{"id":267852,"date":"2018-01-11T06:06:36","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T20:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=267852"},"modified":"2018-01-11T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T20:06:36","slug":"winchells-donuts-garapan-closes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/winchells-donuts-garapan-closes\/","title":{"rendered":"Winchell\u2019s Donuts Garapan closes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Work continues at the Winchell\u2019s Donuts Susupe branch after the closure of their Garapan branch last Monday. (Bea Cabrera)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Winchell\u2019s Donuts branch in Garapan officially closed its doors last Monday, a move that surprised many who have come to love the fastfood pastry shop that has been doing business on Saipan the past 31 years.<\/p>\n

While its Garapan location has been shuttered, Winchell\u2019s Donuts in Susupe across Kanoa Resort remains open. <\/p>\n

Winchell\u2019s Susupe sales clerk Thelma Dacumos, who was stationed in Garapan, said that prior to Monday, they did not have an idea that management was going to close the Garapan branch.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was abrupt and we did not know that we will close down the Garapan branch. A lot of our equipment is still there and other employees are moving them right now. I do know that the lessor wanted the space back,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Dacumos said the closure could have something to do with issues on the current lease contract of the building that housed the Garapan branch. <\/p>\n

\u201cAs far as I know, our contract lease in Garapan was supposed to run for five years and we have only consumed two years of that,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Customer Annie Lopena, a Garapan resident, said she heard that the Winchell\u2019s branch in Garapan closed last Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was surprised and now that we need to drive all the way from Garapan to Susupe to buy donuts is inconvenient. Like today, if we didn\u2019t drop by the post office in Chalan Kanoa, we wouldn\u2019t be here in their Susupe branch, their only branch now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWinchell\u2019s is our \u201cgo-to-place\u201d whenever my 10-year-old daughter, Tricia, wants a quick snack and when she has pot luck gathering with her friends because aside from the taste, they are really affordable and we know they met U.S. standards in preparing the food,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Twenty-one-year-old Maria Valencia considers herself a Winchell\u2019s baby as she grew up patronizing the store.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like the closure of the Garapan branch is a waste because they just moved there as they used to be where Cha Caf\u00e9 is now. I also feel sad because Winchell\u2019s Garapan was close to everything like the hospital,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Winchell\u2019s Susupe branch is the only branch standing at this point, fervently serving the community in many ways they know how.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to hope that we are going to open another branch somewhere so we could fill the closure of the Garapan branch and still cater to our regular customers,\u201d Dacumos said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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