Food is one of the primary facets that connects people across the world. This includes friends, family, associates, and even plain old acquaintances. In Mexico, food is a love language and an integral aspect of the culture that is now being adopted in different nations, with more and more people appreciating Mexican food and the atmosphere our restaurants provide. Love, laughter, family, kindness, unity, and community are all crucial aspects of our culture, and of course, our food culture. These are a few core emotions evoked by Mexican food that Saul and Colby pride themselves on.

Los Aguacateros is a proudly Mexican establishment and brand first started in August 2020 by Saul and Colby. They are friends who became brothers, connected by family values of hard work, dedication, and a “can do” attitude.

The environments we come from, what we are exposed to and what we witness daily has significant influences on how we turn out, including the decisions and paths we take in the long run. With Saul and Colby, avocado is the central theme that brought them together. It’s funny, isn’t it? Well, this is how it happened.

Saul’s mother worked in local convenience store kitchens and cooked for numerous migrants who would swarm in and out of these locations during their break from working in the fields. Saul’s parents are from Tacamboro, Michoacan, a town known to cultivate and export over 75% of the avocados across the globe to various cities.

On the other hand, Saul’s father worked as a packer and transporter of avocados to different cities before migrating to the United States of America with his family after the recession hit the country, devaluing the Mexican currency tremendously.

After migrating to the U.S., the family worked in the fields, a norm for many migrants. They cultivated onion, soybean and tobacco fields. During this time, Saul’s mother fell in love with cooking and proved to her family and friends that she had quite the hand with the pots and pans. The family as a whole was somehow always involved in the food industry.

Collectively, they’ve held a few positions in the restaurant industry to make an income and sustain themselves by waiting tables, cleaning floors, cooking in the kitchens, taking orders, and serving as managers. However, from this, a passion was sparked in Saul to continue the legacy by venturing full-time into the industry, as food is all he has ever known.

Some things are just destined to happen. Nothing occurs by chance. This is indeed the case with Saul and Colby, who first met when Saul worked at a restaurant as a waiter. They later crossed paths once more when he began working at Glenville Electric Motors, a company Colby worked at as an engineer and engineering student at Georgia Southern University. A coincidence? Perhaps.

This exact coincidence led to an engineer with no history in the restaurant business meeting a migrant who would later become his business partner, steering him into a completely different and unexpected path of food, community and love.