A Short Video Sends Riverside Family Restaurant Oaxaca De Mis Amores Viral: Community Crowds In Within 24 Hours, Sold Out Five Days Running
A short video shot for free has sent Oaxaca De Mis Amores, a family-owned restaurant in Riverside, Riverside County, California, a surge of community customers within 24 hours. According to ABC7, the restaurant at 10459 Arlington Avenue had been struggling before Andrew, who runs the local social media account What's Up With Riverside, made it a short video at no charge. Once the video spread, residents turned out in force, and chef Alfredo Santiago said the restaurant sold out five days running, from Wednesday through Sunday.
Andrew told ABC7 that the dining room was completely empty the first time he walked in. The restaurant's Raquel Almaraz said business had been hitting them badly and they were struggling. What's Up With Riverside offered to make the short video for free to promote the small family restaurant.
The response took the restaurant by surprise. Almaraz said the staff were stunned when they saw the video and could hardly believe it. The video has since drawn thousands of views, and business is better than ever, ABC7 reported.
According to ABC7, the restaurant prides itself on natural ingredients, with cheeses, spices, tortillas and cuts of meat among the items brought straight from the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Almaraz thanked the community again and again for its support and encouraged people to back their local businesses: if you have a skill, she said, use it, because you never know whose life you might change.
Source: ABC7
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Photo: 资料图：墨西哥瓦哈卡州传统大玉米饼tlayuda（配tasajo牛肉与chorizo香肠），WeltKonnte摄，CC BY-SA 4.0，经Wikimedia Commons，已裁为1600×900，彩色；非涉事餐厅实拍、非该店出品画面。/ File photo: a traditional Oaxacan tlayuda with tasajo beef and chorizo (photo by WeltKonnte, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons), cropped to 1600x900; not a photo of the restaurant or of its own dishes.
