Krispy Kreme Tried to Shut Down Student Who Travels 270 Miles to Buy Doughnuts and Resell Them

Posted On Dec 4, 2019 By admin With Comments Off

A Minnesota college student recently has come forward with a intelligent — and appetizing — course is to make sure that he graduates debt-free while also satisfying the Krispy Kreme longings of his fellow community members.

Since the time he was young, Jayson Gonzalez has been a major love of Krispy Kreme doughnuts, though there hasn’t been a single store in his state for 11 times, Today reports.

“We’d used to always depart, peculiarly when I was little, ” Gonzalez, 21, recalled to the outlet. “There’s no other doughnut that compares. The coat, the savor, everything about it is just delicious.”

It wasn’t until last-place April when the Champlin native was preparing to coach his soccer team at a tournament in Iowa that he came up with an idea to combine his love for the dessert busines with his desire to make money for college.

“Me being a Krispy Kreme maniac, I knew there was gonna be a Krispy Kreme in Iowa, so I rolled a Facebook post on the marketplace saying,’ Hey, if you want some Krispy Kremes, let me know, ‘” Gonzalez said.

And so began Gonzalez’s Krispy Kreme doughnut bringing business.

Each weekend, the Metropolitan State University student would drive his Ford Focus four hours and 270 miles to the Krispy Kreme in Iowa, acquire 100, 12 -count cartons of doughnuts, and then travel back to his home state and resell them back to the eagerly-awaiting Minnesotans.

Gonzalez blamed his patrons anywhere between $17 to $20 per box for the sweetened gives, with some compensating $100 each time he made the lengthy tour, the Pioneer Pressreports. He soon became known as the “Donut Guy.”

Saturday would’ve commemorated his 20 th consecutive drive for doughnuts — but before he could ended the achievement, Krispy Kreme putting a stop to his entrepreneurial efforts.

In a Facebook post on his Krispy Kreme Run Minnesota page Thursday, Gonzalez explained that he receives an announce from the Nebraska location, who told him “to shut down operations” because his sales were creating a liability for their company.

“I know they told one of the large-scale managers in Nebraska directly, and he called me, ” he told the Pioneer Press of the North-Carolina based company. “He said corporate told him to’ cease’ and’ desist.’”

The pushback from Krispy Kreme produced many of Gonzalez’s customers to express their disappointment on Facebook.

“A lot of customers were pretty upset and I don’t denounced them! ” he told Today. “I was pretty upset too.”

“Scrolling through all the comments has definitely been pretty upsetting with how exasperated everyone is, ” Gonzalez added to the Pioneer Press.

However, by Monday, Krispy Kreme published a statement to Business Insider announcing that the selection board had overruled their decision and would fully support Gonzalez working as an independent contractor.

“Today, we reached out to Jayson to express our appreciation for his love of Krispy Kreme and approbation for his entrepreneurial spirit, ” a spokesperson for the company said. “We are going to help him achieve his purposes, which include being debt-free when he postgraduates in 2021, in part by selling Krispy Kreme Doughnuts. Our intent regarding the temporary stoppage of him selling doughnuts was to ensure product quality and regulatory compliance to protect both Jayson and Krispy Kreme.”

“Our main concern is that the doughnuts Jayson sells maintain our high-pitched product quality standards, given the distance and sort in which he is transporting and dispensing them, ” the spokesperson continued. “So, we are happy to work with Jayson as an independent adventurer to ensure consistent give of our high-quality doughnuts to our devotees in Minnesota.”

“We wish Jayson great success and we’re thrilled to help him achieve it by donating 500 dozen doughnuts when he re-starts his business, ” the spokesperson added.

A rep for Krispy Kreme did not immediately to be addressed PEOPLE’s request for comment.

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With the green light to purchase and deliver doughnuts, Gonzalez said he looks forward to continuing his managerial struggles through graduation, while also bringing a smile to people’s faces.

The college student has also created a GoFundMe to raise money for a brand-new automobile so he can travel safely and transportation 200 -3 00 dozens of doughnuts, as opposed to 110 dozens, back to Minnesota.

“I can fully operate as an independent adventurer and start doing what I love to do, is returning back doughnuts and drawing parties fortunate again, ” Gonzalez told Today.

“This never would have happened, or have been able to continue, without everyone’s help, ” he contributed on Facebook. “The goal is to continue to do it until I graduate and hopefully pass it down to someone else that is in my predicament. It’s one of the first times in my life where it’s not just myself believing in me and my minds. It’s an incredible feeling, so thank you.”