Leticia Ortiz saw a void in the Cleveland food scene: not enough tortillas.
She decided to fill it. In 2009, she and her sister, Enedina Ortiz, founded Tortilleria La Bamba to provide fresh, high-quality tortillas to restaurants in Northeast Ohio.
“We began Tortilleria La Bamba 2009 to fill a need for local restaurants,” she said on a recent call. “There weren’t enough local makers of tortillas, and the restaurant business was growing tremendously.”
At first, they were a two-woman operation. “We visited the restaurants, we took orders, we made the tortillas, we delivered them, we did everything.”
Today, they have their own manufacturing facility with 18 full-time employees and nearly 100 clients around the Midwest.
“We deal with a lot of ‘American’ restaurants now, too, not just Mexican,” said Ortiz.
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