Mikayla Bredfield is a busy woman. During the week she teaches at Irrigon Jr./Sr. High and on weekends you can find her somewhere in eastern or central Oregon serving drinks out her Lucky Star Mobile Bar.
On Friday, Bredfield, along with her husband, Tommy, were busy mixing mocktails for the crowd that showed up for a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Hermiston Chamber of Commerce on Highway 395.
The Bredfields opened their fully equipped mobile bar and bartending service in April. Mikayla said she got the idea for the business while in Austin, Texas with her mother.
“Mobile bars are super popular in Texas, and I thought, ‘If it’s popular in Texas, it will work anywhere,’ ” she said.
The Bredfields travel around Oregon serving their specialty drinks at a variety of events such as birthday parties, anniversaries, celebrations of life and other events.
“Pretty much anything you can celebrate, we will be there,” Mikayla said. Weddings, however, are their bread and butter.
“We do a lot of weddings,” Tommy said.
They recently traveled to Brookings for a wedding.
“That was a lot of fun,” Mikayla said.
They serve beer, wine, cocktails as well as non-alcoholic beverages out of two mobile bars – a 1968 Shasta trailer she calls Lucky, and a newer satellite bar called Lil’ for smaller events. Often both are put to use for larger events.
During the week, Mikayla teaches business and personal finance at Irrigon Sr./Jr. High and then she packs up one or both of her mobile bars and heads out on the road for various events.
“I’m very busy,” she said. “I don’t like sitting around.”
She calls the Lucky Star Mobile Bar a family business. Along with her husband, she is often joined by her mother, stepfather and mother-in-law when she hits the road.
She got her start as a bartender in college and worked as a barista prior to that, including a stint at Dutch Bros., in Hermiston.
“That was my favorite job,” she said.
She said she loves to serve people and talk with them, so the Lucky Star Mobile Bar is the perfect fit.
Lucky Star Mobile Bar offers four levels of service to fit any budget, location and type of event. For more information and to book an event, visit the Lucky Star Mobile Bar website.
