Jim Goode

[3] In 2012 Greg Morago of the Houston Chronicle wrote that the family name Goode "is synonymous with Texas food and Bayou City hospitality.

A fourth-generation Texan who was about 75% Mexican origin, his parents were previously residents of Tampico, Mexico.

His father, born in Yoakum, Texas, had married a Mexican woman from Tampico.

Goode's grandfather, who also married a Mexican woman in Tampico, had worked for U.S. oil companies; the family of his father originally settled Texas in the 1950s, moving to Cuero.

[5] $3,000 of the money used to buy the restaurant came from his savings, and another $3,000 was a scheduled payment for a job designing the logo of a department store.

[8] Goode had competed in chuck wagon cook-offs,[3] and he was a known backyard barbecuer before he began his restaurant career.

[10] Mayor of Houston Annise Parker declared October 7 "Jim Goode Day".