June 4, 2024 • 57 mins
This episode is definitely in the top faves! I sit down with the owner of Pozoleria Dona Ana, San Fernando Valley's new favorite restaurant. Hear her story from beginning to end and why she chose to start a business at her age!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome back to the Work Ever podcast. You guys.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
I am your host, Jennaa Lopez. Thank you guys so
much for choosing and clicking on this episode today. I
am so so excited for today's episode because Dengo a
Familia Nae la Senor.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Has Cynthia we I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
If you guys don't know about.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
You are living under a rock. They are the best
for me.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
One of the best restaurants here in the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I love them. I love their story.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
We met.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
I just went one day, right.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Yeah, hey, hey, and I'm like what, They're like, Janica
is here and I'm like Jenna, They're like Jenny, And
I turned around and I see you. I'm like, oh
my god, Yeah, we just walked down.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I loved it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
If you it's one of my favorite restaurants as they're
so amazing. They have a beautiful heart, and I would
love for you guys to get to know their story,
Like come on, come on, so they are can you
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tell that they've won?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Right?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
And then you just said today.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
That they're winning Entrepreneur Award. You see that. I wanted
to say that because I feel like Atula I don't
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starkupaa your kero commida already no no no mister manosquatro
lady hat. Everybody was like what do you mean mamos
to sell food keen commeda caro mada no kiero si
no kiero okay medica yeah, I alas Kina ant sfind
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s mana yat yeah, oh yeah, your granddam lost squadron
manos los nettos in miramos and we're like, she's really
gonna do this?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Yeah no, no when.
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Just spend samos that she was gonna quick.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
But no yeah this was.
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Instagram yamos. Hey my mom's selling food, yeah, yah yama
and the first time sell out like quick calafin semana
your mass grande massive massive mask.
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Like rap wheamos, I suppose to your close doors perda.
You're gonna be whow mommy, yes.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
The hero.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Come alright, you guys, we're gonna go on a quick
for and will be right back. Okay, you guys, we
are back from breaks.
Speaker 5 (11:04):
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Speaker 2 (12:01):
But okay, So Cynthia, when you as a daughter, now
like you see it from your point of view that
you thought it was kind of a crazy idea, like
you did. I don't want to say you didn't believe
in it, but it was kind of like your perspective
was what that you wanted to see her resting.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I wanted her to enjoy her life because she had
a rough childhood. She was at the point where her
kids were older, her grandkids. We wanted to like spoil her.
We didn't want to see her working. And you know,
but afterwards, like when when she came to me and
after after the stand for two years and she came
and she said, hey, like now I want to open
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up a restaurant. And I told her like yeah, yeah, yeah,
And then she kept saying that my dad's are like,
and it got to the point that I'm like, wait
a minute. You know, I was in business for twenty
five years. I had a good career, but it's a job.
And with my mom, if I don't back her up,
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we we will never know how far we can get.
And it got to the point that I'm like, you
know what, she put her life literally, dedicated her whole
life to her children, and we never we never asked
her like mom u ke borquee stepais is a da todo?
Speaker 3 (13:26):
Like no.
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The yea quiro esposomos ve le yeah borque ya tubo
unai there koitare lentos the lasso.
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V themes.
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Claron y.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Can really that.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
I had to google everything how to open a restaurant,
you know Esmo's completamente.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah yo.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
They go, wow, it's amazing to know what a team
can do, you know, And I feel so proud, like
going back to like her idea now that I look back.
Sometimes you have to be open minded and just even
though your parents have different traditions or ideas, you can
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combine it and make it into a full on operation of.
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so much, I love it.
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And los platoes.
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Stop very.
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and say yeah no leg medico medical yasta's grande aura
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So you know it wasn't even about the money. It
was about the fact that we didn't want her to
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Generation Vala like.
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met her on Mommy okay, same go Claro.
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Glaro.
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Ross grandfather.
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But me.
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I love to cook.
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comeas not toy not.
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Come solos miracle Manana, I'm cooking.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
But you know what, Yeah, and I love it now
like I love it.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I I look at it and I'm like, guys, come
look at my food like it looks identical because I
don't want to cook something and if it's not. But
right now that she's walking me through it, I've been
doing it already. It's gonna be yours, It's gonna be whatever.
It's gonna be us because you know she we don't
want her. We tell her like you're gonna get to
the point that you're gonna be going and supervising.
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That's it.
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You're gonna let us to the work.
