PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A county official in Oregon has apologized after a 7-year-old’s business venture was soured because health inspectors shut down her lemonade stand.The stand was actually shut down twice. After the first government visit the mom and daughter quit charging for lemonade and asked for donations. Once again the government fool showed up and after making the little girl cry the stand was shuttered.
Multnomah County Chairman Jeff Cogen, the county’s top elected official, said Thursday that running a lemonade stand is a “classic iconic American kid thing to do.”
He says he called Julie Murphy’s mother, Maria Fife, to offer his apology and says she appreciated it.
Fife helped her daughter set up a lemonade stand last week at a local arts fair in northeast Portland. They had to pack up and leave after being approached by two inspectors who said the stand lacked a license.
Cogen says while the inspectors were doing their job, the rules are meant for professional food service operators. He adds he ran lemonade stands as a child.
However, thanks to the national attention and ridicule the story got Multnomah County is once again safe for 7-year olds who want to run lemonade stands.
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