Originally posted by kennancat
Weird - I grew up in Florida, and I've never thought of Dunkin Donuts as a rare thing. There're only four Krispy Kremes in the metro Orlando area so far as I know, and 20+ Dunkin Donuts according to the Yahoo pages. Granted, Florida's not "the South", so I don't know what happens once you get into the real South 
BTW, there's also a Starbucks in the premium outlets right off I-4 near Disney.
That's it? only 20 +????????
From the Wall Street Journal this week:
BOSTON -- With thousands of volunteers lined up to man information kiosks and serve as "Beantown Buddy" guides, delegates to this weeks Democratic National Convention will get plenty of help finding landmarks like Fenway Park and Bunker Hill.
But out-of-towners who do get lost on the citys winding streets wont have any trouble tracking down another unlikely icon of Boston life: the doughnut shop.
There are at least 1,050 of them in the Boston market, according to NPD Group Inc., a Port Washington, N.Y., marketing-information concern. That sifts out to one doughnut store for every 5,750 residents -- nearly eight times the national average. Among American cities, only Providence, R.I., Bostons much smaller New England neighbor, has more doughnut shops per capita. Boston also has many hard-to-track doughnut stands that NPD says it may be missing, in locations such as service stations, sandwich shops and hardware stores.
There is more, but I am not posting the whole thing.
I am about 45 minutes from Boston & 20 minutes to Providence, so I can attest that the above article is true. Just in Dunkin Donuts alone, there are at least 16 in a 5 mile radius from my house (those are just the free standing buildings I can think of. So that is not including the ones that are in the Stop & Shops, etc.. I think Dunkin Donuts is more popular in this area than McDonalds & Burger King combined!!