Tomorrow is Dunkin' Donuts Free Iced Coffee Day!

Photo of Dunkin' Donuts in Sheepshead Bay via Lisanne!'s Flickr.

The city may be divided on where the first coffee of the day comes from: Starbucks? Dunkin' Donuts? Local caffeine purveyor? Everyone can agree that a free coffee is welcome, though -- especially with prices per cup running about the same as per gallon gas.

Tomorrow Dunkin' Donuts is offering free 16-ounce iced coffees from 10:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m. at participating locations for their second annual Free Iced Coffee Day. They're also using the day to announce their partnership with the National Police Athletic League by making an $80,000 donation to support the nonprofit's Youth Leadership Program, which provides grassroots community service and peer-to-peer education to disadvantaged youth. The New York City chapter is one of sixteen receiving $5,000 grants. Visit their website to find your nearest location to score a free iced coffee.

The company tells us that if you lined up each cup of iced coffee served on Free Iced Coffee Day lid-to-lid, the line would stretch for more than 236 miles; or if you'd rather, stacking the cups on top of one another they would reach nearly 300 miles into the sky, the vantage point of a typical space shuttle orbit. So, um, try to bring your own mug to cut down on waste...

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By Laren Spirer in Food on May 14, 2008 8:00 PM

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robingee

Where the hell is a Dunkin Donuts? I can't find one anywhere!

Juuuuust kidding!

bornbrednewyorker

Stop the presses!

schizofriendly

I've always maintained that Dunkin' Donuts' coffee is simply anemic coffee with added "coffee" flavoring.

Still -- good enough for a caffeine fix when you are lost somewhere deep within the suburbs.

matty

Also I love Dunin Donuts. Their breakfasts are the bestest.

matty

That looks like white plains...

SP

Yeah seriously, why are you helping this disgusting corporation, which is based in Masshole-land no less, promote their horrible product which has put local, individually owned coffee shops out of business? Fuck you, and fuck Dunkin Deeznuts.

Snoopy

Why is Deborah Harry (in the photo upper left) wearing the same lipstick style that Jack Nicholson wore when he was playing the joker in the batman series?

club44

wow, spotlighting that in a day they can create up to 300 miles of disposable - and likely not biodegradable - cups that become trash sounds can't be a very smart PR statement.