Hispanic Heritage spotlight: Sweet Tooth Snack Stand

This Hispanic Heritage Month, we are spotlighting a sweet business with a powerful story. Angie Rodriguez is live at a Latina-owned business that's back open after a family health battle. She's at Sweet Tooth Snack Stand. Where is this at? Hey, Delon, we are in Highlands, in the Highlands. That's on the east side of the Houston area, for any people who aren't familiar. This place opened just a few months ago. I'm joined with the owner, Mercedes Maldonado. First and foremost, congratulations. Thank you. Such a beautiful space first and foremost, it is absolutely gorgeous in here. Tell us, what are some of the things that you offer first and foremost? Coffee, there's food. Cafecitos, acai bowls, elotes, nachos, matcha. Hi, a lot of special guests today, definitely for sure. It's such a special moment for you too, right? So tell me what exactly this space means to you. You had originally your own snack little story going on you had to take a break but then you came back tell me about your story I started with a snack cart three years ago and I would have a lot of clients asking me for actual storefront and then that's how we got inspired and started opening our actual storefront brick-and-mortar place so we can have someone for all the guests that will customers that would asked for the shop so we're here now so excited with mixed emotions and i hope people come by and give us a try yeah what is you have a special moment here with your mom right we were talking about it earlier i just want you to tell me the significance behind that break that you had to take before i took a break um i wanted to take care of her i wanted to be with her and enjoy her as much as i can and now whenever she passed you were able to start this this snack stand the snack cart i started with the snack cart i needed to have my mind occupied even though i just had my baby i needed to have my mind occupied since i was so close to her and i told my husband one day let's just start with a snack cart so that's what we started and we named it Sweet Too to something different, something so it can be identical, like a little sweet craving. And then now we're here with the storefront. And I love it because we were talking earlier and you were telling your customers, you know, one day we're going to have the storefront. One day we're going to have the storefront. And now we're here. Now we're here. And you have your storefront. Yes, we are. How important is this for especially representación in our comunidad, like as Latinas here in Houston? And how cool is it to say that, yeah, I'm the owner of this place. It was amazing. Beautiful, thank you so much for talking with us this morning and thank you for sharing your story. Thank you for stopping by. We'll have plenty more coming up on Fox Local at 10 o'clock, 11 o'clock noon. So make sure you stay tuned right here. Angie Rodriguez, Fox26 News. Beautiful story for sure. Okay, Angie, thank you.