The Brief
- A Deer Park restaurant was left with a $757 order of 225 tacos after a customer placed the order and then blocked their number without picking it up.
- El Rancho Grande Tex-Mex Grill shared the incident online, and the story quickly went viral.
- The local community responded with overwhelming support, with many customers coming in to claim or pay for the abandoned tacos.
DEER PARK, Texas – A family-owned Tex-Mex restaurant in Deer Park was left holding the bill after a customer placed a pricey taco order — and never showed up.
A customer ‘ghosted’ the restaurant
El Rancho Grande Tex-Mex Grill on Center Street shared the ordeal in a social media post that quickly went viral. The post described how a woman ordered dozens of breakfast tacos for a 6:30 a.m. pickup, then blocked the restaurant’s phone number after the food was prepared.
“We were at an Astros day game, and my son sent me a message saying we had an order for 225 tacos,” said co-owner Dynora Guzman. “It was worth $757.”
Guzman and her family rushed to fulfill the massive order, calling in extra help from relatives and employees. But when they tried to reach the customer to let her know the order was ready, she hung up and then blocked their number, Guzman said.…