Donut King selling 69-cent doughnuts on Friday
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- Donut King will sell 69-cent doughnuts — for one day only — tomorrow.
A gallon of gas cost 35 cents in 1969. That same year, a pound of Chiquita bananas was selling for 12 cents, a pound of butter cost 77 cents and a pound of ground chuck was 89 cents. That same year, a new doughnut shop, Donut King, opened at 3913 Chouteau Trafficway.
I’m thinking that a dozen doughnuts probably cost about 69 cents in 1969, but what do I know? I wasn’t buying doughnuts back then. I was just a bratty kid eating them. Still, a 69-cent doughnut sounds like a pretty good deal in the current economy, and that’s what the iconic Donut King shop — celebrating the grand opening of its new location at 2320 Armour Road — will be doing all day tomorrow: Friday, October 14, from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m.
“We’re selling all the doughnuts, from glazed yeast to long johns, for 69 cents,” says co-owner John Cone, who purchased the original Donut King in 1996 so that he could run a business with his wife, Lauren. The two young entrepreneurs met a few years earlier, working at McDonald’s. Oh, a trivia note: in 1969, a McDonald’s hamburger cost 18 cents.
When Chouteau Trafficway was widened, the Cones — along with partners Jeff and Kristen Linder — moved the business this past April to 2320 Armour Road.
