The Doughnut King (From a Cambodian refugee to a Legendary Cambodian American Boss Uncle Ted)

This man might be the best uncle in the world. I’m not saying this because I’m trying to have Clickbait I’m saying this because this may absolutely be true. He literally helped hundreds of family members and Cambodian refugees start a new life by any means necessary, even if it meant staying in his house and giving them money, food, and clothes. He did all this because he knew how it was to go from being a refugee, trying to find something to eat to being a person in a strange country, trying to make it with little to no English.

I watch the Donut King documentary on Hulu with Todd, the Donut King, who started the legendary pink doughnut box that we see on every TV show including the Simpsons family, Guy Parks, and recreations of the office and every movie that you see a pink box with donuts in and then, on top of that, this man was working three jobs and then made his own business, and he led Cambodia after a big war. This man was a legend he and his family were taken care of. He is the goal and the goat when it comes to people of color baby when I tell you, I look up to this Sorry, I’m probably gonna put some ice in a blog man so hard he is now my new second Gary Vaynerchuk.

He started the pink box because it was $.10-$.15 cheaper than the white box that they had before then he had to shop in the legendary Winchells shop in California, and then he started making his own shot He and his family built this out together even though the kids were involved they never had a day off. They work seven days a week. He had to change his name to Ted and he got his citizenship with that name. He was a competitor against Dunkin’ Donuts but when he started doing big business, he wasn’t worried about Dunkin’ Donuts. He just was worried about making that money. But in 1979 he had 25 donut shops. sometimes I feel like we take for granted the opportunities that we can have by living in this country and one of the opportunities is a bacon-fill donuts. Oh my God wow, I need to go to this donut shop they had

 families that worked seven days a week nonstop just to have the American dream they were so invested in being involved in a community they have seen people from when they were children grow up to be adults and have children of their own as well. The community has seen them grow up and they went through so much to get there from Cambodia with all the genocide in the war, and all those things with people would never know because they get to work every day with a smile on their faces, just to get their dreams true has lost and grinders who motivated themselves and their communities and their families to be better after living in the US for one year he lost all communication with his family in Cambodia. They were going through so much over there and he couldn’t know what was happening. During this time, the communist was planning one of the most brutally harsh things that destroyed Cambodia and left these people without their families, and they still have marched on and lived their dreams, knowing that they lost a lot of their family and friends.

During this time, early in the morning, around 7 o’clock in the morning till late at night, they were going around with guns, trying to make everyone get out of the house, causing confusing Mayhem and destroying Cambodia, making it a dead desolate country. It was a city of over 2 million people a population equal to Cleveland Ohio at the time and then all of a sudden there was zero. They had to pretend that they were uneducated if they weren’t as educated to survive and they would make them work from 5 to 5 like slaves in the heat, the boiling heat and they didn’t care, and if you were lazy, you would get killed they would make your work in the rice field and use the rice to feed themselves and business, and wouldn’t care if the people were dying, they were people that died right in front of other people while they were still having to work and it didn’t matter they had to get up and keep working like he didn’t happen at first the people altogether working for a year and a half but then all of a sudden they split the children and the parents up. There was one citizen who ran back to her parents all the time to see her parents, but then finally the father had to threaten to kill the daughter, so that way she would not come back she wouldn’t risk her life, but it hurt him to his heart, so once that happened, she never came home and now she doesn’t even know where our family is in around this time she was only seven years old there were some whore 11 and some who were 18 of all ages having to detach from the family not knowing what was going on not knowing what to do have to restart over again with nothing no hope snow dreams just nothing

The soldiers came to the area and told the children to go to this camp and said they are free now and they felt relief. They saw the people from the Red Cross and they felt healthy and hopeful and safe, and the blessing was some of these children’s moms and dads came and picked them up from his camp and for the first time they felt safe and a restart button was pressed during this time. During this time, the Red Cross safe, so many lives I have so many people to restart all over again. And with his blessing, many families realize that they were going to take their family to America, including but not only the legendary donut king. Knowing that during this time they were moving towards a blessed nation of immigrants that would build a country with dreams, and understanding of where they came from, does not determine where they could be. And because of the legendary Good old Uncle Ted, a.k.a. the donut king, he said for mini relative to come back with them and build mini franchises to help them so they would not be refugees now. They are poor and know where they are murdered. This is incredible. Do not understand the great things that happened during this time.

When they were able to finally come to LAX, they were taking in everything understanding that this is a whole different world, a whole different environment, and it felt like a culture shock but they realized how blessed they were to be in these new surroundings of different people of different colors, blonde hair, blue eyes, Afros, palm trees One of them said everything was different different different. It was almost like a dream. 

One of the blessings they said they had were they were able to go into the fridge raider and saw all this food. It was like a dream, and she just kept eating and eating because she was starving. Another said the first day I went to California. I got a jacket and a green card and I didn’t know anything but I just knew I had to go. But she felt like a brand new person and she didn’t have to worry about dying and she was so happy that she had her own freedom and she was willing to work hard for her life it’s not to live at this time she was only 17 1/2 isn’t that a beautiful story. He was able to help more than 100 relatives of his family's baby when I talk about I come up with a game that is real yes

Every day at 4 AM they are killing it with family no matter what building a brand building generational wealth building whole building dreams what will you build? What time will you wake up? How much are you willing to do? How much are your dreams and your hopes and your aspirations for yourself, your family, and your future worth?

They overtook Dunkin’ Donuts and all the other donut businesses in that area

He had a lot of connections to the Republican Party

He went from nothing to everything in 1981 President Bush Senior blue from the White House to California to give the donut king an award, and he felt so I know, because in Cambodia only the rich could stay rich, and the poor had to stay poor

This man was a refugee and he arrived in America in 1975 and made a dope multi-million dollar donut empire, but the tastiest bake good from what I can tell. This is one of America’s favorite pastries. Ted literally sponsored hundreds of refugees to help get them their visas and taught them everything they need to know to get on their feet and make their own donut businesses.