JOHN KEENAN WORLD-HERALD STAFF WRITER wrote:After shuttering their Bellevue location at noon last Friday, executives of Krispy Kreme Doughnuts were in Omaha this week scouring the metro area for spots to open new, smaller "fresh shop" stores.
The company now has only one site in Omaha, at 2715 S. 120th St. It would serve as the manufacturing center for the fresh shops, said Jim Hoskinson, director of operations.
The shops would be about 1,200 square feet, roughly one-quarter the size of the Bellevue store just closed at 1701 Galvin Road South. Doughnuts prepared at the 120th Street location would be shipped daily to the smaller stores.
A factor in the decision to close in Bellevue, Hoskinson said, was that buyers had expressed a "serious" interest in that property. He declined to identify them.
The multinational chain, based in Winston-Salem, N.C., has used the fresh shop concept for about two years, Hoskinson said. The company wants to place one shop in Bellevue at a high-traffic location, he said.
Across the Omaha area, the company is aiming for four or five fresh shops over the next two years, the first to open before the end of this year.
Stargazer wrote:If it's not hot off of the conveyor... I don't want it.
I was wondering about that... I thought that was the specialty? Â May be they will be like the Cinabon at O'Hare in Chicago where they microwave it for you...
There is a new Krispy Kreme about ready to open on 72nd Street a few blocks south of dodge in a building that has seen its share of owners in the past decade. Â I think originally it was a Long John Silver's but more recently it was a cell phone place. Â Sign is already up on the front of the building.
Brad wrote:There is a new Krispy Kreme about ready to open on 72nd Street a few blocks south of dodge in a building that has seen its share of owners in the past decade. I think originally it was a Long John Silver's but more recently it was a cell phone place. Sign is already up on the front of the building.
A sales only location or a place where KK are born too?
For the record NEBUGEATER does not equal BUGEATER !!!!!!!
You guys obviously do NOT know your donuts. Â Donut Haven on 138th & P blows away anything any national chain produces and is quite a bit better than any local shops in town.
joeglow wrote:You guys obviously do NOT know your donuts. Donut Haven on 138th & P blows away anything any national chain produces and is quite a bit better than any local shops in town.
The last time I was there it was still Dandy Do-Nuts. Â Is it still the same despite a new name?
