His father worked for General Electric after leaving the Army, and his mother was a buyer for a local boutique.
[1] He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which he attended while on a track scholarship.
[4] Taylor founded Texas Roadhouse in 1993, at the Green Tree Mall in Clarksville, Indiana.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Taylor donated his compensation package to support his company's frontline workers, and had committed to fund a clinical study to help members of the military who had tinnitus.
[1][7][8] After some improvement from an experimental treatment, "Taylor went to get his COVID vaccine and the tinnitus came roaring back.