Prairie Donuts

I really want to like this place because it is so close to home for me. I just can’t though. The lady who works here is so nice and really seems like she likes her job. The facility is clean but I just don’t like the donuts.

Nasty

Many donut places are simply matters of proximity — you just go to whichever one is closest to you, and chances are it’ll turn out pretty good. It’s hard to screw up a donut.
Prairie Donuts takes the place of a former Squeek’s; I knew because the coffee maker was still labeled as such. I think the donuts might be a little more expensive than the average, but they’re broken into two prices tiers — regular and fancy. The former is a small collection of various frosted yeast donuts, and the ones on which I nibbled (mostly just a few donut holes that were thrown in to the box when I built my dozen) were good enough. The fancy varieties are considerably larger items like apple fritters and pine cones — large donuts shaped, unsurprisingly, like a pine cone. I don’t know if this is a prevalent item in Wichita’s donut shops, but it’s the first time I saw one, and others who noticed someone eating one were quick to show their surprise, too.
The donuts are kind of just piled into a box, not doing much for the presentation, but the lady manning the empty store’s register was quite nice, and it’s clear that she probably wasn’t in any danger of running out of business any time soon.