Top Pot Doughnuts is a chain of coffee and doughnut cafes started in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Top Pot began in February 2002 and was started by brothers Mark and Michael Klebeck.Locations, Top Pot has 18 cafe locations throughout the Puget Sound region, and three in Texas, though they are only made at their downtown Seattle and Bellevue locations and shipped to other locations in the region by truck. Their recipe is used for the doughnuts sold in more than 7,000 Starbucks stores in the U.S. and Canada and also for doughnuts sold by Seattle-area grocer QFC. Top Pot Doughnuts are the official doughnut at CenturyLink Field, home of the Seattle Seahawks and Seattle Sounders. In 2011, Top Pot became the official doughnut and coffee of the National Lacrosse League team Washington Stealth.FoundingThe name "Top Pot" came from a vintage neon sign that was above a boarded-up Chinese restaurant called "Topspot". The co-founders bought the sign and while transporting it, the "S" fell off. Co-owner Mark suggested that they replace it with a coffee pot.PatronsWhen U.S. president Barack Obama visited Seattle in October 2010, he and Senator Patty Murray stopped for doughnuts at the Top Pot on 5th Avenue in the Belltown/Denny Regrade neighborhood.
