Gloria’s Latin Cuisine: 16 Patios Across Texas, One Enclosure Partner Since 2016
Gloria’s is a Texas family story, Salvadoran and Latin cooking served in dining rooms that look like someone’s good taste rather than a chain’s. The patios are part of that look. Since 2016 every new Gloria’s, and most of the older ones, has had us close the patio with motorized screens built to match the building, from a Spanish-tile awning in Rockwall to a brick lattice in McKinney to a mall storefront in Friendswood.
What we built
- Customer: Gloria’s Latin Cuisine, the Fuentes family’s restaurant group, Dallas, Texas.
- 16 restaurants from Southlake in 2016 to Prosper, The Rim in San Antonio and Baybrook in Friendswood in 2022, all in Texas.
- About 125 motorized screens with clear vinyl windows, plus roughly 20 manual, fixed and sun shade units where a motor would be wasted, and about two dozen framed doors.
- About 20,000 square feet of enclosure across the group.
- Built to the building: dark mesh and clear under the tan awning at Rockwall, clear screens in black frames at the Baybrook mall storefront, a solid shade over the brick lattice at McKinney, maroon vinyl at Las Colinas.
- Second phases: a new patio at Rockwall in 2020, sun shades and doors added at Garland, a west-wall shade at Garland in 2020, a second sun shade at Fairview.
Location by location
| Location | Installed | Screens |
|---|---|---|
| Southlake | 2016 | 14 motorized, 2 doors |
| Addison | 2016 | 9 motorized |
| Flower Mound | 2016 | 6 motorized, 6 manual, 2 doors |
| Garland | 2016, shades and doors added, west wall 2020 | 9 motorized, 5 shades, 2 doors |
| Fairview | 2018, shade 2016 | 8 motorized, fixed panels, 1 shade |
| Colleyville | 2017 | 8 motorized, 3 fixed, 2 doors |
| Rockwall | 2018, new patio 2020 | 10 motorized, then 5 clear and 2 shades, 4 doors |
| Frisco | 2019 | 7 motorized, 2 fixed, 2 doors |
| Las Colinas, Irving | 2019 | 5 motorized, 1 door |
| Oak Cliff, Dallas | 2019, two floors | 10 motorized, 4 doors |
| Katy | 2020 to 2021 | 7 motorized, 2 doors |
| McKinney | 2020 to 2021 | 8 motorized, 2 doors |
| Prosper | 2021 to 2022 | 7 motorized, 1 door |
| The Rim, San Antonio | 2022 | 5 motorized |
| Baybrook, Friendswood | 2022 | 7 motorized, 3 fixed |
How it works with a group like this
Gloria’s does not build cookie-cutter restaurants, so there is no single Gloria’s panel. What repeats is the process. The group tells us a patio is coming, our designer measures it when the structure exists, we match the screen color and frame to the building, and the crew installs around the opening date. Over six years that has run eighteen separate projects without the group needing to re-explain what it wants.
What made this one different
Variety on purpose. A mall storefront, a brick lattice, a tile-roofed hacienda and a two-story Oak Cliff patio all got the same motorized system, dressed differently. The McKinney lattice is the best example: the patio wall is open brickwork that the owners wanted to keep visible by day, so the screen is a solid shade that drops over it only when the sun or the wind calls for it.
The other thing is time. The 2016 screens at Southlake, Addison and Garland are still in service, and the group has come back for second phases at four locations rather than replacing anything.
Specs
| System | Motorized roll-down screens with clear vinyl windows; manual, fixed and sun shade units where needed |
| Fabric | Solid vinyl in the building’s color with clear windows, or solar mesh, flame-rated to NFPA 701 |
| Largest units | 14 feet wide by 10 feet tall (Southlake) |
| Wind rating | Motorized screens rated for 65 mph deployed at these sizes |
| Warranty | 5 years on motors, 3 years on workmanship |
| Lead time | About 8 weeks from deposit on each location |
| Installation | Our own crew at every location. Outlet locations only; we do not do the electrical. |
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