It’s been 10 years since Shawn Hiscott and two business partners took ownership of Honey Huts Portables, a restroom company in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. By his own reckoning, they started off doing more things wrong than right. But after a rocky start, a focus on better hiring decisions, quality service and measured growth has helped the company to prosper.
The original plan to enter the portable sanitation industry was made — like many of the company’s subsequent business decisions — during a friendly discussion following a game of gentleman’s ice hockey.
“A portable restroom business in the area came up
