Leap Day is Thursday, February 29. Restaurants and bakeries, like Krispy Kreme, are offering promotions for the quadrennial.Good luck if your birthday is Feb. 29.
No purchase required to get a dozen Original Glazed doughnuts on Thursday. Show proof of your birthdate to redeem this promotion. Customers can only get one free dozen in-store or at the drive-thru.
Use LEAPDAY at checkout to redeem the offer online. The promotion is restricted to two in-shop and drive-thru orders and one pickup and delivery per guest. Participating locations nationwide provide both Leap Day specials.
"An extra day in the year is an irresistible opportunity for Krispy Kreme to be extra-sweet to our guests," stated global chief brand officer Dave Skena via company statement. "So, we're sweetening Leap Day by the dozens, including for fans whose true birthday comes around only every four."
There are other Krispy Kreme freebies this month besides Leap Day. Due to an AT&T cellular network interruption, the doughnut business delivered complimentary Original Glazed doughnuts to cellless customers on Feb. 22.
Four Hershey's chocolate doughnuts are part of Krispy Kreme's limited-time "Chocomania" collection for doughnut lovers.The Hershey's Galaxy Brownie is a doughnut with dark fudge cream, chocolate icing, crispy brownie chunks, and rainbow sprinkles.
Fans of black and white cookies can try Hershey's Black & White Chocolate Chip Dream. An Original Glazed doughnut with white icing, Hershey's chocolate drizzle, and micro chocolate chips.
The Hershey's Chocolate Cake Overload follows. This dessert is a Hershey's fudge-flavored old-fashioned cake doughnut with milk chocolate frosting and dark chocolate fudge buttercream.
Hershey's Chocolate Iced, an Original Glazed doughnut with milk chocolate frosting and a chocolate drizzle, completes the new doughnuts.