Johnny’s Doughnuts shuts 3 California shops amid…
Say it ain’t dough.
California doughnut chain Johnny’s Doughnuts closed half of its six areas across the state Monday, pumping the brakes on a fast enlargement that noticed the (*3*)small chain add two new shops this 12 months alone.
The closures will have an effect on areas in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights, Santa Rosa and Santana Row in San Jose, the latter of which opened just 4 months in the past.
Thirty-four staff might be laid off in the closures, the San Francisco Chronicle stories.
California doughnut chain Johnny’s Doughnuts will close half of its six areas across the state, shedding 34 staff. Instagram/@Johnny Doughnuts
“We expanded too quickly,” Craig Blum, co-founder and CEO of the chain, told the Chronicle. “The business couldn’t support all these operations going forward.”
Locations in San Rafael, Larkspur and Napa will stay open.
“This is not something we take lightly,” Blum continued, saying the choice to close the shops concerned “many tears shed and sleepless nights.”
“We are a small company, and we’re really determined to continue to serve the communities that we’ve been involved with for so long,” he added.
CEO Craig Blum said the company, which opened two new areas this 12 months, expanded too rapidly. Instagram/@Johnny Doughnuts
Blum said the company will focus additional on Marin and Napa, as those areas have their best foot site visitors and strongest gross sales.
“Over the past couple of years, we took on more financial obligations than our business could carry,” the house owners wrote in an electronic mail to prospects Monday, per the Chronicle. “That’s on us.”
Johnny’s Doughnuts started as a food truck in 2012, before opening its first store the next 12 months. Instagram/@Johnny Doughnuts
First launched by Blum and Kim Diamond as a food truck in 2012, Johnny’s Doughnuts focuses on traditional, handcrafted doughnuts, with choices including quaint and jelly doughnuts, apple fritters and cinnamon rolls. The chain also presents vegan and wheat-free doughnuts.
Blum and Diamond opened their first cafe location in San Rafael in 2013, adopted by outposts in Hayes Valley in 2017 and at Marin Country Mart in Larkspur in 2018.
The California-based chain makes use of local ingredients and presents traditional doughnut flavors like quaint and jelly. Instagram/@Johnny Doughnuts
The chain — which also serves espresso, espresso, and tea — makes use of local ingredients including flour from Central Milling in Petaluma and dairy from Clover Dairy in Sonoma.
Johnny’s has been acknowledged by Thrillist, Forbes and Food Network, which named the chain one of the top 5 best doughnut shops in America.
Johnny’s has been acknowledged by Thrillist, Forbes and Food Network, which named the chain one of the top 5 best doughnut shops in America. Instagram/@westendvintageshop
The chain beforehand deliberate to develop to Petaluma and the East Bay, but neither location materialized.
Locations in Santa Rosa and Pacific Heights have been opened in 2021 and 2022, while the Hayes Valley location shuttered in 2022. Its two latest areas, in San Jose and Napa, just opened in July and August of this 12 months.
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