If there’s a bright spot in this gloomy economy, it’s a new place in Middletown where the motto is “To protect and serve … doughnuts.” Police Doughnuts — yes, that’s the business’s name — has “gone gangbusters” since opening about three weeks ago, said owner Ken Borders, a retired Louisville arson investigator and former state trooper.
Borders is unapologetic about the name.
“Being in police work for 32 years, it’s been a standing joke that cops and doughnuts, they go hand-in-hand,” he said. “I just figured that it would be a catchy name.” Borders said Police Doughnuts is meant to recall a time when officers really did hang out at doughnut shops, whereas today’s police “are all into this fitness crap.” Located in a strip center on Shelbyville Road near Juneau Drive, roughly across the highway from the Louisville Metro Police 8th Division headquarters, the doughnut shop is “decorated” as a sterile police bureau. There are no tables or chairs because Borders wants to avoid a requirement that he install handicapped-accessible restrooms.
Posters of Barney Fife and Wile E. Coyote adorn the walls, and Borders’ 1975 state police photo sits in a frame near the register. The store goes “on duty at 0700,” according a sign on the door, “and closes when we sell out.”
The shop’s best advertisement is a 2009 Ford E-250 van that Borders parks near Shelbyville Road. It’s painted with a big badge and a “Police Doughnuts” logo.
I’ll bet that’s one doughnut shop that won’t be robbed.
McCullough you over estimate the intelligence of people who rob donut shops.
Marketing genius. I’ll bet being across the street from the precinct shop doesn’t hurt.
If it wasn’t for liberals, we could have whole dougnuts without holes in them.
Remember when people bought a dozen doughnuts. We were like 50lbs lighter. WTF
What is the conservative infatuation with Doug’s nuts?
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#2 actually , the idea of calling a business “Police Doughnuts” should give any potential robber a reason to pause.
I’m surprised there are not more businesses with the word “police” on it.
‘is meant to recall a time when officers really did hang out at doughnut shops, whereas today’s police “are all into this fitness crap.”’
Amen. I barely remember ‘beat cops,’ and the days when cops weren’t all shaved-head glove-wearing ex-military.
In those days, you could strike up a friendly conversation with an on-duty cop, and not be harassed for identification or asked “where are you going?”
Too bad those days are long gone. Now we have a para-military force that sees the rest of us as “civilians.”
Sometimes, a doughnut, is just a doughnut.
Ken Borders better obey every traffic law now. The “paramilitary” cops #7 brm refers to will give him a rough time if not.
The largest doughnut chain in Canada was started by a former cop. Although Tim Horton’s took its name from the hockey player, the actual work was done by the cop.
Ah I actually live right outside Louisville. I need to go check it out.
I got a dozen mixed doughnuts from them a couple of Saturdays ago. Good doughnuts, nice people. Nice gimmick, and if they keep the quality and service at a good level, they may have found their niche.