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Business Start Overcomes Difficulties
Bantu Southern
Kitchen opens
in Dekum Street
Market
Latoya Credit has a lot to be
thankful for after starting her own
restaurant this year inside the Dekum
Street Market on Northeast 18th
and Dekum.
Bantu Southern Kitchen is open
from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Tuesday
through Saturday, offering a menu
consisting o f everything from
burgers and fries, chicken wings
and fries, shrimp Po’boy’s, fish and
Latoya Credit (center) carries a full menu of lunch and dinner items at her Bantu Southern Kitchen
fries, catfish, tilapia, basa and fish
located in the Dekum Street Market at Northeast 18th and Dekum. The new business owner is
burgers.
pictured with her loving children (from left) Nika, Everett and Tyreik.
continued
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Appetizers such as garden sal
ads, fried okra and hush puppies
round out the menu. Southern buf
fet sp ecials are on T uesdays,
Wednesdays and Thursdays. You
can pick-up a menu for details or call
Bantu Southern Kitchen at 503-933-
4177.
Credit opened her business after
going through the most difficult time
in her life. She had to overcome drug
addiction and work to win back her
children from the custody of the
Department of Human Services. Her
husband and other family members
have struggled with incarceration
after going astray in the criminal
justice system.
W hile in treatm ent. Credit says
she developed a thirst for the word
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