Like the larger Subway chain, customers direct the preparation of their meal, requesting ingredients along an assembly line.

A standard selection of "Fresh Mex" ingredients is available, including wheat, flour, tomato and spinach tortillas, and fish, beef, pork and chicken.

[1] Less than a month later, Neal Hollingsworth, Taco del Mar VP of Franchising Sales, also resigned and left the Seattle/Tacoma area.

[2] During the early morning hours of February 13, 2008, a Taco del Mar franchise in Vancouver, British Columbia, was destroyed by a large explosion that also damaged several nearby businesses.

On July 10, 2018, Taco del Mar was sold to High Bluff Capital Partners, the owners of Subway's longtime competitor Quiznos.