# @chapelboronews on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-08-26T13:53:56.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Chapelboro.com (@chapelboronews) — https://gondola.cc/chapelboronews

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West Franklin Street is about to feature a new addition to the Chapel Hill restaurant lineup: Central American cuisine from a Triangle-based food truck team.

The Latin Effect, which has been operating out of Durham since 2020, is opening its first brick-and-mortar location at 504 West Franklin Street — with the goal of welcoming its first patrons in early September. Alberto Chedrani, who runs the food truck with his wife Rebecca, co-owns the restaurant with Happy Rathore, whose family company bought the space for $1.7 million in July 2024.

Chedrani, who goes by Bert, grew up in Kinston, NC and has lived in the Triangle since 2011. He transitioned to the food truck business after working as a property manager in Carrboro, having always loved cooking and being spurred into action after trying an over-priced food truck with Rebecca.

“I remember paying $15, $16 for three tacos,” he told Chapelboro, “and I said to my wife, ‘That’s crazy that I’m paying [that price] for something I can do.’ Believe it or not, that next morning I remember she was sitting downstairs and was like, ‘If you really think you can do something like this, Wake Tech teaches a class in how to start a food truck business…and I think we should sign you up.’ And it triggered right there — I said, ‘Let’s do it.’”

After completing the course, earning his certificates and buying a truck, Chedrani used the relationships to break into a food truck network to pick up shifts at different businesses, bars and events around the Triangle. Despite not having any prior culinary training, he says Latin American recipes run in the family. While his dad runs a restaurant in Honduras, Chedrani credits his mother for cultivating the love for the native meals and flavors he has showcased through The Latin Effect menu — and that he is excited to expand in the Chapel Hill restaurant.

Full story on Chapelboro.com.
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