District Doughnut

I always say food is food. With doughnuts, it really gave us a vehicle that allowed us to do anything. District started in 2013, here in the Lower Garden District in New Orleans. We wanted to kind of reach every person at any time of the day, breakfast, lunch, dinner. And doughnuts was one of those things that came to us just as a form of comfort and a form of something that we could really take a culinary approach to. Were in here every day. The amount of creativity we could bring to the table on a daily basis, the amount of feedback we could receive from our team and from the people who come in as guests, that teaches you a ton. Everything in here is scratch kitchen. Everything from the cookie toppings to the sprinkles to the dough, obviously, it's just all scratch. So if we love something we grew up on, if Twinkies are your thing, whatever, we can look at that and say, man, well, what does that look Something that makes you go, oh, wow. And this is something people should feel good and warm and happy when they have it. The one I think that we've done is the maple sriracha glaze. Come on, man. With the candy time. Come on, man. This is highly personal. When you create jobs in a neighborhood and then you realize the neighborhood is impacted by that job creation environment, that changes how you view a neighborhood. And so our hope is to tailor our gift to serve the community and change it for the better. We've started the Roaster on Coffee. Basically, for every bag of coffee, it goes a dollar to specify non-profit. And we branded it Cool Kids Coffee. Cool Kids Coffee Roasters focuses on the cool kids of children's hospital or the cool kids of a foster care non-profit. We think if businesses can take what they do, their products, and figure out how to turn that into a way to serve people, outside of that immediate relationship of buyer and seller, that creates better communities. I see what we do is a truth to the city, which is say, how else would we date? We're from New Orleans, and that's just kind of how we think down here. What's next for us is to continue to spread the love and figure out how to bring donut sliders and coffee to new neighborhoods and bring Cool Kids Coffee Roasters and this as we go. So we're hopeful to continue to build the brand of district.