KK American Doughnuts (Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, the second largest doughnut chain in the United States, was founded in 1937 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and is headquartered in New York City under the publicly traded Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. To date, KK American Doughnuts has expanded its operations overseas to include Canada, Mexico, Hong Kong, Japan, Southeast Asia, the United Kingdom, and Australia.