Duck Donuts, known for serving warm, delicious and made to order donuts, recently announced the grand opening of its Royal Palm Beach location on Saturday, Jan. 18 at 7 a.m. The shop is located at 11051 Southern Blvd. in the Southern Palm Crossing shopping center. The shop is locally owned and operated by childhood best friends Kevin Harris and Spencer Carpenter.
To celebrate the grand opening, the first guest in line on Saturday, Jan. 18, will receive one free dozen donuts per month for a year. The next 50 guests will receive the Sprinkling Happiness Package, two dozen donuts and a bucket of coffee, for a future visit.
“We are excited to open a small business in this thriving community and look forward to serving warm, delicious and made-to-order donuts,” Harris said. “Spencer and I have spent our careers in business while serving our community, and we look forward to continuing those efforts through our ownership of Duck Donuts Royal Palm Beach.”
The 1,440-square-foot shop reflects the franchise’s recently announced shop reimagined, which has been designed to visually enhance the customer experience, while modernizing the franchise’s iconic beach theme and family-friendly atmosphere. In addition to donuts, the Royal Palm Beach location serves Duck Donuts’ signature coffee blends, donut breakfast sandwiches, donut sundaes, frozen beverages, milkshakes, select retail items and more.
Royal Palm Beach Duck Donuts has selected the Homeless Coalition of Palm Beach County, whose mission is to help end homelessness in Palm Beach County, to receive its inaugural Quack Gives Back donation. Guests can support the organization’s mission by donating at the register. The Quack Gives Back program promotes partnering with community groups to raise awareness and funds for their causes.
Carpenter and Harris are godbrothers who have known each other since the ages of four and two. They both are proud to call Palm Beach County home. Harris is an entrepreneur and public affairs executive who has worked in the public and private sector while operating several small businesses over the past decade. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, he held several management positions in the federal and local government. Carpenter is an entrepreneur who was raised in South Florida whose business background includes a noted career in financial services as well as real estate investment.
Donuts at this location will be made fresh to order 7 days a week: Monday through Sunday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. For grand opening details, specials and donut topping updates, visit the Duck Donuts Royal Palm Beach Facebook page or connect on the web site or register for the company’s new QuackChat text messaging program. Available on all mobile carriers, guests can text DOZEN to 50282 to join. A welcome offer for a free donut will be sent to each new subscriber. Offers can be saved directly to the user’s Mobile Wallet for convenient use during checkout.
Duck Donuts opened its first locations in 2007 in the beach resort towns of Duck and Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with the intention to create an oasis for vacationers to enjoy warm, delicious, made-to-order donuts. Headquartered in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, the company began franchising in 2013, and prides itself on sprinkling happiness to its guests through its unique in-store experience, exceptional guest service and a “duckzillion” donut combinations. As one of the fastest-growing donut franchise companies, Duck Donuts has more than 150 locally owned and operated shops across 26 states, Puerto Rico and international locations in Bahamas, Canada, Curaçao, Egypt, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar and Thailand. For more information, visit www.duckdonuts.com.
