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Elote ($2-$4) is a Mexican-style street corn topped with spices and cheese.[/caption]
TC Shaved Ice owner Robert Hernandez calls out the window as a familiar customer pulls up to the drive-thru window of the red building at 812 S. McDonald St., McKinney.
Hernandez fires up the ice shaver and pours on the syrup, creating a coconut-and-vanilla-flavored shaved ice that he said this customer always orders.
Hernandez said he never had any plans to get into the shaved ice business—he originally worked as a mechanic and a salesman—but when his wife became pregnant with their son, the shaved ice business became a permanent fixture in his life.
“When my wife at the time was pregnant she craved shaved ice,” Hernandez said. “Long story short, I said, ‘Instead of buying it, why don’t I just give you the machine so you can make it, or I can make it and save all the money?’”
Robert Hernandez opened TC Shaved Ice 28 years ago.[/caption]
