This article was originally from Pegasusnews.com. Teresa Gubbins is a Senior Writer for PegasusNews.

iPhone, iPod, iTacos. Can you tell that the folks behind this new taco place on Coit Road in Richardson have a techie background? Owner Tom Radecki, 36, was a big gamer back in the day -- so much so that he opened Shadow Lan, a sophisticated gaming spot on Coit, five years ago. But Radecki is also an entrepreneurial sort; and so, when the Quizno's next door to Shadow Lan shut down, he opened the kind of restaurant he himself would frequent.

"My goal was to bring something to the market that was completely affordable -- yet we’re making everything there," he says.

Aside from the low prices ($2.49-$4.99, seen on the very user-friendly Web site), iTaco does a different kind of taco, one Radecki experienced while living in El Paso, where he went to college. The approach is called "ahogados" ("drowned"); the tacos come smothered in sauce and cheese, which produces an extremely homey, almost soupy experience.

"The idea wasn't to sell a million different TexMex items -- I wanted it to be unique," he says. "Unique doesn’t mean everybody is going to like the product. But you want to separate yourself."

The menu is compact: tacos, chicken breast, salad, tortilla soup, vegetarian beans, waffle fries, and -- bratwurst, in a hot-dog bun with pickles and chopped onions, to reflect Radecki's Polish heritage.

"At the end of the day, we wanted to create a menu where you don’t have a lot of items but you do have something everyone can like," he says.

Editor's Note: At the other end of the same building the Mr Gatti's location closed in August or September. Although that might not be big news, it is worth noting that the location had operated continuously since about 1980 or 1981 making it one of longest operating restaurants in Richardson.

This article appears here courtesy of Pegasus News.