When Baker University Center's West 82 food court started serving Dunkin' Donuts coffee, managers said it needed a sweet sidekick.
West 82 began selling donuts yesterday to compliment its new coffee option, said Associate Director of Catering and Baker University Center Mary Jane Jones.
We'll be making sticky buns in the oven downstairs ... and a cake donut to come with our Dunkin' Donuts coffee
Jones said.
Jeff Brooks, retail manager for dining services, said it took OU more than a year to negotiate its contract with Dunkin' Donuts to acquire its coffee. Brooks added that the coffee just didn't taste the same without donuts to go with it.
OU is making its own donuts. West 82 has experimented with a few recipes for the donuts, but today sold a cinnamon variety at a price of two for $1.
We won't sell them every day - a few days a week Jones said. Maybe we'll sell them two or three days.
Brooks said there currently isn't a target number of donuts to sell each day, but they might change the number of donuts baked each day to accommodate student interest.
It's hard to tell yet if the students really like them Brooks said. But we can adjust the number we make from day to day since they're made fresh.
OU began selling the Massachusetts-based Dunkin' Donuts coffee Jan. 7. After a yearlong effort, Director of Retail Mohamed Ali negotiated a license agreement with Dunkin' Donuts stating that West 82 would train its employees to brew the brand-name coffee using the company's own specialized equipment. Dunkin' Donuts provided its own digital brewing system and large coffee pots without additional charge to OU.
Ali and Jones both said the Dunkin' Donuts coffee, which is the most recent type of coffee OU has introduced, is popular among students.
This Fall Quarter, OU also signed three-year contracts with Starbucks Coffee and subsidiary Seattle's Best Coffee, which are sold in The Front Room Coffeehouse in Baker and Café Bibliotech in Alden Library, respectively.
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