HOT DOUGHNUTS SOON KRISPY KREME TO OPEN PALMDALE STORE, EMPLOY 100.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer PALMDALE - Krispy Kreme Krispy Kreme is a chain of doughnut stores. Its parent company is Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. (NYSE: KKD), based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States. , the North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. doughnut said to be preferred by Elvis Presley and Bill Clinton, comes to Palmdale this month. Krispy Kreme's first store north of the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. and south of Bakersfield opens its doors at 5:30 a.m. Sept. 18 to what could be a long line of customers, if other openings are an indication. ``I think it's head and shoulders better than any other doughnut anywhere,'' Roger Glickman, president of Krispy Kreme's Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, franchisee, said of the trademark Original Glazed doughnut. The Palmdale shop will resemble other Southern California Krispy Kremes: a 4,000-square-foot store with drive-up window and the signature ``Hot Doughnuts Now'' neon sign neon sign n → enseigne (lumineuse) au néon neon sign neon n → Neonreklame f neon sign n → that lights up from 5:30 to 11 a.m. and 5 to 11 p.m. every day. Located at 540 W. Ave. P, just east of the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. , the store will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. More than 100 Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley residents have been hired to staff the new shop. Through glass windows, customers can watch doughnuts rolling off a 40-foot-long conveyor belt - 220 dozen doughnuts an hour. ``It's all very exciting. We play it up,'' said Glickman, who holds a master's degree in finance and real estate from the Warton School of the University of Pennyslvania and, before co-founding Great Circle Family Foods with Richard Reinis in 1999, was director of real estate for Sony Retail Entertainment's Sony/Loews Theaters Division. Great Circle Family Foods opened the first Southern California Krispy Kreme in January 1999 in La Habra. It now has 13, spread from Bakersfield to San Diego. The closest to Palmdale is 58 miles south in Van Nuys. Great Circle is Krispy Kreme's exclusive Southern California franchisee, with an agreement to open 42 stores over seven years. It will open a shop in Oxnard next month and has plans for one in Burbank as well as in other cities up and down the state. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: The new Krispy Kreme shop at 540 W. Ave. P, just east of the Antelope Valley Freeway, is set to open Sept. 18. It'll be open 24 hours a day every day. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer |
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