SOUTH LOS ANGELES (KABC) – A cellular meals truck teaches college students the right way to run a enterprise.
The Bakery on Wheels brings scrumptious baked items to marketplace for the neighborhood and teaches elementary and highschool college students the right way to turn out to be future entrepreneurs.
“You really personal the bakery,” mentioned Dolores Sheen, govt director of the Sheenway College and Cultural Middle in South Los Angeles.
“They be taught entrepreneurship by working, creating, studying about branding, monetary literacy and social expertise,” she added.
She says the concept for the bakery was born in 1981 from an abundance of pumpkins and the college’s founder, the late actor and comic Richard Pryor.
“We wished to thank him and we had numerous pumpkins in our yard this 12 months and everyone seems to be sick of pumpkin pie, so we mentioned let’s attempt pumpkin bread. We performed round with the recipe and bought one thing,” Sheen mentioned. “We offered it to him and he favored it and the Sheenway Bakery was born.”
Now the cellular bakery Sheenway, affectionately often called the “chow wagon,” presents do-it-yourself baked items together with books to nourish younger minds.
There’s something for everybody – additionally for our four-legged mates.
“We simply have our scrumptious pumpkin bread. We have now our peach cobbler. They make canine biscuits as a result of everybody desires to maintain their pets, too, ”Sheen mentioned.
She hopes the cellular bakery may also function a gathering level for underserved communities to return collectively and get to know one another.
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