CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – After starting off with a New York style hotdog pushcart and learning how to operate a business, James Patterson teamed up with brothers Daniel and Valentin Trujillo to open No Way Jose #1 Taqueria in northeast Clarksville.
The partners first began working together in 2019 and now have multiple locations, but this marked their first in Tennessee.
Early days: Fostering partnership
Patterson told Clarksville Now he first operated the PJ’s New York City Hotdogs and Philly Cheesesteaks food truck in Montgomery County, and that’s how he met the Trujillo brothers, who operated the Dos Margaritas food truck in 2018.
“The brothers watched me grow from the pushcart to a food trailer and began asking me questions about starting a company about a year later,” he said. “We collaborated about my menu items and how it could be improved, and I helped them with the research of starting a company.”…