Stan's Donuts & Coffee — Restaurant in Lake View Township

As a guy who takes his donuts seriously—and I mean seriously—I was pretty pumped to finally try Stan’s Donuts via Goldbelly. I’ve toured the donut greats coast to coast, from mom-and-pop counters to the cult favorites. So yeah, I had expectations.

The delivery? Nailed it. Showed up right on time. Packaging was tight. The donuts looked like they were ready for a photo shoot—fresh, colorful, like they meant business.

But then I took a bite... and nothing. I tried the Coconut, the Birthday Cake, and the Vanilla Sprinkled. All three had the same issue: no flavor. They looked the part, but there was just no payoff. Like biting into a well-designed sponge.

I figured maybe it was just me—bad taste day? I handed them off to a few friends. Same reaction: "These are pretty, but they don’t taste like anything."

And that’s the real letdown here. When you drop that kind of coin on shipping premium donuts across the country, you expect something memorable. Not just eye candy.

Bottom line: Great presentation, no substance. If you’re ordering through Goldbelly, I’d say keep looking. There are better donuts out there that actually taste...

Originally we were going to order from Dunkin Donuts, but my fiancé thought about Stan's because we had a great breakfast meal there a few times. She remembered how delicious their breakfast sandwiches were. It was double the cost of DD, but we thought for quality food it would cost more. Which at DD we could have bought 2 sandwiches, 2 hash brown and 2 coffee for half the cost at Stan's. We picked up our order and went back home to enjoy our Sunday morning breakfast. Once we settled in and opened our sandwiches we were both very disappointed with what we received. The sandwiches were tiny and looked no where near what it should have looked like in their photos. The sandwich is almost $8.00! We put an eyebrow next to the sandwich for size comparison. The hash brown was soggy and had no flavor. Overall you are not getting what you think you're paying for. I hope Stan's will improve on their...

Edit: had to lower my rating. Came in this morning made eye contact with store workers and said good morning twice and got no response. Also staff working with AirPods in. One staff member said something and I didn’t hear so I said “I’m sorry?” And got no response back. This location needs to take a day off to do service training and needs secret shoppers. Employees that I’ve seen donut 🍩 want to work there.

Oooomph. Love that I have a local Stans but like a lot of people here the service is very bad. I come in to get a couple donuts and don’t get greeted or thanked for coming in “be right with you kind of thing.” Made it feel like I wasn’t even there even though I was standing in front on an employee grabbing some donuts, felt very ignored. I’ve worked up from customer service roles and would never think to leave a customer like that in a shop. This store might need to do some...