Time to Make the Donuts!

Last summer Porter had a donut birthday party and Krispy Kreme had donated several dozen of their reject donuts for us to use in our donut relays and other games. I have to say most of those donuts seemed perfectly fine to me and tasted quite good! Anyway we brought in a thank you note for their generosity and the owner was so excited about it that he hung the note up in the store and asked us to come back with the kids from the party so he could give them a tour of the shop.

The kids loved learning how they made the donuts. The tour lasted almost 30 minutes and Alex (the owner) kept the kids captivated the whole time. At the end they each got to choose their favorite donut to eat. Krispy Kreme's is the Best!

I didn't get to hear everything Alex was saying because I was chasing Jack around the store during the tour, but here are some fun facts about Krispy Kreme.... They use on average 30 50-pound bags of sugar each day (that's not including the amount of powdered sugar they use in the frosting)....They can make 289 dozen donuts per hour....They make between 14,000-20,000 donuts on busy days. Again, remember this is coming from the mouths of 5-8 year olds so some figures may be a little off, but who knows maybe they do know what they're talking about!