Minority & Small Business Week
October 2. 2013
Page 5
Business Venture a ‘Food Cart that Could’
Lip Smackin’
Kitchen offers
best burgers and
other favorites
If you are heading down North
V ancouver tow ard your job,
Emanuel Hospital or the 1-405
freeway exchange, you’ll drive
or bike by a modest white, black,
and red food cart at the intersec
tion of Fremont Street that has a
sign stenciled to the side reading
Lisa’s Lip Sm ackin’ Kitchen.
Many lunch munch seekers
flock to the ‘little food cart that
could’ to take advantage of a
great meal deal that doesn’t slam
your pocket book.
What comes out of this food
cart are some of Am erica’s fa
vorite foods done the right way;
from their wood-smoked ribs,
chicken, and pulled pork, to three-
cheese macaroni, collard greens,
red beans and rice, fresh cut
French fries, potato salad, cole
slaw and pasta salad.
But, w hat’s clearly becoming
Lip Smackin’ claim to fame is
their burgers. They offer a burger
special to rival any other in town,
C. M. Harris welcomes customers to his Lisa’s Lip Smackin’ Kitchen at 3441 N. Vancouver Blvd
a *4 pound Angus beef burger,
F ounder and ow ners Lisa able prices.
go to a fast food franchise,’
flame-broiled with all the fixings, Stockwell andC .M . H am s pride
“We wanted a place where Harris said.
Lay s chips, and a soft drink for themselves on offering fresh de- folks could get a great meal for
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only $5.
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