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When beachgoers head home from the Carolina coast, fewer may be going into hot-doughnut withdrawal. By year-end, there should be 80 Duck Donuts locations open or under contract, says CEO Russ DiGilio, who opened the first stores in Kitty Hawk and Duck in 2007. Regular beach customers started asking for the made-as-you-watch doughnuts back home. The first franchise opened in 2013 in Williamsburg, Va. The chain will have TO North Carolina locations by late summer, including...