William Rosenberg Founder of Dunkin Donuts

Biography of William Rosenberg

Early Life

William Rosenberg, founder of Dunkin Donuts was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts on 10^th July of year 1916. His father was the owner of a grocery shop. He grew up in his home town and got education from public schools of Dorchester. He was in eighth grade when he was compelled to leave education and support family, due to the financial problems faced by his family. Those financial problems occurred due to Great Depression in country in which his father lost his shop. He was only fourteen years old.

Debut in Working Life

After that he did many different jobs. Firstly, he worked at Western Union for the delivery of telegrams as a delivery boy. Then at the age of 17, he went to work for ice cream distributing company, Simco. He started his carrier over there from a delivery boy, and at the age of twenty one he became the sale manager. He was controlling the productivity, shipment and storage of ice cream. Almost forty to hundred trucks were under his management.

Entry in Food services

At the end of Second World War, he introduced “Industrial Luncheon Services”. That was his first step in foods department. It was cookery facility that he was running from a truck, serving snacks and coffee to factory workers of Boston-area in their break times. This business had astonishing results with rapid growth.

Founder of Dunkin’ Donuts

He was a great observer. During his business, “Industrial Luncheon Services”, he observed that about forty percent of total sales were of doughnuts and coffee. Keeping the popularity of these two items in his mind he opened his first shop of doughnuts in 1948, “the Open Kettle” at Quincy, Massachusetts. Afterwards in 1950 he changed its name from the Open Kettle to Dunkin’ Donuts. That was a small store inside another store in Quincy. After five years, he signed his first franchise agreement of Dunkin’ Donuts.

Dunkin’ Donuts

Dunkin’s Donuts is the brand name of food franchise initially opened as a small store offering doughnuts in 1948. Its first name was “Open Kettle”. But this food franchise increased over time and at the end of 2011, more than ten thousand outlets of this food chain are operating throughout 32 countries of the world.

Later Years

In 1960’s he opened anther food chain of burgers, “Howdy Beefburger”. In order to promote that new chain, he placed them with Dunkin’ Donuts shops and shared parking lot.

He transferred the powers of president of Dunkin’ Donuts to his son Robert in 1963. He then remained in that food chain as board chairman and influenced a lot on company.

In 1970, first foreign shop of his company was open, which was in Japan. It was the initial step of Dunkin’s Donut’s foreign expedition.

After a long working carrier he finally retired in 1988 from his position, and attached with the company as consultant afterwards. In 1990, Dunkin’ Donuts was sold to Allied Domecq PLC.

Death

He suffered from bladder cancer. On 22^nd of September, 2002, at the age of 86 years he died at his house of that cancer.