Wallingford’s Neil’s Donuts Gets Shout Out On Kelce Brothers' Podcast

WALLINGFORD, CT — Wallingford’s Neil’s Donuts got a shout out on the popular sports podcast “New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce.”

In a clip from Wednesday’s show that was shared on the Neil’s Donuts Facebook page, recently retired NFL star Jason Kelce was talking with brother Travis about playing golf at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell.

Jason said he was hooked up with some Neil’s Donuts, and showed Travis the box, and said they might give Lamar’s “a run for their money out there in KC.”

“These donuts are great,” Jason said of Neil’s Donuts.

The famous football brothers recently reportedly signed a new three-year deal for their “New Heights” podcast worth more than $100 million, according to Variety.

Neil’s Donuts is a longtime Wallingford institution that also opened a second location in Middletown.

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Neil’s Donuts first opened in 2001 at 83 North Turnpike Rd. in Wallingford after owner Neil Bukowski found inspiration for the shop while he was working as a sales associate.

“For him, the donuts at meetings were always supposed to be the best part of the job, but he eventually became fed up with the quality of them,” reads a post on the Neil’s Donuts website. “Every week, as soon as he got to the sales meeting, he'd open up the box, but rather than finding the glazed donut he was looking for, he found an undersized piece of dough with virtually no glaze on it at all.

“After experiencing this disappointment week after week, Neil decided something had to be done about it. So, shortly after his 40th birthday, Neil quit the only job he had ever known and set out to make sure that those inadequate donuts would never find their way into a sales meeting again.”

Read more about Neil’s Donuts here.