An iconic Boise doughnut shop will serve its last bacon maple bar next month.
DK Donuts, 1300 W. State St., will close Oct. 27, owner Angkearot Long said.
On Tuesday, Long was given 30 days notice by the landlord after negotiations for a new lease failed, he said.
Long took over DK Donuts in 2004 before purchasing the business in 2009, he said. The locally owned, standalone doughnut destination has been a State Street staple since the prior century.
Long said he didn’t know what year DK Donuts appeared at that location, but Idaho Statesman archives trace it back as far as 1994.
Beloved for its bacon maple bar, DK Donuts is a go-to that seemed like it would always exist in Boise. News of the impending closure traveled quickly among customers, Long said, even spreading online.
“A lot of people are upset,” he said.
But there’s good news. Long is hunting for another possible DK Donuts location in Boise. And he plans to open a doughnut shop in Nampa early next year at 200 12th Ave. S., near Nampa Public Library.
After years of getting out of bed at 2 a.m. to go to work — and watching his three kids work at DK before heading off to college — Long has many memories of the shop, he said.
But the new Nampa store will be a family affair, too. His nephew will move from working at DK in Boise to running the Nampa location, he said.
This summer, Long told the Statesman that DK Donuts was planning upgrades to its Boise building, and that the landlord had agreed to extend the lease for another decade.
But DK has been on a month-to-month lease while negotiations continued. Significantly higher rent, and repairs needed to the building and parking lot, ended up being a deal breaker, he said.
Sometimes, that’s part of being in the restaurant business.
“It happens,” he said. “So what can we do?”
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