Tonio's > Dunkin Donuts

Noooooooooo!!!!!

The schlockification of this stretch of 7th Ave continues... so glad I live in South Slope.

Dunkin Donuts banners in Brooklyn are becoming as frequent as seeing the NYU banners below 14th St.

Sadly, this is what 7th Avenue is headed to, it sees the rents are going higher and higher and the only people, businesses that can afford it are chain stores.

anything near 7th ave is full of old people with money.

5th ave is full of young people who don't have that much but have better stores.

Yes 5th have has the better choice of stores and old people, like me...love that!

damn you old person .

But 5th Avenue is also full of young people, who by their very youth and proximity remind old people (like me) how old they are. Damn you, young persons!

AW-

One can not get old if one always eats Dunkin donuts.

Lots of people may be bitching about this place opening but I'll bet dollars to donuts they won't go bankrupt from lack of customers.

old people stay on your side of the slope!!!

that restaurant seems very familiar, has it been around for a while, if so i think a female friend of mines drag me into it once.

Tonio? It was here when we came to the Slope in the late 70's.

last time i remember eating on 7th ave was over a decade ago, this girl who was into vegetarianism or was it vegan doesn't matter. I ate at tofu or something.... but that place looks very familiar. yes Tonio.

I try to stay away from 7th ave .

PragmaticGuy said:

Lots of people may be bitching about this place opening but I'll bet dollars to donuts they won't go bankrupt from lack of customers.

So far, this board is merely bitching about old people and young people.

No one seems to care about:

a. 40 year olds

b. Donuts

c. Italian food

Hopefully, the very superior 7th Avenue Donuts will not fold because them.

oh! french crullers. yum almost as good as peter pan. but where to get apple fritters?

Well whynot

1. i care about 40 year olds... My daughter is 40 years old.

2.I care about donuts.. I still lament the demise of the donut place on 9th street between 4th and 5th ave that was terrific.. supplied many dinners in brooklyn with donuts and made incredible Corn muffins in the middle of the night!

3. Italian food... Yes I care and I know and frequent Italian places that are not Al Di La or Aunt Suzies... But... sadly, most of those places are not in park Slope.

Thanks Veets!

Whynot

And we giggle together!

Are you people kidding? 7th Ave rocks. If you go below 9th St. There are even some signs of life above 9th: Zito's, Crespella, um.... errr....

Seriously though, Dunkin Donuts is there for the hospital crowd, which is just too ironic to be funny.

8thHand... You are so right... My problem is that I have lived here so long that I remember a time where the border of "9th Street" was not considered (true) PS.

Good point about Methodist Hospital being a huge chunk of DD clientelle. And not a bad thing the hospital is there.. IMO..I have been sick enough to need a hospital and be able to limp the two blocks rather than take a nice long, expensive cab ride to Manhattan. Lord bless all those people who keep themselves alert while on shift by a Dunkin Donuts break!

Why do you people hate good cheap coffee. Are you angry it isnt another starbucks or something?

SlopeDuder said:

Why do you people hate good cheap coffee. Are you angry it isnt another starbucks or something?

they be rich that's why they don't like common people stuff . I don't drink coffee but I do like their donuts and hot chocolate. Plus it's a easy way for immigrants to open a american business with limited knowledge of the culture.

SlopeDuder said:

Why do you people hate good cheap coffee. Are you angry it isnt another starbucks or something?

If you think Starbucks is my idea of "good" coffee, then we will never see eye-to-eye on this subject.

Dunkin Donuts coffee is *okay*, maybe a step up from a gas station 24-hr blend. But its donuts are beyond gross and the overall aesthetics of the places scream "retail blight".

veets said:

8thHand... You are so right... My problem is that I have lived here so long that I remember a time where the border of "9th Street" was not considered (true) PS.

It's not true Park Slope. It's South Slope.

veets said:Good point about Methodist Hospital being a huge chunk of DD clientelle. And not a bad thing the hospital is there.. IMO..I have been sick enough to need a hospital and be able to limp the two blocks rather than take a nice long, expensive cab ride to Manhattan. Lord bless all those people who keep themselves alert while on shift by a Dunkin Donuts break!

Nothing against the hospital folks, except that the fast food schlock seems to be attracted to them.

veets said:

8thHand... You are so right... My problem is that I have lived here so long that I remember a time where the border of "9th Street" was not considered (true) PS.

Good point about Methodist Hospital being a huge chunk of DD clientelle. And not a bad thing the hospital is there.. IMO..I have been sick enough to need a hospital and be able to limp the two blocks rather than take a nice long, expensive cab ride to Manhattan. Lord bless all those people who keep themselves alert while on shift by a Dunkin Donuts break!

We can have a hospital without a Dunkin Donuts.

and lets look at the quality and quantity of litter on 7th Ave in a year.

Not a fan of DD, but not sorry to see Tonios close - didn't like the food and didn't like the owner at all.

Crappy utility doughnuts or a sketchy-looking mobbed-up Eye-tie restaurant that no one ever went into? Crappy utility doughnuts, FTW!

With the hospital there I wonder if it will be another one of these:

http://www.theonion.com/articles/dunkin-donutsbaskin-robbinspizza-huttaco-belllong,10000/

I love the fast food supermarket style type of places . you could get everything in one place!!!