Down the end of a bland road in Auburn you’ll find a cluster of equally nondescript industrial buildings. And exactly zero clues that you’ve arrived at a place of seismic importance for anyone who consumes doughnuts.
Much of the doughnut-making equipment in the United States, and the doughnut-eating world, originates here, in a factory 20 miles south of the city. The Belshaw company began 101 years ago in a foundry in Seattle, near where Interstate 90 meets Rainier Avenue today. Today all the titans—Dunkin’, Krispy Kreme, Tim Hortons, Hostess, Franz, Entenmann’s, countless supermarkets—rely on Belshaw’s industrial equipment to cut, fry, frost, fill, and glaze millions
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