Life on MLK part 4
Sharon McMillan serves Jeannette Robinson at the Carican Flavors, 2701 N. Martin Luther King Ave., restaurant is shown, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2009. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman
Sharon McMillan left her corporate job to chase a dream. In August 2005 she opened a Caribbean-American restaurant on the city’s northeast side.
“On this side of town, I thought that there was a definite need for a restaurant like mine because most folks in this neighborhood seem to have to go out of their neighborhood to different restaurants and so forth,” she said.
Her restaurant offers heathy “home-style” meals.
McMillan’s version of the American dream began as a teenager when she immigrated to America from Trinidad with her parents.
“It started with my parents, I have to say, for them it was an opportunity to leave poverty. For them, to come to a place where they can have opportunity for jobs, opportunity for education. And when they came and they brought us with them they transferred those same ideas to us, ” She said.
McMillan dreams to see her business grow and to continue to have the opportunity provide healthy meals to the neighborhoods surrounding her restaurant.
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The Carican Flavors, 2701 N. Martin Luther King Ave., restaurant is shown, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2009. Photo by Sarah Phipps, The Oklahoman
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