What Is Taco Bell?

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What Is Taco Bell?

Answer 1

how can you not know what taco bell is!!!!

its the best Mexican fast-food restaurant ever!

its in the top 3 restaurants for me

go and try it now

Answer 2

Taco Bell Corp., a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., is a Mexican-style fast food restaurant chain based in Irvine, California, United States. The restaurant has locations primarily in the United States and Canada, but also operates outlets in several other markets.After experimenting with alternative food items, Glen Bell opened three Taco-Tia stands between 1954 and 1955, which he later sold to his partners. He then opened the first Taco Bell in Downey, California on March 21, 1962.

The first Taco Bell franchise was sold in 1964 and the company became public in 1969. In 1978, the chain was sold to PepsiCo. The chain was spun off along with Pepsi's other fast food restaurant holdings as Tricon Global Restaurants in October 1997. Tricon became Yum! Brands in May 2002.

General operations



Taco Bell's headquarters in Irvine, CaliforniaSmaller Taco Bell outlets, offering a reduced version of the menu, appear in malls, airport terminals, university and military base dining halls, department stores, hotels, gas stations, and other locations. Some school lunch programs also offer Taco Bell items under the Taco Bell Express branding.

The Taco Bell name is also used under license by Kraft Foods, which offers a line of taco shells, spices, salsa, and other Mexican foods (including full meal kits) featuring the Taco Bell Home Originals name in supermarkets nationwide.

As of 2005, there are 5,845 Taco Bell restaurants in the United States, including 1,252 company-owned locations, 3,803 franchisees, and 790 licenses. There is a 3% drop in branches compared with 2001.[1] Internationally there are 243 locations, 201 franchisees and 42 licensees, which adds up to growth of 2% since 2001.[2]

Over the last several years, Yum! Brands, Inc. has been co-locating its various restaurant franchises (KFC, Long John Silver's, A&W, and Pizza Hut).

Results

As of 2007 Taco Bell is the best-performing brand of Yum Brands, having USD1.8 billion sales for company-owned stores in the United States (compounded annual growth rate of 6% from 2001), and sales of USD4.4 billion for franchisees and licensees in the United States (compounded annual growth rate of 3% from 1999).

Taco Bell also has the largest sales per system unit in Yum!, having USD 1.17 million sales per system unit, excluding licensees.[3]

Co-branding



A Co-branded Taco Bell and KFCMany Taco Bell Express brand outlets can be found in suburban strip malls, often adjacent to other Yum!-brand eateries, most notably Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken or Long John Silvers.

Lawsuit

A lawsuit filed in 1998 by Joseph Shields and Thomas Rinks alleged Taco Bell failed to pay them for use of the Chihuahua character they created. The men alleged that Taco Bell had breached payment on a contract after they worked with the restaurant chain for a year to develop the talking Chihuahua for use in marketing. The talking Chihuahua became a hit with the first advertisement, in which the character bypasses a female Chihuahua for a Taco Bell taco and declares: "Yo quiero Taco Bell." The two men received $30.1 million, plus an addition of $11.4 million in interest.[4] Taco Bell said it would appeal the verdict.

Acquisitions

In 1984, Taco Bell acquired Pup 'N' Taco.

In 1986, Taco Bell acquired the Faux-Mex restaurant chain known as Zantigo, known for their Chilito, a chili-cheese burrito. The Chilito was added to the Taco Bell menu. The name was later quietly changed to Chili Cheese Burrito after comedian Paul Rodriguez pointed out the negative connotations of the word chilito (a slang word for p***s) in Mexican Spanish dialect.[citation needed]

Border Bell

In 1997, PepsiCo experimented with a new "fresh grill" concept, opening at least one Border Bell restaurant in Mountain View, California on El Camino Real (SR 82). In addition to a subset of the regular Taco Bell menu, Border Bell offered Mexican-inspired items like those available from Chevys Fresh Mex restaurants (then owned by PepsiCo), such as Chevys signature sweet corn tamalito pudding and a fresh salsa bar.[5] Close to the time that PepsiCo spun off its restaurant business in 1997, the Border Bell in Mountain View was closed and converted to a Taco Bell restaurant, which is still open as of 2008.

Products

Taco Bell menu

Tacos

Burritos

Gorditas

Chalupas

Nachos

Quesadillas

Taquitos

Mexican pizza

Taco Bell's dessert options include the Caramel Apple Empanada and Cinnamon Twists. Sides include nachos, pintos and cheese, and a cup of rice which used to come with a double portion of rice, red sauce, cheese, and formerly green onion, though this ingredient is no longer carried after an E. coli scare. As of 2008, Taco Bell has removed the red sauce and cheese from the sides of rice.

Big Bell Value menu

In the late-1980s, Taco Bell commonly advertised its "59, 79, 99" pricing plan, in which nearly everything on the menu was either 59¢, 79¢, or 99¢.