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rando cala Sophia is familia questamoso. Oh my gosh, that's
my mama, and I love it and I feel so
proud because you know, it's just let's take a minute here,
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like you know, your parents have talent, Like it's not
about you as a team, you can do anything. It's
about you know, building that strong team. And we didn't
know that we had such a strong family, we had
such a strong team. Las yeah yeah, yeah, Nozazuelas is
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sanfort boy and said las Patronaslie.
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Is the.
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to committy.
Speaker 4 (34:45):
They're so cute. All the homeless called.
Speaker 5 (34:50):
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Speaker 1 (35:16):
And thirst are.
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No.
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But see bayana pro.
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Because mascal no man no no Nola core adras familiar cara.
Speaker 1 (35:44):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
So Cynthia, obviously she handles the food, but you handle
a lot more of the business.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
How was the startup process? How was it? Because you said,
obviously you.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Want to Google and you went to school.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Also, I want to you know you.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Got your degree. Could Enval just got her degree too?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Well?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
I just I love that you guys are all included
in a part.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
How was that process for you?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Because obviously you're the she handles the food, you handle
the financing, the business and all that.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
It is tough. It is tough.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
It is not easy.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
I remember after we open up the restaurant, the demand,
the demand was so high for us to be able
to keep up with the demand. We didn't have a team.
I think the key is once you have a team,
things get better. And when we opened up, we didn't
have a team. Now and you know, we just had
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to kind of just go and see what the business
was asking us to do. And even though it was tough,
it's very rewarding business. It's hard. A restaurant is very expensive.
A lot of people say like, oh, you guys sell
so much, but the cost is so high that it's
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it's hard to have a restaurant and operate. But we've
been so blessed with the business and our customers, our community.
We get so much love that it's helped us kind
of like survive. A lot of people say like that
a restaurant takes a couple of years to take off,
and for us it was almost like instantly. But it
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was difficult. It was difficult because we didn't come from
the restaurant. I think if we would have had any
kind of restaurant experience, it would have been easier. But
I was in aerospace. I was a program manager, so
basically like when I looked at the restaurant, it's a project.
So I said, Okay, how am I going to do
to feed all these people. So then we started kind
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of moving stuff around my dad, my husband, my daughter,
and then all of a sudden, once we develop a team,
once things got easier. Once we develop a team, we
you know, it's always about you know, bringing the cost down,
and it just things got a lot better.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
But it's what's sorry, what's the hardest part?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
What was the hardest moment that you're like, shit, have
you ever did you ever think of like, damn, I don't.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Know if I can do this. Every like the first
month being there, twelve hours, I would cry. I would
cry because I'm like, I can't handle this. It is
way too much having a restaurant. It doesn't stop, it
doesn't stop, and you wake up, you go to the
restaurant and then you know you're there at the end.
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And also the feedback, right because we weren't we didn't
come from that background. We had to learn and you know,
we want to do everything perfect, and when you see
that stuff is not coming out perfect, that was really
hard to handle. It's kind of like the constructor criticism, right,
Like it's hard. It's hard because you know, we wanted
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to do a good job, but I just wasn't pleased,
and that's been really tough for me to be. You know,
I take all the feedback, good and bad. I don't
just want to hear about the good stuff. But I
think it was kind of like processing what we weren't
doing good and trying to make it better. That has
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been the biggest challenge always because there's always room for
improvement as a business. Our customers didn't care. At the
end of the day, when you see that somebody opens
up a restaurant, you know they signed up for it. Yeah,
so it's not you're not gonna feel sorry and say like, oh,
today they can't do this, or today they don't have this.
At the end of the day, you're opening your doors.
(39:34):
You're a restaurant. You have to be professional and you
have to make sure you serve the best quality food
to your customer at all times. There's no room for all.
Today it wasn't good enough, you know. So that has
been really tough. Like, you know, everybody kind of like, oh,
you know, they get so happy. I look at numbers,
I look at the liabilities.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
And the business.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Yeah, and it's really stressful to to look at the
whole picture and say, like all these families are depending on,
you know, for their paycheck, and I have to make
sure that I make the right it's done right, that
we make the right moves for for and for the future.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Okay, so you're going into the opening location number two,
what's the one thing you want to do different or
advice if you're starting a new business as well, what.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
I what I would do different? For sure? I think
build a team before we open. And that's kind of
where we learned a lot from the first one and
now we're ready to make the changes. A process. Everything
has to have a process. And even though we kind
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of like went by what the customers were demanding or requesting,
now we have to sit back and make sure that
we have a process for everything because you can't just
wing it all the time. And that's kind of what
I felt at the first couple of months. And now
we hear pola number two. It has a process, there's
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a full operation, and we have a team. I think
the key to success no matter what business you have
is building a strong team.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
And well, I differentis like, is there problems with you guys?
