120:. The annual sales of Spudnut Industries was $ 2 million. The sale price was $ 550,000, payable over five years, plus 20,000 shares of Pace Industries (worth about $ 175,000). At the time, there were 315 franchise holders, with combined annual sales of $ 25 million, making it the largest doughnut franchise in the United States. In 1973, Pace sold the company, which it had kept as a separate entity, together with National Oven Products, for $ 1.3 million, to Dakota Bake-N-Serv, headquartered in
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Germany, they tried a number of things, from wheat dough that was flavored with potato water to using mashed potatoes, before creating a dry potato mix that not only worked for them but made it possible to franchise the concept. They coined the word "spudnut", and went
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Galesburg, Illinois, per stipulated injunction. In October of 2015, Douglas E. Bagley and MP-OTHA
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Spudnuts brand has not disappeared completely, with some 35 Spudnut Shops in nine states still open. A single outlet in Canada was taken over by a bakery shop in 2009, but still bakes the treat once a week. Over the history of Spudnuts, there were over 600 stores around the U.S., Canada, and
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Douglas Bagley to continue to sell the same donut mix however he will not use the names spudnut, spudnuts or spuddos and will now be selling this mix under the name potadonut.
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