Our Story

How It All Got Started

A friend knew that I had dabbled in the food business besides my lifelong calling and devotion to serving in the Ministry. He needed to clean out a garage he was renting and one of the items he had purchased was a little donut machine that he wasn’t even sure if it worked.

I agreed to take it off his hands. When I got it home, my wife was convinced that I had bought another non-working piece of equipment that would join the pile of other brilliant projects in our garage… and to be fair… she wasn’t that far off.

She “strongly suggested” that I look into making donuts for a big hockey tournament, and to my dismay, the director said “Yes!”. So in my case, there is a strong woman behind this man.

The Strip District / How It All Began 2008

The Broken Fryer Was a Success

I Swear It Was
A Mistake

After the successful event at the hockey rink, I thought… “hey, why not set up once and leave all the equipment instead of setting up and breaking down for these events?” (I mean, isn’t laziness the mother of all invention?). I found a tiny, 209 sq ft space to rent in the Strip District of Pittsburgh and signed a lease. I also intended to make a regular sized cake donut versus the minis we had made at outdoor events. I ordered the larger donut hopper, but it came without instructions for some reason and I put it together wrong apparently. No matter what I tried, it would only make this “little” donut. So, we figured that we would go with what we had and see what happens. We now refer to this event as the “Holy Accident” because since opening, literally hundreds of thousands of people have told us they are the “Perfect Size".

I Swear It Was
A Mistake

My intention was to make a regular size cake donut versus the minis we had made at outdoor events. No matter how hard I tried, adjusting the machine, changing our batter, back to adjusting the machine, back to adjusting the batter……..we just kept getting this crazy sized donut. So, we figured we must be destined to make this tennis ball sized donut. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!

**Note: 6 months into it, I realized that I had put the machine together wrong, but at that point I was already being lauded as a genius. Really, what was I suppose to do?

The Broken Fryer Was a Success

Finding Our Identity

After some really lame attempts at finding a name for our new business adventure, I finally came up with what I thought was a sure-fire winner… “Honey, I shrunk the donuts”! However, after my wife just wouldn’t warm up to the idea… in frustration I prayed, “God, please help this woman you gave me to appreciate my genius”. Thank God that prayer wasn’t answered. Instead, on July the 5th, 2009, I was washing my hands at a local restaurant and wondering how I was going to open an unnamed donut shop with unusually small donuts when it was like a text message was placed right into my brain… “Peace, Love and Little Donuts”! I went right to the table in the restaurant were everyone was seated and with a look of amazement on my face, told everyone the new name. They all put their thumbs up (my wife actually put both thumbs up)!

Honey I Shrunk the Donuts! 2009

Funkadelic, Groovy, and Far-Out

Our Flavors

In creating our Groovy, Far Out and Funkadellic flavors we knew that we couldn't lose the incredible taste of our old fashion cake donut. With that in mind each donut was created so that with every bite you would taste our fresh, warm donut, the subtle flavor of our frostings and our crazy selection of Funkadelic toppings; with no one flavor overwhelming the others. All of our stores work hard to make sure that you enjoy those flavors as we intended them from the beginning in our tiny shop.

Our Flavors

In creating our Groovy, Far Out and Funkadelic flavors we knew that we could n't lose the incredible taste of our old fashion cake donut. With that in mind each donut was created so that with every bite you would taste our fresh, warm donut, the subtle flavor of our frostings and our crazy selection of Funkadelic toppings; with no one flavor overwhelming the others. All of our stores work hard to make sure that you enjoy those flavors as we intended them from the beginning.

Funkadelic, Grovy, and Far-Out