A Krispy Kreme doughnut shop with a green awning and drive-thru lane sits on a corner lot, with a roadside sign reading “Krispy Kreme Doughnuts” and “Drive Thru,” trees lining the street, and cars parked nearby on a sunny day.
Krispy Kreme at 9100 4th St. S in St. Petersburg, Florida in May 2025. Credit: Screengrab / Google Maps

Enjoy the glow of that “hot now” light while you can St. Petersburg, because the only Krispy Kreme in town is closing soon.

Located at 9100 4th St. S as part of a Village Inn, Taco Bell and Culver’s quadrumvirate, the shop will soon be replaced by a Chipotle “Chipotlane” drive-thru, according to St. Pete Rising which said construction should start in March.

Somehow, the location was the only Krispy Kreme in Pinellas County, and one of just four in the Tampa Bay area alongside two shops in Tampa and one in Brandon.

The Bay area’s first “Chipotlane” opened in 2022, because is there even a point to getting out of your car, and burning a few calories walking through a parking lot to retrieve a burrito bowl?

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This article appears in Jan. 01 – 07, 2026.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...