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Krispy Kreme Donuts
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Vernon Rudolph founded Krispy Kreme in 1933 in Kentucky. In the mid-1930’s he moved the to Nashville, Tennessee where it became a family operated business. Two additional shops were opened in Georgia, and West Virginia around this time. These shops originally sold only to grocery stores. In 1937, Rudolph opened his own shop in Winston-Salem, NC. He began his shop with $25 and by borrowing the ingredient’s he needed from a nearby grocer. He soon became so busy that he began selling doughnuts from his shop window. According to the Krispy Kreme web site (KK1), this marked the beginning of Krispy Kreme’s retail service. In the 1950s the doughnut making process was automated with the creation of the automatic doughnut cutter. Also according to the web site (KK1), this equipment was the foundation of the doughnut-making process used by Krispy today. In 1962 the equipment was replaced by a system, which used air to force the doughnuts from the hopper to the...

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