El Burrito Mercado leaves Midtown Global Market (2015)
The family business, then running a second store inside Minneapolis's Midtown Global Market, announced the location would close on May 9, 2015. Management cited the retirement of the founding Silva parents and the continued success of the original Saint Paul store.
The Minneapolis store shut that spring, and the family concentrated operations on the Cesar Chavez Street location.
The business consolidated on its home turf in Saint Paul's West Side, which remained its base. The 2015 move showed the family willing to contract when the founding generation stepped back.
It is the family's one earlier closure on record, and it was announced in advance with a date. The state licence list alone does not say why the Cesar Chavez Street store is missing from it.
