PERFILES conos and churros. They offer at least fi ve fl avors of empanadas every day: strawberry, pineapple, apple, caramel and cream cheese. Single-serve desserts are especially popular at Tortas Paquime. Tres leches cake slices are packaged in clamshell containers and sell for $2.50 apiece. Each of the four Tortas Paquime retail stores has a kitchen where they make fresh sandwiches and fruit drinks. Their signature sandwich features an ample scoop of avocado on every sandwich – one half of a No. 1 48-count avocado. This is another example of how they only use the top ingredients. The same applies to their bakery ingredients, which they buy from BakeMark. “BakeMark offers high quality ingredients, which is the foundation of our business model. I’m quite picky about what I eat, and we’ve adopted that philosophy into our concept. We always give the customer something good to eat.” JUNE 12 | PANADERIA 43