Cuban entrepreneur in Miami: "If you don't take the risk, you're left wondering if it can go well"

Dany González is 30 years old, he is Cuban, from Caimito, Artemisa, and two months ago, together with two friends, he opened his own business in Kendall, Miami. It is a food truck dedicated to grilled meat, Brazilian style, which in its menu also includes typical dishes of Cuban cuisine: congrís, fried yucca, ropa Vieja...

The business is going well even though Dany González is aware that the beginnings are always difficult. He arrived just two years ago to the United States, through Mexico. After crossing the Mexican desert and the border, he is not afraid of anything and when asked if he was right to take the step from working for someone else to running his own establishment, he says loud and clear: "If you don't run the risk risk, you are left wondering if you can do well.

In Cuba Dany González was self-employed. First he had a stall in a market and then, an almendrón that served as a taxi. Now after opening his business in the United States, he compares what he has here with what he experienced on the Island and the differences are enormous. There he felt persecuted by the Police. In the United States, once the six-month wait to process the paperwork, food handling permits and open the restaurant is over, no one bothers you. All you have to think about is making money and paying taxes when it's time. But there is no harassment, there is no corruption, you don't have to bribe anyone to open every day.

In an interview given to CiberCuba, Dany González says that she chose to locate her food truck in Kendall because it is close to where she lives and, in this way, she avoids traffic jams on the roads of Miami. At first, it was difficult for them to make themselves known, but they used social networks and have managed to make one of their videos go viral and customers have begun to approach them, asking for precise cuts of meat that he learned to make when he worked in another Brazilian restaurant. In Cuba I didn't even know they existed.

To Cubans who are thinking about opening a business, Dany González encourages them. In his opinion, in the United States, anyone with the desire to produce gets ahead.

Now, he only thinks about building Al Fuego Grill and being able to soon reunite with his daughter, a four-year-old girl that he left in Cuba.