 Alright, my name is Sam Bernardino, I'm one of the co-owners of Kuboba Spot. Hi, I'm Sina Smith, I'm also a co-owner of Kuboba Spot. We're both previously in the healthcare field and so like during the pandemic and everything very stressful so we wanted to actually pursue our dreams. Our dream was to have a cafe, mine's was to have a bakery and so we felt like well let's just combine it and then while looking at locations we literally stumbled upon this location and we're so so lucky that we did because we love the community. We came up with the name Kuboba or the brand Kuboba Spot, Kubo means the Nipahut. When we were talking about the actual name for Kuboba Spot, to me I got the symbol of family, a symbol of love, eating at a table, eating under very family style. On February 26th Kuboba Spot hosted their second annual Filipino festival which boasted an impressive turnout despite the rain. We had to close down half of the street, it was a good turnout. We actually sold out of our empanadas and boba so we had to close an hour early. But yeah we are really thankful for the customers, the students, the professionals, the residents. Kuboba Spot doesn't plan to stop at the Filipino festival and hope to become a home to more Berkeley communities and identities. There are a lot more kind of events that we want to do that involves not just Filipino but all different types of cultures just so that they can pretty much just have a platform. To speak more on the community oriented and customer first aspect of Kuboba Spot is Mason Fan employee. I've been here since August of last year, so 2022. How did you find out about this place and the first place towards here? I have this terrible addiction with boba and so I remember back in August I was just like walking around and I was like oh this is new so I came here and I ended up coming here five days in a row and then I asked if they were hiring. We have a lot of regulars here, often times it's people like there's an old man who's right next door who does like physical therapy kind of stuff chiropractor and so he always gets a cappuccino with half and half and there's a guy upstairs I'm pretty sure he's vegetarian his name is Paul he has like a taro order with oat milk and like a curry empanada all the time and so there's always like these regulars that come in on like a Friday or on a Saturday or only on Wednesdays and it's really nice just like see all these familiar faces see them walk in and be like okay yeah you want this yeah. When asked about the importance of supporting family-owned businesses, Mason had this tad. With family-owned businesses you kind of understand like where the money's going towards and it's not just like money helping like a big organization you're just helping small people just grow and support themselves and I think that's a lot more beneficial to like the local community. One more thing like with small businesses it does it does mean that it's like a dream it's someone's dream so it's like what a better way to support someone than to support a small business. This has been Ava Andrews and Emma Levy for Cal TV News's Small Business Series.