Mya Smith-Edmonds continues in the footsteps of her father as a franchisee of McDonald’s. During an interview with WISH-TV8 in Indianapolis, IN, Mya revealed her journey with the Golden Arches started in November 1991 as a baby. Her father, Harry Smith, had become an owner/operator of a McDonald’s franchise in Texas at the time. “From that point on, I was absolutely loving it,” Mya told the outlet. “Ketchup is in my veins.” For Harry, the chance to run his own franchise seemed attainable to him early in his career, despite the scarcity of African American owners and operators in the system at the time. He describes feeling “empowered” to pursue his dream of ownership after working with a Black McDonald’s franchisee in 1971 when he was 36 years old. By 1991, his aspirations would come to pass. “Turned it into the operator side of business and been loving it ever since,” Harry recalled, per WISH-TV8. Mya was 8 years old when her father took on the new post, and she would begin working...