dudes with an iPad strutting up and down the line pre-taking orders. Gone are the days of Daisy Dukes and halter tops and for whatever reason, I don't see as many F150s in line anymore. Odd business, that.
urbanhack
Fight The Power!
Let's focus in on this...All good. Pretty judgy from my part as having never set foot in.
Well that's the thing.....you CAN'T set foot in it!
But let's use a real life example: Let's say you and our buddy @SFBayDuck and I go to an Oregon Ducks' game this fall, maybe when the temps are cooler and the leaves are changing. There is (or was) a Dutch Bros coffee truck parked right outside the stadium. HUGE speakers just bumping and as a guy who likes the DJ/Electro/dance like you do, it's definitely got a vibe going. The line for coffees here? Like Star Wars on opening weekend and I'm not exaggerating. Moms, college kids, little kids all in line the get their sugary caffeinated fizzy drinks while the portly middle aged dads like me are in line for an IPA across the way.
If that's a Starbucks cart or a Dunken Donuts cart, I don't think you generate that sort of buzz. And you can't just snap your fingers and create it out of thin air - this is what BROS is all about at its core. They've hooked their customers and know precisely how to reel in more.
Bob Sacamano
Footballguy
Their blended coffee tastes more like coffee than any blended drink Starbucks sells. Probably because theirs actually contains coffee and Starbucks' doesn't*. It isn't bad for what it is. But my daughter and her friends were going there more for This crap
*This is purely speculation on my part. No idea if it is true.
rockaction
Footballguy
I drink them regularly and I couldn't tell you if they have coffee or not. They taste too good to have coffee in them.
But I think I want to go to Bros and get a Poppin' Boba Fire Lizard Rebel, which sounds like an obscenely self-immolated Jim Morrison. I want to see that act rise from the dead.
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Dickies
Footballguy
So it was like the coffee version of Hooters. Now it seems like their clientele is moms.
Bob Sacamano
Footballguy
In case you missed it, there's a "see more flavors" button at the bottom. More options than NVDA.
rockaction
Footballguy
So what you're saying is
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there's less sugar in their tea & a these days
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YYYYYEEEEEAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
General Malaise
Footballguy
I like how the names go from "Poppin' Boba Fire Lizard Rebel" to "Electric Berry" to "Double Rainbro" (okay, that's pretty good) to......."Peach". Did the creative team take the afternoon off when it came time to "Peach"?
Seriously, if you DO ever venture into a BROS and you like coffee drinks, I recommend the Iced Annihilator. I'm a 99.99% black, dark roast coffee guy, but that Iced Annihilator is damn tasty.
urbanhack
Fight The Power!
What does this mean?
General Malaise
Footballguy
Yeah, that's not a bad comp, at least the location closest to my office. I had been to others where the staff was more akin to your Portland goth/punk scene with the facial piercings and myriad tattoos.
I do think teens are their biggest target for clientele; mostly teen girls who, well......become moms! In fact I'd say many of the moms in line at BROS today were once teen consumers. At least out here where BROS has been around 20+ years.
Bob Sacamano
Footballguy
Starbucks frappuccinos taste very chemically to me. I don't get coffee out of a coffee frappuccino. It's like comparing most strawberry candy to an actual strawberry.
Whatever blended coffee thing I had at BROS was pretty fantastic, comparably speaking. Actually tasted like someone put some coffee in it instead of 5 pumps of this and 3 pumps of that and a pinch of the stuff they use to scrub the toilets.
Bob Sacamano
Footballguy
OK. I was wrong. It does have coffee in it. If these are listed in order of the amount of ingredients, though, there's more Coffee Frappuccino Syrup than actual coffee. That's probably why I don't think it tastes very coffee-y
Ingredients: Ice, Milk, Coffee Frappuccino Syrup [Sugar, Water, Natural Flavor, Salt, Xanthan Gum, Potassium Sorbate, Citric Acid], Coffee.
Ingredients: Ice, Milk, Coffee Frappuccino Syrup [Sugar, Water, Natural Flavor, Salt, Xanthan Gum, Potassium Sorbate, Citric Acid], Coffee.
belljr
Footballguy
Need to add a shot......of espresso
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