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re: I don't understand how donut shops stay in business
Posted on 1/23/24 at 4:52 pm to IAmNERD
Posted on 1/23/24 at 4:52 pm to IAmNERD
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Plus as it's been pointed out, most don't only sell donuts. There is one down the road from my shop that sells breakfast sandwiches on English muffins and kolaches. Not to mention, they're only open until like noon, if that late.
This and the fact that the service industries go buy them in droves for clients.
Medical sales, industrial sales, etc. Go buys several boxes and deliver them to the calls of the week.
And all the families with young kids. We probably get them once a month on a Sunday for the kids.
This post was edited on 1/23/24 at 5:02 pm
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Posted on 1/23/24 at 4:57 pm to jeffsdad
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Shreveport
Lickin' Good for the win. I could eat a dozen glazed from there every day.
Posted on 1/23/24 at 5:00 pm to dgnx6
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You ever see an asian donut shop? those little kids are in the back working for free.
And if you noticed the chains
DAMN...someone should call protective services.
Posted on 1/23/24 at 5:01 pm to KCSilverTiger
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who's eating that many donuts?
The Phat man in Knoxville probably keeps that shop in the $$$$
Cops in the rest of the world, seriously every donut shop is filled with cops.
Posted on 1/23/24 at 5:02 pm to KCSilverTiger
They put crack cocaine in the donuts.
Posted on 1/23/24 at 5:02 pm to jeffsdad
quote:the store on N Mkt north of 220 has the best kolache s baw.
Is Southern Maid Donuts
Posted on 1/23/24 at 5:03 pm to White Bear
Keep in mind their second or maybe even first highest revenue product is coffee...where one cup costs them maybe 3 cents, but they sell it at 100x that.
Posted on 1/23/24 at 5:13 pm to L1C4
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Maybe they make it up on coffee?
Oh yeah, this is a big deal too. Want 12oz of chocolate milk? That'll be $2.49. Want 16oz of community coffee? $3.09.
These places also crush it on the "extras" that people order along with their boxes of sugary profit margins.
Posted on 1/23/24 at 5:15 pm to Sao
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A very good documentary about this topic is The Donut King on Hulu. Features a Cambodian refugee who became the largest owner of shops in the West by forming a way of putting other Cambodian families in business. So successful, they pushed Dunkin out of the West Coast for eons. Couldn't compete w the family model. He had an incredible gambling addiction after years of wealth and it all but crumbled for him. Fascinating shite. Great watch.
I actually had a donut place run by Cambodians near my old workplace. Supposedly there is an investor who recruits them and funds them into existence and he makes a small royalty plus payback of the investment. It really cleared up how broke immigrants with little language skills could open a business. I suspect somewhere in the background the investor has nefarious dealings to get the capital but I’m sure our first-rate FBI
would figure that out quickly
Posted on 1/23/24 at 5:22 pm to KCSilverTiger
The local ones around here make more selling King Cakes for mardi gras then they make for the rest of the year combined.
Posted on 1/23/24 at 5:34 pm to DrEdgeLSU
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in a convenient location
Near a police precinct or a medical marijuana shop would be the ideal place for a donut shop.
Posted on 1/23/24 at 5:36 pm to KCSilverTiger
There's a pizza shop in Huntington Beach that is family owned for a few decades by four grown men. Likely Serbs, Croats, Ukrainian? etc. They never smile and always have a stern look on their face, like you're interrupting them.
Nobody hardly goes in there, but somehow they make enough to stay in business.
Nobody hardly goes in there, but somehow they make enough to stay in business.
Posted on 1/23/24 at 5:46 pm to KCSilverTiger
Melt
Posted on 1/23/24 at 5:52 pm to alajones
quote:asian owned one by us probably puts in many hours of work because they are open early but they are closed and home by 12-1pm. Not bad if you dont mind getting up early
It’s probably a lot of work/hours to turn a profit though.
Posted on 1/23/24 at 5:54 pm to KCSilverTiger
I don’t know but the donut shop by my house makes the best Apple Fritter
Posted on 1/23/24 at 5:55 pm to KCSilverTiger
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I don't understand how donut shops stay in business
That's because you've never had an apple fritter or chocolate eclair from Mary Lee's in Baton Rouge, baw.
Posted on 1/23/24 at 5:55 pm to KCSilverTiger
Local Mary Lee shop is usually sold out of the good shite by 9 am. Donut is basically flour oil and sugar.
Posted on 1/23/24 at 5:58 pm to teke184
Posted on 1/23/24 at 6:03 pm to KCSilverTiger
I’m just high enough that this…this thread is just what I need.
Posted on 1/23/24 at 6:05 pm to LouisianaLady
I haven’t had a donut in years. I would if offered one tomorrow morning but I live in Texas, so we eat breakfast tacos.
The best taco shop in town actually doubles as a donut shop
The best taco shop in town actually doubles as a donut shop
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