{"id":3089,"date":"2018-01-18T21:17:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T21:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/52.10.1.109\/?p=3089"},"modified":"2018-01-20T00:24:43","modified_gmt":"2018-01-20T00:24:43","slug":"dtc-restaurateur-named-sbas-business-person-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/?p=3089","title":{"rendered":"DTC restaurateur named SBA\u2019s Business Person of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><strong>BY PETER JONES<\/strong><br \/>\nNEWS EDITOR<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Lorena Cantarovici, the owner of Greenwood Village\u2019s Maria Empanada, has been named the Colorado Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">After three years of success on South Broadway on Denver\u2019s Antique Row, the fast-casual Argentinian eatery in DTC debuted in 2016. A third store in Aurora is expected to open later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cYou only see burritos, tacos, and hamburgers. I wanted to be that one that is missing,\u201d explained the Buenos Aires-born Cantarovici, owner, and operator of all three locations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The menu is based around the empanada, a Spanish-originated pastry dish and the national staple of Cantarovici\u2019s homeland. Culled from her mother Maria\u2019s homegrown recipes\u2014hence the restaurant\u2019s name\u2014the owner prides herself on filling her all-purpose empanadas with the freshest meats and vegetables she can find.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Although Cantarovici has adapted her recipes to a fast-casual marketplace, she is quick to emphasize that a quickness of service is about the only aspect of Maria Empanada that is not authentic to her native Argentina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cWe are people who love to talk. We love to wait,\u201d she said. \u201cAt lunch over there\u2014even in business\u2014it can take two hours, easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Maria Empanada is located at 8000 E. Belleview Ave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">A U.S. Small Business Person of the Year will be announced at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., on April 30 in celebration of National Small Business Week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY PETER JONES NEWS EDITOR Lorena Cantarovici, the owner of Greenwood Village\u2019s Maria Empanada, has been named the Colorado Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. After three years of success on South Broadway on Denver\u2019s Antique Row, the fast-casual Argentinian eatery in DTC debuted in 2016. A third store &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoloradostatesman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}