Dunkin’ handles run on Texas

TEXAS – Coffee and doughnut maker Dunkin’ Brands Group Inc. — which owns Dunkin’ Donuts and Baskin-Robbins brands — inked store development agreements with two new franchise groups to develop 17 new restaurants in markets in west and central Texas over the next several years.

• Niknud LLC plans to develop eight traditional Dunkin’ Donut restaurants and three Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin-Robbins combination units throughout west Texas in Abilene, Amarillo, Lubbock and San Angelo.

The first restaurant is planned to open in 2014 and the remainder by 2019.

• Alamo Donuts LLC plans to develop five traditional Dunkin’ Donut restaurants and one Dunkin’ Donuts/Baskin-Robbins combination location in San Antonio. The first restaurant is planned to open in 2014 and the remainder by 2019.

In Amarillo, when Dunkin’ Donuts opened last November at the Travel Centers of America site at East Interstate 40 and Lakeside Dr., it sold an average of 15 doughnuts a minute in its first four hours of operation, according to AGN Media archives.

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