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Winchell's Donut House is an international doughnut company and coffeehouse chain founded by Verne Winchell on October 8, 1948, in Temple City, California. [1] Currently, there are over 170 stores in 6 western states , as well as Guam , Saipan , and Saudi Arabia .
Doughnut shops (also spelled donut shops) specialize in the preparation and retail sales of doughnuts. A doughnut is a type of fried dough pastry . The doughnut is popular in many countries and prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries , supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty outlets.
Yum-Yum Donuts is the largest chain of privately owned donut shops in the United States. [5] Both Yum-Yum Donuts and Winchell's are headquartered in the City of Industry, California . Frank Watase died in September 2020 [ 6 ] and, today, his son Lincoln Watase remains President of Yum-Yum Donuts.
Ron Winchell, Verne Winchell's son, began a chain of restaurants in the Las Vegas area named "Winchell's Pub and Grill". The first restaurant opened in south Las Vegas in 2000. Ron Winchell later expanded the chain by opening two more restaurants in 2003, one in south Las Vegas and one in North Las Vegas. On July 18, 2008, Ron Winchell opened ...
Winchell's Donuts: Temple City, California: 1948 City of Industry, California: Yum-Yum Donuts: 170 West, Midwest Yum-Yum Donuts: Los Angeles, California: 1971 City of Industry, California: 71 California
He subsequently received training through an affirmative action program to increase minority hiring within the Winchell's chain of doughnut shops, and managed a store in Newport Beach where he employed his wife and nephew. [5] By 1977 he was able to purchase his first doughnut shop, Christy's Donuts, in La Habra. Despite never really being a ...
This is a list of notable current and former fast food restaurant chains, as distinct from fast casual restaurants (see List of casual dining restaurant chains), coffeehouses (see List of coffeehouse chains), ice cream parlors (see List of ice cream parlor chains), and pizzerias (see List of pizza chains).
Mark Royden Winchell (1948–2008), biographer, essayist, historian and literary critic; Newton Horace Winchell (1839–1914), American geologist; Paul Winchell, ventriloquist, inventor of the artificial heart; Steve Winchell, fictional character in The OA; Verne Winchell, founder of Winchell's Donuts; Walter Winchell, journalist