Del Taco Restaurants, Inc. engages in developing, franchising, owning, and operating dining place. The company is headquartered in Lake Forest, California and currently employs 7,892 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2013-11-14. The firm develops, franchises, owns and operates Del Taco quick-service Mexican American restaurants. The firm has approximately 294 company-operated and 299 franchise-operated Del Taco restaurants located in 15 states, including one franchise-operated unit in Guam. The firm serves food typical of fast casual restaurants but with the speed, convenience and value associated with traditional quick service restaurants (QSRs). With attributes of both a fast casual restaurant and a QSR, a combination it calls QSR+. Its food is prepared in working kitchens where its guests see cooks grilling marinated chicken and steak, chopping tomatoes and cilantro for salsa, grating cheddar cheese, slicing avocados and slow cooking whole pinto beans.