Krispy KremeOn the site of a former Wendy’s restaurant at 1500 West Walnut Avenue, Krispy Kreme is preparing to enter the Dalton, Ga., market.
Ganaway Contracting Co., is building a 2,671-square-foot doughnut shop in Dalton that began displaying a Krispy Kreme sign this week. The city of Dalton has issued a $700,000 building permit for the new eatery.
Krispy Kreme, which operates more than 1,000 company and franchise doughnut shops around the globe, currently has five stores in Georgia and 11 locations in Tennessee, including one on Brainerd Road in Chattanooga. The company began in 1937 in Winston Salem, N.C., and now operates in 20 countries around the world.