Fun facts about Krispy Kreme doughnuts

• Stores across North America produce more than 5 million doughnuts a day and more than 2 billion a year.

A typical store produces more than 3,000 doughnuts an hour. Larger stores can produce up to 12,000 an hour.

• Krispy Kreme produces enough doughnuts in a week to make a line from New York City to Los Angeles. Talk about a glazing trail.

• In two minutes, Krispy Kreme stores can produce enough doughnuts to make a stack the height of the Empire State Building.

• Krispy Kreme uses enough chocolate each year to fill two Olympic-size swimming pools and a million pounds of sprinkles, equivalent to the weight of 145 elephants.

• Krispy Kreme's are a hot commodity at weddings. Brides and grooms serve the doughnuts at their receptions.

• Krispy Kreme doughnut rings are formed by using air pressure to force dough through an extruder. No holes are cut; therefore, alas, there will never be Krispy Kreme doughnut holes.

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Fri Mar 12 2010 14:18

I am doing a news report on Krispy Kreme doughnuts too! Thanks for the info.

Anonymous

Sun Feb 21 2010 09:31

thanks that helped alot

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