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title: "Rusty Taco Announces The Green Street Taco"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/78f3cbd4-a151-4207-83d3-6c54244ecb8c
source: "Franchising.com"
original_url: https://www.franchising.com/news/20200630_rusty_taco_announces_the_green_street_taco.html
category: "Mexican"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Mexican"
published: 2020-06-30T12:00:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T22:33:25.034Z
image: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1568901346375-23c9450c58cd?w=1600&q=80&auto=format&fit=crop
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# Rusty Taco Announces The Green Street Taco

**TL;DR:** Rusty Taco is introducing the Green Street taco as a limited-time offering nationwide, after it gained popularity as a secret menu item in Dayton, Ohio. The taco was created by franchisees John Slaughenhaupt, David Fisher, and Eric Lundgren, along with Director of Operations Joe Newlin and HR manager Melissa Brandt in 2018.

*originally published in Franchising.com on 2020-06-30. [Read the original](https://www.franchising.com/news/20200630_rusty_taco_announces_the_green_street_taco.html).*

## Story

In 2018, Dayton, Ohio, franchisees John Slaughenhaupt, David Fisher and Eric Lundgren, Director of Operations Joe Newlin and the team’s HR manager Melissa Brandt came together to create the Green Street taco and named it after a real street in Ohio that one of the owners lived on. After tremendous popularity as a secret menu item in Dayton the past few years, the Rusty Taco team is excited to take the taco nationwide with its latest limited-time offering, available at participating locations.

The taco boasts fresh ingredients from Rusty Taco, featuring savory, roasted pork blended with housemade tomatillo sauce on a flat top grill, topped with jalapeno ranch, cotija cheese, cilantro, onion and avocado, inside a warm flour tortilla. Like all of Rusty Taco’s sauces and salsas, the tomatillo sauce and jalapeno ranch are made fresh, in-house every day.

“I think the Green Street taco shows how close-knit this system community is,” Slaughenhaupt said. “We talk, we share ideas and we move forward together.”

It’s efforts like these that make Rusty Taco a powerful franchise system, where franchisee and franchisor are constantly working together.

> “This is an advantage of being part of a franchise organization like Rusty Taco. This time it was the Green Street taco from Ohio, but the next time it could be a tasty idea from a corporate or franchisee location in Minnesota, Nebraska, Colorado, Arizona, Texas or some other part of the country.” ***John Slaughenhaupt, Rusty Taco franchisee***

Rusty Taco was founded in 2010 by visionary and dreamer Rusty Fenton, who lived by the motto, “Tacos are the Most Important Meal of the Day®.” The brand continues today as an emerging fast casual restaurant concept featuring a variety of deliciously uncomplicated tacos crafted by hand. Rusty Taco operates over 30 locations in nine states and is part of the Inspire Brands family of restaurants.

## Entities

- Franchising.com (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- limited time offer (topic)
- menu item (topic)
- Inspire Brands (company)
- franchise system (topic)
- Rusty Taco (company)
- fast casual restaurant (topic)
- Rusty Fenton (person)
- Inspire Brands acquisition of Rusty Taco (deal)

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Originally reported by Franchising.com (https://www.franchising.com/news/20200630_rusty_taco_announces_the_green_street_taco.html). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/78f3cbd4-a151-4207-83d3-6c54244ecb8c).