Whitey Ford
08-28-2019, 02:41 PM
A Minnesota teen’s hot dog venture got reported to authorities. Then it just ‘took off’
This summer, 13-year-old Jaequan Faulkner started a little business selling $2 hot dogs with $1 sodas and chips from a stand in front of his house in Minnesota.
But his self-made job was in jeopardy after someone sent an e-mail complaint to the Minneapolis Health Department. As it turned out, Faulkner was in fact operating as an unlicensed vendor with his lunchtime endeavor.
'Lunchtime endeavor." LOL
Dan Huff, environmental health director of the Minneapolis Health Department, told CNBC that “Before responding to the complaint, what we did was put on hold our response until we could figure out how to help him.”
Faulkner said that “instead of shutting me down, city members got together to talk and said, ‘OK, how can we help this kid, to get him situated?’”
Impressed by the young man’s drive, health inspectors had decided to teach the young entrepreneur about proper food handling to assist him in getting his hot dog stand up to code.
The teen’s stand passed inspection, and it was the inspectors themselves who paid the $87 fee for his “short term food permit,” which he was granted on July 16.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/05/jaequan-faulkners-hot-dog-venture-takes-off-after-getting-reported.html
This summer, 13-year-old Jaequan Faulkner started a little business selling $2 hot dogs with $1 sodas and chips from a stand in front of his house in Minnesota.
But his self-made job was in jeopardy after someone sent an e-mail complaint to the Minneapolis Health Department. As it turned out, Faulkner was in fact operating as an unlicensed vendor with his lunchtime endeavor.
'Lunchtime endeavor." LOL
Dan Huff, environmental health director of the Minneapolis Health Department, told CNBC that “Before responding to the complaint, what we did was put on hold our response until we could figure out how to help him.”
Faulkner said that “instead of shutting me down, city members got together to talk and said, ‘OK, how can we help this kid, to get him situated?’”
Impressed by the young man’s drive, health inspectors had decided to teach the young entrepreneur about proper food handling to assist him in getting his hot dog stand up to code.
The teen’s stand passed inspection, and it was the inspectors themselves who paid the $87 fee for his “short term food permit,” which he was granted on July 16.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/05/jaequan-faulkners-hot-dog-venture-takes-off-after-getting-reported.html