Case Study: Tacala LLC achieves a two-thirds reduction in budgeting cycle — down to 14 days — with Vena Solutions

Here to Serve Fast Food with Even Faster Budgets

Tacala, the largest Taco Bell franchise owner in North America (franchise operator since 1989, ~$400M revenue, 277 retail locations), needed to centralize a complex budgeting process spread across 13 reporting periods. They struggled with version-control problems between spreadsheets, SQL queries and legacy systems, and costly, time-consuming, error-prone manual data collection.

Tacala chose Vena for its centralized database, automated workflow, source-system integration and familiar Excel interface, enabling rapid adoption with no disruption. The result was a two-thirds reduction in budget cycle time (from 4–6 weeks to 14 days), elimination of version-control errors, a single source of truth, higher end-user satisfaction and plans to extend Vena to management reporting and dashboards.

Tacala LLC

Carrie Self

Manager, FP&A