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.
The same family has now vanished from the license list at its flagship address. The 2015 precedent raises the question of whether the business is winding down as the founding generation retires.
