They eat tortillas with beans. It probably doesn't help that the restaurant offers a limited meal selection. If the customer doesn't like it, the alternative is to go elsewhere. It wasn't always this way. They were filled with Cuban exiles trying to make their way in a strange land.
Today there is only a grassy, vacant lot at the site.
Perez was one of those struggling immigrants. In 1961 he came from a small town in Santa Clara province, confident he would soon return to his island as a member of a victorious army. By 1962, after the debacle at the Bay of Pigs, those hopes were dashed and the struggle to survive became all-consuming. It was impossible to find work. The taciturn and often gruff restaurateur sports thick glasses and sparse gray hair combed over a balding pate.