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Pink BoxOutfits (12)

Suppliers, associations, box printers, archives.

California (3)

B & H Bakery Distributors

A Cambodian-American bakery supply business serving California donut shops.

Winchell's Donut House

Winchell's

The Temple City, California chain founded by Verne Winchell on 8 October 1948.

Yum Yum Donut Shops

Yum Yum Donuts

A Southern California donut chain, and since 2004 the owner of Winchell's.

Massachusetts (2)

Dunkin'

Dunkin' Donuts

The Quincy, Massachusetts chain that paired coffee and donuts nationally, and the oldest surviving company using the short spelling.

Mister Donut

The chain founded by Harry Winokur, Bill Rosenberg's former partner, absorbed into Dunkin' in the United States and still large in Asia.

North Carolina (1)

Krispy Kreme

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc.

The Winston-Salem company built on a bought yeast-raised recipe, a window you can watch the line through, and a lit sign.

New York (2)

Doughnut Corporation of America

DCA

Adolph Levitt's company: donut machines, mixes, the Mayflower shop in Times Square, and the National Dunking Association.

National Dunking Association

A membership organisation started by the Doughnut Corporation of America in the 1930s to popularise donuts in North America.

Oklahoma (1)

Daylight Donuts

Daylight Donut Flour Company

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

Other (3)

Mochinut

A franchise selling mochi donuts and Korean corn dogs that spread rapidly across American strip malls in the 2020s.

The Salvation Army

The Christian charitable organisation whose World War I canteens fried donuts for American soldiers, and whose Chicago branch created National Donut Day in 1938.

The Salvation Army doughnut huts

Donut Girls, Doughnut Lassies

The World War I canteens where Salvation Army volunteers fried donuts for American soldiers in France — and the reason there is a National Donut Day.

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