Workhorse serves up speed for Costa Vida

Workhorse rebuilt Costa Vida’s website on WP Engine, hitting full Core Web Vitals compliance.

  • 100%

    Core Web Vitals pass rate

  • 70%

    increase in "near me" local search performance

Costa Vida home page screen shot

Client ProfileA growing restaurant chain rebuilds for scale

Three panels showing people enjoying Costa Vida food. A woman eats a taco, a table is covered with chips and dips, and another woman holds a Costa Vida takeout bag.
Client Site
costavida.com (opens in a new tab)
Products

Costa Vida, a Mexican coastal-inspired restaurant brand with more than 100 U.S. and Canadian locations, needed a scalable platform to support franchise growth and improve search performance.

Agency ProfileCosta Vita’s vibrant flavors meet an experienced agency partner

Built on two decades of experience defining exceptional technical solutions and creating world-class web experiences to provide high quality programming and solutions to our clients. What’s our advantage? Our combination of discipline specialists, strategic orientation, creativity and culture yields strong client relationships and positive business results.

Agency Site
workhorsemkt.com (opens in a new tab)
Agency Partner
Strategic Partner

  • The ChallengeFranchise growth outpaced the old platform

    Costa Vida needed a scalable digital platform to support more than 100 franchise locations, integrate with ordering systems, and improve SEO and performance as the brand expanded.

  • The SolutionA migration built around local search

    Workhorse migrated the site from Craft CMS and self-managed AWS hosting to WordPress on WP Engine, integrating Yext for location-data syncing and Yoast Local SEO for search visibility.

ResultsA site that scales with the brand

Beyond performance and search gains, Costa Vida’s site now supports over 3 million annual visitors and streamlines franchise location management through automation, contributing to $14.8 million in annual revenue driven through the site.

  • 33%

    increase in total users

  • 100+

    locations supported across the U.S. and Canada

WP Engine’s platform gave us speed, security, and scalability — dev tools and support made the build efficient.

Thomas Bacon Chief Technology Officer, Workhorse

Intelligent platforms and powerful tools

Explore products

Tags:

You may also like