Frickin’ Delights Donuts will shut its doors at the end of July. 

The doughnut shop has been in business for the past 12 years, starting in Devon, Alberta in 2013 and operating out of 632 Yates St. for the last four years.

Frickin' Delights Donuts’ final day of operations will be July 31 and it will be serving up doughnuts every day until then.   

The shop sells handcrafted vegan doughnuts made daily, with flavours rotating each month. This month’s flavours include blueberry pancake, Mayan fudge, Kahlua, and raspberry lemonade. Frickin’ Delights also serves coffee drinks as well as light lunch fare. 

“After much consideration and after a very difficult year of operating, we have decided to close our business for good,” Frickin’ Delights Donuts wrote in a social media post over the weekend. 

“We no longer see a sustainable way to keep going in this business,” the post read. “The only option we had left was to take on a considerable debt to move forward and we are not confident that decision would be the best solution for us.”

Frickin’ Delights Donuts thanked its customers for their long term support in both its Victoria location as well as in Alberta. 

The social media post has been met with an outpouring of support for both the business and for the owners Mandy and Cory, who have candidly shared their experiences operating the shop, from sugar shortages to personal health struggles.   

Mandy and Cory have operated the business in a traditional fashion, baking everything from scratch and closing up once the doughnuts sell out. They say they do not plan to continue the venture in the future. 

Frickin’ Delights Donuts is not the only downtown doughnut shop to announce its closure recently. Just two weeks ago The Doughnut Vault—which had been located at Victoria Public Market and was supplying doughnuts to Rudi,  Habit Coffee, and Level Ground Coffee—closed its full time operations. 

In a now deleted social media post, reported on by Daily Hive, The Doughnut Vault’s owner Andrew Furness said that “the negatives just started outweighing the positives.” The small batch doughnut shop plans to continue with pop-ups. Details about future events will be updated on its social media pages.