University Daily Kansan, April 19, 1985
CAMPUS AND AREA
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Street vendors offer variety
By MIKE GREEN Staff Reporter
People shopping downtown these days who want to buy a meal or a snack now have their pick of three street-vending stands.
Two of the vendors opened for
the evening, and the week
after opened last month.
Marilyn Amyx, wife of Mayor Mike Amyx, has operated a hot dog vending stand on the northeast corner of Ninth and Massachusetts streets since March 19. She said business was growing day after the weather became warmer.
"He thought it would be fun for me." she said.
She said the best part about the job was meeting a variety of people and being creative.
Amyx said her husband had encouraged her to open the hot dog stand.
Her customers are a mix of shopper and employees from the downtown stores, she said. Not sure where her best business over the noon hour.
She said she had many regular customers.
"I GET TO know a lot of people by what they want on their hot dogs," she said.
For people who are hungry for something more exotic, an Oriental food stand opened Monday on the corner of Eighth and Massachusetts streets. This stand is owned by John Neuvent and his mother, Thia Thi.
Unlike Mrs. Amyx, who usually closes her stand by about 4 p.m., Nguyen does not close until 8 p.m. He is opened late open to serve the dinner crowd.
Nguyen said his stand offered such foods as sweet and sour chicken and pork. He said business has increased daily as people heard about the stand.
"We wanted to put variety downtown with this stand," he said. "There are no Chinese food stores here, so this might bring more people."
FOR SHOPPERS HUNGRY for a snack, Kay's Good Cookies opened a stand Tuesday at 10th street in the stand's employees, Mary Keitel,
Lenexa sophomore, estimated that she had served 150 to 200 people since the opening.
Mrs. Amyx said the cleaning and restocking took about two hours in the afternoon. She said, she has to warm up much or food to be sold during the afternoon.
Nguyen also goes through a similar process every night to prepare his stand for the next day. All of the food to be used on a certain day, he said, was cooked the night before at Chinh's Food Company, 2321 Ponderosa Drive, which is owned by his mother.
It also takes money to operate a vending stand. Mrs. Amyx said she bought her stand for $9,000. Nguyen said his stand cost $4,600.
All three outdoor vending stands have to be removed at night. This rule was one of the provisions the City Commission set last month when it granted permission for street vending and operate on Massachusetts Street.
Mrs. Amyx and Nguyen said they thought their stands added to the atmosphere of downtown Lawrence.
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