See What Makes This Little California Doughnut Shop So Successful | TODAY

Think for a moment, we are on a donut pilgrimage and we are not alone. How far are you coming from Palm Springs? Palm Spring yes, it is almost here. Our two-hour donut man is open 24/7 and churning out donuts here 20 hours a day. so the chances of getting a warm one like

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number called buttermilk bar are pretty good, oh well worth the trip, not too fancy facade masks, which for many is a donut. The Xanadu Nakano gym first opened

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place almost 50 years ago,

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is the secret of their donuts we use the best ingredients and its manual production there are no machines here there are no shortcuts potato flour and more for the dough and a stubborn insistence in really stubborn quality it is very important for us to try to use the best ingredients only a stable standard long before there was such a thing called designer donut Jim started producing these beauties during strawberry season, they tickle the eyes and They delight your belly.

I can't eat it all at once like I used to, but feel free, it's okay. I'm going to try this, okay? Now, if you drop one, you're a rookie, no good despite decades of success. Donut Man has never expanded, but Jim's Donuts will soon debut at Los Angeles' famous Grand Central Market. How proud are you of

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you have been able to achieve? I never saw it that way. I am very happy for our success. I think it's because of other people, but hard work and determination are a small part of Jim's story when he was a kid.

Jim was a prisoner of the United States, he and more than a hundred thousand Japanese-Americans lost everything Jim's family was interned after the war Jim graduated from college and served in the Navy and eventually started a business and opened a donut man, we started businesses and we did it in their countries, you heard right, the American dream. just feel lucky in Portland, where there may have been bitterness, there are only the sweetest stories here for what is after all a donut, apart from a few moments of pleasure, that is, if you only have one, so I need to get it. four three for me one for my dad for

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's Sunday Harry Smith Dora California you you