Master Donuts may rise again
Master Donuts reportedly will be movng into this space between The UPS Store and Little Caesar’s Pizza on North Charles G. Seivers Boulevard in Clinton. This is the former location of BK Kitchen. (photo:G. Chambers Williams III )
No date for the reopening has yet been announced. So far, The Courier News has not been able to reach the owners of Master Donuts to get more information.
Neighbors at the new location, including the UPS Store, said they have seen the Master Donuts owners moving equipment into the building, which most recently house Robie’s Grill, a soul-food restaurant.
The popular doughnut shop had been in business for more than 11 years in another strip shopping center at 914 N. Charles G. Seivers Blvd. It closed its doors at the end of the day on Aug. 1, supposedly temporarily while it remodeled the space.
But a few days later, the shop’s owners told Carla Evans, who manages the property owned by her mother at that location, that they were closing the business permanently.
Evans told The Courier News last week that the Master Donuts owners did not tell her they would be moving to another location nearby.
The new Master Donuts shop will be in the same space that previously was occupied by BK Kitchen Mongolian Grill, which was operated by a member of the family of the doughnut shop’s owners.
Evans said earlier that she had no plans yet for another tenant in the former Master Donut space. The rest of the center, which her mother had built more than 30 years ago, is fully occupied by several businesses, including a Sushi restaurant, a coin shop, a tattoo shop, and a nail salon.
On a typical day, Master Donuts made up to 40 dozen doughnuts, along with other baked items such as apple fritters, cinnamon rolls, bear claws, bagels, biscuits and croissants, some of them used in other breakfast-style foods, such as sausage, egg and cheese biscuits and croissants.
