Our Story
Established in 2014
Raydal Hospitality was conceived in 2014 when Dalton Espaillat, Founder, and CEO, realized that he would make something of his growing enterprise of restaurants starting to take shape. What began as an effort to save an underperforming Mexican restaurant in 2010 became a mission to create wealth opportunities within his community. By 2014, Espaillat, along with his wife Miriam and a small group of loyal employees, turned around the original restaurant Three Amigos Mexican Grill & Cantina and launched another concept, Sabor Latin Street Grill (that would later become the flagship of the group's operations). The company name comes from the first three letters of Dalton's father's name Ray and the first three of his to form the word Raydal. The company name was first used for a construction business under the name Raydal Construction, which poured commercial concrete foundations . After dissolving the concrete company due to an economic decline, Dalton went to work expanding his Sabor concept at a rapid pace throughout the greater Charlotte Metro area.
Today, Raydal Hospitality Group owns and operates 19 restaurants of multiple core concepts; Three Amigos Mexican Kitchen & Cantina, Sabor Latin Street Grill, La Caseta, and Saru. Sabor also has three franchised restaurants in the Charlotte area. As the company continues to grow, new concepts and expansion are in the works throughout the Carolinas and beyond.
Raydal Hospitality Group is driven by the purpose of sharing the joys, heritage, and struggles of the Latin Experience. As immigrants themselves, Dalton (Dominican Republic) and Miriam (El Salvador) Espaillat work tirelessly to share with the community the stories and cultures of the many Latin countries that are represented in their restaurants and on the menu. By sharing food, we can all see how deep culture is interweaved in Latin American countries and how it becomes the very fabric that brings the community together.
“We exist to share the stories of our people”