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Yeah? I find that balance. Oh my gosh, it is
so crazy because we.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
Went most business partners business partners and ives. Yeah you
know jega, yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, mom cocina perros. It
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mam Ma comun porque anti latre todosmos and Mama una
tho yoita la.
Speaker 1 (44:15):
Did you ever imagine it to be this big where
it's at right now, not to.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
This point now because now there's like you talk about
it all the time, all the influencers that come through
it being packed, like even on non gloomy days, you
know how Like like I'm like, it's probably gonna be
a busy day raining or whatever. But even on the
non busy I mean, the non raining days, like it's
busy busy.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Did you ever like I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (44:40):
I didn't know what social media. I didn't know the
power of social media until I remember opening up my
phone and it was like a thousand followers overnight, another thousand,
and every time I'm like, oh my gosh, Like I
didn't understand how powerful it could be. And and that's
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why I like to you know a lot of people
say like, oh, they're well connected with influencers. No, we
knew nobody, Like we had no connections. And it was
kind of like word to mouth. You went and there
was like you know, it's I Vet and Ulysses at
the at the stand and style by Al and you know,
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I love Sarai, sister, your sister everybody. So when you
come by and everything, it's amazing what the power of
the of the influencers, what they can do to a
small business.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
Not only that, but the food, the food, Yeah, and
that's what everybody.
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It's like everybody goes.
Speaker 4 (45:44):
Yeah, And then that's why I say it's a combination.
Her food is very authentic, our food is very authentic,
even though because I.
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Yeah, I love it so much.
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tell you guys manula and.
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I'm very proud because I feel like I saw it
from like a little bit from the beginning. Obviously not
like you watched, but I've seen it and I'm like wow,
Like I felt like this story was so important to
share because it's obviously like with her mental health and
with it's such a family business, and I feel like
there's people that want to be able to do this
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and they don't know how.
Speaker 4 (47:02):
And just start, Like I always say, if there's something
you want to do, just do it, grab your pot,
whatever it is that you want to sell, you want
to do, just start, start and just like my mom says,
and see where it a'll take you, you know. And
also Jennica, like when I look back, when I look
(47:23):
back and you walked in and I saw you, it
was kind of like a little angel. You were just
looking at the menu and you know the relationship we've developed,
and I just want to say thank you so much.
Here we are in your podcast, like thank you for
giving us the opportunity to share our story with everyone.
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Familia Nae la Senor.
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Has Cynthia we I'm excited.
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If you guys don't know about.
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You are living under a rock. They are the best
for me.
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I love it.
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One of the best restaurants here in the San Fernando Valley.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
I love them. I love their story.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
We met.
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I just went one day, right.
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Yeah, hey, hey, and I'm like what, They're like, Janica
is here and I'm like Jenna, They're like Jenny, And
I turned around and I see you. I'm like, oh
my god, Yeah, we just walked down.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
I loved it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
If you it's one of my favorite restaurants as they're
so amazing. They have a beautiful heart, and I would
love for you guys to get to know their story,
Like come on, come on, so they are can you
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tell that they've won?
Speaker 4 (01:29):
Right?
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And then you just said today.
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That they're winning Entrepreneur Award. You see that. I wanted
to say that because I feel like Atula I don't
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want to say no as normal, but it a'l go
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manos los nettos in miramos and we're like, she's really
gonna do this?
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Yeah no, no when.
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Instagram yamos. Hey my mom's selling food, yeah, yah yama
and the first time sell out like quick calafin semana
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The hero.
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Come alright, you guys, we're gonna go on a quick
for and will be right back. Okay, you guys, we
are back from breaks.
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But okay, So Cynthia, when you as a daughter, now
like you see it from your point of view that
you thought it was kind of a crazy idea, like
you did. I don't want to say you didn't believe
in it, but it was kind of like your perspective
was what that you wanted to see her resting.
Speaker 4 (12:18):
I wanted her to enjoy her life because she had
a rough childhood. She was at the point where her
kids were older, her grandkids. We wanted to like spoil her.
We didn't want to see her working. And you know,
but afterwards, like when when she came to me and
after after the stand for two years and she came
and she said, hey, like now I want to open
(12:39):
up a restaurant. And I told her like yeah, yeah, yeah,
And then she kept saying that my dad's are like,
and it got to the point that I'm like, wait
a minute. You know, I was in business for twenty
five years. I had a good career, but it's a job.
