{"id":1829538,"date":"2026-10-22T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T08:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en-us\/news\/mikes-red-tacos-36-units-florida-expansion\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T10:07:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T08:07:45","slug":"mikes-red-tacos-36-units-florida-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lexpress-franchise.com\/en-us\/news\/mikes-red-tacos-36-units-florida-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike’s Red Tacos Targets Florida with a 36-Unit Development Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Birria now appears on 3.7%<\/strong> of U.S. restaurant menus, more than four times its 2022 share. Riding that momentum, Mike’s Red Tacos<\/em> has signed a 36-unit development agreement to expand into Tampa, Orlando, and Florida’s East Coast, with a veteran multi-brand operator committing to one of the country’s fastest-growing restaurant markets.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mike’s Red Tacos<\/strong> launched as a San Diego food truck in 2021. Its first brick-and-mortar restaurant opened in August 2022. In the four years since, the franchise brand<\/a> has accumulated more than 350<\/strong> committed locations nationwide, earned a spot on Yelp’s Top 100 U.S. Restaurants list in 2023, and received Nation’s Restaurant News’ Hot Concept designation in 2026. The Florida agreement is among the largest single-market commitments the brand has announced to date.<\/p>\n\n\n

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