Krispy Kreme — Restaurant in Tamarac

In 1933, 18 year old Vernon Rudolph and his brother Lewis began working for his uncle, Ishmael Armstrong in his general store in Kentucky. Ishmael Armstrong sold a very popular doughnut whose recipe was said to be inspired by one made by Ohio River barge cook, Joseph LeBeouf who was from New Orleans. The store started failing during the Great Depression so Vernon and his uncle set out for Tennessee to focus on solely selling doughnuts. They did so well that other family members joined them and in 1937 Vernon struck out on his own opening a store in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where the company of his favorite cigarettes was headquartered. Vernon sold doughnuts to stores and customers that would stop by. Krispy Kreme was incorporated in 1947 with 8 stores. More stores opened in the 1950's and further expansion took place in the 1990's. Krispy Kreme was purchased by a German investment firm in 2016.

If I spot a Krispy Kreme all diet bets are off. The company claims the secret to the original melt in your mouth, yeast-raised, glazed doughnuts is their mix. All of the dry mix used in the 190 Krispy Kreme stores around the country is made in a Winston-Salem, N.C., plant and then shipped to the stores. The yeast also comes from North Carolina. The over 75 year old recipe for the mix is kept in a safe at the plant.

This is an older location. It's been here at least since the late 1990's and I have been here many times through the years. They have a drive through which makes getting your sugar fix a snap during the virus. My favorite doughnut will always be the original glazed but they had a seasonal strawberry glaze doughnut that was a strong runner up. One star off for not serving my original glazed hot the way God intended them to be eaten. Seriously, Krispy Kreme will always...

Just had to write a review this place is terrible. It’s poorly managed, has terrible customer service and long wait times. Shop local support local businesses don’t worry about places like this. Arrived to order a few dozen for work and was told use the drive thru after I exited my car and walked to the front door. Drove over to the drive thru went to place my Order total was extremely higher than online prices, used a coupon saved $18 bucks. Go to pay hand over my credit card, hands over boxes of donuts. Oh no the credit card machine is down, do you have another form of payment no I don’t carry extra cash. Can we reset the machine and try again, no it’s been acting up a bit lately credit cards can’t be used. Ok can I order online and just do it that way, yes but they won’t be ready right away. Ok fine hands donuts back says goodbye. Now I’m missing out in donuts all because a company was poorly managed experiencing technical issues. Last week went to same Krispy and guess what poorly managed again waited 16 mins for 1 dozen with no one in line. Go elsewhere spend your hard earned money locally at a bakery or even dunkin ! Avoid...

This chain seems to be going downhill. We don't go often but each time seems to drop from the one before. When they first opened the donuts were really good. They've always been a bit too sweet for my taste, but that's just a personal thing. Other than that, the flavors were good and they were always fresh.

We went yesterday to try out their new fall flavors, the pumpkin spice and pumpkin cheesecake. I generally love anything with pumpkin. The pumpkin spice was disappointing. While the spice part was there, the pumpkin was pretty vague. The other issue was that it was really dry. It really needed to be dunked to give it some moisture and I'm not a dunker.

The "pumpkin cheesecake" was beyond disappointing. It took several bites of an ordinary raised doughnut to even find the filling. When I finally did, it was terrible. There was a slight cream cheese flavor, but it overwhelmingly tasted like chemicals and bitter spices.

We did have a couple of traditional glazed, which were fine. So if you want the regular flavors, you're probably okay, but I would never get close to those pumpkin...