INPUT ARTICLE: Article: Being a baker is enjoyable work if you love to cook. But it can also be stressful work, often requiring long hours on your feet and in the kitchen. Before you decide to open your own donut shop, you may want to evaluate yourself to determine if running a bakery is something you would enjoy and be capable of doing everyday. Working in any type of bakery usually entails long hours, working early in the morning or late in the evening. You may also have to sacrifice many weekends and holidays to keep your store open. Bakers do not typically make very high salaries. However, since you will be owning and operating your own donut shop, your potential for profits is significantly higher than a baker working for someone else. Just remember that that also means your potential for loss is equally high. Working in a kitchen increases the chances you may be injured at work. You will be handling cutlery, operating some machinery, and working with large, hot ovens. You may also need to lift heavy packages of supplies. This can all potentially add up to burns, cuts, and a sore/injured back. Above all else, being a baker requires a genuine love of baking. If you do not like to bake, you should look for a different profession. If you do not already know how to make them, you will need to expand your baking practices to include donuts. There are plenty of places where a customer can buy a donut, so what will set your donuts apart from the big chains and the other small businesses? This is where having some type of specialty will help set your business apart. Make your product unique enough that customers will seek you out, but familiar enough that customers will know what to expect. In other words, you don't have to reinvent the wheel, but you should craft a unique and highly-appealing wheel. Some experts advise that the key to culinary success is to either be the first, the best, or the only business offering your version of a donut. There are already plenty of bakeries and specialty shops selling donuts, but there is an expanding market for food that meets people's dietary restrictions. Vegan donuts typically use a fairly simple recipe, yet you can still get creative by making slight modifications to the recipe. You can also opt for gluten free donuts, gourmet donuts, or some combination of all three! If you don't have experience working in a bakery, you should gain that experience before you try to start your own donut shop. Without prior experience, you may be surprised to learn that you do not enjoy baking commercially, or that you do not know how to manage the day-to-day operations of a business. Industry experts generally advise that restaurant experience is more important than any formal culinary training. You can find bakeries in your area by searching online. Restaurants and other food industry jobs tend to have a high turnover rate for employees, so if you are persistent you are likely to find a bakery looking for employees. Try to gain some operational experience. Offer to help with day-to-day business operations, including book-keeping, financial analysis, and billing. Aim to acquire at least one year's worth of hands-on experience. Even if you've worked as a baker in the past, you may need a refresher on how to work in a kitchen. If you've got experience and are still determined to open your own donut shop, you'll need to decide where you'd like to open your business. This will be important to know before you write your business plan, as the location of your future business (and any nearby competition) may ultimately determine your donut shop's success or failure. Choose whether your donut shop would operate primarily through online sales and special orders, or would be more of a conventional bakery. There are many other options to choose from as well, such as counter service vs. sit-down service. Plan out how you envision your ideal donut shop running, and look for rental space that would best match your needs. Look around, keep your options open, and don't be afraid to talk to neighboring businesses. You may find that a donut shop would be highly welcomed in one neighborhood and a hated competitor in another. Compare prices, storefront space, and property amenities. Do some research on the area to learn what the going rate is for rental property. If a bakery space comes with ovens and refrigerators, check into the age and condition of that equipment.

SUMMARY: Assess your skills and abilities. Learn how to make donuts. Gain experience and knowledge. Decide where you would operate.

INPUT ARTICLE: Article: In general, there are two overall types of beans: shell beans and snap beans. Both types can grow in either the pole- or bush-style, but the pods of the beans are what make them unique. Shell beans are primarily removed from their pod to be eaten, and are consumed fresh or dried to save for later. Snap beans are eaten inside their pod, and are only eaten fresh (not dried for later use). You can grow multiple styles of these beans directly adjacent to one another, because bean plants are self-pollinating and won't cross-contaminate each other. Popular shell beans include black beans, fava beans, black-eyed peas, garbanzo beans, and kidney beans. Popular snap beans include snap (green) beans, adzuki beans, mung beans, asparagus beans, and scarlet-runner beans. Pole beans are a type of beans that are vining and must be supported with a trellis or pole. Pole beans grow an average of 5- to 6-feet tall, and can grow either shell or snap bean. Pole beans generally thrive in cooler summer temperatures, as low as 50F (10C) in the summer. In the US, they thrive in the northern states. You can use whatever support system (trellis, pole, fence, arbor, etc.) that you want for pole beans. Bush beans are a type of beans that grow in off a bush, and do not need a trellis or pole for support. Generally, bush beans grow best in warm environments with summer temperatures reaching above 100F (38C). In the US, they thrive in the Southern states. Bush beans should be planted in large rows, requiring much more space than pole beans. A variety of bush beans called 'half-runners' is a bush/pole hybrid, and may require some support or placement near a fence for stabilization.

SUMMARY:
Learn the two different types of beans. Consider growing a pole-bean variety. Consider growing a bush-bean variety.