Tamara Bones and Miguel Pérez, a married couple from Coamo, Puerto Rico, won the sixth edition of Travesía al Éxito Empresarial, a competition organized by Plaza Las Américas and Popular with the support of Wapa TV that seeks to open growth opportunities for small Puerto Rican businesses. Their business, One Bite Desserts, specializes in miniature sweets including brownies, truffles, brookies, cookies and polvorones (shortbread cookies), and some seasonal creations use local ingredients and fruit, with production done in batches to protect freshness and presentation.
As part of the prize, the couple will set up a One Bite Desserts cart at Plaza Las Américas starting in April 2027, where it will stay for a year. For the first six months they will be exempt from paying rent; for the remaining six months they will pay a previously defined percentage of gross sales.
They will also receive $20,000 in seed capital from Popular, eight business mentoring sessions and access to the Centro para Emprendedores’ Next 2027 program, which offers training, individualized advising and help strengthening the business’s digital presence and image. Five businesses reached the final stage and took part in October in the Travesía al Éxito Showcase at Plaza Las Américas.
The other finalists were New Adara Nails, by Jaretzy Reyes; Verdelias, by Yara Guerrero; Crumb Pastries, by Diorangelis Chaparro; and Zazona, by Cristty Ortiz. The Coamo couple placed first.