18 year old buys Travelin Tom’s Coffee Truck serving Charlotte County

Author: Nancy Semon, Gulfshore Business
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It had been only a week since former Florida Gulf Coast University student Maddox Burns took possession of his first coffee franchise truck, but he was busy Jan. 25 when adults and children lined up at Babcock Ranch to purchase one of his more than two dozen beverages.

His coffee franchise’s parent company is Kona Ice founded by Tony Lamb.

Burns said Lamb told him he was “the youngest one to ever get a franchise” from the firm.

His path to becoming an entrepreneur began in his nursing program’s psychology class at FGCU when he realized that nursing wasn’t the career for him.

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