Ines Crepes – a story very close to my heart in Punta Mita.

Having helped the 2 Ines’s in getting this project off the ground back in 2020 I wanted to keep this short story by Ines 1 of what the «Ines Crepes» project meant to them :

“When the pandemic first started my parents, like everyone in the world, freaked out, and we were in lockdown for 3-4 months, online school was ok, but my social life not as much, I lost many friendships and got stronger with others, but for the most part I really needed new friends. In June of 2020 my parents finally decided to break the bubble and fly on a plane to a beautiful place in the Mexican Pacific Ocean, called Punta Mita. We were supposed to only go for 3 weeks to celebrate my mom’s birthday, but quickly enough it turned into 3 months. Being there was great, I had so much fun and all my family loved it, but my friends were still missing ,but not for long. One normal morning I wake up to my mom talking to someone on the phone, that someone was Inese’s mom (AKA my new friend’s mom), our mom’s had planned a little hang out for us to meet up and become friends.We met up at one of the beach clubs to eat lunch and swim, when I met her we were both kind of shy but eventually we started talking, she told me that she had been in Punta Mita since March, the beginning of the pandemic. Since that moment Ines and I had a connection, we would bake, watch movies, laugh and have the best time together. After a while baking became a very common thing that Ines and I would do, we would bake different cupcakes, cookies and the best of all crepes, and that’s where it started. I had an idea, a great idea, that Ines and I were going to work on, like a summer project. Our idea was to create a business, but not just a business, Ines Crepes.The idea was to bake the crepes,add the fillings, and sell them, but a 90% of the money would be going towards charity, Fundacion DINE punta mita to be exact, the charity helps people that have had a rough time during the pandemic, they hang out food baskets with water and also teach little kids how to read and write. Since that moment Ines and I would work day and night to get all the deliveries on time and perfectly, but don’t be fooled, we had some rough times. At first we didn’t create our own crepes, we bought a powder in the supermarket and just added butter, milk and eggs, and that would be it, but after some comments and suggestions we got the chance to go visit the chefs at Punta Mita. We got to spend a whole afternoon baking and learning different techniques to make our crepes go to the other level. We spent days not receiving orders, since we were working on finding the new special recipe to the famous Ines crepes. We started working on movie nights, which were events that would have food trucks with tacos, burgers and hotdogs,and blast a movie on a big screen with different places to watch it.We got the change to participate two times and we would sell 50-70 crepes per night, our most sells would be nutella and caramelo they would sell out like flash. From the movie nights we would get a lot of people asking us for orders for days and even weeks after that, Ines and I couldn’t have been happier. This whole dream couldn’t have been possible without our families, they could help us in everything, our sisters would drive us around to leave the orders, our parents would support us, buy the products and thousands more things that we are both so grateful for. After a whole summer of working like crazy and having the best time, it was time to go back to Mexico , and give the money to charity, we ended up saving $12,000and donating it all to charity, we had a big check and lots of hugs and kisses, at the end both of Ines’s and my parents gave us $3,000 pesos each for our hard work and effort. We got to help so many people and have the best summer.

Ines and I are still super close and we are so excited to have an opportunity to do this again.“