This is truly a Cuban (and Miami) love story.
Sarah Moreno writes via Yahoo News:
Their love story started over pastelitos. Now they own a franchise of this Miami bakery
Lisy Zambrana and Relvis Díaz fell in love in a Miami bakery.
She was 21 years old, just graduated from Miami Dade College and working in a bakery as a cashier. He would come in for cafe con leche and pastelitos. A lot.
Then one day he found the courage to invite her to lunch.
“We had our first date about a month after we started talking,” says Zambrana. “No, he didn’t take me to eat pastelitos,” she jokes. “At the end of 2020 he proposed.”
Cafecito and pastelitos were destined to be part of their path because in April the Cuban couple opened the 21st Vicky Bakery franchise on Bird Road and 82nd Avenue, in front of Tropical Park.
“I didn’t want to forget that number, because with the Bird Road store, Vicky Bakery is coming of age,” says Díaz, an electrical contractor. He decided to acquire a Vicky Bakery franchise because of its name recognition as of one of the most popular bakeries in Miami.
It was another Cuban couple, Antonio and Gelasia Cao, who arrived to Miami in 1968, that bought the first Vicky Bakery in 1972 in Hialeah. Their romance also began in a bakery. They both worked at La Vencedora, the most famous cafeteria in Cárdenas, a town near Varadero beach in Matanzas, Cuba. Antonio brought the recipe for pastelitos de guayaba from Cuba and was able to stand out in Miami, land of croquetas, coladas and Cuban pastries.
Today, Vicky Bakery is all over South Florida and the franchises continue to grow, which allowed Zambrana and Díaz to open their bakery.
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