{"id":52,"date":"2016-06-07T17:28:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T17:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/?p=52"},"modified":"2016-06-07T17:44:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T17:44:33","slug":"bosa-doughnuts-phoenix-az","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/2016\/06\/07\/bosa-doughnuts-phoenix-az\/","title":{"rendered":"BoSa Donuts, Phoenix, AZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yelp will tell you a couple of salient facts about the particular BoSa I went to:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>It&#8217;s open 24 hours.<\/li>\n<li>The staff is surly.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Other facts float around in there, an accolade for their buttermilk donuts and a general positive regard. But on the whole: It&#8217;s always open and nobody likes the counter person.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7747.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-54\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7747-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"People still want donuts at 10 pm, so they have to come here\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7747-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7747-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7747-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7747-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">People still want donuts at 10 pm, so they have to come here<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As predicted, we are reviewing the environment and not the doughnuts: The counter person delivered single-word responses whenever possible with a completely flat facial affect, meaning\u00a0the facial expression of a face at rest. She made no effort to engage in human interaction or discretionary conversation. It was kind of like ordering doughnuts from a command line prompt &#8211; which I am okay with. In fact, this lady has the same social manners that I did, 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Working in a customer-facing job is tough if you are not used to putting in all that effort to connect and make people feel welcome. And whatever you get paid at BoSa, it&#8217;s probably not the kind of compensation that drives you to attend Toastmasters or develop your interpersonal skills with strangers.<\/p>\n<p>Still, this was ripe for some Yelp complaining, and it&#8217;s no wonder so many people participated. The people who staff BoSa either don&#8217;t read Yelp or don&#8217;t think the finances of late night donuts are improved by trying to find more hospitable staff. Not a lot of competition, likely.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, doughnuts: The buttermilk doughnut is almost ball-shaped, and full of crinkles and crevices which are filled with icing. This makes for a really sweet buttermilk doughnut, and it was much better than the one at Donut Country, but worse than the one at Sultan Bakery back home.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7749.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-55 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7749-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"The coffee was the kind of coffee you put a lot of sugar and cream into.\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7749-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7749-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7749-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7749-1200x900.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The coffee was the kind of coffee you put a lot of sugar and cream into. Buttermilk, Glazed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The glazed ring was squishy and chewy &#8211; like Wonder\u00ae Bread. Some baked goods take on a really chewy texture if you substitute corn syrup for sugar, and the baked goods here had a texture like that. I&#8217;m not a huge fan, unless we&#8217;re talking about white sandwich bread, which is its own chewy thing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_56\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-56\" style=\"width: 840px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7752-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-56\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7752-1-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"No matter what, donuts put a semicircle on your face!\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7752-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7752-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7752-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7752-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_7752-1-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-56\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No matter what, doughnuts\u00a0put a semicircle on your face! #nofilter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I enjoyed my chewy doughnuts\u00a0and terse service well enough. My partner Marianne, who is perhaps the friendliest person I have ever met, even got a &#8220;you&#8217;re welcome&#8221; out of the server. Would I go back to BoSa? If I wanted a doughnut\u00a0at 3 am, I sure would. If I had to pick between Dunkin&#8217; and BoSa? Hmmmmmmmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yelp will tell you a couple of salient facts about the particular BoSa I went to: It&#8217;s open 24 hours. The staff is surly. Other facts float around in there, an accolade for their buttermilk donuts and a general positive regard. But on the whole: It&#8217;s always open and nobody likes the counter person. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/2016\/06\/07\/bosa-doughnuts-phoenix-az\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BoSa Donuts, Phoenix, AZ&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diatomics.com\/w\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}