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I heard about this place from a friend of mine and decided today to try it out. Saturday morning, 9 am, and the place is so dead, two teen age girls are running the place. The actual donuts were great, but took forever to make (for more than 5 minutes, we used the entire production capacity of the store for our dozen doughnuts. Had there been a line of people, it seems the ones at fifth or sixth place in line would be waiting well over a half hour). The glazes, on the other hand, not much to brag about. We decided to order a dozen ($15.99) and try some of the existing menu items, so we filled out our order card and waited for them to work their magic. When we got them, we could not tell which was which. Only after trying several of them, did we realize, they apparently packed them in the same order they were listed on the order form. Even with that knowledge, we had arguments about which donuts were which. The apple pie donut and banana creme pie donut were indistinguishable as were the caramel bacon and the maple bacon. The margarita and key lime donuts had almost no discernible flavor and, unless I knew in advance, I would never have guessed that the glaze on the P-claire was chocolate (it wasn't brown and had no chocolate flavor). I always hate the term "watered-down", but my impression of the glazes is that they had been watered down to the point of being almost flavorless. The toppings didn't help as they were ground into such small pieces, you couldn't tell what they were. Even the fruit toppings didn't help us separate the apple from the banana. Unless they can find a way to increase the intensity of flavors in the glazes, this is a nice novelty place that we may take our grandchildren to when they come to visit, but if I want donuts with flavorful toppings, I will go back to my local doughnut shop.
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