April 2017 | Business View Magazine

112 113 Taco Rico Tex-Mex Café The highest quality in Tex-Mex cuisine L eland Neal, founder and CEO of Taco Rico Tex- Mex Café, has been in the restaurant business since he was 16 years old.He began working for the Red Lobster chain as a teenager, and had worked his way up to executive status,when, in 1992, he and his business partner, James Ross, decided to go out on their own.“There was a restaurant for sale- a little Mexican place that actually had the name Taco Rico along U.S. 1,which is the main corridor down here in Coral Gables,” he recounts.“We bought it and within sixmonths, changed it TACO Rico Tex-Mex Café