California Tacos, purveyors of quality homemade southern California style Mexican food is who we are. We developed our unique recipes to deliver a simple, fresh, and consistent menu.

Although we offer a fast-casual dining experience, all of our tortillas are homemade from scratch and stuffed with real ingredients that are delivered fresh daily.

No preservatives, no substitutes, no corners cut – just healthy, clean eating. Our simple and delicious menu offered at affordable prices is the foundation of our business.

California Tacos, Inc. is the parent company of California Tacos Fresh & Casual Mexican Restaurants, Bandito Sauce, and, The Bag it to Go Mobile App.

Southern California Mexican Cuisine is Limited Regionally

Southern California Mexican fast-casual cuisine is wildly popular, yet scarce, outside of its home region. Not enough fast casual restaurants offer fresh ingredients, daily homemade tortillas, or a wide enough variety of vegan and vegetarian options. 

In addition, there are many outstanding culinary free-thinkers who range from Chef’s to back of the house kitchen cooks that represent a new generation of innovative creators  making delicious sauces in the style of our cuisine that have challenges with scale as a stand alone and no way of getting their products packaged and distributed. 

Building New Ways to Expand Our Food's Reach

We are using a three-pronged approach to expand the reach of Southern California fast-casual cuisine: 

1. Our California Tacos restaurants

2. Our Bandito Sauce distribution platform

3. Bag it to go, our mobile app

California Tacos Restaurants

Since late 2019 we have opened locations in Middletown, DE, Ericeira, Portugal, and a Taco Truck in Cascais, Portugal. 

Our restaurants operate at a projected net income of 20%. EU operations are seasonal as California Tacos is in a beach resort town. The Taco Truck is also seasonal, and we make 5% of all revenue generated from the gross sales of the truck via a licensee. 

Bandito Sauce Distribution Network

Through our Bandito Sauce platform, brilliant culinary creators worldwide have a shot at getting their recipes packaged and distributed via our Bandito distribution network. We have just completed production on our first flavor, Pinch of Pineapple, with Mango & Lime following closely behind. 

Our distribution strategy includes: 

• On-premise restaurant accounts, with sauces shipped to California Tacos restaurants in Portugal and the US. 

• Direct to consumer sales via online and social media channels. For these sales, we use small warehouse picking and packing, with fulfillment out of Elizabeth City, NC. 

• Amazon and Amazon Prime availability, where we will utilize Amazon for warehousing, pick, pack, and fulfillment through their FBA program. 

In our partnerships with sauce creators, we offer royalty payments of 5% on net revenue for their sauce recipes. After ten years, royalty payments reduce to 3%. In addition, after 3 years of royalty payments, Bandito has the right to trigger a buyout based on three-year trailing royalty payments. 

BitGo Mobile App

“Bag it to Go'', aka BitGo, is a proprietary mobile app offering an unparalleled range of services including contactless take-away, delivery, and in-restaurant guest management features.

We designed this app to help independent restaurants compete with big players. It has the ability to be white labeled and will be  available on both Apple and Android devices. 

Bringing Our Cuisine to Multiple Growing Markets

The fast casual restaurant market size was valued at $125.6 billion in 2019, and is expected to reach $209.1 billion by 2027, registering a CAGR of 10.6% from 2021 to 2027. 

Meanwhile, the total global culinary sauces market size is projected to reach $55.31 billion by 2027, exhibiting a CAGR of 3.3% during the forecast period. 

The global hot sauce market attained a value of $4.31 billion in 2020. The market is further expected to grow in the forecast period of 2021-2026 at a CAGR of 5.3% to reach $5.8 billion by 2026. 

Expanding Restaurants, Sauces in Production, and an App in Beta

Since late 2019 we have opened locations in Middletown, DE, Ericeira, Portugal, and a Taco Truck in Cascais, Portugal. We have a new location identified in Gulf Breeze Florida to open in late 2021 and two indications of interest from prospective franchisees in New Smyrna Beach, Fl., and Dewey Beach, DE. 

We also developed Bandito Sauce with our first production run of “Pinch of Pineapple” delivered in December 2020. It is currently being sold in California Tacos, DE. We are in production of our second flavor “Mango & Lime” which is due to be released in early August 2021. 

We developed a proprietary mobile App, Bag-it-To-Go, which is currently in Beta and on the Apple and Android marketplace. It is a full service mobile App which can be whitelabeled and provides delivery management, take-away, and in-store restaurant guest management for a 100% contact-less experience. 

A Proven Cuisine Concept with a Scalable Business Model 

Our mission is to bring the bold, exciting flavors of Southern California Mexican cuisine to wider audiences. Using a diversified business model across restaurant, tech, and consumer brand spaces, we offer three opportunities in three different sectors:

1. Our restaurants, where we have created an authentic Southern California fast-casual experience franchise interest in the US and EU with like-minded partners. 

2. Our Bandito Sauce platform, where we will provide culinary creators from around the world with an opportunity to distribute their recipes. 

3. Our Bag It To Go app, where we will partner with other restaurants to allow for an easy and affordable path for smaller restaurants to compete with modernization. 

Join us as we bring Southern California Mexican cuisine to the rest of the world.