10-Year-Old Entrepreneur Buys Bus to Upgrade His Lemonade Stand Into a Food Truck

A 10-year-old from Philadelphia is attracting attention after buying a school bus for an enterprising purpose: He plans to convert it into a food truck.

Young Micah Harrigan started selling fresh-squeezed lemonade at the age of 8, first setting up shop on the sidewalk, then stocking his lemonade and iced tea in corner stores around the city.

His growing business faced challenges in 2020 during the pandemic but Micah used innovation to keep his business successful. According to Black Business, he first attempted packaging his drinks in bottles, but it wasn’t cost effective.

So instead, he tried plastic cups with lids. The first day he tried this new packaging approach at his sidewalk stand, he sold out of drinks. Sales snowballed over the summer, and the young man’s business took off.

Now, after “Micah’s Mixx” began booming, during the pandemic no less, the 5th-grader has decided to take his business to the next level with his new bus.

Micah wrote on his GoFundMe page, – “I sold over 1,500 bottles of lemonade and tea. With the money I finally reached goal #1. I bought a minibus!!”

He bought the bus from a private school for $4,000. Micah plans to convert it into a food truck, and he is currently raising funds to install counters and refrigeration, which will cost about another $10,000.

So far, he has raised over 80 percent of his goal.