How Elote Saved One North Texas Family and is Empowering Women in Business

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Me Enloteces, a pop-up store selling corn and family rituals, is empowering women in business and bringing a sense of nostalgia to the community. The store offers unique corn snacks like Takis Elote, topped with cheese, mayonnaise, and hot sauces, and has become a local favorite. Through their pop-up events, Me Enloteces supports other local food vendors and creates opportunities for women entrepreneurs in the North Texas area.

Aidee del Villar, left, owner of Me Enloteces, hands Mia Aleman, 13, an order of Takis Elote outside of a Canales Furniture store during a pop-up event with other local food vendors in Mesquite, on Friday, July 28, 2023. Takis Elote is a corn snack with a variety of cheese, mayonnaise and hot sauces on top of a bag of Takis chips.

After several failed attempts to find a pop-up in Dallas that would accept her with her new business, she and other vendors, like“At first, it was difficult because we were selling four or five cups of elote, nothing more,” Del Villar said. “But little by little, things changed.” Now they sell 125 pounds almost every day.

“The importance for the business to be pink is for the empowerment of women of all ages — moms, little girls and everyone — just knowing that the power of women is that we can do anything, that everything is possible if we just put our mind to it,” Del Villar says.Now, 10 months after launching, Me Enloteces is the family’s breadwinner and even helped Del Villar’s mother-in-law leave her factory job.

A cup of corn with Barbie decor and colors from the elote pop-up Me Enloteces, outside of a Canales Furniture store during a pop-up event with other local food vendors in Mesquite.

 

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