When Cameron Chung moved to Elizabeth to join his college friend David Orozco in his family’s restaurant business, he knew he would have to win his friend’s father over.

After all, Brisas Bakery & Restaurant was like another child to Albeiro Orozco, who founded the company about two decades earlier.

Chung, 33, who is Jamaican-Chinese, arrived in Elizabeth without speaking Spanish. “David’s dad refused to speak English, so I had to learn,” he said.

Within six months, he was conversational — while also running the register, serving customers, and sleeping in a tiny office above the restaurant.

“It was humbling,” said Chung. “I had multiple college degrees and had worked in New York consulting, and suddenly I was doing every job imaginable.”

The Orozco family emphasized responsibility an

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