The Devil is in the Details: How Torchys Tacos Founder Built His Empire with Mike Rypka
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Mike Rypka, CEO, owner and co-founder of Torchys Tacos, has been in and around the food business for almost 20 years. With 130 stores across 16 states, he is still focused on creating innovative food across the country.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. If you are doing something you are passionate about, you have more chances to win than when you don’t have passion to do it.
2. When it is coming from inspired places and out of passion, the right stuff comes for the right reasons and people get it.
3. Hire people that are better than you at things that you are not good at. Have that humility to know that you are not going to do it all. Follow that passion and fulfil a need that needs to be fulfilled and go after it.
Check out their website - Torchy’s Tacos
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Boom. Shake the room, Fire Nation. JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, the only |
| 0:08.0 | daily show interviewing the world's top entrepreneurs seven days a week. To drop these value bombs, |
| 0:12.9 | I have brought to Mike Ripka into EO Fire Studios. Mike is the CEO and owner and co-founder of |
| 0:18.0 | Torchee's Tacos and has been in and around the food business for almost |
| 0:21.2 | 20 years with 130 stores across 16 states. He is still focused on creating innovative food |
| 0:26.9 | across the country. And today, our nation, we'll talk about passion and persistence, |
| 0:31.4 | innovation and authenticity, risk and reward, brand and culture, and oh, so much more. |
| 0:36.2 | And a big thank you for sponsoring today's |
| 0:37.8 | episode goes to Mike and our sponsors. Is now the time to grow a successful business? Attend the |
| 0:45.0 | world's highest rated business growth workshop taught personally by Clay Clark and now featuring |
| 0:49.8 | football star Tim Tebow and President Trump's son, Eric Trump at ThriveTimeshow.com slash EO Fire. |
| 0:56.4 | Again, request life-changing tickets today at ThriveTimeshow.com slash EO. Fire. |
| 1:03.9 | Do you have the right mentor in your life right now? |
| 1:07.2 | For the first time of seven years, I'm opening up a few mentorship slots for individuals who know they need the guidance and accountability to take their business and life to the next level. |
| 1:16.4 | Email me at John at Eofire.com with a subject line mentor and we'll schedule a 15 minute chat to go over the program and see if it's the right fit for you. |
| 1:28.2 | Mike, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something that you believe about becoming successful |
| 1:33.9 | that most people disagree with. Awesome. What's up, gang? Good to be here. Some entrepreneurs |
| 1:40.4 | kind of get into starting a business maybe financially based. |
| 1:46.2 | And look, everyone needs to make a buck. |
| 1:48.6 | But I think it's hard to go wrong if you're following your passion. |
| 1:53.7 | And, you know, because then it's not work, right? |
| 1:55.6 | And anyone who's an entrepreneur knows how much work it takes to start a business |
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