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Ask anyone from Springfield, IL what comes to mind when they hear the name

Mel-O-Cream, and you’ll hear the same answer: the delicious taste of donuts! With over 90 years of “doing donuts right,” it’s not hard to imagine why.

Mel-O-Cream was founded in 1932 by Kelly Grant Sr. as a retail donut shop. If you know this year from history, this was at the height of the great Depression. He ran the retail shops until the mid-1950s when he reached an agreement with his son Kelly Grant Jr. to purchase the company.

Kelley Grant Jr. brought a new focus and energy to the business, focusing on expanding production to serve the emerging growth segment of in-store bakeries in supermarkets. This direction turned out to be exactly what the company needed, and we have not looked back since.

A new facility was designed built and opened in September of 1997. The new 27-acre location gave us room to continue to grow. Currently we offer Frozen Dough, Pre- Fried, Thaw & Sell products.

In 2012 we looked to the future and expanded our offering to the Food Service and Convenience Store Markets. Our line of Retail Ready Products feature our one-of-a-kind Mel-O-Bites and delicious glazed donut holes have allowed us to offer a full line of packaged donuts to meet our customers demand. 

We also have an exclusive licensing agreement with Springfield IL area shops to use our Mel-O-Cream brand, we were proud to announce our packaged brand that we feel pays respect to the Kelly’s that have been so instrumental in getting us to this stage of the game.

In 2019 our company was bought by the Larson Family. Eric Larson started working for us in March of 2004. He brought his background of owning his own bakery and many years of sales and baking experience with him. His sons Chad and Chris Larson join him to round out our company’s experience in lean manufacturing, preventative maintenance, and ingenuity of reconstructing our company for the future of Mel-O-Cream and their family. We are so happy to have them at the helm and to help diversify our business for a very successful future with amazing partners we like to call our friends.