Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 10

58 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 10 AT A GLANCE TACO RICO TEX-MEX CAFÉ WHAT: A fresh-focused restaurant chain serving traditional Mexican cuisine WHERE: Eight locations across Southern Florida WEBSITE: www.tacoricotmc.com ex Café I n 1992, Taco Rico opened its first location in Coral Gables, Florida and quickly became a sizzling sensation and the go-to spot for University of Miami students. As the demand for Tex-Mex cuisine grew, Taco Rico grew with it. In 2015, the first Taco Rico franchisee-owned unit was established in the Kendall area and today the restaurants are favorite locations for diners, thanks to the fresh and delicious homemade Tex-Mex cuisine and friendly, laid-back atmosphere where customers are treated like family. Everyone is invited to stop in and taste why Taco Rico is the authority on Tex-Mex! When the chips were down for Taco Rico Tex- Mex Café, the South Florida-based restaurant loaded up on extras. “We had about two to three weeks of scariness and then we put our heads together,” Taco Rico CEO Leland Neal says of the restaurant’s situation in March 2020, when the COVID-19 virus was declared a pandemic. “There was all this craziness going on with the supermarkets – there was no meat, no paper towels, no toilet paper, no bleach, sanitizers. All that was just gone. But we realized that our Fresh food, fresh ideas