Krispy Kreme’s New Strategy

From Krispy Kreme’s 10-K…, focusing on smaller stores with lower overhead. I guess it took them a while to learn from Dunkin’ Donuts that selling only $.50 donuts and coffee doesnt add up to enough revenue for a large store.

The Company is working to refine its domestic store operating model to focus on small retail concept shops, including both satellite shops and shops that manufacture doughnuts but which are smaller and have lower capacity than traditional factory stores. Satellite stores in a market are provided doughnuts from a single traditional factory store or commissary at which all doughnut production for the market takes place. The objectives of the small retail concept model are to, among other things:

• reduce the investment required to produce a given level of sales and reduce operating costs by operating smaller satellite stores instead of larger, more expensive factory stores;
• achieve greater production efficiencies by centralizing doughnut production to minimize the burden of fixed costs;
• achieve greater consistency of product quality through a reduction in the number of doughnut-making locations;
• enable store employees to focus on achieving excellence in customer satisfaction and in-shop consumer experience; and
• stimulate an increase in on-premises sales of doughnuts and complementary products by increasing the number of retail distribution points to provide customers more convenient access to the Company’s products.

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