TacoViva (1990)

The animations remind me I show on Sesame Street back in the 90s.

I actually used to work at the Taco Viva on Hallandale Beach Boulevard. We used to make the wet burritos for our dinner break before they added them to the menu. I think I still have my name badge, what a pack rat, huh!

This commercial is pure '90s! I love it, and I love the name! TacoViva! How could you not want to eat there?

SportyGal, Po'Folks is still around, but it's called Folks now.

I use to go to the Taco Viva on Hypoluxo Road in Lantana. I loved their wet Burrito's. Taco Bell really sucks! They put beans in everything.

Is Tark's Clam Stand still around? How about Po'Folks?

we have pizza inns all over here in charlotte, nc. still don't like 'em. :-(
this place looks good though.

I don't either but I sure was disappointed. Use to love that place. Went to high school in NMB and they had one at the now defunct 163rd street mall. Only place I knew that had "6" sauces to choose from. Viva "El Scorcho!!!

Did not know taco viva went under. I sure liked their food. I used to go to the one on 441 in Hollywood,FL.
I left in 1994 for NC. There are several Pizza Inns in the smithfield/Claton ans Selma, NC area. They still have better pizza than Pizza Hut, Dominoes and Papa Joes. The only thing wrong is they do not deliver

Also, does anybody remember Pizza Inn? They were another restaurant chain that operated in the Southeast back in the '80s and early '90s, but are now completely defunct; they battled with Pizza Hut, Domino's and other pizza chains in terms of how good they tasted, but one particular reason why Pizza Inn lost to all the other chains (besides just their rather high prices) was huge competition that occurred in 1994 when Pizza Hut introduced their ever-more-popular Stuffed Crust Pizza. Domino's didn't like the idea, but Pizza Inn really wanted to increase their sales by introducing their own version a year later, and since it was a secret recipe that only 2-3 employees at the Yum! Brands headquarters knew, Pizza Inn threated to obtain their competitor's secret method of stuffing their crusts with cheese, saying they'd either get the recipe into their hands or they'd go out of business; the competitor obviously wanted them to go bankrupt, so Pizza Inn failed to obtain the secret method and thus called their entire franchise quits around the same time Taco Viva did; hence both chains were in the Southeast and eventually disappeared, so I'm speculating that perhaps they both were owned by the same company (a Yum!-type corporation of sorts, I'm guessing, the only difference being the fact that it was operating in Southeastern territories only, unlike the international success of all Yum!-owned chains); LOL they don't show either the actual burrito or an actual location, making this '80s spot a pure example of bad advertising!

They tasted 5 times better than Taco Bell. People think taco bell is good. Compared to the other taco places around when they first opened, they were at the bottom. The only reason Taco bell succeeded over these Taco places was their prices being so unbelievable low.

BTW, I know alot about there sauces... their menu and how to make their products since I was the cook at one in Florida growing up. Brings back memories. I also was held hostage there too while a burglar robbed the place..

Taco Viva was in the SouthEast. It was really popular in Florida. This picture is from the mid 80s. The earlier commercials featured a masked Zorro-like man and his catch line was... When you say Taco.... Say VIVA!!

can anyone tell me what part of the U.S. taco viva was in

SQUID MAN. GIVE ME YOUR ICON. D:

I dont think this place is around anymore

this must have been something local

I like the animation for this commercial, but I went there once and the food tasted like dirt.

Is Taco Viva still around?

This is a 90s commercial? The animation looks so cheap and 70s-ish.

Notice they never actually show the burrito. Think about that for a sec.