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If I was a therapist, I would prescribe this.
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Oh, you're anxious two every day, I feel so much better.
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And they say here in Miami at El Rey de la, the king of the Cuban
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hamburger, let's go see how true that is.
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What's good in your head is all about the journey towards being
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And this chef's own journey saw her become second to none in
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the tasty world of what is a a what it is.
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It's a Cuban burger.
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We infuse it with our family recipe of versus spices and then
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our shoestring fries, they're called Julianne Shoestring
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We make them homemade filling and delicious.
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This recipe has satisfied Cuban stomachs for generations
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Uh My dad originally made in Cuba when he was very young with
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He had like a little car and he became famous making since they
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were like 12 and he left right when the revolution started
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he said I wanna go to Florida and Miami is the place to be.
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This is where I'm gonna make my, I'm gonna make a name for ourselves
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That's exactly what he did.
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Well, he gets here with my mom and, um, of course, you know,
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He, um, he worked at a shrimp factory in, so he would like working
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from like one o'clock in the morning to like five in the morning
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at the plant, sleep a little while and then be at the store to
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You know, one thing that's consistent, that is that I've seen
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all good restaurant owners is a tireless commitment.
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I don't, I, I never get him talking about sleep.
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No, I fell like never.
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And so the tenacious Mr Gonzalez perfected his business model
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based on the streamlining of the food that preparation and
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a lot of respect for the food and the customer my father became
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he said that fast food was the way to go.
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People are always in a hurry and by the way, that's the classic
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noise in Latino family.
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You gotta talk over the blender.
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That's a part of the conversation and the grinder to the coffee
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machine making coffee.
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One family conversation.
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But this one never forget is when her father tried to steer
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her away from the family business, he's like, what are you
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You're gonna graduate.
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You know, I'm ready.
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I'll pay the studies.
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I just wanted to study something.
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I want you to have a career, be somebody because, you know,
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in our line of work, even though we're proud of what we do, it's
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So, you know, of course, I wanna enjoy the fact that you will
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do something bigger.
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And I told him I know Bobby, but I wanna do what you do.
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I wanna help you run the family business and we wanna take it
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So bad with that with went from being a modest mom and pop shop
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to an iconic landmark of Miami, several new locations open
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but the beloved flavors remained untouched.
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The good thing about is that consistency, that traditional
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taste that we've always given.
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My father wanted every one of his customers to feel that we
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Like if your mom or your grandma is back there cooking it, everything
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is made fresh from to you.
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We got a over here what I keep up here every day is how hard my
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parents work and I'm not gonna mess it up.
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I have a moral responsibility and, and an honor to keep on that
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family tradition when we see the store really, really full
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like it's lunchtime and this place cannot hold another soul
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It is the most overwhelming thing.
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Because we're very small, we're very small and to know that
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we made an impact and the people know us.
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You can't help but feel blessed.
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This is from and this is what's good in my head, man.
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I am pregnant with drawing.
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I don't even want to move my neck but of course, a guy like me
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doesn't stuff himself without having a multi view camera
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I gotta keep my eye on myself.
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The women who say this keeps an eye on her businesses.
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