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Blue Star Donuts
Donut store chain From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Blue Star Donuts is a small chain of donut stores with four locations in Portland, Oregon.[1][2]
Blue star manufactures their donuts in central facility in Portland and distribute them to various locations instead of locating a fryer in each store.[3]
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History
Blue Star opened its first location in 2012.[2] It launched a CBD-infused donut in 2019.[4] It went under a major downsizing in June 2020.[5] It declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in August 2020, but was reorganized and emerged from protection in December 2020.[6]
All locations were temporarily closed in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic,[7] and began selling "limited edition" products in grocery stores.[8][9]
American chef Andrew Zimmern visited for an episode of the Travel Channel series The Zimmern List.[10]
It did have a presence in Los Angeles from 2015 until abrupt closure in July 2024.[11] In January 2025, it again abruptly closed two additional locations in Portland, Oregon.[2]
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Reception
In 2024, Richard Foss of Easy Reader wrote "Their doughnuts were very pretty, very expensive, and not that good."[12] In 2018, a group of staff writers from The Oregonian scored Blue Star 4.29 out of 10 whose donuts were priced at over $3.50 at the time.[13] Blue Star was a runner-up in the Best Donut category of Willamette Week's annual 'Best of Portland' readers' poll in 2022 and 2024.[14][15]
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