BUFFALO — Luis Elizondo’s father was a successful restaurateur, but growing up, Elizondo swore he was never going to work in a restaurant.

Life has a way of twisting such youthful vows and making them come true anyway.

So it is that Elizondo finds himself opening a place he calls Bombshells American Cantina in Buffalo, Wyoming. It’s a cocktail lounge and restaurant project he’s started with his best friend, Tucker Alger, whom he met in Buffalo.

The path for an Army veteran landing in Buffalo and starting a restaurant despite that childhood vow to never work in or own a restaurant is a long and winding one.

It started when he was a boy, hearing his father tell him that if he wanted to learn about leadership, he had to first learn to serve.

That led him to join the Army right after coll

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