Cheesesteak joint and commissary kitchen on Santa Fe gets started with $700k buy

Chris Sempeles gets his cheese whiz from back east and his hoagie rolls from a local bakery owned by a Pennsylvania native.

“I don’t want to serve a half-assed cheesesteak,” he said.

The 36 year old, along with two of friends, purchased 674 Santa Fe Drive earlier this month for $690,000 from a private trust fund, according to public records.

That amounts to $362 per square foot for space that was previously home to a head shop.

“It was the tippy-top of our budget, but we hadn’t seen a space this good check all of our boxes ‘til here,” Sempeles said.

Those boxes? Room for a commissary kitchen and a cheesesteak spot.

For the past six years, Sempeles and childhood friend Kyle Pellman have run a food truck rental business, ProtoTaste.

“You can rent the commissary kitchen. You can rent t