How “Ghost Kitchens” Are Changing the Face of Vancouver’s Restaurant Industry

How do you open a restaurant without opening a restaurant? For some Vancouver food entrepreneurs, the answer is a “ghost kitchen.” as Carnitas El Rolys, where Tortillas Santa Rosa are part of every dish.

Vision of a Mexican immigrant / La vision de un inmigrante mexicano

When you first meet Carlos, Santa Rosa’s CEO and owner, you may glimpse a visionary of his business, a hard-daily worker, father of a family, lover of helping the community, but above all, you can see the passion he spreads all over the place while interacting with his team. Together, they are all in charge of their lines of production and Don Carlos has always tried to inspire the team with the love he feels for the equipment, from the simplest tool. He feels each component has a soul of its own and somehow communicates with each worker. Steel and human beings combine to produce food all along.

Each machine that operates within the roof of our plant, he says, has a personality, and whoever works here will always see them as noble machinery that contributes to achieve the best of each product.

On one occasion, while seeing the tortilla transfer belts, he had the idea of ​​placing coloured lights to differentiate each part of the process. Now, machinery interacts with LEDs and colors In his words: “We work daily with these machines, we spend a lot of time with them, we interact, we produce, why shouldn’t we make them good looking to have fun together.”

For Don Carlos, everything comes down to two aspects: his work team and the passion to generate the best quality products in BC.

We are writing the next steps in our lives with this new website. We are formally introducing our Company on social media and various platforms. The next step at this point is to grow, but we would never sacrifice our day-to-day relationships, our essence, all that has made us get to this point.

Santa Rosa has been a huge hit amongst our community. We love watching how people loves our products, how they make totally new, tastier dishes by adding their personal touch. It has just naturally happened! We love what we have accomplished and we know for sure that we are ready to go way beyond!

Spanish Version

Cuando te comunicas con Don Carlos, dueño y operador de Santa Rosa, puedes entrever a un visionario de su negocio, trabajador de todos los días, padre de familia, amante de ayuda a la comunidad pero sobre todo puedes ver la pasión que le genera la interacción de su equipo con las maquinas, de alguna forma Don Carlos ha tratado de contagiar a su equipo de ese amor que el siente por una herramienta que podría llegar a tener un alma y comunicarse por si misma.

Cada maquina que opera dentro del techo de nuestra planta tiene una personalidad, y siempre las veremos como maquinas muy nobles que contribuyen con nosotros para lograr el mejor de los productos.

En una ocasión viendo las bandas de transferencia de tortillas, tuvo la idea de colocar luces de color para hacer la actividad diferente, la maquina ahora interactuaba con leds y colores… pareciera que cobraba vida propia, en sus palabras; Trabajamos diariamente con estas maquinas, pasamos mucho tiempo con ellas, interactuamos, producimos y por que no podríamos divertirnos juntos.

Para Don Carlos todo se sintetiza en dos aspectos, su equipo de trabajo, y la pasión por generar productos de la mejor calidad en BC

Estamos escribiendo los siguientes pasos de nuestra vida con este nuevo website, estamos presentándonos formalmente en social media y diversas plataformas, queremos crecer pero nunca queremos sacrificar nuestra relación del día a día, nuestra esencia, lo que nos hizo llegar hasta este punto. 

Gracias por leer estas lineas y ser parte.

Tortillas for all.

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