Listen: Some execute better than others, but making coffee and donuts is not a terribly uncommon occupation. Cranky Al's, located on 69th and North Avenue certainly holds its own when it comes to consumables, but this coffee shop is much more than a coffee shop -- besides being a community staple, it's a wonderful story of faith and investment. (They also make pizza in the evenings.) How does one find a career? It can be passion, obligation, inertia, hunger or any number of motivators from the romantic to the milquetoast. However, the particular story of these donut-makers revolves around kismet and the chance occurrence of Krispy Kremes:
Once they decided to make donuts, their lives, and their story, didn't calm down much. Over the past 10 years, they've done their fair share of twisting and turning, but they still find themselves on North Avenue, committed to East Tosa: