Born in Nashville, Tennessee,  Ramiro Muñoz Jr. manages the restaurant Casa Mexicana in Oxford, Mississippi. Soon after his birth, Muñoz moved to Oxford during which time he witnessed the expansion of his family’s restaurant business and the growth of the Latino community. With a background education in the culinary arts, Muñoz focuses primarily on managing the restaurant and kitchen while his sister focuses on other aspects of the business. With over twenty restaurants in the mid-south and growing, Muñoz describes his family’s introduction into the food industry, first in California and later in the South. Recognizing a need for Mexican restaurants in many small, southern towns his immediate and extended family collaborated to create an important legacy and brought Mexican cuisine to places like Oxford, Olive Branch, and Southaven, Mississippi.