{"id":2200,"date":"2008-03-27T20:27:46","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T04:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2200"},"modified":"2009-03-06T12:58:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-06T20:58:05","slug":"ralph-rubio-remembers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=2200","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Rubio Remembers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/rubio.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/rubio.jpg','popup','width=150,height=243,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/rubio-tm.jpg\" height=\"162\" width=\"100\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Rubio\" \/><\/a>It was 25 years ago that <strong>Ralph Rubio<\/strong> and his father founded the Carlsbad-based <strong>Rubio&#8217;s Fresh Mexican Grill<\/strong> and made fish tacos the official food on San Diego, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdbj.com\/article.asp?aID=33973963.1503214.1602913.7139949.7431284.932&amp;aID2=123292\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Business Journal<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With $16,000 from his father, Rubio, a 1978 graduate of San Diego State University, launched the company that made the fish taco San Diego&#8217;s signature dish in January 1983. . . .The idea for Rubio&#8217;s Fresh Mexican Grill came from excursions to Baja California, where Rubio and his college buddies dined in cantinas and at little stands lining the avenidas. . . .&#8220;My father and I talked about the concept for a long time, and then finally we did it,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Linking this up this story is making us hungry. Follow the link for the rest of the story, we&#8217;re going out to one of their 170 shops for some fresh fish tacos.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdbj.com\/article.asp?aID=33973963.1503214.1602913.7139949.7431284.932&amp;aID2=123292\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Business Journal<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was 25 years ago that Ralph Rubio and his father founded the Carlsbad-based Rubio&#8217;s Fresh Mexican Grill and made fish tacos the official food on San Diego, according to a story in the San Diego Business Journal. With $16,000 from his father, Rubio, a 1978 graduate of San Diego State University, launched the company [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4754,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2200\/revisions\/4754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}