Baliwag Lechon Manok

The Lechon Manok craze swept the nation in the 1980’s. It was practically impossible for the ordinary citizen to leave his home and arrive at any destination without seeing at least two competing lechon manok kiosks in the streets.

During this time, Dwight and Dolores Salcedo were busy trying out small new ventures simply to “earn a little bit more income to make ends meet.” Aside from their regular day jobs, the couple also ventured into renting out Betamax tapes and got involved with the bus transportation business. However, due to the political and economic crises in the country at that time, achieving even that humble goal of making ends meet proved to be a challenge.

So in November of 1985, with two little babies just born and willing to try any new thing out, the couple pooled P5000 from their savings and borrowed another P5000 from their parents to put up their own lechon manok kiosk at Project 8, Quezon City, very close to where they lived then. Without any MBAs which are common amongst entrepreneurs today, they went about with the business in their own unique ways.

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