06/02/2026
I want to thank all of those who have responded to our unfortunate post from Saturday about being burglarized with words of encouragement and support. I would also like to take a moment and address many of the questions and concerns in the comments that we have recieved.
Many people are accusing my staff of an inside job. My staff has blamed each other. While these accusations came as a surprise to me, I guess they shouldn’t as it is human nature to blame others. Especially when those who we are accusing have less than perfect pasts. I will admit, my staff, including myself are all people who struggle with addiction.
8 years ago when I started this business, I also began my journey of breaking the chains of addiction that had held me for my entire life. I began 2018 at 430lbs miserable and angry at the world. All I could see were all the ways I had been mistreated and abused. I honestly started this business in hopes of putting myself in a position to be the one taking advantage of others rather than the other way around. Well, all of that slowly changed over the last years as I focused on the self control and discipline it takes to get free of addiction and to run a small business. My heart was softened as I came to realize that we are all the same. We are all people who have fallen short of the grace of God and all of us are in need of forgiveness. But forgiveness is only one part of this equation, the second part is that of repentance. In other words, once forgiven, I realized I must change if I am not to continue hurting those around me. So I have dedicated my life and all I do to demonstrating to those around me that positive change is possible even though changing oneself is the hardest thing to do.
While everyone is busy pointing fingers at each other, I would rather forgive in hopes that whoever did this to us sees our hearts and instead of apologizing embarks upon the long hard road of repentance. That instead of beating them selves up or continuing in their hurtful ways, they instead find the joy that comes from being a new person. A person free of the guilt and shame that allowed them to harm us in the first place. With all of that said, I would also like to tell you I did not get to this place over night.
This is far from the first time I have been robbed, stolen from or conned. It isn’t even the first or second time this year or even the greatest amount taken from me. When you surround yourself with hurt and broken people, you have to be willing to turn the other cheek, bless those that spitefully use you and go the extra mile. Every time I am stolen from, I learn a bit more of how to better prevent these things from happening again. However, I know no matter how much I learn and work to prevent these things, as long as there are those who feel wronged, there will always be those willing to take from others. So until the world is made perfect, I will always choose to forgive.
The local news reached out to us and wanted to do a story about the robbery and what it is we are hoping to accomplish with our little restaurant out here in Cantonment. The reporter wanted to help us tell the community our story and hopefully rally the community to help us continue our good work. However, because we did not file a police report, the producers have decided not to do the story. So we will tell it ourselves since we were planning to begin doing that ourselves this week anyway. Over the last couple of months we have been working hard to get things in place to really begin talking about our mission of “changing the world one taco at a time.” So we will begin here.
In the past, I was always concerned about what everyone else was doing and what they needed to do so that the world could be fixed. What I found out along the way is that the only person in this world I could truly change is myself. I also came to realize that merely talking about change wasn’t enough, it also must be demonstrated. So, now I choose to surround myself with people who know they need to change. I only hire those who are willing to change and willing to commit to the hard road that leads to that positive change. I do this in hopes that if we can build a group of people who always push each other to be their best that eventually we will become the people we want to be. People free of addiction and the capability of hurting those around ourselves by putting our needs and wants before the needs of others.
Making tacos has become the job, but the real work is that of becoming like the one that started me on this road. I know I have a very long way to still go and that I cannot get there on my own. That it will take the help of others to change into the person I ultimately want to be. I have also learned that the only thing that can truly change me is learning to love like the one that rescued me. To be willing to serve others rather than seek to be served.
For addicts, there is nothing worse than idle time. This place has in many ways become my salvation as it keeps me too busy to go down the roads of destruction upon which I used to travel so frequently. While there is enough to keep me busy, there isn’t enough to keep busy all those who already work here and those waiting for us to call them so they can come here to hopefully find freedom as well.
This is where you, our community comes in to play. We have been working hard these last couple of months to be ready to invite all of you to help us with our mission. I tried to talk about our goal at the turn of the year, but the people who had come alongside me at that time to help us demonstrate true change fell. The road got too hard and rather than press forward, they instead turned back to those things that give momentary satisfaction rather than eternal joy. As many addicts are prone to do, they took advantage of the one offering help rather than taking advantage of the help. I do not resent any of those individuals. In fact, quite the opposite is true. I very much still love them and hope that they eventually find the self control and discipline it takes to find the joy that only true change can bring.
So, we are asking you, our community to help. Not by donating anything, but instead by coming into our little home and letting us serve you. We want to give each and every one of you the best possible food, at the best possible price served by people committed to giving you a great experience every time you come through our doors. You can also help by liking our page and helping us share our story of hope in a world that always seems to be clouded by hopelessness.
To uphold our end of this request over the last 6 weeks have worked to offer multiple $10 lunches that include your drink. We also built upon our daily specials like 3 for $5 tacos every Tuesday and now offer great specials every day that we are open. We also know that we are way out in Cantonment just north of Kingsfield Rd. and that is a bit of a drive for many of you. That is why on Saturdays we are offering all of our daily specials that day for those of you who can’t make it out during the week.
Thank you for your time and we look forward to seeing you as we continue on our goal of changing into the people we truly want to be and demonstrating to the world that no one is beyond redemption.
