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The Skillet Licker Café

A good, hearty diner breakfast is always a comfort, but throw in a mound of fresh "hot lil' doughnuts," and it's heaven. At the Skillet Licker Café, owner Karen Allred and her son, Curtis, offer the bite-sized doughnuts as one of the featured choices on their breakfast menu. They're made to order in the Lil' Orbits Automatic Mini Doughnuts Machine, Model SS1200, right next to the cash register. It's a cooking machine that kind of looks like a 1970s Mattel toy, but with a narrow trough of bubbling cooking oil. The dough hopper squeezes batter into the hot oil, and a little paddle propels each doughy puff forward to be plucked from the grease and dusted with powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar and then sold with a plastic cup of sugary pink or chocolate frosting. Even after an omelet, bacon and toast, a single order of these beauties is never enough.

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THEY ARE CLOSED. OUT OF BUSINESS

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Posted by Bob Jones on 09/18/2009 at 10:44 AM

THEY ARE CLOSED. OUT OF BUSINESS

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Posted by Bob Jones on 09/18/2009 at 7:44 AM

Cute place, 3/4 full when we arrived. Got a seat, menu, and coffee quickly. Then all hell broke loose. Waited 15 minutes to get a coffee refill. Ordered our food. Waited well over 1 hour for our food to arrive! The young girl server, older lady cooking, and another woman who was probably mother of young girl were very inattentive to our table but were laughing and joking at another table for a lengthy time. Food was excellent when it arrived, but we were waterlogged from the large amount of coffee we consumed while waiting! Sorry but will not go there again. Service seemed to be relegated to friends and family.

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Posted by Tony Z. on 08/16/2009 at 12:36 PM

Cute place, 3/4 full when we arrived. Got a seat, menu, and coffee quickly. Then all hell broke loose. Waited 15 minutes to get a coffee refill. Ordered our food. Waited well over 1 hour for our food to arrive! The young girl server, older lady cooking, and another woman who was probably mother of young girl were very inattentive to our table but were laughing and joking at another table for a lengthy time. Food was excellent when it arrived, but we were waterlogged from the large amount of coffee we consumed while waiting! Sorry but will not go there again. Service seemed to be relegated to friends and family.

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Posted by Tony Z. on 08/16/2009 at 9:36 AM
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