In hard times, this Fort Worth doughnut shop owner is still taking care of customers
With workers staying home or sleeping late, this is the toughest time ever to sell breakfast.
And it’s toughest of all for Korean-American doughnut shops.
Sometimes, an hour would pass with nobody coming into A & H Donuts, 3412 W. Seventh St., the custom doughnut shop near the Fort Worth Cultural District.
But then one day, a customer came for doughnuts and accidentally dropped a $20 bill.
A & H hasn’t made $20 some mornings. Yet for more than two weeks since then, A & H has been holding onto that customer’s $20 bill.
The sign at the register says, “Anybody who lost $20 bill at our store, please let me know.”
“I am a Christian,” owner Soo Ah Yang told a Star-Telegram videographer.
“I think God is seeing me,” she said. “If I take it, God will [be] upset.”
Fort Worth writer Jonny Auping helped put her on the map, writing on Twitter: “my donut shop has been losing business throughout this—unfortunately i think partly bc of racism (but also bc I gave up desserts for lent which had to be a huge blow for them). this sign is by the register and it might be all the sugar but I’m real close to crying.”
Later that day, somebody saw the tweet and ordered doughnuts from A & H for all the JPS Health Network hospital workers.
Soo Ah Yang’s family was so touched, they donated another round of doughnuts for the hospital workers.
Behind every doughnut shop is a family. The one in your neighborhood is probably just as nice. This is the one near me.
It’s been open five years and has added custom cartoon-character doughnuts, doughnuts spelling out “happy birthday” and — aw, I know, so do a lot of neighborhood doughnut shops.
But if you’re near the museums, leave A & H another $20.
They’re open every morning; 817-882-9011, facebook.com/ahdonuts or a-h-donuts.business.site.
This story was originally published April 28, 2020 at 5:45 AM.
