Today we’d like to introduce you to Kiana.
Hi Kiana , so excited to have you on the platform. So before we get into questions about your work-life, maybe you can bring our readers up to speed on your story and how you got to where you are today?
Hi! My name is Kiana Orellana and I’m the owner of 503 Girls. Back in 2025 I found the idea of opening a food business with my mother. What made me have this idea was because years prior I would randomly start posting our traditional food named “pupusas” on my social media platforms whenever she would make them at home or family gatherings. Little by little I would get messages, likes, shares on photos and posts I made about her cooking. Slowly it became to the point where individuals would reach out to me asking if they could place an order or to cater at their events! Finally, in 2025 we decided to take the chance of opening a small food business. Fast forward to now we have had the chance to go to pop up vendor events, charity events, parties, and much more! Our famous pupusas has reached a lot of followings on our social media page and we are very grateful we have been booked to different events!
What is a pupusas? It’s a famous traditional Salvadoran plate. It’s a stuffed tortilla with your choice of stuffing from a lot of options like beans, cheese, pork, zucchini, chicken, fish, and much more! To top it off it has chopped up cabbage with carrots, and our famous delicious red sauce.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
It has definitely been a bumpy road! Anyone who starts a business knows their will be downfalls in the beginning! That’s how you eventually learn to run a business and I’m forever grateful that the struggles taught us reach to the point where we are now! I think of it as another challenge life throws us is a good thing because that way our skills elevate to a different level in our business! My mother and I both have a life outside of this business and we have been able to juggle with everything going on. Her being a mother of 4 daughters, having a full time job, being a singer at her church, and still be able to be professional when it comes to our food business is a different type of respect. Because of her I was able to learn to balance my career and run two businesses at the same time!
Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about 503.Girls?
503 Girls proudly represents our beautiful country “El Salvador” traditional food plate called “Pupusas”. We would like the readers to know that they need to try our famous pupusas because I promise they will not leave disappointed! We cater, collab, and serve for any occasions. Our social media page @503.girls on instagram shows the latest areas we will be at serving our famous pupusas. We also serve delicious aguas frescas and fresh fruit cups!
How do you define success?
What we define success is when an example with our business we have made individuals happy. It could be from catering at an event and the customer is happy with a full stomach to collaborating into a charity event knowing that we did something good for the community. That’s what we define success. Keeping individuals happy!
Contact Info:
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/503.girls
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/1BgzqKzVN3/?mibextid=wwXIfr
- Other: https://www.tiktok.com/@.503.girls?_r=1&_t=ZP-99d3NIYNQ1H
