Remember the craziness when Krispy Kreme in Dupont Circle first opened in August? Free doughnuts, massive promotions, signs in Dupont’s metrorail station barring KK’s treats from the system, and the like? Well Krispy Kreme isn’t doing so hot after being the it company a few years back. According to the AP, via the NY Times, the North Carolina-based doughnut emporium took a bit of a tumble in the stock market after a report of a 79 percent earnings drop in the third quarter.

Krispy Kreme has been battling the low-carb lifestyle and an accounting scandal. After the company’s huge hyped-up Dupont opening, do you think Krispy Kreme can survive? Are Dupont’s denizens and office workers loyal customers enough to sustain the business at the south end of the circle?

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