I had the pleasure of sitting down with my new friend Art Robinson, founder and owner of Wepa. Wepa is a new Puerto Rican restaurant here in the Boise area. Here is the roadmap of our conversation.
Where are you from and how did you get to Idaho?
Tell me about WEPA.
What did you do before WEPA? What did all of that experience teach you about running your own business?
What drove you to open a restaurant?
Tell me about the epiphany you had that pointed you toward that decision.
What was your original plan to open a restaurant?
What did you do when you couldn’t get funding?
How important were mentors to your development? How did you find them? How did you use them?
How important was that time when you were catering and food trucking? What did that time allow you to do when it came to learning the business/bettering your craft/marketing/etc?
Talk to me about the small business culture here in Boise
What did you need to feel in your heart, that you were ready to open a brick and mortar?
What was your first year like?
What are you excited about for 2023?
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Music by Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers.
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