Set on cleaning up
Summerside entrepreneur opening more businesses
Billy MacKendrick’s business interests vary from burgers to buffing.
What remains consistent for MacKendrick, 37, who lives in Summerside with his wife Jamie and the couple’s daughters Angelina, 11, and Olivia, 4, is making the effort to go the extra mile for his customers. MacKendrick was only 24 when he got his first taste of being an entrepreneur. He owned and operated an automobile body shop in Summerside for one-and-a-half years.
He then spent five or six years in Sao Paulo, Brazil fine-tuning his business acumen operating a number of restaurants from high end to an average Joe eatery.
Three years ago, he once
again felt the desire to be his own boss.
So he opened Auto Spa in Summerside, detailing and selling automobiles.
Last year, he got Local 311 off the ground offering home-style
cooking using grass fed beef and locally grown Island potatoes. Jamie runs the restaurant. MacKendrick, who coaches high school basketball and does some drag racing, is busy opening new businesses and scouting out additional entrepreneurial opportunities. He just opened a second Auto Spa in Stratford, which is being operated by Gerard Kinch.
As at the business of the same name in Summerside, vehicles can be taken to the Stratford location to be washed, waxed, shampooed, and even receive light bodywork like buffing out scratches.
The Auto Spa location in Stratford will also be in the business of making business signs, lettering for vehicles, hats, t-shirts and sweaters. MacKendrick too is close to opening a small restaurant in Charlottetown within the next two to three months that offers “quick service and good quality burgers.’’
He is looking as well to open a restaurant in Moncton.
His longer-term business goal is to have a burger franchise.