Grimm Team Expands with Gunslingers Tex-Mex
By: Katie Schmidt
Photography by: Matt Ray Photography
Get your hot sauce at the ready, there’s a new food truck in town. From the team behind Grimmburger comes Gunslingers Tex Mex, opening this spring.
After nine years working for Cook Out – most of which as a regional manager – Matt Grimm was ready to chart his own culinary path.
“I got to the point where I was very good at the operational side of things, but there wasn’t really any outlet for creative pursuits,” Grimm said. “I got to make decisions, but not in the sense of what direction the business was going.”
In 2021, Grimm and his wife launched the Grimmburger food truck. After three-and-a-half years of successful operations, they shifted to a permanent location in The Forum shopping center in November 2024.
“Everything is going great there, so we kind of entertained the idea of doing another Grimmburger location, but I wanted to expand into something different,” Grimm said.
That something different is Gunslingers, a food truck serving Tex-Mex staples like hand-rolled taquitos, nachos, housemade queso and tacos.
“We’ll be doing a lot of things the same way we handle them at Grimmburger,” Grimm said. “As much as we can from scratch and using the highest quality ingredients that we can get. There’s a level of service and production value people are used to with Grimmburger, and that’s the same approach that we’re going to have with Gunslingers.”
The menu for Gunslingers is not only the kind of food that Grimm naturally gravitates toward and enjoys himself, but something he saw a need for in Wilmington.
“We have a lot of strictly Mexican places in town, and we have some California-style places, but we don’t really have Tex-Mex to my knowledge,” he said.
After over a year of success with the brick-and-mortar Grimmburger, Grimm is looking forward to returning to the food truck model with Gunslingers. It’s a fairly common progression, especially in Wilmington, with entrepreneurs testing out their culinary ideas in food truck form, gaining a following and customer base, and then transitioning to a permanent location. Ultimately, it’s a less cost-intensive route to testing out a new food concept and refining it.
Grimm also appreciates that operating a food truck is an innately customer-facing endeavor.
“At a restaurant you’re not necessarily going to talk to the person making food, they’re in the kitchen, but in a food truck you’re all right there,” he said. “It’s a little bit more personable and hands-on in that sense.”
Follow @gunslingerstexmex on Instagram to stay up-to-date on when and where you can find the truck around town.
