{"id":34997,"date":"2022-06-03T12:43:02","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T12:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/general-american-donut-company-to-close-friday-june-3\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T12:43:02","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T12:43:02","slug":"general-american-donut-company-to-close-friday-june-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/general-american-donut-company-to-close-friday-june-3\/","title":{"rendered":"General American Donut Company to close Friday June 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Here's some of the best fries in Indy\"\/>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img gnt_em_img__inset\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">General American Donut Company is closing, according to the Indianapolis shop&#8217;s social media page.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Friday is the last day, the business announced in a brief posting on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cGADCO&#8217;s last day will be this Friday, which also happens to be National Donut Day,\u201d it said.  &#8220;Stop by, say goodbye, have a donut and a cup of coffee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">No explanation was given for the move.  IndyStar reached out for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The craft donut shop opened at 827 S. East St. in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The business bows out on National Donut Day. The shop will open Friday morning at 8 am<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It drew fans for its creations but also has been controversial in recent years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">Indianapolis&#8217; best local donuts:<\/strong>Here are the spots to hit up early or late<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In April 2021, the shop posted a sign announcing it was a mask-optional business despite a Marion County mask mandate still being in place.  After a county health inspector was dispatched to the establishment, co-owner Adam Perry, said he &#8220;misjudged&#8221; the area&#8217;s mask mandate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On its website, American General Donut Company ownership has condemned the group Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Contact IndyStar reporter Cheryl V. Jackson at cheryl.jackson@indystar.com or 317-444-6264.  Follow her on Twitter: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cherylvjackson\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@cherylvjackson<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General American Donut Company is closing, according to the Indianapolis shop&#8217;s social media page. Friday is the last day, the business announced in a brief posting on Facebook. \u201cGADCO&#8217;s last day will be this Friday, which also happens to be National Donut Day,\u201d it said. &#8220;Stop by, say goodbye, have a donut and a cup &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/general-american-donut-company-to-close-friday-june-3\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">General American Donut Company to close Friday June 3<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2021\/04\/10\/PIND\/edf4ad7d-3df6-444a-8f38-479f44c269e2-General_Donut_Company.jpg?width=300&height=225&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}