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Side Hustle School

#749 - Nacho Average Tacos! Chef Puts Twist on Mexican Culinary Classics

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

A San Diego chef turns her weekend catering gig into a popular brick and mortar restaurant for visitors on both sides of the border.. Side Hustle School features a new story EVERY DAY of someone who started a hustle without quitting their job. You’ll learn how they got the idea, how they overcame challenges along the way, and what the results are. Share: #SideHustleSchool Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com Twitter: @chrisguillebeau To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Nautic nature is ever changing and unpredictable.

0:05.1

Shifting between wind, sun and rain, but one thing is certain, this landscape shares its

0:10.8

goodness with us all.

0:12.6

Yard is the delicious plant-based oat drink, made with symbol all natural ingredients,

0:18.4

and organic oats grown and harvested in Nordic fields.

0:22.4

Yard, inspired by Nordic nature, find it in the Chilterial Turnitives Isle.

0:30.0

The restaurant's startup life is not one that we look at very often, if ever, here on

0:43.4

the program.

0:44.4

Satisfil school is all about starting quickly, starting portably, not taking a lot of

0:48.6

risk, and when you think about the restaurant world, well, it is expensive to start a restaurant,

0:53.0

at least usually.

0:54.3

It is hard to make it work, almost always.

0:56.8

And if it doesn't work, the cost of failure can be high, at least compared to many other projects.

1:01.1

So that's why overall I tend to steer people in a different direction, but to be fair,

1:04.8

what if it's your life dream to open a restaurant, and what if you want to do it, you have to

1:09.5

do it without much access to capital?

1:11.8

So that's what we'll look at today in the form of a catering biz turned brick-and-mortar

1:15.4

establishment in San Diego, California, actually very close to the border of Tijuana, Mexico.

1:20.4

We're calling this story not-show-average tacos.

1:23.8

The chef puts a twist on Mexican culinary classics.

1:26.5

I love that title, by the way, not-show-average tacos.

1:29.1

You'll also learn how this young chef and child of immigrants overcame a last-minute

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