And with my mom, if I don't back her up,
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we we will never know how far we can get.
And it got to the point that I'm like, you
know what, she put her life literally, dedicated her whole
life to her children, and we never we never asked
her like mom u ke borquee stepais is a da todo?
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Like no.
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Claron y.
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I had to google everything how to open a restaurant,
you know Esmo's completamente.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Yeah yo.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
They go, wow, it's amazing to know what a team
can do, you know, And I feel so proud, like
going back to like her idea now that I look back.
Sometimes you have to be open minded and just even
though your parents have different traditions or ideas, you can
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combine it and make it into a full on operation of.
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was about the fact that we didn't want her to
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I love to cook.
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But you know what, Yeah, and I love it now
like I love it.
Speaker 4 (24:51):
I I look at it and I'm like, guys, come
look at my food like it looks identical because I
don't want to cook something and if it's not. But
right now that she's walking me through it, I've been
doing it already. It's gonna be yours, It's gonna be whatever.
It's gonna be us because you know she we don't
want her. We tell her like you're gonna get to
the point that you're gonna be going and supervising.
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You're gonna let us to the work.
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rando cala Sophia is familia questamoso. Oh my gosh, that's
my mama, and I love it and I feel so
proud because you know, it's just let's take a minute here,
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like you know, your parents have talent, Like it's not
about you as a team, you can do anything. It's
about you know, building that strong team. And we didn't
know that we had such a strong family, we had
such a strong team. Las yeah yeah, yeah, Nozazuelas is
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They're so cute. All the homeless called.
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And thirst are.
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Okay.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
So Cynthia, obviously she handles the food, but you handle
a lot more of the business.
Speaker 1 (35:49):
How was the startup process? How was it? Because you said,
obviously you.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
Want to Google and you went to school.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
Also, I want to you know you.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Got your degree. Could Enval just got her degree too?
Speaker 3 (36:02):
Well?
Speaker 2 (36:03):
I just I love that you guys are all included
in a part.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
How was that process for you?
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Because obviously you're the she handles the food, you handle
the financing, the business and all that.
Speaker 4 (36:14):
It is tough. It is tough.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
It is not easy.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
I remember after we open up the restaurant, the demand,
the demand was so high for us to be able
to keep up with the demand. We didn't have a team.
I think the key is once you have a team,
things get better. And when we opened up, we didn't
have a team. Now and you know, we just had
(36:41):
to kind of just go and see what the business
was asking us to do. And even though it was tough,
it's very rewarding business. It's hard. A restaurant is very expensive.
A lot of people say like, oh, you guys sell
so much, but the cost is so high that it's
(37:02):
it's hard to have a restaurant and operate. But we've
been so blessed with the business and our customers, our community.
We get so much love that it's helped us kind
of like survive. A lot of people say like that
a restaurant takes a couple of years to take off,
and for us it was almost like instantly. But it
(37:25):
was difficult. It was difficult because we didn't come from
the restaurant. I think if we would have had any
kind of restaurant experience, it would have been easier. But
I was in aerospace. I was a program manager, so
basically like when I looked at the restaurant, it's a project.
So I said, Okay, how am I going to do
to feed all these people. So then we started kind
(37:45):
of moving stuff around my dad, my husband, my daughter,
and then all of a sudden, once we develop a team,
once things got easier. Once we develop a team, we
you know, it's always about you know, bringing the cost down,
and it just things got a lot better.
Speaker 1 (38:03):
But it's what's sorry, what's the hardest part?
Speaker 2 (38:06):
What was the hardest moment that you're like, shit, have
you ever did you ever think of like, damn, I don't.
Speaker 4 (38:10):
Know if I can do this. Every like the first
month being there, twelve hours, I would cry. I would
cry because I'm like, I can't handle this. It is
way too much having a restaurant. It doesn't stop, it
doesn't stop, and you wake up, you go to the
restaurant and then you know you're there at the end.
(38:31):
And also the feedback, right because we weren't we didn't
come from that background. We had to learn and you know,
we want to do everything perfect, and when you see
that stuff is not coming out perfect, that was really
hard to handle. It's kind of like the constructor criticism, right,
Like it's hard. It's hard because you know, we wanted
(38:53):
to do a good job, but I just wasn't pleased,
and that's been really tough for me to be. You know,
I take all the feedback, good and bad. I don't
just want to hear about the good stuff. But I
think it was kind of like processing what we weren't
doing good and trying to make it better. That has
(39:14):
been the biggest challenge always because there's always room for
improvement as a business. Our customers didn't care. At the
end of the day, when you see that somebody opens
up a restaurant, you know they signed up for it. Yeah,
so it's not you're not gonna feel sorry and say like, oh,
today they can't do this, or today they don't have this.
