A donut shop in Georgia used social media to seek and find a customer who was accidentally sold a donut containing gluten.
“URGENT ALERT: We sold ONE of these doughnuts under the ‘gluten-friendly’ menu this morning at our South Forsyth location at 7:30am,” Dutch Monkey Doughnuts, located in Cumming, Georgia, wrote in an April 9 Facebook post at 8:37 a.m.
In the post, the shop explained that while the Easter Sunday-themed doughnut and icing did not contain gluten, the egg adornment contained barley malt — which does.
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“We have no contact info for this customer,” the shop also wrote, adding that it hoped the customer would “see this message!”
The shop also apologized for the error and said it had removed the product from its “gluten-friendly” menu.
Fortunately, the post worked: The customer was located.
Nicki Susman, the intended recipient of the purchased donut, told Fox News Digital that she saw the post a few hours after her in-laws arrived at her house with the donuts.
Seeing the post “was definitely a bit of a shock,” she said — adding it became “something to laugh about.”
“Let’s just talk about the magic of this post.”
“I’d really love to know the statistical chances that they actually found me, only a few hours after they made the post!” she added.
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Nicki Susman, along with her husband, Victor Susman, both commented under the bakery’s post that they had seen the message in time — and that she had not eaten the donut.
Susman also praised the bakery and technology in general via social media.
“Let’s just talk about the magic of this post,” Susman wrote under the donut shop’s post.
“My amazing in-laws bought these for me this morning. I’d never heard of this doughnut shop before,” her comment continued.
“Haven’t researched this place, or doughnuts, or GF…
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