Small town hate
An inadequate septic system and large dose of homophobia closed one couple’s business DAVID TAFFET | Senior Staff Writertaffet@dallasvoice.com After stints at companies like American Airlines, Gary Garcia was tired of corporate America, tired of the bureaucracy and the politics.
He was ready to step out on his own and follow in his family’s restaurant tradition. “My family has owned restaurants in Colorado since 1960,” he said, adding that any time he would take tacos he made to work, “everyone always told me to open a restaurant.” So Garcia and his husband, Chad Pritchett, looked for a location near their Wise County house.
They found a new food truck yard opening, but they wanted something more permanent. Then, in nearby Aurora, they found a developer putting together sheds built around a common seating/patio/picnic area.
It was just what they were looking for. Like the rest of the city, the restaurants in these sheds would be on a septic system.
