New restaurant to open in old Pizza Hut building

HARTINGTON — Hartington will soon have a new place that offers Mexican food.

Efrain Gonzalez, Omaha, and several partners are purchasing the old Pizza Hut building on Highway 57 and plan to open a new restaurant at the location.

The ownership group for Ma Mona Mexican Grill LLC received approval Monday night from the Hartington City Council for a $50,000 no-interest loan to help them get started in business. The money comes from a revolving loan fund established years ago by Hartington Economic Development.

'We are putting all of our effort into this to make this work,' Gonzalez said in a Monday evening interview with the Cedar County News.

Gonzalez said his business partners own several restaurants and felt a restaurant here would fit their business profile very well.

'They like small towns,' he said. 'Their businesses are in small towns. Hartington is a good fit,' said Gonzalez, who is hoping to have the new eatery up and running by early October.

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