Why no Dunkin Donuts, Crispy Creme, Winchelle Donuts, anything besides Spudnuts (Which are awesome!!) (Seattle: closing, organic)

[SleightOfMind]

So basically the subject is my question. I'm on a mobile device so very slow to type. I like Spudnuts and if I misspell anything I'm sorry. I love the CC creme filled, plain, all of them!! DD has an awesome filled ones to feel a loss. I would start a chain here if I could. Any ideas?

[hamellr]

The entire Pacific Northwest has never been heavy into donuts. When I was a kid there were a lot more all around, but they slowly started closing up during the late 80's. If you look closely you can see a lot of the distinctive vintage DD and Winchelle's buildings are around, just repurposed.

[travelhound]

Sounds like a great place to sell high end donuts. All someone would need is a food truck a fryer and experiments with organic and whole wheat varieties and special glazes. A couple of people are doing that in Nashville and it's a hot business. If any of you have never had a Donut Man donut in NYC try to get one when you are there, they have a website. The texture is just amazing and much different than commercial style donuts. They have a real taste from using very high end organic flours and glazes. He has a pumpkin donut glaze in the fall that is so good.

[j_k_k]

I've had Spudnuts several times, and frankly I felt the whole thing was overrated. The staff attitude was basically that of people who know their business is an institution where people will keep coming back and saying it's great, so much that it'll rub off because the one thing you aren't supposed to say is 'big deal, the donuts aren't that special,' and therefore they don't have to make an effort.

The donuts are just no big deal, certainly not compared to Tim Horton's for example, and nothing that would even make me forget all about grocery store bakery donuts, much less Dunkin Donuts. I found the staff unremarkable, the kind of staff you have at businesses that don't really have to compete. Sort of emblemizes everything that was socially stagnant, overrated and mediocre about living there: businesses that are habits, sustained because the old guard goes there because they have traditionally gone there, and that ought to be glad they're long established in Tri-Cities because if they had to compete on their own merits alone, especially anywhere larger, they couldn't make a go of it. I liked a lot about living in Tri-Cities, but I learned to avoid all the old line businesses 'everyone goes to' because, on their own objective merits, they just weren't very good.

[ChappyWhiteGuy]

I couldn't have said it any better. This statement accurately sums up the Tri-Cities.

Originally Posted by j_k_k

I've had Spudnuts several times, and frankly I felt the whole thing was overrated. The staff attitude was basically that of people who know their business is an institution where people will keep coming back and saying it's great, so much that it'll rub off because the one thing you aren't supposed to say is 'big deal, the donuts aren't that special,' and therefore they don't have to make an effort.

The donuts are just no big deal, certainly not compared to Tim Horton's for example, and nothing that would even make me forget all about grocery store bakery donuts, much less Dunkin Donuts. I found the staff unremarkable, the kind of staff you have at businesses that don't really have to compete. Sort of emblemizes everything that was socially stagnant, overrated and mediocre about living there: businesses that are habits, sustained because the old guard goes there because they have traditionally gone there, and that ought to be glad they're long established in Tri-Cities because if they had to compete on their own merits alone, especially anywhere larger, they couldn't make a go of it. I liked a lot about living in Tri-Cities, but I learned to avoid all the old line businesses 'everyone goes to' because, on their own objective merits, they just weren't very good.

[Moon Waffle]

Top Pot donuts are the big thing in the Seattle area....and they aren't bad!

TC should be happy to have a decent donut shop that is NOT a chain....Spudnuts are very good and if you need that fix from one of the chains, head over to Seattle.

[Sunsettommy]

Popular Donuts in Kennewick is far better than Spudnuts,Winchells and so on.

[PS90]

Originally Posted by hamellr

The entire Pacific Northwest has never been heavy into donuts. When I was a kid there were a lot more all around, but they slowly started closing up during the late 80's. If you look closely you can see a lot of the distinctive vintage DD and Winchelle's buildings are around, just repurposed.

Yeah, I agree, and I don't really see that as a bad thing. It amazes me how many donut shops are on every corner in the Southeastern US. Is it any coincidence that their levels of obesity are far higher than ours?

I don't mind a donut now and then, but if I get to live here and have to go without sugar-coated clumps of greasy dough, I can handle that.

[jbball50]

Viera's is my go to place for donuts. Also they have other things that taste pretty good in there.

[amerideaf]

Where is Viera's ?