He went from working at Burger King to making Yelp’s Top 100 list while elevating Jacksonville’s Filipino food scene

JACKSONVILLE BEACH, Fla. – Just a few years after coming to the United States from the Philipines as a 17-year-old in 1995, Jojo Hernandez was at a crossroads. Hernandez came to the country with dreams of being a pilot, but he soon started working as a dishwasher at Naval Station Mayport. He later got a job at Burger King.

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