{"id":2246883,"date":"2024-05-17T13:16:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T17:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-a-taco-a-sandwich-indiana-judge-seems-to-think-so\/"},"modified":"2024-05-17T13:16:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T17:16:34","slug":"is-a-taco-a-sandwich-indiana-judge-seems-to-think-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/is-a-taco-a-sandwich-indiana-judge-seems-to-think-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Could a Taco Be Considered a Sandwich? Indiana Judge Believes So"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fis-a-taco-a-sandwich-indiana-judge-seems-to-think-so%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2246883&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>One <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/indiana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Indiana<\/a> restaurateur\u2019s attempt to open a <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/restaurants\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Mexican restaurant<\/a> resulted in a judge intervening to rule that tacos and burritos are considered <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/food\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>sandwiches<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Famous Taco owner Martin Quintana attempted to open his second location in Fort Wayne. However, a commitment with the plaza stipulated that any restaurant that opened there must be \u201ca sandwich bar-style restaurant whose primary business is to sell \u2018made-to-order\u2019 or \u2018subway-style\u2019 sandwiches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Quintana attempted to amend the commitment to allow for tacos and burritos, but the Fort Wayne Plan Commission denied any changes. As a result, Quintana sued the commission in Allen Superior Court in 2022 to continue the construction of his restaurant. Judge Craig Bobay ruled in both parties\u2019 favor on Monday, upholding the commitment as it was written but also ruling that Quintana could still sell his food under it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Court agrees with Quintana that tacos and burritos are Mexican-style sandwiches, and the original Written Commitment does not restrict potential restaurants to only American cuisine-style sandwiches,\u201d Bobay wrote in his decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bobay left the door open for an appeal from either party. However, Quintana <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/food-drink\/official-tacos-burritos-mexican-style-sandwiches-indiana-judge-rules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"reportedly\">reportedly<\/a> claimed he will go through with his restaurant, which is slated to open later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner<\/em> reached out to Quintana and Fort Wayne Plan Commission legal counsel for comment. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indiana restaurateur, Martin Quintana, faced a unique challenge when trying to open a Mexican restaurant\u2014a judge deemed tacos and burritos as sandwiches. This ruling occurred as Quintana aimed to open a new location in Fort Wayne, abiding by the plaza&#8217;s requirement for any restaurant to offer &#8220;a sandwich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2246884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/iStock-614313140-1024x764.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2246883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/iStock-614313140-1024x764.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2246883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2246883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2246884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2246883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2246883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2246883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}