If the family that plays together, stays together . . . what about the family that launches a business together?
When the Fuduric family introduced Bracos, a breakfast taco pop-up, to Greenville in early 2021, it was just another in a series of family adventures. Simple breakfast tacos had been their weekend tradition since they fell in love with the grab-and-go concept on a ski trip, but the pandemic gave them a chance to take their tacos beyond the breakfast table.
“We love to travel, so all that time staying home got our creative juices flowing about what we could do together,” says Joseph Fuduric, the father and lead cook behind Bracos. Bracos tacos are as simple as the foil-wrapped ski-lodge editions that first inspired the Fudurics. Designed to be inexpensive and easy to grab on the way to a weekend adventure, the tasty bracos feature winning combinations of basic ingredients: eggs, bacon, cheese, beans, and so on. In a pandemic pivot of their own, Ryan and Chrissy McCrary added commercial kitchen equipment to their Greenville coffeeshop, Mountain Goat, and allowed their friends the Fudurics to use it as a home base for the first Bracos offering.
“We’ve dreamed about selling breakfast tacos for a while, but the pop-up model is a great, low-risk way to test if the idea has traction,” says Fuduric. Saturday pop-ups at Mountain Goat made a splash in the community and propelled Bracos to a regular spot at the Travelers Rest Farmers Market through the summer. From all-hands-on-deck pico de gallo prep sessions to actually preparing and serving the breakfast tacos, Bracos has been a family affair from the beginning. Joseph, a commercial real estate broker by day, handles the majority of the cooking; his wife, Erin, the co-owner of local boutique Given, assists in the prep; and their three children, Lucy, Jesse, and Hoke, package and serve orders.
“The best thing about Bracos is how it’s brought our family together,” Lucy Fuduric says.
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Bracos’ short but sweet menu of simple, foil-wrapped breakfast tacos brightens any weekend morning.
The best way to get your hands on a breakfast taco from Bracos is to follow their Instagram account (@bracosgvl), where the family announces the dates and locations of upcoming pop-ups.
Photography by Jack Connolly
