All photos: Gene Marrano
Farmburguesa
Check your ego, map it out, listen By Gene Marrano From helping out with dad’s food truck and selling candy in grade school, the journey to Farmburguesa for one entrepreneurial couple. She grew up in Bedford County; he’s from Columbia with a detour to Elizabeth, New Jersey before winding up here. Both their families were involved with owning small businesses, so they cut their teeth early on being self-starters and entrepreneurs. Now they make some of the best burgers in town at two Farmburguesa restaurants, first in Vinton (soon to be expanding) and then in Roanoke’s Grandin Village. Kat Pascal (31) and husband Jimmy Delgado (35) have two boys, now 8 and 9. They have made their business a family affair with relatives involved as well. Farmburguesa wasn’t the first venture they
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got into. “We started as soon as we started our relationship [over a decade ago],” says Pascal. Spotless America was the commercialonly cleaning and landscaping business they created (the latter eventually fell by the wayside – a decision made despite having sunk about $20,000 into equipment) while both were working for banks. Not to mention Pascal was about 8 months pregnant. “We saw that we needed a third income,” Delgado recalls. A nighttime business offering janitorial services made sense. Spotless Roanoke became Spotless America after they started picking up clients outside
