Maria Sanchez stands next to a construction site on Friday morning. The steel beams are drawn to the dusty pink sky behind it. Hyundai Sonata’s body is open. Inside, valuable cargo-sequences Carne Asada Burrito, hand-wrapped tinfoil. A construction manager approaches him. If he doesn’t like Burritos, he has to leave, he’s kidding. After a satisfied bite, the manager buys 15 Burrito for all workers.
“I sell it in 30 minutes – less than an hour and I already went, or he says. An recent Instagram article says: nasıl How I started selling only 10 burrito a day to sell 60 to 75 Burrito a day a day. ”
Sanchez’s beloved pastry seller began his career last year in a home depot parking lot, but now he sells on business sites.
“Maria La de Los Burritos” is a Honduras American home cook that finds a social media reputation selling Burrito from the trunk of his car. Growing up in a Honduras immigrant house, Sanchez always admired his mother’s cooking. As a mother, Sanchez began to cook for her Mexican husband and two sons. While fighting a depression, he got the idea – why don’t you bring cooking to the workers on the streets of La, and as it emerges, Millions of Millions in Tiktok?
The ice raids grasp the city and created a culture of fear in more than one immigrant community in Southern California, while Taqueros disappeared from the streets. Sanchez says that the home depot parking lot once acting with daily workers is empty. Sanchez says, “Many sellers I usually see in that area were not there,” Sanchez says.
Maria Sanchez makes and sells dozens of burrito wrapped with gold foil and sports pink labels.
In Inglewood, Honduras immigrant community is struggling to survive with work. “A lot of people are affected by this, San Sanchez says. “My mother has a friend with a job with her hair. It was very slow. Nobody wants to get out of their homes.”
Sanchez’s mother invites legal citizens to be careful while selling food because they are also aimed at ice raids. During the ongoing raids, Sanchez was nervous about selling Burrito, but after a fiery incentive on social media. In the morning, a series of hungry construction workers came.
“Sometimes eight people are already waiting for me to come. I am nervous when I see a lot of people. ‘Oh my God, I’m doing all this on my own’ he says.
Sanchez adds another attractiveness to his work-long eyelashes, French-tipped acrylic nails, burgundy lips and curved wrapping denim. It looks like a popular Mexican -style dress style called Buchona, characterized by aesthetics, flashy accessories and Cinched waist.
“I always liked to dress like that, San Sanchez says, laughing. At 3 in the morning, Sanchez carefully applies Selena Quintanilla’s make -up, which looks like the timeless beauty of Selena. He likes the presentation, explains.
Maria Sanchez’s beans and steak is one of the burrito. And a pink bag for Burrito order.
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The immigrant parents encouraged him to dress up in a modest way in his childhood. When he went out, he started trying fashion. “I never had a chance to dress the way I wanted, or he says. “I moved out of the house and moved with my boyfriend. I started to do what I wanted to do and how I want to dress.”
Sanchez’s beloved, now as a famous pastry seller on the Internet, started in October 2024 in Inglewood Home Depot parking.
“People say that they never see people selling burrito. I see Tamales and Embanadas, I Never A Pure Standard Pastry. I have an idea – let me try to sell Burrito, San Sanchez says.
Like most of Los Angeles, Sanchez made a lifetime romance with Mexican dinner. Sanchez explains, orum I cook some of my culture’s food, but I cook more Mexican food because my husband is Mexican, San Sanchez explains. As the south-partade was growing, he visited the restaurant in the city center, most of which weekends and developed a deep love for Mexican cuisine.
Burritos were immediately a success. Each time, sometimes in just one hour, the frills, Carne Asada, Pollo and Breakfast Burritos, such as crowded classics, each sold as $ 5.
Sanchez, Tiktok and Instagram began to publish the videos of cooking, which became viral to surprise. He won more than 27,500 followers on Instagram with cooking videos that collect millions of imaging.
At Home Depot, selling Burrito as a 26 -year -old attractive woman came with dangers. Sometimes Sanchez was exposed to men who attracted him, whistle and harassing him. He may be vulnerable, he explains. Orum I don’t see that young girls of my age are dressed as I am, just sell food, or he explains. Sanchez on the construction site, was friends with most workers who ate harassment pastries. “I am a super -speaker with all my customers, or he says.
Sanchez, weeks have passed and the threats of an ice pressure appeared because the mood was uneasy among customers. “I didn’t get so many customers at home depot last week because many people are afraid to go out,” he explains.
In January, the home depot management had to ask Sanchez to leave. Burritos became very popular and caused a traffic danger.
In the coming weeks, Sanchez began to visit Inglewood by watching construction sites for potential customers. Until then, Sanchez’s work was already exploded. Tiktok, a viral of Sanchez’s surprise, and Instagram began to publish videos of cooking. He won more than 27,500 followers on Instagram with cooking videos that collect millions of imaging.
Sanchez was amazed by his new fame: “This is what motivates me to watch because people are watching.”
Sanchez’s work has only been swollen since he left Home Depot. The workers were satisfied with homemade and affordable Mexican dishes, a delicious and cost -effective alternative to Fast Food. Im I have never complained to this day, or he says proudly.
Sanchez starts cooking at 4 am every day. “I want everything made in the morning fresh. This is the point for me.”
If Los Angeles is crowded with magnificent Mexican dishes, what is the rest of Sanchez’s pastry opponent? Breakfast pastries are filled with fluffy eggs and sausages – each hearty bite punches a flavor equally distributed along the pastry. Carne Asada is accompanied by Sanchez’s sharp, live homemade sauces. For a construction worker, a pastry offers a generous, portable meal – the nutrition missile.
Every day he starts cooking at 4 in the morning. “I want everything made in the morning fresh. This is the point for me.”
Sanchez trusts his mother’s work. As a child, his mother would send him to La city center to sell gum on the sidewalks to instill independence to Sanchez. “He always put it in my head: you can get what you want on your own. You can.” Sanchez says. “He’s always with me.”
Sanchez hopes that pastry will inspire other young women to start Loncheras or mobile food. Sometimes, it creates tutorial videos about selling Burrito and gives assurance to women who want to start their own initiatives. “Many young girls to me, ‘I want to do this. I’m only 22 years old, but you inspire me to do that, or he says. “Even if you are young, I want to show you that you can do it.”
Sanchez dreams of having a truck one day – a suitable loneliness. Orum I want to make them all pink, ”he says, smiling. “I’m trying to save as much money as possible for this.”
