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| Company type | Chain |
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| Industry | Donuts |
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Area served | United States |
| Website | Official website |
Blue Star Donuts is a small chain of donut stores with four locations in Portland, Oregon. [1] [2]
Blue star manufactures their donuts in central facility in Portland and distribute them to various locations instead of locating a fryer in each store. [3]
Blue Star opened its first location in 2012. [2] It launched a CBD-infused donut in 2019. [4] It went under a major downsizing in June 2020. [5] It declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August 2020, but was reorganized and emerged from protection in December 2020. [6]
All locations were temporarily closed in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, [7] and began selling "limited edition" products in grocery stores. [8] [9]
American chef Andrew Zimmern visited for an episode of the Travel Channel series The Zimmern List . [10]
It did have a presence in Los Angeles from 2015 until abrupt closure in July 2024. [11] In January 2025, it again abruptly closed two additional locations in Portland, Oregon. [2]
In 2024, Richard Foss of Easy Reader wrote "Their doughnuts were very pretty, very expensive, and not that good." [12] In 2018, a group of staff writers from The Oregonian scored Blue Star 4.29 out of 10 whose donuts were priced at over $3.50 at the time. [13]
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