In Guardiola de Berga there was an inn named Cal Frare. Its owner had financial problems, reason why his brother-in-law, Esteve Noguera Forgas, bought him the building. Esteve, maker of sausages from Barcelona, and his wife, Concepció Rovira Vilarosal, bought Cal Frare in equal parts for a price of 37,333 pesetas and 32 cents. They turned the building into a sausage-making workroom, with the slaughterhouse area in the basement, handling and elaboration on the first floor and drying rooms on the upper floors.