What District Donuts Sliders Brew does

District Donuts Sliders Brew is a privately held, founder-owned restaurant group headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, operating at least six physical locations across the New Orleans metropolitan area (Magazine Street flagship, Lakeview, Elmwood, Arabella, Downtown Diner) and a Las Vegas unit. Founded in 2010, the company built its brand on handcrafted, scratch-made food prepared in-house daily, with a menu spanning creative rotating donuts, Angus beef burgers on house-made black sesame brioche buns, fried/grilled/spicy chicken sandwiches, all-day breakfast and brunch items (biscuits, kolaches, breakfast tacos, gouda grits, hash browns, pancakes), lunch/dinner plates, handmade pastries, and rotating-flavor ice cream. A monthly-rotating donut program (including novelty SKUs like Pineapple Upside Down, Dirt Cake, Thai Tea, and gluten-free Ube Drops) functions as a content and visit-frequency engine. In 2018, the company founded Cool Kids Coffee, a wholly-owned sister brand that roasts small-batch espresso and cold brew in New Orleans and supplies every District location, while contributing a per-drink and per-bag donation to Special Olympics Louisiana.

The company's revenue model is multi-stream: dine-in and pickup at retail prices across all locations, third-party delivery partnerships, online direct ordering (powered by the BentoBox platform), catering for corporate meetings, office breakfasts, weddings, and special events, branded merchandise sales (including Cool Kids Coffee whole bean bags), and ice cream/pastry retail. Customer segments are split horizontally between mass-market individual consumers (local residents, tourists, families) and corporate/event catering clients, with no disclosed enterprise anchor accounts. Distribution is exclusively physical-storefront plus direct and third-party digital ordering; there is no wholesale, franchise, or licensing model disclosed. The company remains independently owned and operated by its founder with no institutional investment, parent company, or public listing reported.

Name

District Donuts Sliders Brew

Legal name

District Donuts Sliders Brew

Website

https://donutsandsliders.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

District Donuts Sliders Brew is a New Orleans-based, founder-owned restaurant group operating six locations across New Orleans and Las Vegas, serving handcrafted burgers, breakfast/brunch, and creative rotating donuts alongside sister brand Cool Kids Coffee and catering services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Casual Dining Restaurants

NAICS

Limited-Service Restaurants (722513), Retail Bakeries (311811)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro primary industry

Cafe-Bakeries (Coffee + Pastry Focus) (THAFADAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Donut Shops (THAFAGAE)

Keywords

• Handcrafted donuts
• Breakfast brunch restaurant
• Gourmet burgers
• Specialty coffee catering
• Casual dining group

Headquarters

HQ city

New Orleans

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices6 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Food and Beverage Sales: Revenue from serving breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner across all locations. Includes burgers, sandwiches, donuts, pastries, ice cream, and other menu items sold at retail prices.
2. Catering Services: Catering orders for corporate meetings, office breakfasts, weddings, parties, and special events. Orders include breakfast sandwich trays, biscuit platters, donut assortments, bulk sides, and coffee service. Available for pickup or delivery throughout the New Orleans area.
3. Retail/To-Go Sales: Sale of ice cream by the scoop, pint, or milkshake; pastries including cinnamon rolls and cookies; and whole bean coffee (Cool Kids Coffee bags).
4. Merchandise: Sale of branded merchandise through the online store, including Cool Kids Coffee bags which contribute $1 per bag to Special Olympics Louisiana.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

District Donuts Sliders Brew operates a multi-location New Orleans restaurant group serving handcrafted, scratch-made breakfast, brunch, lunch, dinner, and specialty coffee. Core items include creative rotating donuts, Angus beef burgers on house-made brioche buns, chicken sandwiches, breakfast biscuits, pastries, handmade ice cream, and small-batch Cool Kids Coffee. The group also runs the Downtown Diner concept and provides catering for corporate and private events.

Product overview

District Donuts Sliders Brew is a locally owned New Orleans restaurant group operating multiple locations across the metro area. The company offers a unified menu centered on handcrafted food and drinks, with the core product portfolio comprising creative rotating donuts, Angus beef burgers on house-made buns, chicken sandwiches, all-day breakfast/brunch offerings, lunch/dinner items, and handmade pastries and ice cream. A sister sub-brand, Cool Kids Coffee, provides small-batch espresso and cold brew. The company also operates a dedicated Downtown Diner location and offers catering services for events. All items are prepared fresh daily using scratch-made ingredients, with donuts and pastry flavors rotating monthly.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Cool Kids Coffee: Sister coffee company founded in 2018, roasting small-batch coffee in New Orleans. Premium coffee from small-batch growers with community give-back program supporting Special Olympics Louisiana.
• Downtown Diner

Products and services

• Donuts
• Burgers
• Chicken Sandwiches
• Breakfast & Brunch
• Lunch & Dinner
• Pastries & Ice Cream
• Cool Kids Coffee
• Catering
• Downtown Diner

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Cool Kids CoffeecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Cool Kids Coffee is a sister coffee company founded in 2018 that roasts small-batch espresso beans in New Orleans. Every espresso shot and drip pour at District is made with beans roasted by Cool Kids Coffee. The coffee perfectly compliments District's handmade latte flavors, chicory cold brew recipe, and seasonal specials. 10 cents from every drink purchased and $1 from every bag of Cool Kids Coffee is directly contributed to Special Olympics Louisiana.
• Special Olympics LouisianaminorOthersCommunity give-back partnership where 10 cents from every Cool Kids Coffee drink and $1 from every bag of Cool Kids Coffee sold at District locations is directly contributed to Special Olympics Louisiana to help athletes compete, grow, and thrive.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Black Rock Coffee Bar: Fast-growing specialty coffee chain expanding across multiple states with simple food add-ons. Comparable coffee-led growth thesis and demonstrates a private-equity-backed multi-unit specialty café scaling play similar to what District could pursue.
• Maple Street Donuts: Regional donut-plus-biscuit chain in the South. Comparable pastry-led breakfast concept, with biscuits that overlap District's biscuit sandwich line and a southern geographic footprint adjacent to District's NOLA base.

Direct peers

• Café du Monde: Iconic New Orleans café serving coffee and beignets. Most direct local peer — same city, same donut-pastry + coffee format, same tourist and local customer base District competes for in the morning daypart.
• Voodoo Doughnut: National creative-flavor doughnut chain famous for rotating novelty SKUs. Directly comparable signature-item model (creative donuts as traffic driver) at scale, validating multi-unit creative-donut concepts.
• Duck Donuts: Franchised donut chain with made-to-order customizable donuts. Comparable core product (donuts), comparable multi-location retail model, and the franchise system represents a capital-light growth route District could emulate.
• Another Broken Egg Cafe: Franchised breakfast, brunch, and lunch chain. Directly comparable full-day breakfast/brunch positioning, scratch-cooking brand identity, and franchised multi-unit growth model.

Broad incumbents

• La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Specialty coffee roaster with cafés serving food alongside draft lattes and specialty drinks. Comparable coffee-plus-light-food concept and comparable vertically integrated roaster-retailer structure, though with broader footprint and institutional scale.
• First Watch: Large national daytime-café chain focused on breakfast, brunch, and lunch. Overlapping daypart and menu (eggs, pancakes, sandwiches, coffee), with established multi-unit operations and unit-economics benchmarks for breakfast/brunch concepts.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/districtdonuts
• Instagraminstagram.com/districtdonuts/?hl=en
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/district-donuts-sliders-brew

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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