La Barata Taquería
A taquería on wheels whose whole day (orders, kitchen, payments, catering, even where it's parked) runs on software we built and run.
A great truck, running on paper and DMs
La Barata's birria had no problem drawing a line. The operation around it was the hard part: phone orders competing with the window, catering requests (the truck's biggest earner) arriving by text and Instagram and getting lost, and a truck that moves around town while customers guess where it is.
The owner didn't need an app for the sake of an app. They needed the line to move, the kitchen to see orders clearly, the money to reconcile, and catering to stop leaking. So that's what we built, one piece at a time, shipped live, each piece earning the next.
Order ahead, find the truck, book the party
A menu with real photos and live prices, a catering page that turns "can you do our wedding?" into an organized request, and a Find-Us page that always knows where the truck is parked today.
The truck moves. The software keeps up.
The crew confirms today's spot from the truck with one tap. From that moment the website, the checkout, and every "your order is ready" message carry the live location. If the truck moved after someone ordered, their ready message says so, with a map pin. Nobody drives to yesterday's corner.
A day on the truck
- 1
An order comes in
It lands on the kitchen board with a chime: items, quantities, notes, pickup time. The customer gets a confirmation with their order number.
- 2
The crew works the board
New → preparing → ready, tap by tap. Phone numbers are hidden until an operator signs in; every money action is locked behind roles.
- 3
“Ready!” with the right address
The ready message carries the truck's live spot. Refunds and cancellations, when they happen, take one tap and leave a full audit trail.
- 4
The day closes clean
Sales, Wyoming sales tax, tips and card totals reconcile at end of day. Catering requests from the site sit in a queue the owner reviews and confirms.
Built right. Kept running.
This platform gets the same engineering a funded startup buys, because it handles the same thing: real money.
automated tests across storefront, kitchen and backend
languages: every customer surface in English and Spanish
location updates, refunds and end-of-day close
of money actions audit-trailed to an operator
- Stripe payments with capture, refund and dispute handling
- Role-gated back office: cashier vs manager permissions
- Transactional email that knows the truck's live location
- Documented runbooks + full git history the owner keeps
Your business could run like this.
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