Date: Fri 29-Aug-1997

Publication: Bee

Author: KAAREN

Quick Words:

business-Dunkin-Donuts-Baskin

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Ice Cream & Sandwiches- Dunkin' Donuts Hopes To Add To Its Menu

When Dunkin' Donuts moves to a new location in the Queen Street shopping

center, it may also include a Baskin Robbins ice cream franchise and a

sandwich shop.

Don Cisero, co-owner with Richard Barillari of the Newtown Dunkin' Donuts,

confirmed Tuesday that they are very close to an agreement which will add the

Baskin Robbins franchise. He said he also has been talking with

representatives of a west coast franchise, Togos, which serves sandwiches,

soups and salads.

Talks with Togos are still in the preliminary stages. But Mr Cisero said he

knows he wants to be able to expand the menu with some kind of a quality

sandwich shop franchise.

"We don't have a busy lunch crowd so we'd like to expand," he said. "The way

the community has accepted us, we'd like to give back by offering more of what

people want."

Mr Cisero said the Dunkin' Donuts iced coffee line sold well all winter and

expects ice cream to do well, too.

The three franchises would function together, as one operation, without

partitions or separate staff.

The Dunkin' Donuts shop is slated to move into a new wing to be built at the

north side of the shopping center, next to the former A&P building, this fall

before the projected November opening of the Big Y supermarket.

Mr Cisero said the new Dunkin' Donuts building has to be built before the Big

Y is completed because the existing Dunkin' Donuts must be torn down to become

part of the supermarket's parking lot.