He launched a new eatery last June, Pepito's Philly Cheese Steak, and dreams of franchises around the country.
Not bad for an immigrant from Guerrero, Mexico, who lived his early years before coming to the United States in a crowded one-room home topped by a palm frond roof.
As Latinos increasingly call Utah and Ogden home — many of them immigrants — more are flexing their entrepreneurial muscles, ditching their bosses and opening businesses, many of them smaller family operations.
The number of Latino-owned businesses with employees in Utah is small relative to the overall total.