Taco Bell

Taco Bell is a fast-food restaurant chain which is a division of Yum! Brands, Inc.

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Taco Bell serves items based on Mexican cuisine, as adapted to the needs of the fast-food industry. Taco Bell's cuisine is Mexican-inspired American food, or Tex-Mex cuisine. It is headquartered in Irvine, California.

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Taco Bell encourages its diners to "think outside the bun", a reference to its bypassing the efforts and popularity wars of such hamburger-selling fast food chains as McDonald's and Burger King through the tortilla instead of the bun. Previously, Taco Bell had a menu item called the "Bell Beefer" (bun, beef, lettuce, cheese and tomato) in the mid to late 1980's designed to compete with burger chains, but the product did not catch on.

Fast-food restaurant: A fast-food restaurant is a restaurant characterized both by food which is supplied quickly after ordering, and by minimal service. Food purchased may or may not be eaten quickly as well. Often this food is referred to as fast food. In response to increasing backlash against "fast-food", the indu...

Yum! Brands, Inc.: Yum! Brands, Inc. or Yum! is a Fortune 500 corporation, that operates A&W, KFC, Long John Silver's, Pizza Hut, Hungry Jacks and Taco Bell worldwide. Based in Louisville, Kentucky, it's the world's largest quick-service (a.k.a. "fast food") restaurant company in terms of system units—nearly 33...

Mexican cuisine: Mexican food is a style of food that originated in Mexico....

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