My mother owned and operated a small family restaurant in Rupert, Idaho for eight years. It was called Acapulco Restaurant, an authentic Mexican restaurant. The dish which made the little restaurant famous in the community was the burrito. there were no small sizes available, and the mediums could be considered huge. All the ingredients required to construct the burrito made it difficult to make compact it all into a ‘small’ size. I would say on average the burritos ended up being nine inches long and five inches wide. The business was going great, but after so many years working it, my mother, along with the rest of my family, started to lose the desire to work there. As a result, in the beginning of the summer the restaurant was rented …show more content…
To someone who does not eat the food when my mom was the cook on a regular basis or was very familiar with the food from the mexican culture would most likely not notice the difference. I, on the other had, ate my mother's food on a daily basis. I never got tired of the dishes she had available, because they were all the best food I had ever tasted. So, with Janett's food is easy to spot out that there is something different. The majority of the dishes had stayed the same or at least thats what its supposed to seem like. The prices have increased, but not by much, just twenty-five or fifty cents at the most. The food has the same ingredients, but what has changed is the recipe used to make the food. My mom would make the meats a certain way while Jannet would make hers another way. That makes a major difference because it affects how the entire dish tastes. Another thing is the portions, my mom seemed to get the portions between meat and vegetables wright while Janett puts a lot of meat and not enough vegetables. One time I ordered one of Janett’s burritos and I thought there were no vegetables until I opened the burrito and saw a small amount of lettuce strips and tomato pieces. I could have never guessed there were vegetables in it until I tasted it. Janett also added some new foods, some I have heard of before and others I have not. My favorite new dish is the tostada of ceviche. The portion is more than the tostada can handle, but that is good new for me. Most of the topping fall off while I am eating it, so I can make a second tostada with the excess toppings from the first one. The overall concept on the dishes is the same, but the flavor in my moms is slightly