Cristal Johnson's attempts to teach kids business lessons at her lemonade stand were thwarted when she was reported to the Alabama Department of Labor.
Johnson’s business — a venture that consists of Johnson preparing batches of lemonade from a rented commercial kitchen and then transporting the bottles by car — “faced no penalties and was not threatened with any penalties,” said Tara Hutchison, a spokesperson for the Alabama Department of Labor. Rather, a child-labor inspector gave Johnson a call explaining how the apprenticeship could run afoul of the state’s protections for minors.
his mom calculate the change he has to return to customers has turned him into a bit of a math whiz. Yet her greatest pride is in spending quality time with her son, “teaching him what’s right and making it look fun at the same time.”Cameron’s favorite part about helping run the lemonade biz: “Talking to people about it,” he said.
“I was just like, ‘Hey, let’s get you out here … so you can see that money doesn’t grow on trees,’” Johnson said. That pink lemonade recipe is a secret Johnson won’t reveal, but she said it quickly became a sellout. The inventory would run out within 30 minutes whenever she advertised on social media that she had made a batch. Nowadays, her lemonade — since expanded to 10 flavors — can be found in local restaurants and small grocery stores. Next month, the drink will hit store shelves in Piggly Wiggly supermarkets across Alabama’s Jefferson and Walker counties.
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