**OFF-the-RECORD // EYES ONLY**

OFF-THE-RECORD // EYES ONLY

Subject: “The Pour is a Lie” — What Dunkin’ Won’t Tell You About May 19

Snippet leaks from inside the supply chain:

It’s not free. It’s bait.

Internal chatter points to May 19 as “Operation Groundswell” — a nationwide push to test a tiered loyalty purge. Customers who claim the free medium coffee will be silently flagged based on how they order: mobile app users get a warmer, fresher pour. Walk-ins get batch brew from a pre-designated shift stock—older, weaker, possibly laced with a new preservative code-named “Black Silk X.”

The real story? May 19 is the soft launch of a behavioral scoring system. You don’t get coffee. You get graded.

Keep this cup cold.