Shipley Donuts has six multiunit development agreements underway in the third quarter, amounting to 30 locations across five states, the company said in an expansion update.
The third-quarter pipeline follows an Ohio development agreement signed in the second quarter of 2026. In July the brand added a franchise deal covering 15 locations across Oakland, Macomb and Wayne counties in Metro Detroit, half of the quarter's 30-location total in a single agreement. The first restaurant under that deal is expected to open late in the first quarter of 2027.
In Indiana, a partner has signed for three locations in Indianapolis. The quarter's remaining agreements will bring the brand to Atlanta; Rockwall and El Paso, Texas; Dallas-Fort Worth; and Indian River and St. Lucie counties in Florida.
The commitments differ in shape as well as size. Metro Detroit is covered as a three-county cluster under one franchise agreement, while Indianapolis, Rockwall and El Paso appear as smaller individual packages and the Florida entry pairs two adjacent counties.
Dallas-Fort Worth, Rockwall and El Paso sit in the brand's home state of Texas, while Atlanta and the two Florida counties push the map into the Southeast alongside the Michigan, Ohio and Indiana commitments.
“Shipley started in Houston in 1936, and as we celebrate our 90th birthday and grow from a Texas Treasure into a national brand, we’re still doing what made us famous: handcrafting fresh donuts, kolaches and coffee every day,” said Flynn Dekker, chief executive of Shipley Donuts. He said that with Shipley arriving in new communities in Michigan, Indiana, Ohio and beyond, its task is to deliver the same fresh-made experience that generations have loved back home in Texas.
Dekker tied the expansion to the chain's anniversary and to a menu of handcrafted donuts, kolaches and coffee that the company says it prepares fresh each day.
The growth plan described in the update is franchise-led: the Detroit and Indiana commitments involve partners and a franchise agreement, and the quarter's other deals are characterized as multiunit development agreements.
Sequencing appears to start in Michigan, since the Detroit-area agreement signed in July carries the only opening date in the update, late in the first quarter of 2027, while the Ohio agreement from the second quarter of 2026 and the newer Indiana, Georgia, Texas and Florida deals are described only as signed or underway. The update named no franchisees and included no investment figures or construction schedule, and beyond the first Detroit-area restaurant, no opening dates for the other markets were specified.