Popular restaurateur chews on adding food truck

Polk County ‘cottage’ entrepreneur, who built her business from her kitchen, gets ready to put trends on treads.

  • By John Haughey
  • | 12:00 p.m. October 28, 2021
Calvin Knight. Stephanie “Miss Step” Archibald is expanding, with a food truck in a vertical integration that incorporates her original retail seafood and specialty garlic-butter business.
Calvin Knight. Stephanie “Miss Step” Archibald is expanding, with a food truck in a vertical integration that incorporates her original retail seafood and specialty garlic-butter business.
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Consolidating to expand can be tricky, especially during a pandemic. But when Stephanie Archibald saw the 30-foot Ford Stepvan, the road to vertical integration opened before her.

 

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