Stop me if youโ€™ve heard this one before. JAB Holding Company is rumored to have interest in buying a coffee company. Word on the street (the Grub Street) is that the privately owned Germany investment company is looking to acquire Dunkinโ€™ Donuts.

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Thatโ€™s right, the gajillionaires who own Peetโ€™s, Stumptown, Intelligentsia, Keurig, Caribou, and a handful of European chains have their eyes set on what American Runs On. โ€œWho cares? Dunkinโ€™s Donuts is a donut company,โ€ I hear you saying. Oh contraire, mon frรจre; the company has toyed with dropping the โ€œDonutsโ€ from their nameโ€”and has even done so at select locationsโ€”because donuts are only their second best selling item. Can you guess what the first is?

If purchased, JAB would add 11,300 stores to their already robust list of breakfast-serving locations thanks to the previous acquisition of both Krispy Kreme and Einstein Bros Bagels.

At this point, if youโ€™re at a chain in America that serves coffee and isnโ€™t Starbucks, thereโ€™s a pretty good chance itโ€™s owned by JAB. But who knows, maybe this consolidation of power will lend some good things. Maybe we could start seeing Stumptown or Intelligentsia show up at Dunkinโ€™. Iโ€™m not opposed to a high elevation Yirg and a donut. Or maybe, you know, our new coffee overlords will put us all on strict rations.

Zac Cadwaladerย is the news editor at Sprudge Media Network and a staff writer based in Dallas.ย Read more Zac Cadwaladerย on Sprudge.

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