Gonzalez, Texas — A mobile donut truck from Katy, Texas ,delivering donuts out of an ambulance, responded to a donut emergency in Gonzales, Texas on Friday.
- Hurts Donut Company makes "emergency stop" in Gonzales
- Part of a Fundraiser for Gonzales Elementary
- 10 percent of profits went to the school
Hurts Donut Company, which started in Springfield, Missouri, has three Texas locations and plans to open one in Austin. In an effort to spread the donut love around the state, the shop went mobile. Now each store has its own Emergency Donut Vehicle delivery truck.
"Here we are in Gonzales in our ambulance with almost 150 dozen donuts and we sold out in 45 minutes," manager Matt Whitney said.
Hailing hours away from Katy in the donut emergency vehicle, Whitney answered the call for a very special kind of pastry procedure.
"The Gonzales Elementary Principal reached out to me, it's been about three weeks ago and said 'Hey, what would it get you to come to Gonzales?' So we picked a date and here we are. We donate 10 percent of everything that we do today and it will go back to the school," Whitney said.
Hurts Donut Company partners with area schools and nonprofits around Texas looking to use the donut sales as a fundraiser.
"Working with the schools and the PTOs, we've found that that's a really good fit for us," Whitney said. "This is the first time we've been to Gonzales. We don't know anything about the community per say, but they do. They're just kind of our boots on the ground and help us get a place to park and spread the word is really the thing."
You never know where the Emergency Donut Vehicle is going to head to next. They've been places like Huntsville, Jasper, and Navasota. Whitney said each stop that's picked comes from social media traction and word of mouth.
"At this point, people will contact us too. We also do some polling on social media," Whitney said. "So recently we did Huntsville vs. College Station and so we'll take those votes and figure out who wants us to come and from those comments, we'll reach out and say okay, the next step is parking, and a nonprofit."
Sisters Fernanda and Karen Velazquez paid a visit to the emergency vehicle during their lunch break after seeing it spread all over social media.
"This is a big thing, I know. It got a bunch of shares on Facebook," Fernanda said. "So we were like 'We have to go!'"
They said waiting in the hot sun to get some Hurts was all worth it.
"Who doesn't love donuts? And we don't see these donuts everyday. I think I'm going to eat the Cookie Monster one, it's really adorable," Fernanda said.
"I mean we have regular donuts, but nothing that compares," Karen said. "The presentation is amazing, that's for sure."
If you'd like to see the emergency donut vehicle roll into your Texas town, check out the Hurts Donut Company Facebook page.