Art atayde - biography

Maine Mendoza's phenomenal stardom is arguably a product of perfect timing and her deeply rooted desire to become famous one day. Her mother Mary Ann is an accountant, while her father is an engineer who owns a construction firm. Maine is the fourth among a brood of five. Their family owns several gas stations, including Oro and Maryana's Shell, in Bulacan.

She is currently in a relationship with Arjo Atayde. They officially became a couple on December 21, Benilde in Manila.

Atayde family business

It was a deviation from her original plan as she explained, without pausing, in her August blog. Willy-nilly, she chose Culinary Art as an alternative. And Maine, being Maine—she is driven to excel in whatever she decides to do—she gave it her best shot. Knowing she wasn't really into cooking, she pushed herself to learn more by taking an internship as a cook at a restaurant in the tourist town of Bolton in New York, United States.

She was put in charge of the omelette and pantry section, which meant she had the "earliest call time" among the staff. Her kitchen duties, she related in her May blog, included preparing "six containers of onions, tomatoes, mushrooms, green peppers, scallions, ham and leftover bacon and sausage. She was also tasked to scrub the whole hot line—where a large number of hot entrees were prepared—before finishing her shift at 12 noon.

Maine also wrote in her August vlog entry that working in New York as a cook was not entirely a bad idea since she enjoyed her six-month internship. With time to kill before the hiring period of airlines, Maine opted to do some office work in their family-owned business.