Juan Carlos 'Cacho' Elías, co-founder of the legendary churrería chain El Topo, passed away this weekend at the age of 85 in the city of Necochea. According to the Argentine News Agency, the news was confirmed this Sunday by the company itself through an emotional statement shared on its social networks, where they said goodbye to the historic entrepreneur, remembering his charisma and tireless spirit. The farewell message: 'The one with crazy ideas'. Juan Carlos, Cacho, the Russian. Both were born in Buenos Aires and became close friends in the 60s, united by their passion for motorcycles. Before kneading flour, they earned their lives by dodging Buenos Aires traffic at full speed as express couriers for heavy film rolls that had to circulate from cinema to cinema for daily screenings. It was precisely 'Cacho' who pushed the idea that would make them famous across the country: breaking the rules of classical pastry and offering salty churros filled with Roquefort cheese. With that same audacity, 'Cacho' built an undeniable symbol of Argentine vacations, leaving a legacy that his heirs manage today but that maintains the intact flavor of those early Gesell mornings. As a sign of mourning, the company announced that the traditional 'burrow' on 83rd Street in Necochea will remain closed for the rest of the summer. From fast motorcycles to revolutionizing Villa Gesell. The story of 'Cacho' Elías and his partner Hugo Navarro (who passed away some time ago) seems like it's from a movie. While the young people were coming back from the beach bonfires, Elías and Navarro were already ready at 3:30 AM frying churros to satisfy the crowd's hunger. They renovated it by hand and opened just for the 1968 summer season. The name, with its characteristic backward typography to get attention, was suggested by a local vendor nicknamed 'The Little Prince', inspired by the famous television puppet, Topo Gigio. The success was overwhelming from the first dawn. The one who, when advising you about work, spoke in the third person. Two serious motorcycle accidents in the rain ended that stage and forced them to reinvent themselves. After a failed first attempt with 'The Churro Factory' in the Belgrano neighborhood (they were evicted because smoke and grease entered through the neighbors' windows), a biker friend suggested they try their luck in a small coastal town that was beginning to fill with young bohemians: Villa Gesell. The birth of a legend with a Roquefort flavor. They arrived at the coast in October 1967 and rented a destroyed premises on the town's only avenue. The one with crazy ideas, the charismatic one. Popular gastronomy and the Atlantic Coast are in mourning. 'He must already be telling his thousands of anecdotes wherever he is,' the official El Topo account posted on Instagram. The heartfelt post, which quickly filled with comments from customers of different generations, concluded with a greeting to his family: 'A big hug to Betty, his companion of a lifetime, his daughters, and grandchildren. He left at 3 am. An tireless worker.'