Wee Man’s Chronic adventure
Jason “Wee Man” Acuña follows his taco bliss Jason “Wee Man” Acuña outside his new Chronic Taco shop in Redondo Beach. Photo Randy Wyner and Dan Biello didn’t need any help selling tacos. Their tacos were, after all, chronic. Chronic Tacos started with a single 700 sq. ft. shop in Newport Beach eight years ago that was essentially built because the then 26-year-old Wyner was tired of biking so far to find a good taco. He didn’t know much about the restaurant business, but he was a taco-eating connoisseur. He obtained a third generation recipe from a Mexican-American friend, borrowed the name from his clothing line, Chronic Enterprises, and before he knew it, every day lines stretched out the doors of people likewise in search of a few good tacos. Twenty-eight Chronic Taco stores have opened since, and almost always with the same result: lines out the door, day in and day out. People get addicted to the Chronic real quick. And so when the young business partners – friends from childhood – received a call from a guy inquiring about expanding the Chronic brand about a year-and-a-half ago, neither was particularly interested. “We are not really into branding out or anything like…
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