In the midst of the rebound in COVID cases, he launched into opening his lunch box of tacos
On February 2, when we still had not recovered from the rebound in the wave of COVID cases – 19 that the holidays left us, Fernando Guadarrama Pérez had the courage to open his lunch box “OC Tacos # 2” in the city of Fullerton in Orange County.
“ I was not afraid of the pandemic nor did I want to wait for it to come to an end. I am a very hard-working and very ‘fanatic’ man. My dream is to have a restaurant and I go step by step, but I will not stop until I achieve it ”.
Fernando’s dreams began in Iguala, Mexico where he was born. He was about to turn 17 years when he left his land in the Mexican southwest to emigrate to the south of California and settled in the city of Anaheim in Orange County.
“During almost 18 years, I worked in the kitchens of different French and Italian restaurants until I became a chef ”, he says .
When I had 35 years, three years ago, he thought it was time to do something for him and create his own business, and what better than a taqueria.
“I bought a ‘trailita’ – a small trailer – that he pulled with my truck. I baptized it with the name of OC Tacos and I parked at Anderson and 4 streets in East Los Angeles in front of a warehouse where they shoot commercials and movies, ”he says. Since then, almost every day to and from Anaheim to East Los Angeles.