{"id":107662,"date":"2026-01-06T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107662\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T15:40:08","slug":"chipotle-to-replace-krispy-kreme-on-4th-street-north-in-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107662\/","title":{"rendered":"Chipotle to replace Krispy Kreme on 4th Street North in St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The closure marks the end of an era for Krispy Kreme in St. Petersburg. The doughnut chain opened the freestanding 4th Street North location in 2013. Prior to becoming a Krispy Kreme, the building was home to Ragin\u2019 Grill, and before that operated as YaYa\u2019s Flame Broiled Chicken.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">Before opening on 4th Street, Krispy Kreme operated for decades at 3441 Central Avenue until that property was sold and redeveloped into Fray\u2019s Donuts in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">The closure comes as Krispy Kreme scales back underperforming locations nationwide to improve profitability. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"white-space:pre-wrap;\">In 2025, the company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrn.com\/top-500-restaurants\/krispy-kreme-closes-nearly-1-000-points-of-access-in-q3-profitability-push\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exited roughly 3,500 locations<\/a>, including ending a strategic partnership with McDonald\u2019s at about 2,400 stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The closure marks the end of an era for Krispy Kreme in St. Petersburg. The doughnut chain opened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-107662","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}