There are more than 100 Duck Donuts in 25 states and five countries but, now, one less on Long Island. The Selden shop, which opened in 2020 in the College Plaza shopping center, has closed. Callers\u00a0were met with a voice mail message on Monday notifying shoppers of the closure.\u00a0 Owner\u00a0Veronica Bencivenga could not immediately be reached for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In 2018, Veronica and her husband, Anthony Bencivenga, opened New York State\u2019s first franchise of the North Carolina-based chain. That store, in Hauppauge, remains open.<\/p>\n
It’s Omar Athar who\u00a0has the franchise rights for Nassau County and operates Duck Donuts in East Meadow, Garden City and Plainview.<\/p>\n
Duck Donuts, famous for its endlessly customizable doughnuts,\u00a0is named for Duck, North Carolina. It was in this beach destination on the state\u2019s Outer Banks where the chain was founded by Russ DiGilio got its start in 2007.<\/p>\n
\n\tErica Marcus, a passionate but skeptical omnivore, has been reporting and opining on the Long Island food scene since 1998.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are more than 100 Duck Donuts in 25 states and five countries but, now, one less on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[8695,8696,9,11,10,49,51,50,821],"class_list":["post-187911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-feedme","tag-fmclose","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}