Our objective over the next four to five years is to double the size of the company.

We thought with our fast-casual quality at fast-food prices that there was really an opportunity to expand the brand.

This is an exciting time in the history of Taco Bueno. We are beginning to see the first real growth spurt across the nation for our company with the success of our franchise recruitment program, and this is only the beginning.

We were hoping to build a small, profitable company. And of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.

He never had any relationship to the company to begin with. ... He never even practiced here. We specifically never lobby him.

We kind of do our own thing as an independent. We are able to make decisions and moves that company stores would have to wait for corporate permission to do. I have no problems with Supervalu. They have addressed an issue that we all had and that was they tried to play both sides of the fence (wholesaler and retail outlet). I wasn't surprised they announced they are selling their corporate stores.