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The first Dunkin’ Doner party went off without a hitch yesterday afternoon, even with all the rain! We kicked off summer and the upcoming long weekend with great music, delicious food and thirst quenching drinks!  We were honored to have entertainment from The Sights, a well-known Detroit blues-rock-pop band that Rolling Stone called “a new Detroit-garage band that comes in colors.”  It was great to take a break from the day to mingle with co-workers and play a little “throw the hula-hoop around the Sheep” for a chance to win a limited edition Dunkin’ Doner t-shirt!  It’s going to be a great summer with many more opportunities to mingle, eat, drink and dance.

Happy Memorial Day!

Did you know that cardiovascular disease is the number 1 killer of all Americans? In fact, someone dies of CVD every 38 seconds!

For the past month here at Doner we’ve been working together to help raise money for the American Heart Association and to be a part of the 2011 Detroit Heart Walk! We’re proud to say that we exceeded our goal of $5,000 by raising more than $7,500 for this great cause. 

The walk took place this past weekend where several of our employees joined together with over 20,000 people to walk through downtown Detroit and take a stand against heart disease! We started off in Ford Field where we heard from Detroit mayor, Dave Bing and had the chance to participate in some exciting warm up exercises. We then took to the streets of Detroit for a three mile walk which ended through the Lions tunnel and onto Ford Field. It was an inspiring event and we’re happy that Doner was able to be a part of it.

Check out some pictures from Saturday below.

The 2011 Men’s Basketball Championship proved to be nothing but exciting as usual.  With nearly three weeks of non-stop marathon buzzer-beaters, crazy unexpected upsets and a Final Four matchup making history as the first to not have one of the top two seeds from any of the four regions, we can finally announce a winner in Doner’s 3^rd annual March Adness competition. 

The competition was tough and stakes were high once again – bragging rights and the coveted March Adness custom trophy.  Mike Ward and Beth Ellis fought it out at the end with Mike coming out on top.  UConn’s win brought Brett Willis from 6^th place to finish in 2^nd and helped Gail Offen sneak up from 30^th to 3^rd. 

March Adness always makes the tournament exciting here at Doner, if it wasn’t exciting enough already!  Will Mike retain his title next year or will we have a major upset within the office?  We’ll have to wait and see how things shake out.  Until then, Mike’s earned the right to talk smack for the next 365 days!

September 30th was a big night for Doner, Newport Beach. As we entered our own band in ThinkLA’s Adjam – battle of the ad bands at the House of Blues in Hollywood. 1,300 people were there to cheer on the bands, and Doner had a great turnout. The band was fronted by guitarists/vocalists Chuck Meehan, CD and Josh Eck, writer, with former Doner Mediabuyer Scott Klatskin on drums. Doner truly had the house rocking, and their tour de force was a searing rendition of Guns and Roses “Live and Let die” which brought the house down. Doner held their own against the top agencies in LA, including Chiat, Deutsch and Team One. Rock on!

Well our 3^rd annual pumpkin carving contest went off without a hitch again this year!  We had a great turnout with nearly 20 carved pumpkins decorating our lobby.  It seemed that the trend this year was current events.  The first, second and third place winners included a pumpkin taken over by hoarders, Sarah Palin and a series of pumpkins turned into New York City overrun by bed bugs, all pretty frightening if you ask us.  The best part was that we got to celebrate the holiday and our creativity with some pizza and beer. 

It was a great event that put us all in the Halloween spirit and we look forward to carving it up again next year!  Check out the pictures of the winning pumpkins below.

Happy Halloween!!

1st place – Carved by Cathy Butler and Natalie Bierl

2nd place – Carved by Ken Spera and Gail Offen

3rd place – Carved by Lindsay Fritzer, Kim Kocan, Kristin Hopper and Katie Wolph