La Zorrita Restaurant

Expansion is on the menu at La Zorrita, a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Lake Forest that The Times wrote about last November after its owners attended a restaurant management certificate program at UC Irvine. Fernando Barrera, who helps to manage the eatery that his father, Froylan, opened in 1987, is moving the family business to a new location at 23684 El Toro Road in Lake Forest.

Expansion is on the menu at La Zorrita, a family-owned Mexican restaurant in Lake Forest that The Times wrote about last November after its owners attended a restaurant management certificate program at UC Irvine. Fernando Barrera, who helps to manage the eatery that his father, Froylan, opened in 1987, is moving the family business to a new location at 23684 El Toro Road in Lake Forest.

Fernando Barrera has been working in restaurants since he was a teen-ager, and his father, Froylan, has been cooking restaurant meals for more than 30 years. Despite their wealth of experience, the Barrera family is scrambling to keep La Zorrita, their family-owned Mexican-style restaurant in Lake Forest, profitable in the face of increased competition.