Taco Bell's Crunchwrap SupremeDespite Taco Bell's relatively cheap per-item pricing, it never had a true value menu until the mid-2000s. The menu features several items generally priced below $2.00. The introduction of the value menu also brought new items to the restaurant's offerings, notably items made with potatoes and Taco Bell's third dessert, the Caramel Apple Empanada. (Cinnamon Crispas, triangular fried flour tortilla shells, were offered until being replaced by Cinnamon Twists.) The Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito recently replaced the Bean Burrito Especial, which was removed because of its small profit margin. However, the Bean Burrito Especial is still on The Big Bell Value Menu in some markets in the western markets in addition to the Cheesy Bean and Rice Burritio. Also of note is that half of the menu is not truly new, as Beef Combo Burritos, Cheesy Bean and Rice Burritos, Double Decker Tacos, and both Spicy Chicken items had been on the regular menu before, as permanent or limited time only items.

The Big Bell Value Menu (usually) includes:

Grande Soft Taco: two 6" tortillas with nacho cheese in between, a double portion of beef, then lettuce and cheese

Double Decker Taco: beans on a 6" tortilla wrapped around a crunchy taco with beef, lettuce, and cheese

Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito: beans, rice, nacho cheese, 3-cheese blend, jalapeno sauce, and fiesta salsa

Beef Combo Burrito: beans, a double portion of beef, red sauce, cheese, and onion

Beef & Potato Burrito: beef, red sauce, potatoes, and sour cream

Spicy Chicken Burrito: spicy chicken, rice, creamy jalapeno sauce, and fiesta salsa

Spicy Chicken Soft Taco: spicy chicken (1.5 oz), lettuce (.5 oz), fiesta salsa (.5 oz.)

Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes: warm nacho cheese, cool sour cream, golden fried potatoes

Caramel Apple Empanada: warm caramel sauce and apple chunks

Why Pay More Big Bell Value Menu

In May 2008, a new value meal called Why Pay More Big Bell Value Menu debuted. This new value menu contains some of the items from the previous value menu as well as several new ones.

The menu setup is as follows:

79¢ items:

Cheese Rollup (New)

Triple Layer Nachos (New)

Cinnamon Twists

89¢ items:

Crunchy Taco

Soft Taco

Cheesy Double Beef Burrito (New)

99¢ items:

Big Taste Taco (New)

Bean Burrito

1/2 lb. Cheesy Bean and Rice Burrito

Caramel Apple Empanada

Frutista Freeze

In May of 2008, a new frozen drink called Frutista Freeze debuted. There are two flavors are Mango Strawberry and Strawberry; both are topped with a strawberry topping.

Promotional/discontinued items

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7-Layer Crunchwrap (still available in some locations)

Bacon Cheeseburger Burrito

Bacon Cheeseburger Taco Supreme

The Bell-Beefer - a taco like hamburger with a hamburger bun, taco meat, cheese, tomato, and lettuce.

BLT Chicken Soft Taco

Border Ices - Tropical flavored ice pops

The Cheesarito

The Cheesy Beefy Melt

Cheesy Gordita Crunch (still available in some locations)

Chicken Caesar Grilled Stuft Burrito

Chicken and Steak Grilled Taquitos (now on permanent menu)

Chicken Enchilada Grilled Stuft Burrito

Chicken Fajita Burrito

Chili Cheese Nachos Bellgrande

Club Chalupa (first released in 2004, currently on a second run in spring of 08. Now labeled as the "Bacon Club Chalupa" however the ingredients are the same. In May of 2008, the Bacon Club Chalupa is being phased out; in other words, while supplies last.)

Crunchwrap Supreme (now on permanent menu)

Enchirito (now on permanent menu -- had been discontinued for years and brought back recently, albeit with a slightly different preparation)

Extreme Cheese and Beef Quesadilla

Good Humor's Choco Taco was also offered for a short while

Grande Quesadilla

Nacho Crunch Grilled Stuft Burrito

Taco Bellgrande

Ultimate Chalupa - Chalupa with chicken or steak, sour cream, lettuce, guacamole, 3 cheese blend, and fiesta salsa

Volcano Burrito (a special promotion in conjunction with the 1995 film Congo)

Zesty Nachos

In 1991, Taco Bell launched a Fiesta menu which had smaller sized versions of four their popular menu items: the taco, soft taco, bean burrito and tostada. Each item was approximately 40% smaller than the normal versions and cost $.39 each.

In the early-1990s, Taco Bell changed its menu due to pressure concerning the nutritional value of items labeled "Lite". It was believed the term lite was vague or possibly deceptive. Many items were dropped entirely from the menu, such as the "Taco Lite", a fried flour tortilla shell with lean beef, fat free sour cream, lettuce, reduced fat cheese, and tomatoes. Some items were altered to change t

Answer 3

Americanized, sorry excuse for Mexican food

Answer 4

I would definitely hesitate to call Taco Bell "Mexican food".

Answer 5

WHAT?!?!  You need to go there my friend!!  Your missing out on greatness! :O

Answer 6

Taco Bell is a mexican fast food chain that sells tacos, burritos, flautas etc, usually found in Mexico and Texas.

Answer 7

fast food restaurant tht sells tacos

Answer 8

its a mexican reastrunt it sell tacos and good stuff

Answer 9

fast food mexican food

Answer 10

Total c**p that is only slightly decent at 3am after a night of heavy drinking, but will subsequently burn your a$$ the following day.

Hey "Today.."- don't do coke and answer questions.

Answer 11

Fast food mexican food. Tacos, Nachos, Burritos, etc.

Answer 12

A fast food  chain restaurant that sells Tacos, burritos etc.

I have a question for you. ?donde está su cerebro?