Wichita ‘Taco Hero’ Gets Year Of Free Tacos For ‘Mind-Blowing’ Kindness After Card Reader Went Down

Wichita ‘Taco Hero’ Gets Year Of Free Tacos For ‘Mind-Blowing’ Kindness After Card Reader Went Down

When the sales and payment software went down at a Wichita taco restaurant, the staff were anxious, and the line for the register, long.

Tensions were high, and when the Shear family finally got through the out-the-door-wrap-around line, they were told that Tacos TJ 664 was only accepting cash.

They were craving the fresh shrimp tacos they had come to adore, but there was a problem—they didn’t have enough money.

Mother Calli Shear thought “oh well,” and went for the door, when a stranger—a man in jeans and a Nick Nolte-like voice, reached out an arm and stopped them.

He handed them a $100 dollar bill, rebuffed the immediate refusal, rebuffed the offer of Venmo, and then told the family that dinner was on him tonight.

“When we gave him the change back, he walked to the line and tipped the staff,” Calli’s son Travis said, with his mother saying that she “couldn’t believe that strangers like that exist anymore.”

After their meal, Calli posted a picture of the stranger on a Facebook foodie group, Wichita Food & Booze with a simple question: does anyone know this guy? Explaining the story, the post vent locally viral, and Jared, the “Taco Hero,” was found.

“There are some incredible people in this world. Seriously,” she wrote.

KWCH managed to get in touch with Jared for an interview to ask why he made the spur-of-the-moment decision to do a good deed.

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“When I was a young man, I grew up poor,” Jerad told the news outlet. “A family took me in when I needed it the most. They ended up finishing raising me until I turned 18 and moved out on my own. If they wouldn’t have ever done that, I never would be in the place I am today, and I, frankly, wouldn’t be able to help somebody out like that. I owe everything to them.”

When Tacos TJ 664 got wind of what had happened, and presented Jared with an honorary certificate as the “Wichita Taco Hero” and awarded him free tacos for the rest of the year.

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“We just wanted to thank him, really, cause I think he deserves it,” Priscila Camacho, the restaurant manager, said. “Even though he probably wasn’t intending for it to have the impact that it did.”

The story is a reminder that not all heroes wear capes—some just buy you tacos.

WATCH the story below from KWCH News…