Oak Cliff’s Lone Star Donuts is heating its fryers back up after several months closed in Oak Cliff. The family-owned shop, in business since 1950, closed in...
Maria Mendoza, who has been working at Lone Star Donuts for over 30 years, glazes a chocolate eclair on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, at the shop’s Oak Cliff location in Dallas.
Johnson hopes the reinvented shop gets back to its 1950s roots. By 1961, the company was selling pastries to the drivers of food trucks and to small stores. Then the business “got more complicated,” the CEO says, as they started franchising Lone Star Donuts in the ‘60s and ‘70s, eventually growing it to about 20 shops in Dallas-Fort Worth.
A 30% increase in costs in 2022 was the worst blow to the company in 70 years, says the CEO — worse than major world wars or recessions. While the menu has changed and the business has been refocused, Johnson says the doughnut recipes have not changed. An old sign from original owner Gene Burdine’s office now hangs on the wall.
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