Taco Nation.
After years on Toast, a fast-casual taco spot switched to a modern all-in-one platform in a single day, cutting card fees to near zero while more than 90% of customers kept paying by card.
- ~$30,000
- Eliminated per year
- >90%
- Still pay by card
- 1 day
- Closed to upgrade POS
The challenge and the solution
The challenge
Taco Nation is a fast-casual taco spot in Oklahoma City running about $100,000 a month in card volume. After several years on Toast, they were paying roughly 2.5%, about $2,500 every month in fees.
In fast casual, tickets are small and volume is everything, so a couple of points on every card really adds up.
The solution
We moved them to Dual Pricing, so a posted card price offsets processing, and upgraded them from Toast to the Shift4Dine platform: online and QR ordering, third-party delivery, a full kitchen display system, and loyalty on the customer-facing display.
After years on their old POS, they closed for a single day for our on-site techs to cut everything over, then reopened live the next morning. We stayed on-site for a couple of days to squash bugs and train the staff.
About $2,500 a month, roughly $30,000 a year, is now offset instead of paid, on a modern platform built to grow the business. Even after the switch, more than 90% of customers still pay by card, now at near-zero cost.
The numbers and the technology deployed
Monthly processing, before and after
- Card volume
- $100,000
- Prior rate (Toast)
- 2.50%
- Prior monthly fees
- $2,500
- Black Mesa (Dual Pricing)
- ~$0*
- Monthly savings
- ~$2,500
*Card price offsets processing under a compliant dual pricing program; savings estimated from prior processing statements.
Technology deployed
- Program
- Dual Pricing
- POS
- Shift4Dine
- Ordering
- Online + QR
- Delivery
- DoorDash and more
- Tools
- KDS + Loyalty
In the client’s words
The Black Mesa Payments team showed me the savings on Dual Pricing, and I was skeptical. But now I'm a full believer that this program works. Our customers appreciate the cash option being there, but we still get more than 90% card payments, just with near-zero fees.
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