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How a Mexican Martini Got an Investor to Buy a Popular Austin Tex-Mex Chain

Hargett Hunter Emerges as Winning Bidder for Trudy's Tex-Mex Restaurants
A private equity firm that invests in emerging restaurant concepts and long-time favorites is making its first Austin, Texas, investment in Trudy's. (Lawrence G. Miller/Flickr)
A private equity firm that invests in emerging restaurant concepts and long-time favorites is making its first Austin, Texas, investment in Trudy's. (Lawrence G. Miller/Flickr)
CoStar News
July 27, 2020 | 8:40 P.M.

It all started with a martini. Jeff Brock's first visit to Texas nearly 20 years ago began with a trip to Trudy’s Tex-Mex restaurant in Austin with his best friend, a student at the nearby University of Texas. Brock fell in love with the popular Austin eatery's food and its Mexican martinis, a variation of a margarita in a martini glass.

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