AROUND TOWN
Krispy Kreme
Brings Shop to
‘Ground Zero’
About the time students return to class in August, Krispy Kreme will have begun a doughnut shuttle.
The quintessential North Carolina doughnut shop plans to open an outlet on
Franklin Street, ferrying partially made
doughnuts from its Raleigh bakery to
Chapel Hill, where the doughnuts will finish cooking and run under the glaze
waterfall.
“It’d be impossible to put that huge
doughnut-making equipment you’d see in
a 4,000-square-foot shop in [the Chapel
Hill] location,” Brian Little, Krispy Kreme’s
director of corporate communications, told
The Daily Tar Heel.
“This is going to be the only store like
it,” Krispy Kreme Chief Financial Officer
Doug Muir told The DTH. “We have
gone to ground zero, right there on
Franklin Street.”
“It has very high pedestrian traffic,”
Little said.
The Krispy Kreme shop takes over
space recently vacated by Firehouse Subs.
Krispy Kreme, 157 E. Franklin St.,
Chapel Hill
PHOTOS BY SARAH MCCARTY ARNESON ’96
The Orange Leaf frozen yogurt
shop in Timberlyne Shopping
Center, above, lets customers
choose flavors and mix-ins and
then charges by the weight of
the concoctions. Meanwhile on
Franklin Street, Krispy Kreme
will move next door to Sutton’s
Drug Store, into the former
space of Firehouse Subs, which
moved to Meadowmont.
Serve Yourself at Orange Leaf
Frozen-Yogurt Shop
Orange Leaf’s austere white walls and
sterile decor, interrupted only by dollops
of orange molded-plastic contemporary
chairs and low tables, could serve as a Grated version of the milk bar in the movie
A Clockwork Orange. Levers and spigots
protrude in a line along a wall, dispensing
up to 14 flavors of frozen yogurt. Customers pluck a container from the stacks
of three sizes, then serve themselves as
much or as little as they like with any type
or combination of flavors. Chocolate,
vanilla, coffee, taro, coconut, pomegranate,
peanut butter — the flavors change
monthly.
And then it’s on to the toppings bar.
For 39 cents an ounce, customers can
choose from 60 options ranging from
muffin pieces, granola, Cap’n Crunch and
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Fruity Pebbles to sugar shots of Hershey’s
kisses, Rice Krispies treats, marshmallows
and M&Ms. Take a hike on the healthy
side with fresh fruit or nuts, or ride the
road less traveled with lychees, mango-coconut jelly-bellies and bubble-tea buds.
Reach the cashier, and it’s time to
weigh and pay.
Orange Leaf, a franchise formerly
known as Orange Tree, opened its Timberlyne store in April, in the spot once occupied by a Verizon store.
Orange Leaf, Timberlyne Shopping Center,
1129 Weaver Dairy Road, Chapel Hill, (919)
537-8229
and headed west, moving
from Durham to Chapel Hill
in February to be closer to
the majority of their customer
base. Their new showroom, a
mile from campus in Glen Lennox shop-
ping center, in space recently vacated by
East 54’s leasing office, showcases new
vignettes of kitchen and bath possibilities.
Vaughn and Schumann sell cabinets,
countertops, appliances and fixtures, as well
as provide kitchen and bath design expertise and work with contractors to do
turnkey remodeling, doing as much or as
little of the renovation as the customer
wants.
Kitchen & Bath Gallery, 1201-J Raleigh
Road, Chapel Hill, (919) 929-1590
Kitchen & Bath Gallery
Comes to Glen Lennox
Nick Vaughn ’00 and Matt Schumann
(a Clemson grad, but they’re still friends)
packed up their Kitchen & Bath Gallery
Hookah Smoking Shop Closes
Changes in the law, high property taxes
and a slow economy caused Hookah Bliss
to go dark in May, said owner Adam Bliss
’ 90. The N.C. General Assembly banned
smoking in restaurants and bars beginning
in January; Hookah Bliss, where customers
