It may be summer holidays but the learning hasn’t stopped for two young entrepreneurs. Every morning, Bo and Shivani make chocolate chip cookies and lemonade, and head out to their popular lemonade stand on Whitesails Drive.
“It’s just been so lovely,” says Bo’s mother, Kerry Platt. They’ve been very busy with neighbours, cyclists, tourists stopping to support them. There are folks who will buy a lemonade and leave $5, some folks come by two or three times a day. The bus will sometimes stop right out front and people will come out to buy lemonade and cookies. “And [Bo] has a chat with everybody,” says Kerry.
The stand is also a lesson in profits and expenditures. “At the end of the day, whatever he makes, he has to give me the money back for the cost,” says Kerry. “He hated that at first - totally didn’t understand it.
“And I explained this is business, it’s the way it is for anybody. He gets that now and he’s okay with it.”
The two kids split the money and Bo is saving for a birthday surprise for his father.
