![]() “I said, ‘Bro, in South Park there are eight Italian restaurants, two taco shops and fish trucks all up and down 30th Street. Why not test the waters first with a food truck that he could park in The Bottle House parking lot? Hirmez also talked Zeto out of his initial idea of opening a taco truck. When Zeto started looking for a restaurant building in 2018, Hirmez offered him a less-risky solution. He always made great meals for me and our friends and he always talked about opening his own restaurant.” “I would always go to his house and he’d be cooking Wagyu this and Wagyu that. “He has always had a passion for cooking,” Hirmez said. One of those friends was Steven Hirmez, who owns The Bottle House. From an early age, he loved to cook and became known among his friends for his barbecuing expertise. When he was 11, his family moved to San Diego’s East County where as a teen he started working in the family business, selling paging devices and later running his own business selling cellphones in bulk. Zeto was born and raised in an Iraqi Chaldean neighborhood of Detroit. ![]() Several regulars on Saturday said that Zeto always greets local customers by name, he knows most of their usual orders and he sets treats aside for their dogs. And whenever he’s not making food, Zeto is also in the parking lot talking to his customers. Now, all customer orders are taken and delivered by an employee in the parking lot with a hand-held point-of-sale tablet. Zeto said he realized almost immediately after opening Shawarma Guys last January that he needed to get out of the truck to meet his customers face to face. In the past year, it has also been rated the best food truck in California by Redbook and Yelp, and San Diego Magazine named it the city’s best Mediterranean food truck in 2019. “It’s an awesome business, and he’s a really great and humble guy.”Įarning the Yelp award is just the latest honor for Shawarma Guys. He makes sure to add his signature touch to everything,” Wurst said. ![]() That really speaks volumes to why it’s run so well and people love it so much. ![]() “Very rarely will you visit Shawarma Guys and not see him there. Wurst said Zeto epitomizes the family service ethos. Bibi, a Korean fast-casual restaurant in Oceanside that opened last June.ĭanny Wurst, a San Diego community manager for Yelp, said the reason mom-and-pop shops are so heavily represented on the annual list is that they treat their customers like family, and that welcoming environment prompts customers to share their experiences online. 9 is Soichi Sushi in University Heights, an omakase-style fine-dining Japanese restaurant opened last March by former Sushi Tadakoro chef Soichi Kadoya. Two other San Diego County restaurants also made this year’s list. If there really are people in the world who go into restaurants and announce their superior Yelp status, I think it’s safe to say they’re getting whatever special treatment is coming to them.(Hayne Palmour IV/The San Diego Union-Tribune) Although the restaurants initially rebel against the Yelpers and war is waged across South Park, the town eventually concedes to a truce between the two factions, and the restaurants find away to give the Yelp elite the special service they truly deserve, as seen in the above musical clip: “Boogers and Cum.” This leads to the citizens of South Park all fancying themselves food critics, which provided some blistering commentary about Yelp and people who use the review service to their own advantage. With the Whole Foods in place, the town now sees a bunch of new restaurants moving into town. Wednesday night’s episode, “The Yelper Special,” continued to build on that arc involving the gentrification of South Park following Whole Foods moving into town, which the townspeople previously rallied for to combat the backlash of Mr. While other seasons have had recurring plots or jokes, this is really the first time the series has had a cohesive plot arc. Season 19 of South Park has been interesting in that it’s been the first season that’s followed a consistent, continuing narrative. ![]()
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