It’s time to make the doughnuts downtown

There’s a hole in the downtown dining scene. It’s a perfectly round hole about the size of a quarter. It’s there. We just don’t talk about it. Well, that ends today, on National Doughnut Day. Kansas City needs a downtown doughnut shop.

Now go grab your free doughnut. I’ll wait. You’re going to need some energy for this one. In addition to the economic benefit of a new business, can you imagine the increase in work productivity? Who would ever miss a morning meeting when there are hot glazed doughnuts on the conference table?

What follows is a list of specific doughnut shops that could open in various neighborhoods downtown: the name, theme and signature doughnut. Someone else just has to pony up the dough.