Local Mexican fast-food chain Taco Del Mar continues to sprout new stores, but the balance is shifting from primarily company-owned units to franchises. By the end of the year, the company expects the number of franchised units to surpass the company-owned stores, said co-owner James Schmidt. Se

Seattle-based fast-casual Mexican chain Taco Del Mar has signed its first U.S. master franchisee, for the territory of Oregon and Clark County, Wash. Agreements for Utah, Phoenix, California's Central Valley and Minneapolis-St. Paul are expected to follow shortly, said company co-founder Jam

All of the company's restaurants except one -- its corporate training store in the South Lake Union neighborhood -- are franchises. After an overexpansion of the company's Mexican restaurants in the late 1990s, which included a failed venture into Boston, Taco Del Mar scaled back its operati

Seattle-based Taco Del Mar said it has signed up a master developer for Idaho, Montana and Wyoming, as well as the city of Spokane. Todd Hicks, a former Subway Restaurants franchise owner in Western Washington, will recruit franchisees and build stores throughout the territory, Taco Del Mar said

James Schmidt's empire is built on beach food without the sand. Schmidt is founder and CEO of Taco Del Mar, a taco and burrito chain based in Seattle. Taco Del Mar - with three Tacoma locations, plus one each in Gig Harbor, Puyallup, University Place and along Canyon Road - will soon wash int

Seattle restaurant chain Taco Del Mar said it has signed a master developer agreement in San Diego with A Better Life Franchise Development LLC, a franchise owned by early Taco Del Mar investors John and Bertha Boyken. A Better Life is currently scouting locations for the first San Diego-area re

Seattle-based Taco Del Mar plans to open perhaps a dozen restaurants in the region over the next few years. Taco Del Mar is a quick-serve Mexican restaurant featuring giant burritos and their specialty fish tacos. The brightly colored restaurants have a Baja theme, with surfboards used as decora

Seattle-based Taco Del Mar said it has signed a master developer agreement with Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., which plans to open Taco Del Mar franchises throughout British Columbia. The Taco Del Mar franchises would be cobranded with Mac's Convenience Stores LLC, also owned by Alimentation

Immediately when Ranbir Singh decided to open Taco Del Mar restaurants in Ventura, he had five multi unit franchisees ready to build restaurants. Soon people in Ventura, San Luis Obispo, Bakersfield and Santa Barbara will know Taco Del Mar as THE destination for mondo burritos and rippin' tacos.

Taco Del Mar announced its Master Developer agreement with Norfolk, Neb.-based John Rosberg, President of TDM Development, Inc. Under the deal, Rosberg will handle territory franchising and develop the fast-casual restaurants known for "mondo burritos and rippin tacos," through the Midwester

Fast-food chain Taco Del Mar, based in Seattle, plans to develop up to 300 franchises in Canada over the next four years in a deal with B.C.-based TDM Federal Holdings. ADVERTISEMENT Financial details of the deal were not disclosed Tuesday in a release. There are now 22 Taco Del Mar restaura

Taco Del Mar, a Seattle-based fast-food chain specializing in Baja-style burritos and tacos that has been sweeping North America's West Coast, expects to have a restaurant open in London this fall at the latest. The London operation will be one of up to 300 new Canadian franchises the comp

Taco Del Mar's trademark "mondo burritos and rippin' tacos" are the fresh dining options sweeping the country, and now the quick serve burrito chain is heading to Oklahoma. Midwest City-based Master Developers Raymond and Meri Walker of TDM Development of Oklahoma, LLC announced plan

Taco Del Mar, a Seattle-based quick-service restaurant chain specializing in Baja style "mondo burritos and rippin' tacos," has inked a deal with B.C.-based TDM Federal Holdings, Inc. to develop restaurants across Canada. The deal could produce 300 Taco Del Mar franchises in Canada over

Master Developer Ranbir Singh of Kirpal Group is introducing the hottest concept in fast-casual, Baja-inspired food, Taco Del Mar, to a market that loves its burritos and tacos. Taco Del Mar announced today Singh's exclusive rights to sell franchises and develop restaurants in San Bernardino and

Taco Del Mar said it's signed a deal with Ranbir Singh of Kirpal Group to sell franchises and develop up to 40 franchises in San Bernardino and Riverside counties in Southern California. According to the Seattle fast-food restaurant chain, Singh plans to sell 40 franchise agreements for the