Monday, May 21, 2012
Ambika Bridgemohan will forgo a four-year education to help her family operate a Caribbean restaurant to open on Mentor Avenue.
The Bridgemohan family had two choices regarding 18-year-old Ambika's future. "Either she goes to college and she's in $100,000 in debt after four years, or we take that money now and open a business for her and she can learn it from the ground up," her mother Deborah said. The family decided on the latter and, on July 7, they will open Maracas, a Caribbean-flavored restaurant to be located at 7597 Mentor Ave. Instead of enrolling at a four-year university, Ambika, who will soon graduate from Mentor High School, will be the restaurant's vice president. Allowing a daughter to forgo college in favor of a startup would be tough for many families, but Ambika believes her Trinidadian roots played a role in taking the calculated risk. "We're the…
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Friday, May 11, 2012
The commission allowed Best Gyros and Maracas to have outdoor dining
The Planning Commission approved permits for two new restaurants, as well as a new automobile repair shop, during its meeting Thursday at City Hall. The Commission approved outdoor dining for both Best Gyros -- which opened recently at the intersection of Route 306 and Mentor Avenue -- and Maracas -- which is expected to open in the former home of Stagez and Rock City this summer. The Commission voter for a permit to allow M & F Auto to run an automobile repair shop at 7472 Tyler Boulevard. The business will do small auto repairs -- for example, brakes, interior and exterior detailing and small engine repairs -- six days a week. "Gradually what we're trying to do is become a full-time detailing shop," Joshua Fenton told the Commission. …
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Maracas and Best Gyros are coming to Mentor soon
Planning Commission can vote on permits for a pair of new restaurants coming to Mentor -- Maracas and Best Gyros -- during its meeting 7 p.m. Thursday at City Hall. Both restaurants are requesting permits to allow outdoor dining. Maracas will be at the former home of Stagez, 7597 Mentor Avenue. It's an island-themed restaurant that will be run by the Bridgemohan family. Deborah Bridgemohan, who was born in Trinidad, and her 18-year-old daughter Ambika plan to open this summer. The younger Bridgemohan has asked her family to use money they saved for her college to invest in Maracas, according to a feature in The News-Herald. Meanwhile, Best Gyros will open at 7413 Mentor Avenue. It will be family oriented, non-alcohol serving sandwich shop …
Elliot Ness
12:28 am on Friday, December 21, 2012
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