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Top 25 Taco and mexican fast food based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 1,615 taco and mexican fast food headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 83,117 professional contacts across them, including 2,052 with verified work emails. Chicago is the largest hub.
This list covers taco and mexican fast food headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 22, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest taco and mexican fast food based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 52,855 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Taco Bell was born and raised in California and has been around since 1962.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,302 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1964, Del Taco, the Lake Forest, California-based company operates or franchisees nearly 600 restaurants across 16 states.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 3,089 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Getting our start in 1995, QDOBA Mexican Eats now has more than 740 restaurants in the U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,420 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Starting as a small taco stand in Cheyenne, WY back in 1969, our one-of-a-kind tacos and other bold flavors were an instant hit in the community.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,281 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Cafe Rio Mexican Grill is the best Mexican food on the planet, we kid you not.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The Torchy’s legacy began in Austin, Texas in 2006 with an idea, a dedicated executive chef, and a food trailer to now operating over 130 restaurants nationwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 803 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Fuzzy’s Taco Shop’s corporate-owned and franchise locations are now serving fresh, handmade Baja-style Mexican food in 126 stores across 17 states, with many more to open soon.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 710 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Costa Vida is a fast-casual Mexican restaurant.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 476 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We opened our first location in Columbus, Ohio in 2014.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 475 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1974, Taco Casa is not just a restaurant; it's a Tuscaloosa institution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 357 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in Iowa City, Iowa in 1992, Pancheros Mexican Grill now operates nationwide, offering fresh ingredients, tortillas pressed from home-made dough for each order, and a mixed…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 339 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gringo’s Mexican Kitchen is a family of full-service Mexican restaurants around the greater Houston area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 290 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “At Salsarita’s Fresh Mexican Grill, we’re building a dynamic and authentically inspired fast casual Mexican brand, offering delicious food that is made the way you want it and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 284 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Taco Mama delivers fresh Mexican fare.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 270 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “It was tacos from the beginning.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 250 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Velvet Taco is a temple to the liberated taco.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 247 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to Team Lyders - a franchise of Taco Bell!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 246 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1990, Baja Fresh Mexican Grill has been making all your Mexican favorites the way you like them.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 242 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since the Bubbakoo’s Burritos opened its doors in Point Pleasant, New Jersey back in 2008.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 240 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For the best Southeastern Mexican zest, your first and only stop must be La Parrilla Mexican Restaurant.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 185 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dos Toros was founded by two brothers from California with a simple dream - to bring the best of the San Francisco taqueria experience to the rest of the country.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 161 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our founder Rusty Fenton’s dream was to bring the taco stand experience to local communities and to become the neighborhood taco stand.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 156 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2012 in Cleveland, OH.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 155 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Customers can create burritos, bowls, tacos, nachos, and quesadillas that they can't find anywhere else.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 139 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Tacombi started in 2006 on the sand-dusted streets of Playa Del Carmen with a converted taco-serving bus and a dream to share Mexico with the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 22, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: taco and mexican fast food. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names taco and mexican fast food.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of taco and mexican fast food, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name taco and mexican fast food. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Taco and mexican fast food based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 22, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 1,615 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among taco and mexican fast food, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “taco and mexican fast food”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names taco and mexican fast food), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among taco and mexican fast food, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 2,052 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 22, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Taco and mexican fast food by metro
- Taco and mexican fast food in Chicago34
- Taco and mexican fast food in Los Angeles33
- Taco and mexican fast food in Houston32
- Taco and mexican fast food in New York27
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names taco and mexican fast food, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many taco and mexican fast food are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 1,615 taco and mexican fast food headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Taco Bell, headquartered in Irvine, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most taco and mexican fast food?
Chicago leads with 34 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (33) and Houston (32).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 2,052 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,615 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 22, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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