Cops & Doughnuts to open new location near campus
A world-famous bakery is opening in Mount Pleasant within walking distance of campus.
Cops & Doughnuts, headquartered in Clare, will open a location 16 miles south of its main bakery by July 1.
The bakery opened in 2009, when Clare City Bakery was on the verge of closing its doors forever. Members of the Clare Police Department at the time came together to save the town’s bakery that had been in operation since 1896.
“Real cops and real doughnuts,” said Greg “Ryno” Rynearson, president of Cops & Doughnuts. “All of us real cops got wind of it in May 2009 that (the bakery) was going to be closing up. It was tough economic times.”
Since the opening of the Clare location in July 2009, Cops & Doughnuts has four other locations in Bay City, Ludington, Gaylord and South Bend, Indiana.
The Mount Pleasant store will be located in Cinema Plaza, which is located on South Mission and East Preston streets near Walgreens.
Rynearson feels the new Mount Pleasant location will help with business.
“It just seems to be the pressure is coming more and more from people to have our product down there,” he said. “The Clare location keeps growing, but there is only so much we can do in a day, so the new location won’t hurt us.”
Rynearson said the Mount Pleasant location will help with business because people from the area won’t have to travel as far to buy items from the bakery.
Mount Pleasant City Manager Nancy Ridley said the bakery's location near Central Michigan University and public schools will bode well for business.
“We are excited to have one of the Cops & Doughnuts precincts in our community as they have been successful in other communities," Ridley said. "We are excited to see that success in Mount Pleasant.”
He added he and the company is excited to sell more products, but also, they are excited to build an “interrogation room” in the Mount Pleasant location.
The room will have a conference table in the middle and different college groups can use the space, Rynearson said. It is a high-tech room, so people can use HDMI to hook up their computers. It will also serve as a location to host children birthday parties.
“We’re there for the college students, we’re there for the locals and we’re going to cater to everybody,” Rynearson said.
