3 Margaritas Thornton, Family Mexican Restaurant

3 Margaritas restaurant is an example of the immigrant dream, which included financial success as well as a chance to go back home and help those left behind. The nine Morales kids, six girls and three boys, slept on mats on the floor of a two bedroom house at their small ranch.

After school they worked in the fields. Today all of them own at least one restaurant. After crossing the border Nicolas Morales ended up in Seattle where his brother Manuel lived.

The Morales brothers saved all they could knowing they wanted to open their own restaurant. They knew they were now in a new country, and they decided they’d better adapt if they wanted to make it. So Nicolas…