Since 1963!
Donna’s Donuts has been creating happy smiles with fresh delicious donuts!
Do you know who Donna is? Want to know the inside scoop on Donna and why her donuts are SO GOOD?
Open 4 a.m. Monday through Saturday and 6 a.m. on Sunday we leave at 10 p.m.
Who is Donna and how did she learn to make great donuts?
History of Donna’s Donuts
Donna’s Donuts was born out of a partnership of Superior Donut Shop at Richfield and Center Roads. Roy Oliver and a partner brought the head baker Mel Hardy from Superior and started Donna’s in 1962, naming the business after Roy’s partners daughter – Donna. The current location on Bristol road was built block by block by Roy and his sons Dahral and Jarrell. In 1964, Roy died and his wife Edith ran the donut shop. Mel Hardy bought out Edith and trained Dave Deering. Dave and his wife Sue bought Donna’s Donuts April of 1976. They sold the business to their son John Gibbons and his wife Michelle December of 2003.
Thank you to Shirley Oliver-Winder, daughter of Shirly Boone, Dahral Oliver’s first wife, for updating some of our history!
Whew! Seems like a lot of changes, but the great doughnuts have stayed the same.
Moon Rock & Date Nut Square
John speaks to the success of Donna’s Donuts best…..
“I think the biggest reason Donna’s Donuts has such a huge following is that we always strive for the best quality donut. Throughout the years we have always used the best fillings with big portions of frostings on our donuts. We believe when a customer comes in our donut shop for a treat, we want to give them the best donut in Genesee County or perhaps the world! We have so many customers who come in to buy our donuts when going out of state to visit relatives. And the thing they always tell us is we’re taking Koegel Meats and Donna’s Donuts to our family in Florida, or Tennessee or wherever. They go on to say that their family at one time lived in Flint and one of the main things they miss is our donuts. We constantly hear ‘you just can’t get donuts like ours anywhere else.’
Last week-end while in Flint for my 50th HS reunion, Dye High School, class of ’61. When we are back in Flint we always try to have a couple of coney’s, a Halo Burger w/ olives, and a Supreme Donut. This year however we found that Supreme Donut isn’t around any longer. Our local friends told us about Donna’s so we came over and bought some. They are every bit as good as I remember Supreme Donuts to be. The sizes are large and the toppings are plentiful. Keep up the good work and we will stop in again when in Flint. Dale Mortenson, Venice, Florida.
Thanks Dale!
Glad you made it in to enjoy a Donut! Come back in soon and bring us some sunshine!
Hi Donna. I would like to thank you for keeping mine and your tradition going. Yours for making donuts that the only way to describe is amazing. And my tradition is I live 1700 miles away in Utah but I try for lack of better words try to make a Donna’s Donut run every four years, and stay with family from my moms side.
Yes the donuts are worth the trip it you have not had one your missing out.
With that said do you ship? Im sure I am out of delivery range. LoL. If no on the shipping what is the best way to ship, seeing like I said I do have family there to take on the issue if needed.
Cream stick, nutty lover.
BRYAN
Bryan,
Thank you for your support!
We don’t want you to have to wait four more years! Unfortunately, we are not able to ship them for you. We have a number of people who buy donuts to send out by priority mail. Do you have a relative in the area that can do it for you?
If not, you may be able to bribe someone to handle it for you. Let us know how it goes, the nutty’s travel pretty well, cream sticks can’t be packed quite as tight for obvious reasons!
Hope to see you soon.