Morgan Spurlock, who plays Robbie, the manager of the fast food joint Hella Burger, was responsible for the anti-fast food documentary Super Size Me (2004).
In this movie, Leighton Meester (Mackenzie Carpenter) and Penn Badgley (Van) play friends but later, in the TV show, Gossip Girl (2007), they play rivals: Blair Waldorf and Dan Humphrey.
The town is named Blanca Carne, which is Spanish for "white meat".
Leighton Meester's character's name Mackenzie Carpenter is clearly another reference to John Carpenter's Halloween. The movie that introduced Jamie Lee Curtis as the quintessential babysitter whose famous line "Go down to the Mackenzie's and call the police" has already served as an homage before in Scream (1996).