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an outfit · OKDaylight Donuts

also: Daylight Donut Flour Company

A flour company first. The shops came after, and they are not its shops.

The Fort Findlay Doughnut Shop
The Fort Findlay Doughnut Shop — Mbrickn, CC BY-SA 4.0

The Tulsa company that sells donut mix and a sign to roughly 950 independently owned shops in 13 countries.

The story Cited · wp-daylight-donuts

Tommy and Lucille Day started in 1954, making mix in the mornings and selling it to shops in the afternoons, mostly out of the trunk of their car. The company they named — Daylight Donuts Flour Co. — was a supplier before it was a brand. Each Daylight Donuts store is independently owned and operated.

Today Cited · wp-daylight-donuts

A Daylight sign tells you whose flour is inside and nothing about who owns the shop.

The particulars

stateOK
statusopen
founded1954
regionThe United States, Texas
confidencehigh · updated 2026-09-16

Who it runs with

stylesThe mix-and-sign shopThe kind of business it makes possible.and of this page it says: The Tulsa flour company and its 950 signs.wordsMom-and-popWhy the sign is not the test.and of this page it says: 950 signs, 950 owners.the kitchenThe batter and the depositorWhat comes out of the bag.

Who talks about it

stories · on this pageThe franchise that vanishedThe one still running.stories · on this pageWhat counts as a mom-and-pop950 signs, 950 owners.

Where we got it

Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.

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