Top Pot Doughnuts

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Top Pot Doughnuts
Private
Industry Coffeehouses
Founded February 2002 (2002-02)
Founder Mark and Michael Klebeck
Headquarters Seattle, Washington, United States
Number of locations
 21
Website toppotdoughnuts.com

Top Pot Doughnuts is a chain of coffee and doughnut cafes started in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Top Pot began in February 2002 and was started by co-founders Mark and Michael Klebeck, who are brothers.[1]

Locations

As of May 2016, Top Pot has 18 cafe locations throughout the Puget Sound region, and three in Texas,[2] though they are only made at their downtown Seattle and Bellevue locations and shipped to other locations in the region by truck.[clarification needed] Their recipe is used for the doughnuts sold in more than 7,000 Starbucks stores in the U.S. and Canada.[3] Top Pot Doughnuts are the official doughnut at CenturyLink Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Sounders.[4] In 2011, Top Pot became the official doughnut and coffee of the National Lacrosse League team Washington Stealth.[5]

Founding

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Top Pot's neon sign on 5th Avenue

The name "Top Pot" came from a vintage neon sign that was above a boarded-up Chinese restaurant called "Topspot". The co-founders bought the sign and while transporting it, the "S" fell off. Co-owner Mark suggested that they replace it with a coffee pot.[6]

Patrons

When U.S. president Barack Obama visited Seattle in October 2010, he and Senator Patty Murray stopped for doughnuts at the Top Pot on 5th Avenue in the Belltown/Denny Regrade neighborhood.[7]

In January 2011 Seattle mayor Mike McGinn bet (among various items) a dozen Top Pot maple bars with New Orleans mayor Mitch Landrieu over the NFL NFC Wild card game.[8]

In media

Television

Books

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See also

References

  1. ↑ Melissa Allison,Top Pot Doughnuts investor sues co-founders over her diminished share of the growing empire, Seattle Times, 2009-03-04. Retrieved 2010-11-07.
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  3. ↑ Melissa Allison, Why did Starbucks stop labeling its Top Pot doughnuts?, Seattle Times, 2010-04-05. Retrieved 2010-11-07.
  4. ↑ Tate 'embarrassed' by doughnut incident, Associated Press/ESPN, 2010-06-08. Retrieved 2010-11-07.
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  6. ↑ Our Story, Top Pot Doughnuts (official site). Retrieved 2010-11-07.
  7. ↑ Chris Grygiel, Obama stops by Top Pot Donuts: 'Can't eat these everyday', seattlepi.com, 2010-10-21. Retrieved 2010-11-07.
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External links

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