At the end of the day, you're opening your doors.
(39:34):
You're a restaurant. You have to be professional and you
have to make sure you serve the best quality food
to your customer at all times. There's no room for all.
Today it wasn't good enough, you know. So that has
been really tough. Like, you know, everybody kind of like, oh,
you know, they get so happy. I look at numbers,
I look at the liabilities.
Speaker 3 (39:57):
And the business.
Speaker 4 (39:58):
Yeah, and it's really stressful to to look at the
whole picture and say, like all these families are depending on,
you know, for their paycheck, and I have to make
sure that I make the right it's done right, that
we make the right moves for for and for the future.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
Okay, so you're going into the opening location number two,
what's the one thing you want to do different or
advice if you're starting a new business as well, what.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
I what I would do different? For sure? I think
build a team before we open. And that's kind of
where we learned a lot from the first one and
now we're ready to make the changes. A process. Everything
has to have a process. And even though we kind
(40:48):
of like went by what the customers were demanding or requesting,
now we have to sit back and make sure that
we have a process for everything because you can't just
wing it all the time. And that's kind of what
I felt at the first couple of months. And now
we hear pola number two. It has a process, there's
(41:11):
a full operation, and we have a team. I think
the key to success no matter what business you have
is building a strong team.
Speaker 2 (41:20):
And well, I differentis like, is there problems with you guys?
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Yeah? I find that balance. Oh my gosh, it is
so crazy because we.
Speaker 4 (41:37):
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Speaker 1 (44:15):
Did you ever imagine it to be this big where
it's at right now, not to.
Speaker 2 (44:19):
This point now because now there's like you talk about
it all the time, all the influencers that come through
it being packed, like even on non gloomy days, you
know how Like like I'm like, it's probably gonna be
a busy day raining or whatever. But even on the
non busy I mean, the non raining days, like it's
busy busy.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
Did you ever like I didn't know.
Speaker 4 (44:40):
I didn't know what social media. I didn't know the
power of social media until I remember opening up my
phone and it was like a thousand followers overnight, another thousand,
and every time I'm like, oh my gosh, Like I
didn't understand how powerful it could be. And and that's
(45:03):
why I like to you know a lot of people
say like, oh, they're well connected with influencers. No, we
knew nobody, Like we had no connections. And it was
kind of like word to mouth. You went and there
was like you know, it's I Vet and Ulysses at
the at the stand and style by Al and you know,
(45:25):
I love Sarai, sister, your sister everybody. So when you
come by and everything, it's amazing what the power of
the of the influencers, what they can do to a
small business.
Speaker 3 (45:38):
Not only that, but the food, the food, Yeah, and
that's what everybody.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
It's like everybody goes.
Speaker 4 (45:44):
Yeah, And then that's why I say it's a combination.
Her food is very authentic, our food is very authentic,
even though because I.
Speaker 5 (45:51):
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Speaker 3 (46:09):
Yeah, I love it so much.
Speaker 1 (46:12):
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tell you guys manula and.
Speaker 5 (46:29):
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Speaker 2 (46:40):
I'm very proud because I feel like I saw it
from like a little bit from the beginning. Obviously not
like you watched, but I've seen it and I'm like wow,
Like I felt like this story was so important to
share because it's obviously like with her mental health and
with it's such a family business, and I feel like
there's people that want to be able to do this
(47:00):
and they don't know how.
Speaker 4 (47:02):
And just start, Like I always say, if there's something
you want to do, just do it, grab your pot,
whatever it is that you want to sell, you want
to do, just start, start and just like my mom says,
and see where it a'll take you, you know. And
also Jennica, like when I look back, when I look
(47:23):
back and you walked in and I saw you, it
was kind of like a little angel. You were just
looking at the menu and you know the relationship we've developed,
and I just want to say thank you so much.
Here we are in your podcast, like thank you for
giving us the opportunity to share our story with everyone.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
No, and I love I would.
Speaker 3 (47:45):
I love it. I love you guys so much. I
love it, like just.
Speaker 1 (47:51):
Like, and I thank god that I saw it on Instagram.
I saw it. I forgot who was it. I think Alex,
because I was.
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