{
 "built": "2026-09-18",
 "scope": "Independent donut shops across the United States — cake and raised, who fries them, when, and what else is in the case: egg rolls, breakfast burritos, bacon egg and cheese, kolaches.",
 "records": {
  "style": 15,
  "donut": 21,
  "dish": 10,
  "kitchen": 12,
  "place": 17,
  "person": 8,
  "org": 12,
  "event": 6,
  "term": 13,
  "art": 6,
  "story": 11
 },
 "how_records_are_made": "Hand-written JSON, one per node, each field carrying a provenance tier (cited / harvested / tradition / inference / field). Cited fields name a source in sources.json. Tradition fields are general knowledge of the tradition and are hedged in the text.",
 "places": {
  "curated": 17,
  "harvested_from_osm": 10687,
  "independent": 3162,
  "chain_locations": 7524,
  "shared_name_not_a_chain": 192,
  "what_the_split_means": "A chain row is one OpenStreetMap gives a brand, or whose name is a company's. Two thirds of the harvest is a single company, so the maps and the lists on this site are drawn from the independents and say the chain count beside them. A shared-name row — Daylight, Spudnut, Donut King — carries a name several independent owners use, and is counted with the independents.",
  "osm_fetched_at": "2026-09-16T17:35:34Z",
  "reading_an_absence": "A place missing here is missing from OpenStreetMap on the fetch date or not yet written up. It is not a claim that the place does not exist.",
  "osm_query": "[out:json][timeout:180];area[\"ISO3166-2\"=\"US-XX\"][admin_level]->.a;(nwr[\"cuisine\"~\"donut|doughnut|donuts|doughnuts\",i](area.a);nwr[\"amenity\"~\"restaurant|fast_food|cafe\"][\"name\"~\"[Dd]o[u]?n[u]?ghts?nut|[Dd]onut|[Dd]oughnut|DONUT|DOUGHNUT\"](area.a);nwr[\"shop\"~\"bakery|pastry|confectionery|convenience\"][\"name\"~\"[Dd]o[u]?n[u]?ghts?nut|[Dd]onut|[Dd]oughnut|DONUT|DOUGHNUT\"](area.a);nwr[\"shop\"~\"bakery|pastry|confectionery|convenience\"][\"cuisine\"~\"donut|doughnut|donuts|doughnuts\",i](area.a););out center tags;"
 },
 "hours": {
  "places_with_any_day_known": 4268,
  "open_sunday": 4115,
  "closed_sunday": 153,
  "sunday_unknown": 6418,
  "reading_an_absence": "A day is 'unknown' unless a source said so. Unknown is never rendered as closed."
 },
 "images": {
  "count": 30,
  "licences_accepted": [
   "CC0",
   "Public domain",
   "CC BY",
   "CC BY-SA",
   "FAL"
  ]
 },
 "tags": {
  "family-run": 4,
  "cambodian-american": 2,
  "vietnamese-american": 0,
  "chinese-american": 0,
  "korean-american": 0,
  "mexican-american": 0,
  "greek-american": 0,
  "black-owned": 0,
  "woman-owned": 0,
  "lgbtq-friendly": 0,
  "both-doughs": 0,
  "yeast-only": 0,
  "cake-only": 0,
  "hand-cut": 1,
  "fried-overnight": 0,
  "fries-twice": 0,
  "egg-rolls": 0,
  "breakfast-burritos": 0,
  "bodega-sandwiches": 0,
  "kolaches": 1,
  "croissant-sandwiches": 0,
  "fried-rice": 0,
  "tamales": 0,
  "biscuits-and-gravy": 0,
  "boba": 0,
  "ice-cream": 0,
  "opens-before-five": 0,
  "twentyfour-hours": 4,
  "sold-out-closes": 0,
  "drive-thru": 2,
  "cash-only": 0,
  "pink-box": 1,
  "counter-or-window": 1,
  "closed": 0
 },
 "tags_note": "Each tag carries the source it came from — the owner's words, a press profile, a public directory or a list. A place with no tag is one this project has not read.",
 "recognitions": 7,
 "recipes": 0,
 "sources": 146,
 "not_yet": [
  "field observations (no record carries the field tier yet)",
  "menu prices with dates on most shops",
  "most towns beyond the ones written up",
  "photographs for most records",
  "per-piece weights for shop donuts, which almost nobody publishes"
 ],
 "tiers": {
  "cited": "Cited — a named source, linked",
  "harvested": "Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence",
  "tradition": "Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged",
  "inference": "Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above",
  "field": "Field — someone stood there"
 }
}