Today, it's a fast-casual Mexican restaurant chain with 15 locations across New York, Miami and Washington, D.C.
That's a far cry from Tacombi's beach days, which started when Wolos bought his 1963 green VW "bus" in Mexico City for $3,000.
Wolos converted the van into a mobile restaurant where he sold his first tacos, he told Total Food Service in November.
He wrote a business plan for a restaurant chain concept called "Taco Rex" where he'd sell Mexican food that was, to him, actually Mexican.
"I saw that Taco Bell, Chipotle and Old El Paso and all these legacy brands of Mexican food weren't connecting people to this side of Mexico."