New Overland Park Dunkin' Donuts Opens May 19

KANSAS CITY, Mo., May 17 /PRNewswire/ -- A new Dunkin' Donuts will open at 5 a.m., Wednesday, May 19, in Overland Park, where the restaurant owners and members of the community will join together to support Harvesters-The Community Food Network and Overland Park's 50th anniversary.

The new restaurant, located at 7446 Metcalf at the corner of 75th and Metcalf, is owned by local developer Verona Key LLC, which plans to open 15 new Dunkin' Donuts restaurants in Greater Kansas City.  The new Dunkin' Donuts is part of the aggressive Overland Park development plan along Metcalf.

Beginning at 5 a.m., Harvesters staff and volunteers will be on hand to collect canned goods for the food bank.  Each person who brings at least three cans of food or a cash donation for Harvesters anytime from May 19 – 23 will receive a coupon for a Free Medium DD coffee, no purchase necessary.  

At 7:30 a.m., Harvesters CEO Karen Haren will arrive to thank the crowd for supporting Harvesters and the up to 66,000 people the food bank feeds each week.  The Shawnee Mission East cheerleading squad will join Haren at 8 a.m. to lead the crowd in special commemorative cheers.  

City Council President David Janson, Harvesters Board Member Mary McClure and other community leaders will arrive at 9 a.m. for the official Dunkin' Donuts Coffee Toast to the city, one day before Overland Park celebrates the 50th anniversary of the day it officially became an incorporated city.

To add to the celebration, Verona Key's Jen Benjamin and Kristin Rhyne McClure have created two special donuts honoring Harvesters and Overland Park.  The Harvesters donut is a chocolate, orange and yellow sprinkled donut, and the Overland Park 50th Anniversary donut features white frosting and blue and green sprinkles reflecting the 50th anniversary logo.    

In addition to hosting the food drive and giving away free coffee to donors, Verona Key will donate $2,000 to Harvesters, an amount that will provide 10,000 meals to feed the hungry.  

The new Dunkin' Donuts restaurant is Verona Key's second Dunkin' Donuts in Overland Park.  Their first location opened in November at 7722 W. 151st St.  

Verona Key, LLC, based in Kansas City, is a partnership between Jennifer Benjamin, president, and Kristin Rhyne McClure, COO and CFO.  For more information, visit http://cupofkc.com/.

SOURCE Dunkin' Donuts