![Molly Schuyler won the El Jefe Burrito Eating Championship at Taco Bus Brandon. [Tampa Bay Times on Facebook]](https://www.tampabay.com/storyimage/HI/20180406/ARTICLE/180409984/AR/0/AR-180409984.jpg?MaxW=2000&cachebuster=999470 "Molly Schuyler won the El Jefe Burrito Eating Championship at Taco Bus Brandon. [Tampa Bay Times on Facebook]")
The first year of Taco Bus' El Jefe Burrito Eating Championship featured a ragtag group of amateurs vying for a $250 prize. It was won by an Orlando man who polished off the 2.5-pound burrito in 2:22.
This year the prize was bumped to $2,500, and out came the big guns. The winner, a woman from Nebraska weighing in at 127 pounds, did it in less than half of last year's winning time.
Competitive eater Molly Schuyler, who in February set a record at Philadelphia's Wing Bowl by eating 501 chicken wings, dominated all competition in Tampa on Thursday night.
She finishing her burrito in 1:06, a time she said would have been well under a minute had she heard the starting horn.
Schuyler also made a stop in St. Petersburg on Wednesday where she also conquered Nitally's Inferno Soup Challenge.
The Thai-Mexican restaurant on Central Avenue posted that Schuyler finished off the intensely hot concoction of broth, veggies and ghost peppers in just over four minutes.
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