Towson's new Fractured Prune Doughnuts will open Wednesday.
The company had announced plans just before Halloween to open a shop at 3 W. Chesapeake Ave. The store will open at 6 a.m.
The chain, founded in Ocean City in 1976, is known for hand-dipping doughnuts in a choice of glazes and toppings, and it's growing nationally.
Last September, the company's CEO, Dan Brinton, had said he planned new locations at the Inner Harbor and in Westminster as well as Towson, part of a push to open 50 new franchised stores in the next three years.
Customers can expect a specialty doughnuts menu with items such as French Toast (maple glaze, cinnamon and sugar), Blueberry Hill (blueberry glaze, powdered sugar) and Banana Cream Pie (banana glaze, vanilla wafers, cinnamon & sugar).
Glazes include blueberry, raspberry, banana, caramel, chocolate and other flavors and toppings such as crumbled bacon, carnival sprinkles, cinnamon sugar, shredded coconut, cookie crumbs, graham crackers, granulated sugar, mini chocolate chips, mini chocolate covered candies, mini marshmallows, chopped peanuts, powdered sugar, sea salt and vanilla wafers.
The shop was named after Ocean City athlete Prunella Shriek, known as "Fractured Prunella" because she suffered broken bones while competing in traditional men's sports into her 70s.
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