{"id":135549,"date":"2026-01-16T02:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135549\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T02:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T02:52:11","slug":"randys-donuts-doubles-down-on-fresno-market-with-second-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/135549\/","title":{"rendered":"Randy&#8217;s Donuts doubles down on Fresno market with second location"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"1140\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/randys-clovis.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"randy's donuts clovis with hot air balloons\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"attach_desc\">Randy&#8217;s Donuts announced the anticipated grand opening of its second area location in Clovis on Jan. 20, 2026. Photo illustration by Israel Meave<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles-based chain <a href=\"https:\/\/thebusinessjournal.com\/a-treat-known-the-world-over-is-coming-to-fresno-randys-donuts-signs-lease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Randy\u2019s Donuts<\/a> will open its second location in the Fresno-Clovis area next week, nearly a year after signing a lease for the highly anticipated expansion.<\/p>\n<p>The new store at <a href=\"https:\/\/thebusinessjournal.com\/randys-donuts-rings-in-a-third-store-for-fresno-clovis-area-openings-anticipated\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">1195 Shaw Ave., Suite 101<\/a> \u2014 in a former Rita\u2019s Italian Ice space just north of Sierra Vista Mall \u2014 will celebrate its grand opening Tuesday, Jan. 21, from 6 a.m. to noon with free glazed raised doughnuts for all visitors. The first 100 people in line will also receive a free Randy\u2019s Donuts Clovis T-shirt, according to an announcement on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTi39FiEh5A\/?img_index=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">social media Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome early, bring your donut crew, and help us kick off Clovis the sweetest way possible,\u201d the franchise posted.<\/p>\n<p>The Shaw Avenue location is the second of three known stores in the pipeline by franchise ownership group GLE Confections, LLC. The first opened near Fresno State in April 2025, featuring more than 60 varieties of doughnuts. A third location near Palm and Bullard avenues is still in development and expected to open later this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thebusinessjournal.com\/randys-donuts-fresno-locations-opening-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">GLE Confections had previously announced plans to open around a dozen locations<\/a> in the Central Valley.<\/p>\n<p>The continued expansion signals growing confidence in the Central Valley market for the iconic brand, which was originally founded in Inglewood in 1951. Randy\u2019s is world famous for its 32-foot tall doughnut sign \u2014 featured in movies and shows including Iron Man 2, 2012 and Futurama \u2014 and the Fresno-Clovis locations feature a scaled-down replica of the landmark.<\/p>\n<p>The chain now has more than 50 locations operating or in development, mostly in California but also in Arizona, Georgia, Nevada and New York City. International franchises operate in South Korea, Mexico, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, Japan and the United Arab Emirates, according to the Randy\u2019s Donuts website.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t   <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Randy&#8217;s Donuts announced the anticipated grand opening of its second area location in Clovis on Jan. 20, 2026.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113,69147],"class_list":{"0":"post-135549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news","11":"tag-randys-donuts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}