Pros
Free dougnuts! And yes, people, these are some of the best creatively hand-crafted doughnuts you will ever have. The owner of the doughnut plant was a common sight at my location; he blessed the entire bakery, FOH and corporate office with health-food once a week.
Cons
Middle and Upper Management are Starbucks-ifying the store atmosphere with a strange vengeance. I knew the Doughnut Plant as my favorite after school bakery in middle school and high school. I have dear memories of the days when one charming, reggae-blasting, gentleman ran the shop. Something happened in just four years... They hired a drill-sergeant store manager to create an actually unworkable environment. I've worked at neighborhood shops in Lower Manhattan and Brooklyn who, like the Doughnut Plant, are such a neighborhood institution that this kind of thing is a slap in the face to everyone who came everyday, partially for doughnuts and partially to keep up a conversation with the cute counter-girl or counter-boy they've gotten to know over the course of being a regular. These things don't happen anymore. The "full-time certified barista" position I was hired for doesn't exist and will most likely never exist if things don't change.