DOUGHNUT FUN FACTS

Krispy Kreme stores across North America produce more than 7.5 million doughnuts per day and make more than 2.7 billion doughnuts per year.

A typical Krispy Kreme store produces more than 3,000 doughnuts per hour, but larger stores can produce up to 12,000 doughnuts per hour.

Since the fundraising program started in Australia in July 2003, Krispy Kreme has helped non-for-profit groups raise over $300,000 to support local activity.

In about two minutes, Krispy Kreme stores worldwide can produce a stack of doughnuts 1.5 times the height of AMP Centrepoint Tower.

Krispy Kreme produces enough doughnuts in about a week to make a line of doughnuts from New York City to Los Angeles. Now that’s glazing the trail.

It would take 2,833 Original Glazed doughnuts piled flat on top of each to reach as high as the MCG light towers .

Krispy Kreme uses enough chocolate each year to fill nearly five Olympic-sized swimming pools and 1.3 million pounds of sprinkles, equivalent to the weight of 184 elephants.

The latest craze for doughnuts? Serving Krispy Kreme doughnuts at weddings. After a story ran in InStyle magazine’s special Weddings issue (Spring 2002), couples began calling Krispy Kreme stores to place doughnut orders for wedding receptions.

The hole in the center of the doughnut is credited to a young boy named Hanson Gregory, who, in 1847, suggested to his mother that she put a hole in the middle of her “fried cakes” to ensure the cake was fully cooked in the middle.

Krispy Kreme doughnuts are formed from dough extruded by air pressure to form a perfect doughnut shape. The infamous doughnut “hole” actually doesn’t exist at Krispy Kreme.