Ask Andy Beavers for his phone number and he gives you his business card, which features the logo for his business, Andy’s Donuts. It’s not what you’d expect from a teenager about to go into his junior year.

Andy began making and selling donuts to his teachers and peers at Powell High School a couple years ago. His first recipes came from Pinterest, which he modified with his own “special touches.”

“People just loved them,” he said.

The donut sales were so successful, Andy said, they began to compete with the school cafeteria. The school asked him to stop selling his donuts on campus.

“They couldn’t sell enough breakfasts,” he said.

Andy was determined to take his small home business to the next step. His family considered the possibility of a brick-and-mortar donut shop, but about a year ago, Andy’s father, Brian Beavers, found a handicap van for sale on Facebook for $1,000. He snatched that up and brought it home, where it sat in the family’s shop for about 10 months.

Finally, Brian began to convert the van into a food truck for his son’s donut business — a conversion that took about four months to complete.

“It all came together with lots of help from family and friends,” Andy said.

Converting the van into a food truck with all the proper health department approvals was not an easy task. Andy said his dad joked with him about why he couldn’t have normal teenage dreams, “like saving up for a car.”

“Most kids are sitting at home playing a video game,” Brian said.

Andy set up the truck at a couple small events around Powell just to work out the kinks. After he “got into the swing of things,” he decided to take on the Park County Fair last week.

Even with help from his sister, Katie Beavers, and his cousin, Steven Beavers, vending at the fair was exhausting. The three teenagers worked from 5 a.m. until 1 a.m., trying to sell as many donuts as possible at the highly trafficked event.

His grandmother, Barb Beavers, and his mother, Eryn, also helped out.

“It’s pretty much a family business,” Barb Beavers said.

Andy said the investment in the business so far is somewhere around $25,000, a lot of which came from his grandparents.

“It’ll take a long time to pay off,” he said. “It’s a lot of work, but it’s fun.”

His grandmother and father both commented on how impressed they are with Andy’s ambition and entrepreneurship.

“I am so proud of my son, a 16-year-old boy who had the drive to do something like this,” Brian said.

Andy said he’s going to try to hit a few more events this summer, in addition to parking the truck around town three to four times a week. Once school starts again, he’s not so sure where he’ll find the time, but he’s hoping to continue setting up shop on the weekends. His friends, he said, want him to park the truck near the school every morning.

The teenage businessman is apparently not given to whimsy. In May, he told the PHS student newspaper, The Prowl, he first conceived of the idea of Andy’s Donuts as far back as the seventh grade. Whatever he decides to do after high school, it’s pretty clear he has the grit to bring his visions to reality.

“I’ve gotten a lot of comments on how cool it is I started my own business,” the teenager said. “I’m just happy I got to accomplish a dream.”