ETS Reigns (Taco) Supreme
This move is not the first one that the business has made in its 33-year existence. Longstanding ETS fans might remember their original location back in ’75. It’s in the same spot that their current location is in. They did make a move down the street at another point in time, only to revisit their original location a number of years later. It took a few business-savvy features to lure the family a few doors down where they purchased the Burger King. “We’re meeting with architects now,” said Mike Lucchino. “It’s going to be modern and chic. Jackie (Mike’s sister) and I are going to take ETS to the next level… though I know that both Barb and Ron (parents) will always have a hand in it. This new design concept will hopefully be one that we can duplicate… we may look at franchising down the road.”
Though the location is changing, the recipe for success will remain the same. A couple of new additions to the menu might make appearances upon opening the new location. One of those additions is reportedly homemade nachos. “Every once in a while we add something new to the menu,” Mike reflected. “We added fries a couple years back and we sell a ton of them. So we thought that homemade nachos would make sense.”
It’s nice to see another generation of the ETS family add to the growth of an already successful establishment. It will be interesting to see what the Lucchinos have in store for the bland box of a building. I asked Barb what the family had planned for their current corner location and she said, “I can’t tell you that yet, but I will say that we do have a tenant and it’s not food.”
Oh well, there goes my donut theory again.
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MisterChips
How cool is that? A locally-owned business resurrects a dead national chain store. It may be a bland box but it has virtues that were hard won through a neighborhood battle: it mimics a two story building, like its neighbors; it is built to the sidewalk; it has parking to the side rather than in front; and it is clad in authentic materials (brick) rather than vinyl or dry-vit (fake stucco). This fight, which I'd call a preservation battle, paid off in exactly the kind of building cities need: ones that are endlessy reusable when the first occupant moves on.
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Andrew
i love ets more than any other restaurant in the city. its amazing and nearly every time i'm on elmwood i have to go there
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ClayM
Great Story!!!
Working for a family business I can appreciate the sometime difficult nature of doing business in this area. It is great to see ETS moving into the BK location. Hopefully now a new place can now occupy the current ETS sight!
Another example of what you may read everyday in the Buffalo News THERE ARE good things happening in Buffalo
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Wilby
I first went to ETS in 1976 when I was in eigth grade at PS 56 and it was love at first bite! I plan my trips to Buffalo around the opening and closing times of this joint! And I ALWAYS get and freeze a couple dozen burritos to take back to L.A. with me.
I'm exceptionally pleased with this move - staying in the neighborhood and capitalizing on the moment. I also remember when that lot was a Gulf gas station (a sidebar - We used to smoke cigarettes before school behind the station; naughty, naughty children that we were) and was greatly distressed when they put a Wendy's in there.
Bev & Sams gone. Casey's gone. Soda Bar gone. Thank goodness for a sense of history and community as well as business savy by the ETS owners. I just PRAY that they DO NOT CLOSE for the move the week that I am there in mid-August. I just couldn't bare to not partake!
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LindyRuff
thanks for your input wilby...i hope you were exceptionally pleased with your move to southern california. im sure history and community is what keeps you going all the way out there, as far from buffalo as one could possibly be with out actually leaving the country. but hey, im sure the weather is nice...piss off, dont come back! LA SUCKS!
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LindyRuff
thanks for your input wilby...i hope you were exceptionally pleased with your move to southern california. im sure history and community is what keeps you going all the way out there, as far from buffalo as one could possibly be with out actually leaving the country. but hey, im sure the weather is nice...piss off, dont come back! LA SUCKS!
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Wilby
LindyRuff Today, 15:05 AND Today, 15:06 thanks for your input wilby...i hope you were exceptionally pleased with your move to southern california. im sure history and community is what keeps you going all the way out there, as far from buffalo as one could possibly be with out actually leaving the country. but hey, im sure the weather is nice...piss off, dont come back! LA SUCKS!
Well, gee, what a well thought out, perfectly articulated, and thoroughly enjoyable, yet trite and self-defecating rebuttal! Your use of punctuation, masterful! Grammar, oh so snappy! And the utter banality of your overall positon...adroitly pithy, yet consumately obtuse! Wow! And, if ALL that weren't enough, you have the brilliance -YES! BRILLIANCE - to post it not once, but twice! I bow to your witicisms in a manner only thought possible by those who once worshipped at the foot of Olympus, you whacky, whacky Zeus kinda guy!
Breathlessly I await your forthcoming posts as I do those days, long past, of restricted bowel movements.
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zimmermann
mexican pizza...best.
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LindyRuff
I bet you think you are some sort of writer, all the way out there in Los Angeles. How is that going for ya? let me know when you have given up and resort moving back to buffalo to live in parents basement while you figure out why you suck so bad; we'll eat some tacos and look at old architecture.
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Wilby
LindyRuff Today, 19:17 I bet you think you are some sort of writer, all the way out there in Los Angeles. How is that going for ya? let me know when you have given up and resort moving back to buffalo to live in parents basement while you figure out why you suck so bad; we'll eat some tacos and look at old architecture.
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Ah. Wow. I guess I sure have been put in my place. Golly.
Oh, and by the way, it's - Let me know when you have given up and resort TO moving back to Buffalot to live in YOUR parents basement while you figure out why you suck so badLY. ...yada, yada, yada.
You don't have to be a writer to have a grasp of the English language. But I don't think you have to worry about either...
Oh, and zimmerman, on the Mexican pizza: I concur!
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icecreamsub
ETS is the big lie.......the food is not that good.....the tacos are a rip off.....and their help is usually miserable.....I only go there when my ex-Buffalo friends visiting from out of town want Buffalo food and drag me to either ETS or Jim's and it always sucks......Edritos needs to come back.....
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buffalo16
My husband loved their food. He would drag me there with him for years after a night out. Then we moved out of town for a number of years, and everytime we came back he made sure he got there. We would buy also dozens of tacos and freeze them and bring them back across the country. We now live here again, but don't ever eat there anymore. icecreamsub is right. Over the past 5 years or so, the service has become miserable, and the food sloppily put together. Their hot sauce is just plain old blistering heat and the tortillas always seem soggy. It's just become slop. I have to say though, it is always clean and well maintained. Too bad the food and service doesn't follow suit.
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MisterChips
Well, the rice and bean bowls rock. And reusing a dead Burger King rocks.
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Biniszkiewicz
Is LindyRuff reall Gaustad under another alias?
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thisoldcrackhouse
One word you preppy, pretentious EV'ers......... LONESTAR on Hertel. The very definition of a dive. Seriously though, this seems like a great move.
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Joshua
thisoldcrackhouse - I am past due for a stop to lonestar. Thanks for reminding me!
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Joshua
...and just for the record - i'm not a EVer...
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