Pierce County doughnut shop closes. Here’s where you can find their baked goods
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- Milkvue Donuts closed its retail location in Gig Harbor Sunday, May 17.
- The shop will shift to focus fully on wholesale distribution to other businesses.
- Owners cited low customer traffic and rising rent and payroll costs as reasons.
Milkvue Handcrafted Donuts + Coffee is no longer selling doughnuts to walk-up customers.
The doughnut and coffee shop announced its last day of retail service as Sunday, May 17. Instead, they’ll lean into the wholesale side of their business.
“This isn’t goodbye — it’s a shift,” the business posted on Facebook Sunday morning. “We’ll be focusing fully on wholesale so we can bring Milkvue donuts and ice cream to more shops, cafés, markets, and restaurants.”
Milkvue Donuts offered a selection of fluffy raised rings, cake doughnuts and mochi doughnuts at their brick-and-mortar location at 4901 Point Fosdick Dr. NW, Suite B600. When the shop opened in 2019, it was one of the only local sources for the colorful, rice-flour mochi doughnuts in flavors like ube, horchata, blueberry lavender and lemon with Fruity Pebbles. South Sounders can now find these unique treats in Lakewood at Stixx & Dough and in University Place at TOMO Tea House, while Bon Bon Bakery serves a variety of Korean mochi baked goods in Boo Han Plaza.
Milkvue will continue supplying doughnuts to several places throughout the Puget Sound area. The list includes several grocery stories, cafés and bubble tea shops: Metropolitan Market, Olympia Coffee, Uwajimaya, Seattle Fish Guys, Burien Press, Social Tea, Chaco Coffee & Tea and DIY Tea Lab, according to the post.
Seung Kim, one of Milkvue’s owners, said Milkvue decided to close their retail location because they weren’t getting enough customer traffic while costs like rent kept increasing.
“With the rising cost of payroll, it just didn’t add up,” he said.
“We’ve been really grateful for all the support we’ve garnered throughout the last five years,” he told The News Tribune.
Kim had been inspired to open a doughnut shop while working another job in the area. He would pick up a dozen for his staff at Pao’s Donuts in Tacoma because, at the time, there was no independent shop in Gig Harbor, he told TNT Diner in 2021.
Last year, Fusion Donut Café, which started at Tacoma’s Brewery Blocks in 2024, opened at the Peninsula Shopping Center.
Staff writer Kristine Sherred contributed to this report.
