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Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut · Charlotte
The Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut is the North Carolina yeast-raised doughnut dipped in sugar glaze served warm on the rack, founded in Winston-Salem in 1937.
Vernon Rudolph opened the first Krispy Kreme in Winston-Salem, NC in 1937 with a French chef's secret yeast-doughnut recipe. The Hot Now sign and the glazed-on-the-rack ritual cemented the chain as a North Carolina institution, with a Charlotte store on Independence Boulevard among the oldest in the state.