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CulinaryBusinessReview.com is derived from my passion of the donut, bakery and coffee business and created to better assist persons with an interest in the art of baked and fried culinary food and drink items.  

You may be wondering?  Who I am I to offer culinary business advice and/or training,  to you! My name is Ed Chastain and a master baker. I have over 20 years experience making and creating donuts, pastries and breads, by scratch. In fact, I sell my advanced donut training course found on this website, so... I know a thing or two about the business, what sells well together and not.  

I own and operate a successful donut shop overlooking the beautiful Cascade Mountains in Newport, Oregon, with my wife Dana (whom I met in a donut shop). I made my first donut when I was 16, working in my Uncle Charles’s shop. My, how time flies!  

My uncle learned the trade well before the advent of premixes and frozen donuts. He was trained by the old-time bakers of yesteryear, and he passed his knowledge on to me.

Thanks to my uncle’s connections in the donut industry, I continued my training at multiple shops in the Sacramento, California, area. I paid my dues until eventually I was hired by Mel Bainbridge of Donut World, a large production donut shop with a vast variety of donuts. At 19, I was the youngest lead baker in company history as I worked with some of the best donut makers of the time.

Donuts are Americana at their best. Who doesn’t love a warm, fresh, donut? Donuts have been good to me and they can be good to you, too. 

My hobbies include baking, the internet, and my love is camping on my gold claim, dredging for gold 3-4 weeks out of the year and fishing. Metal detecting for relics is fun too “there is so much history for the finding.”

I work hard and I play hard. The people I know that are successful exemplify the characteristics of the donut maker, they show up everyday, they go in early, they stay late and they are productive while they are there.

My suggestion is to adopt the characteristics of the donut maker: show up every day, go in early, stay late and be productive while you are there. Next time one of your acquaintances starts complaining about their jobs or careers do what I do. Look them in the eye and tell them, “Take control, be a donut maker.”

- Ed Chastain

www.culinarybusinessreview.com 

www.donutedvd.com (My Official Donut Training Website)

www.proofandbake.com (Private Bakers Club)