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Flynn Dekker has led Shipley Do-Nuts as CEO for about 16 months. But the former Bonchon exec, Wingstop CMO, and 30-plus-year industry vet, knows a headline point when he sees one.

The Houston-based brand is approaching 88 years in business, and it’s never grown this fast. Through the first half of 2024, Shipley Do-Nuts jolted its development pipeline by 33 percent, opened eight stores, and, more recently, reached its 15th consecutive quarter of positive same-store sales. Coming in, the company notched comps growth of more than 26 percent over the past 24 months.

Today, the chain, founded in 1936 by Lawrence and Bud Shipley, has roughly 360 stores across 12 states. It opened a record 19 last year and expects to close 2024 with 25 debuts or so. That number, Dekker says, will then leap “exponentially” in 2025 and the company will start to target new states alongside continued development of markets outside Texas that remain relatively young—Colorado, the Carolinas, Florida, and Georgia, among them.