Vancouver youngsters learn business skills as they run old-school lemonade stands

Six Vancouver youngsters got a head start as business owners on Saturday – the old-school way, running their very own lemonade stand.

Vancouver’s The Juice Truck teamed up with Growing Chefs! Chefs for Children’s Urban Agriculture, to organize  the one-day event that saw six kids, aged five to 12, run a lemonade stand for the day.

“We wanted to do a charity, community-driven event,” Zach Berman, co-owner of The Juice Truck, said from the Trout Lake lemonade stand. “We thought what better way than to set up lemonade stands and teach kids about business, about nutrition and, you know, everyone’s first business is usually a lemonade stand.”

The Juice Truck found the young entrepreneurs through customers at their various truck locations and worked with them on business skills and basic nutrition.

And all their training lead up to Saturday, where each student ran their own stand.

“(They get to) learn about making money and give back to the community by raising money for Growing Chefs,” said Berman.