Island Donuts — Restaurant in Arkansas

What’s with all the pepper!!???

Today wasn’t a good day for Island donuts. In my past experience a few months ago, the donuts were great, but today I ordered longjohns, a croissandwich and biscuits with gravy - which was a mistake.

FYI Donut servers: Wrapping longjohns in tissue just peels off the icing so today the two longjohns I ordered weren’t the best because all the chocolate glaze peeled off with the tissue that was mashed to the top and they did not seem fresh at all which is sad because I went there early to get warm donuts fresh out of the frier.

Please stop putting tissue around longjohns and donuts with chocolate or maple glazes, and please find a way to serve them so that an order of more than one longjohn is not mashed and ruined in a paper bag. A small box would be preferred (That goes for all donut shops!)

The biscuits and gravy were not disappointing three months ago and were fresh, but today the biscuits were tough (I was there very early, before first light, so I’m thinking they maybe were day olds and reheated which would make sense because the last time they were good). I couldn’t even cut up the biscuits using a knife and had to tear them apart with my hands. Maybe I just didn’t notice it before because I immediately put the gravy on them. This time was bad. I threw one away and the one I tore up I gave to my dog.

The gravy is obviously water based and may be canned sausage gravy with added (too much) pepper, it was too peppery to serve my fur-baby with his biscuit. And too peppery for me to eat after tasting it, so it was also thrown away

The egg that was on the bacon, egg and cheese croissant was dry, tough, cold and had nearly a teaspoons worth of pepper dumped on top of it right in the middle, unfortunately there is no option to post a photo. I ended up scraping the pepper off and giving the hard cardboard like egg to my dog, I fried my own egg to put on the sandwich.

The staff was friendly and efficient as usual, but the food I chose today was subpar. I will no longer order biscuits and gravy from there or a croissandwich with any kind of egg on it.

I wish I could post a photos! The pepper on the egg is unbelievable.

Cost: $15

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I frequently visit island donuts., Today though, was an awful experience. my spicy Boudin was a complete disaster. it was full of nasty clumped up processed cheese, which I am very very sensitive to. Simply put II can’t eat processed cheese. I have purchased this product countless times and it has never had cheese. NEVER HAD CHEESE. On top of that the donuts all tasted like industrial cleaner literally inedible! What’s happening to my donut stop? Anyways when I call I’m told I’m wrong and they seemed to try to make me feel like an idiot. The sad thing is All I WANT IS MY HARD EARNED MONEY BACK FOR AN INEDIBLE BREAKFAST. ISLAND DONUTS YOU SHOULD MAKE THIS RIGHT and reimburse me for my meal. if you don’t make this right. My family and I will...