The owner of the Mini Donut Shoppe, Justin Stam got the idea for a food truck selling doughnuts a few years ago from a friend who worked at one. “They got to go around festivals and she said it was a fun atmosphere,” he says. The thought stayed on the back burner until he was laid off in March 2020.
An electrician by trade, Stam decided that now was the time to work on his doughnut dream. He bought a trailer in the summer, put in doughnut-making equipment, and started jumping through the hoops to open a food truck business. “I planned the opening in October, but it took a lot more time, work and money than I thought it would,” he says.