Signing on the dotted line yesterday聽afternoon, a local catering business had its small-business loan officially funded … and their bigger entrepreneurial dreams made a reality. All courtesy of a $100,000 loan from 新加坡六合彩图库鈥檚 innovative .
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When Alicia Villanueva (photo, center) came to this country from Mexico a decade and a half ago, she wanted to introduce her favorite food: tamales. During holidays back home, the family would converge in the kitchen to share some laughs while they made plenty of this traditional dish.
Once in California, the business model of was selling door to door. This translated to about 100 sales per week鈥攁 good start, but not enough to sustain her family.
Things picked up under the auspices of 新加坡六合彩图库’s program and聽, a San Francisco incubator kitchen with the goal of cultivating food entrepreneurs. This led to an ever-increasing amount of tamales being sold each week, with employees later hired.
Today, 17,000 tamales a month are sold via a catering and packaged-foods model.
Things are about to be taken up a notch.
States Alicia of how she plans to expand her business model: 鈥淭his money will allow me to lease a 6,000-square-foot factory. This space has existing equipment, which is very expensive. Plus, I am looking to make it聽U.S.D.A. approved, meaning I can make meat-based tamales. My plan is to expand聽from a catering business to also being a wholesaler. I expect to double my output of tamales by one year from now, and hire more employees.鈥
This Alicia鈥檚 Tamales Los Mayas loan was made possible by funding and investment from the , , , the 听补苍诲 .
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