SYCAMORE – When the new Pancheros restaurant opens in the Hy-Vee shopping center next week, a young entrepreneur will be the operating partner behind the counter.

Andrew Kemp, 24, is already part-owner of another Pancheros in Rockford and will be running the new store in Sycamore. He studied business administration and finance in college and at one point considered a career in finance or banking, but decided to go into the restaurant business with his father.

“When I graduated from college in a rough job market I steered away from finance because of all the problems in that field, like the economy and the scandals,” Kemp said.