an outfit · CAWinchell's Donut House
also: Winchell's
The chain that taught the trade to the people who went on to compete with it.
The Temple City, California chain founded by Verne Winchell on 8 October 1948.
The story Cited · wp-winchell-s-donuts
Under Canadian owner Shato Holdings there were 293 Winchell's locations in the western United States in 1999. By 2004, when Yum Yum Donut Shops bought it, the count was near 200; by 2025 it was about 100 shops in six states, plus Guam and Saipan. Franchises have also operated in Japan, Korea, New Zealand and Saudi Arabia.
An affirmative-action hiring programme at Winchell's trained Ted Ngoy, who managed a store in Newport Beach before buying his own shop — which is how a chain's training programme seeded a generation of independents.
Today Cited · wp-winchell-s-donuts
The chain shrank while the shops its training produced multiplied.
The particulars
| state | CA |
|---|---|
| status | open |
| founded | 1948 |
| region | Southern California, The United States |
| confidence | high · updated 2026-09-16 |
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