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This is Work - Doughnuts

  Doughnuts, donuts, crullers, fried holes or pastry, whatever you call them or how you like them, it is hard to imagine how something so simple can get so many people excited for a sweet and tasty treat and keep so many people employed throughout the country. I have vague memories from childhood of commercials featuring people getting up for work before the sun came up to make doughnuts. Doughnuts are so famous, how many tv characters have a love for them, and they are often featured in movies and on tv show. All this to say that the fried, sweet, pastry rings, or filled pillows of deliciousness are just the tip of the iceberg as we look at the amount of people employed in the foodservice industry, specifically in the baking arts. We all know about the big chains across the country. These places probably do not have bakers in the back and are making the product at regional commercial facilities and shipping them to their locations. Looking at these large operations, we have huge...