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

  • 📰 dallasnews
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 47 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 22%
  • Publisher: 71%

ประเทศไทย ข่าว ข่าว

ประเทศไทย ข่าวล่าสุด,ประเทศไทย หัวข้อข่าว

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.

 

ขอบคุณสำหรับความคิดเห็นของคุณ ความคิดเห็นของคุณจะถูกเผยแพร่หลังจากได้รับการตรวจสอบแล้ว
เราได้สรุปข่าวนี้มาให้อ่านอย่างรวดเร็ว หากสนใจข่าว สามารถอ่านฉบับเต็มได้ที่นี่ อ่านเพิ่มเติม:

 /  🏆 18. in TH

ประเทศไทย ข่าวล่าสุด, ประเทศไทย หัวข้อข่าว