The store is being constructed at 7541 E. Parkway Drive in LoneTree near Park Meadows regional mall. It's the first of eight shopsthat Glazed Investments - one of five franchise groups licensed toopen Krispy Kreme's across the country - plans to open in Colorado.Glazed also is the franchiser for Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Krispy Kreme, founded in 1937 in Winston-Salem, NC, operatesmore than 155 stores that make 3.5 million doughnuts daily in 27states. Sixty percent of the company's sales come from the OriginalHot Glazed, a doughnut has caused grand opening traffic jams ascustomer wait hours in long lines that oftentimes practicallycircle the free-standing shops.

LaMar's Donuts of Lincoln, NE, also plans to build a doughnutshop near Park Meadows. Its plans for the metro area call foropening 30 to 35 locations over the course of four to sixyears.