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Solar-Heated Salsa at Taco Burrito KingSalvador Lamas isn't kidding when he brags about his restaurant chain's hot-as-the-sun salsa, thanks to the new solar energy system that provides hot water for his new state-of-the-art main kitchen.
This new Taco Burrito King restaurant at 5413 W. Belmont in Chicago will be formally dedicated on Tuesday, June 29 at noon. Many public figures are expected to attend.
The restaurant is the main kitchen and headquarters for this family-owned, growing chain of five popular Mexican eateries. Lamas boasts that the new kitchen is equipped with the most sophisticated and efficient kitchen equipment he could find, so that salsa and other ingredients can be made there and then distributed to the other restaurants.
"The cost of natural gas for our restaurants was extremely high because of the large amounts of hot water we use," says Lamas, so deciding to use solar energy to heat the water was an easy decision. "Because of the high degree of cleanliness we insist on, we do hundreds of hot water washes a day. So when we decided to build a new place, we looked for ways to reduce the energy cost, and solar was the answer."
In addition to being an entrepreneur, Lamas is also an electrical engineer whose background is in energy, and he understood how much energy he could save.
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