[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 187 (Friday, December 2, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H8712]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      CONGRATULATING MARY GITHENS

  (Mr. CARTER of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate 
Savannah restaurant owner Mary Githens for her placement in Georgia 
Trend's annual 40 Under 40 list.
  Mary immigrated to the United States when she was 17, and one of the 
first objects of her homesickness was the lack of authentic food from 
her native Peru.
  She took to Georgia Southern University's Armstrong campus and 
enrolled in entrepreneurial courses, dead set on fixing Savannah's 
apparent lack of Peruvian cuisine herself.
  Just a year after she graduated, she put those entrepreneurial skills 
to use and opened the first Latin Chicks location in the Oglethorpe 
Mall food court in 2009. The restaurant was a huge success and quickly 
expanded to a second location.
  Today, Mary is the owner and operator of three restaurant 
enterprises: Mint to Be Mojitos, which offers Latin-inspired cocktails; 
The Apparition, a bar and speakeasy; and, of course, Latin Chicks, the 
venture that started it all.
  Mary's story exemplifies perfectly what the American Dream is about. 
No matter who you are and where you come from, you can achieve great 
things with a bold vision and the ambition to achieve it.
  I want to commend Mary for her hard-earned success and Georgia Trend 
for recognizing her accomplishments.

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