Dwayne Benbow (Challenger)
Jurisdiction Baltimore City
Dwayne Benbow Jr.
Co-Founder of BENBOW CONCESSIONS
WMAR-2 News
Before starting his first snowball stand outside of the Terra Cafe Benbow Jr. was in prison for 7 years.
Taking that time to grow.
“I want to barber school, computer repair, fiber optics,” Benbow Jr. said. “Got half of my degree in sociology so that means I know how to speak to individuals.”
Jordan Matthews was the first Knight to join the court.
“He’s a black-owned business and he’s helping people by taking them off the streets and helping them work and get that money for the summer and stuff,” Matthews said.
Benbow Jr. said he kept coming around so he offered him a job.
“Now Jordan is able to run all run operations by himself,” said Benbow Jr. “He doesn’t need no adult no supervision or anything out here.”
Every Knight gets a binder with a schedule and the 3 simple principles they have to abide by.
Check your hygiene and appearance always.
Make eye contact with customers and number one- no belt no work.
“We can’t get upset at nobody else if we’re not physically doing it,” said Benbow Jr. “If we’re not physically grabbing them and putting the belts on them. If we’re not putting notebooks in their hands.”
Isiah Johnson is 13 and this is his first chance to earn a paycheck.
“Just making me more responsible and teaching me how to save money and get it.”
“Grabbing them while they are young pulling them in teaching them all that we can teach them and pass them to the next entrepreneur.”
there’s a man named Dwayne Benbow Jr., but you probably know him better as “The Funnel Cake King”. “We can say funnel cakes we got funnel cakes, we have gourmet funnel cakes over here,” he said. “It’s the same principles, it’s a hustling…