In the back you can watch the doughnut machine cranking away.

If you get there early, you can watch the doughnut machine at work.

And then there was the doughnut machine.

Three Girls Bakery opened, which would draw large crowds to watch their new automated doughnut machines.

In 1950 the elder DeSanti began making doughnuts using a small automatic doughnut machine right before customers' eyes.

They had everything from microwaves and doughnut machines to Bart Simpson videos screening twenty four hours a day.

The writer was describing a doughnut machine that had been created just eleven years before, by an inventor named Adolph Levitt.

Dance today is a stainless steel doughnut machine, he observed, turning out a product that is "tasty and crisp but with a hole in the center."

Each Clubmobile was fitted with a kitchen consisting of a built-in doughnut machine and a primus stove for heating water for coffee.

Doughnuts were made for soldiers in World War I, and by 1920, the first doughnut machine was invented in New York.

Randy's, built in 1952, is the most famous relic of the Big Donut chain, founded by Russ Wendell, a former doughnut machine salesman.

When the neon "Hot Now" sign lights up, signaling that a fresh batch is emerging from the doughnut machine, passers-by crowd in and cars double-park out front.

THE doughnut machine snarled and hissed, a line stretched out the door and all the Schultz's Cider Mill regulars were there.

From the book, the Warrens learned that the world's first doughnut was yeast-raised and that the first doughnut machine was invented in Harlem in 1920.

The same chapter was adapted for an ABC Weekend Special called "Homer and the Wacky Doughnut Machine" (1977).

Doughnuts became even more popular when a Russian refugee in New York called Adolph Levitt invented the doughnut machine and founded the Doughnut Corporation of America.

Behind a locked door and a glass wall at Mr. Kruger's back was a doughnut machine, a conveyor belt ferrying circles of pasty batter through a 17-second bath in hot oil.

At Broadway and West 45th Street, which the city briefly renamed Doughnut Corner, the shop served Maxwell House coffee and featured a working doughnut machine in the window.

Anderson, who died at his Plymouth home last Thursday, invented the Lil' Orbits automatic doughnut machine and perfected the batter recipe that went with it, the Star Tribune reported Wednesday.

Today, he has six of them, and is about to open a seventh in the Candler Building in Times Square: three levels, complete with stage lights, television screens - and a doughnut machine, right off the sidewalk.

Randy's was built in 1953 (and first appears in the 1954 edition phone book) as the second location of the now-defunct Big Donut Drive-In chain by Russell C. Wendell, a doughnut machine salesman.

According to John T. Edge (Donuts, an American passion 2006) the alternative spelling "donut" was invented when the New York-based Display Doughnut Machine Corporation abbreviated the word to make it more pronounceable by the foreigners they hoped would buy their automated doughnut making equipment.

At Schultz's Cider Mill, which also sold fresh produce, Schultz family members had long put in 80-hour weeks at the 80-year-old farm stand, and none of the five siblings in the next generation wanted to take over running the property and the famously slow doughnut machine with the limit of a dozen per customer on busy weekends.