“It’s disappointing; they’re a Charlottesville institution. I hate to see them go,” he said. “G. Michael’s a senior, so I won’t see him after this year. I hope that I still get to see Mike and Lori. I don’t know where I’m going to find them.”

Carter Boyd, 10, said he was going to the shop every day until they closed. He said his favorite part about Spudnuts is eating them.

When he stopped by on Wednesday, a customer gave out pieces of her Spudnut to children waiting in line after the shop had run out. Carter was one of them.

“It was so good, that first doughnut,” he said. “It wasn’t as good as the fresh ones that were made right after we waited 50 minutes; that was so much better.”

“They feel like air; they’re so soft and fluffy,” he said.

His mom, Kenna Boyd, said they have been coming to the shop since he was 10 months old.

“We lived in Crozet when we first moved here, so we would make the drive with him because he would be up at 5 in the morning anyway, so we would just put him in the car,” she said.