Hate to be a wet blanket, but I've read several news stories of stands in yards run by kids being shut down by some control freak from the local government.
It was all me dino could think about while reading this upbeat report.
Maybe the kid got lucky the previous summer and mama got all the proper permits for the truck business.

Great!
However it is not for most kids. Why? You ask. Because as it turns out, it's work.The little girl in this story loves to work like an adult. Just how much help she gets from mom may be an issue. it' may be more colorful than mowing lawns, but I give credit to any kid who creates a summer job.

"the original plan was just to run the food truck while Kyleigh was out of school during summer vacation, but they have received bookings all the way through December, "so this will be open throughout the year now," she said."
If she stays with it and is involved in the details, she's going to learn so much. She's going to go back to school. She'll hire some one, maybe a family remember to work on it during the day. It might lose money at first. She'll ask, "Am I an idiot, just pretending my stupid lemonade stand is a real business? People who laughed at me were right." But then it starts making money. She can focus on her studies again. It's great, until the employee loses interest, quits, messes up, or whatever. Then it's back to "am I just a fool?" But then she creates processes, writing down what the former employee did. This makes it easy to train the next person. The fact of having a process makes it easier to open a second cart. When she buys or rents that expensive 2nd cart, it's back to "OMG, what am I doing? Why don't I just get a real PT job at the mall or something like normal people." But Kyleigh is not normal. She's the type that creates those "real jobs".

I learned this around age 35-40. How amazing for her to be starting by age 7. If she even kind-of sort-of has it down by age 17, She'll be way richer and smarter than most everyone at that age. She can move fast, break things, and screw up and go broke a couple times before she's 18. I wish I had done that. I hope my kids hang around kids like Kyleigh, maybe get their first job from someone like her and her parents. Go Kyleigh!

This made my day. What a great lesson !

Those pineapple snow cones sound good, and it's such an original idea!

I also hate to be a wet blanket but this kid did very little of the heavy lifting herself. She is just like the kids I competed against in the school science fair.....Mom and Dad did the science fair projects of the majority of the winners. I will freely admit I likely learned more....but I never won and the school teachers were too stupid to recognize that the quality of workmanship of most of the winners, was too high for a kid. Look at that trailer....the parents will never even earn back the debit service on that trailer never mind the principle. Makes for a heart warming story...but complete and total bullshit.

Great story of a child learning early to work for what she wants. Wonder if mom helped her through all the licensing hoops or did it for her. She should carefully teach the little girl about all the self employment taxes she will be required to pay and that she will now be responsible for filling all government forms and meeting all inspections and requirements.

Nice story.