Taco Bell — Overland Park, Kansas
New-construction restaurant concrete, self-performed from excavation through backfill — foundations, building slab, drive-thru, and the site flatwork customers walk on every day.
What Did Ford Concrete Build for Taco Bell in Overland Park?
The Project
Ford Concrete self-performed the concrete for a new-construction Taco Bell in Overland Park, Kansas — footings and foundations, the building slab-on-grade, the drive-thru lane, and the parking, sidewalks, and ADA approaches. One crew handled the full sequence from excavation and subgrade prep through pour, finish, cure, and backfill, so the restaurant sat on a foundation and site built to the plans.
A quick-service restaurant packs a lot of concrete into a small site: the building has to open on a fixed date, the kitchen and drive-thru drive the under-slab layout, and the flatwork customers see every day has to drain and meet ADA. Self-performing the concrete meant one crew owned every step. Here is how the work broke down.
At a Glance
Project Facts
We describe the scope we self-performed rather than publishing estimated quantities. Individual figures for this project are not listed here.
Scope of Work
How the Work Broke Down — Excavation to Backfill
We self-performed the full concrete sequence: excavation and grading, footings and foundations, formwork and reinforcing steel, the building slab and site flatwork, form stripping and curing, and backfill. One crew, one chain of accountability, from bare ground to a restaurant pad ready for build-out.
Excavation & grading
Cut and grade the building pad and surrounding site to plan, then proof-roll and compact the subgrade before any concrete is formed. A quick-service restaurant sits on a compact footprint where the building, drive-thru lane, and parking all tie into each other, so the grades have to be right the first time — a low spot here becomes a puddle at the order window later.
Footings, formwork & rebar
Form the continuous footings and stem walls, then set the reinforcing steel and the embedded plumbing and conduit that the kitchen and restrooms depend on. On a restaurant slab the under-slab coordination is unforgiving: every drain, sleeve, and anchor has to land where the equipment schedule says before the pour, because there is no moving them afterward.
Pour & finish
Place and finish the building slab-on-grade, drive-thru lane, sidewalks, ADA approaches, and parking to the specified finish and flatness. The drive-thru and entry walks are the surfaces customers actually touch every day, so the finish, the slope to drain, and the ADA transitions are held to the detail on the plans, not eyeballed.
Strip & cure
Strip forms as the concrete gains strength and protect every surface through its cure. A restaurant pad has to open on a fixed date, so the cure is planned into the schedule rather than shortcut at the end — rushed concrete shows up as scaling and cracking in the first winter, exactly where the traffic is heaviest.
Backfill & site tie-in
Backfill against the foundations, bring the site to finish grade, and tie the flatwork into curbs, the dumpster enclosure pad, and the parking lot so the site drains and the next trades can move in. Self-performing the whole sequence means one crew owns the result from bare ground to a restaurant that is ready to build out.
Why It Matters
What a Restaurant Pad Says About Your Driveway
A restaurant pad has to open on schedule, meet ADA at every walk and ramp, and drain right at the drive-thru — no room for the corners a residential job sometimes gets away with. The crew that met a national brand's standard on a fixed timeline brings the same base prep, joint layout, and cure discipline to your driveway or patio.
The difference between a slab that lasts and one that fails is never the mix ticket alone — it is whether the subgrade was compacted, the joints were spaced to control cracking, and the concrete was allowed to cure. A brand like Taco Bell inspects for those things. We do the same work on a backyard patio because the standards do not change with the size of the job.
See how we bid new construction on our commercial concrete for general contractors page and our restaurant & QSR work, or the site side of the job on commercial parking lots. Browse more of what we build on the project case studies page.
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