A 7-year-old's lemonade stand in Oregon is shut down because she doesn't have a temporary restaurant license.The latest victim of licensing fees and requirements: A seven-year-old Oregon entrepreneur and her lemonade stand.
Julie Murphy aspired to the classic kid summer job after watching the cartoon pig Olivia run a stand on TV. Instead of setting one up in the front yard, her mother Maria Fife thought she'd have more customers if Julie waited for the Last Thursday monthly art fair in Portland, a grassroots fair that's something of a free-for-all.
So Julie made a list of supplies (this is the 21st century, so hers included hand sanitizer) and a hand-lettered poster that read "Yummy." She set up shop in a wheelbarrow, and the customers came for 50 cent glasses of lemonade even before she'd finished making the first batch.
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Author: Courtney Rubin
