At the Chicago World's Fair in 1934, doughnuts were advertised as "the food of the century" and immediately became a popular product of nickel coins.

National Donut Week started in the same decade, and now, nearly a century later, we celebrate Donuts throughout June (National Donut Month and National Donut Day on June 4).

Had it not been for the Russian refugee Adolph Levitt who invented the automatic doughnut machine in 1920, the doughnut craze would never last.

How many people have ever peeped through the window of a bakery, attracted by the rhythm of the doughnut machine and the aroma of the batter? So, imagine if you are on the floor of a large manufacturing plant that mass-produces donuts and feels overloaded.

The equipment needed to make these sweets is the engine that drives the development of the doughnut industry. The U.S. Census Bureau investigates the industries that make food manufacturing equipment-from doughnut frying machines and doughnut cutters to sugar tables and sweeteners. Donut glazing machine, this should not be surprising.

So, let's take a look at the production behind these delicious dishes.

Many machine parts are required to produce donuts, including production systems and hot glazing equipment.

Companies using this type of equipment range from corner doughnut shops and retail doughnut chains to large commercial establishments producing doughnuts for wholesale and grocery stores. They have one thing in common: a machine for mixing, cooking and preparing doughnuts.

Here, we will look at two mechanisms for manufacturing machinery that you might find in a company that manufactures and sells doughnuts: a manufacturer of commercial dough mixing machinery and a manufacturer of commercial cooking equipment.

According to the classification of the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) of the Census Bureau, dough mixing machinery companies mainly produce food manufacturing machinery. In the case of donuts, this will be the machine that mixes the batter and makes the dough.

Krispy Automatic Ring-King Junior Donut Maker, National Museum of American History, americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1215321

Other commercial and service industry machinery manufacturing includes manufacturers of various equipment, such as deep fryers, deep fryers, and ovens used by doughnut manufacturers to fry or bake doughnuts.

According to the 2019 Annual Manufacturing Survey (ASM) of the Census Bureau, 17,933 people were employed in the manufacture of kneading machines (Table 1). The department’s annual salary is US$1.25 billion.

The same survey report stated that the number of employees related to cooking equipment manufacturing is even more: 55,609 (Table 2). The total annual salary is 3.53 billion U.S. dollars.

In 2019, dough mixing machinery manufacturers reported revenue of US$5.88 billion. In addition, the cooking machine manufacturer reported $20.04 billion in revenue for the same year.

Industry characteristics that help make doughnuts:

Tonja White is the lead project analyst for the Data Users and Trade Outreach Division of the Economic Management Division of the Census Bureau.

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