#trivia
This brand's history starts in a Kentucky store where the product recipe was first created, then Nashville Tennessee, where it first tasted huge success.
They then moved to North Carolina cos one of the owners loved Camel cigarettes (weird reason 🤔).
HQ is still in NC.
This brand's history starts in a Kentucky store where the product recipe was first created, then Nashville Tennessee, where it first tasted huge success.
They then moved to North Carolina cos one of the owners loved Camel cigarettes (weird reason 🤔).
HQ is still in NC.
Answer is Krispy Kreme!
It started off as an uncle-nephew partnership. They ran a store in which the donuts were just one product. But during the depression, a lot of inventory wasn't moving. So they started focusing on the donuts which were very popular. Moved to Nashville.
It started off as an uncle-nephew partnership. They ran a store in which the donuts were just one product. But during the depression, a lot of inventory wasn't moving. So they started focusing on the donuts which were very popular. Moved to Nashville.
The donuts became such a hit in Nashville that more family members joined the business to expand. Vernon Rudolph, one of the nephews, wanted to branch out. Somewhere other than Nashville, to not compete with the family. He didn't have any connection to NC.
But he was addicted to Camel cigarettes. And he saw on the pack that the company was HQed in Salem NC. Just for that reason, he picked Salem. Opened the first Krispy Kreme there. Rest is history.
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