His book, In Fifty Years We'll All Be Chicks, debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list in 2010, and his second book Not Taco Bell Material also reached New York Times bestseller status and received widespread acclaim for its cutting social commentary and humor.

An episode involving Taco Bell taco shells was particularly well publicized.

There is also a Taco Bell, and the Triple C shop that sells Starbucks coffee and Breyers ice cream.

* 2010 – Glen Bell, American businessman, founder of Taco Bell.

Through the marketing wing of 40 Acres and a Mule, Lee has directed commercials for Converse, Jaguar, Taco Bell and Ben & Jerry's.

* 1923 – Glen Bell, American businessman, founded Taco Bell ( d. 2010 )

Nearly one million Yum !, KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's and A & W All American Food employees, franchisees and their families volunteered close to 4 million hours to aid hunger relief efforts in communities worldwide, while helping to raise $ 16 million throughout the World Hunger Relief Week initiative for the World Food Programme and other hunger relief agencies around the world.

The classic Taco Bell logo used from 1985 to 1994.

It is still in use at many older Taco Bell locations.

A Taco Bell restaurant design that was popular in the 1980s and 1990s, and remains the most common design today.

Taco Bell Revere, Massachusetts

Taco Bell is an American chain of fast-food restaurants based in Irvine, California.

Taco Bell serves more than 2 billion customers each year in more than 5, 800 restaurants in the U. S., more than 80 percent of which are owned and operated by independent franchisees.

Taco Bell was founded by Glen Bell who first opened a hot dog stand called Bell ’ s Drive-In in San Bernardino, California in 1946 when he was 23 years old.

Over the next few years Bell owned and operated a number of restaurants in southern California including four called El Taco.

Bell sold the El Tacos to his partner and built the first Taco Bell in Downey in 1962.

Kermit Becky, a former Los Angeles police officer, bought the first Taco Bell franchise from Glen Bell in 1964, and located it in Torrance.

In 1970, Taco Bell went public with 325 restaurants.

In 1978, PepsiCo purchased Taco Bell from Glen Bell.

Between Leonard joining the band and the start of their television break, Rockapella began to pick up fame, starring in a Whoopi Goldberg HBO special " Chez Whoopi ", a Taco Bell commercial, and opened for acts such as Chuck Berry, Styx, Billy Joel, and their a cappella idols The Persuasions, who the group had met on the Do It A Cappella special.

The 1980s also brought change in the operation, as Del Taco began to stay open all night long.

TCBY began co-branding with Taco Bell, McDonald's, Subway, and Burger King in 1995.

In 2004, Taco John's began to partner with Good Times Burgers & Frozen Custard and Steak Escape to open co-branded restaurants.

For instance, pizza made with cheddar and pepper jack cheese, salsa, refried beans or other common taco ingredients is often marketed as " Taco Pizza ".

Taco Bell's original restaurant design with its first logo sign in Wausau, Wisconsin.

In March 2001, Taco Bell announced a promotion to coincide with the re-entry of the Mir space station.

In 2004, a local Taco Bell franchisee bought the naming rights to the Boise State Pavilion in Boise, Idaho and renamed the stadium Taco Bell Arena. Also, in 2004, Mountain Dew offered Taco Bell stores the exclusive right to carry Mountain Dew Baja Blast, a tropical-lime-flavored variety of the popular soft drink chemically formulated to taste good with their food.

In 2007, Taco Bell offered the " Steal a Base, Steal a Taco " promotion — if any player from either team stole a base in the 2007 World Series the company would give away free tacos to everyone in the United States in a campaign similar to the Mir promotion, albeit with a much higher likelihood of being realized.

In the spring of 2012 Taco Bell teamed up with Frito Lay and created the Doritos Locos Tacos, which is a supreme taco with a Nacho Cheesier Dorito taco shell and coming later in the fall of 2012 a Cool Ranch taco shell.

On June 6, 2012 Taco Bell announced it would be testing a new " Cantina Menu " with upscale items in their Kentucky & California restaurants.

Taco Bell later opened in 1997 in Australia with a store in the cinema district on George St in Sydney and a year later in 1998 within a few KFC stores in the state of New South Wales, but by 2005, the Taco Bell brand was pulled out of the country.

Taco Bell has been present in Canada since 1981, with the first store opening in Windsor, Ontario.

Taco Bell have fourteen stores in Chile, thirteen of which are operated in conjunction ( and in the same facilities ) with Pizza Hut.

Taco Bell in Singapore existed for a number of years, mostly as combination stores with KFC such as the one that operated at the Funan Digital Life Mall, but in 2008, Taco Bell completely pulled out of Singapore.

The United Kingdom was the first European country with a Taco Bell, although it remains extremely difficult for UK inhabitants to patronise a store.

There are 2 Taco Bell sites in the UK in operation at the Strategic Air Command and United States Air Force bases at RAF Mildenhall and RAF Lakenheath, but, commensurate with existing security controls, access is restricted to relevant service personnel.

Brands announced that it is considering reopening Taco Bell locations in the United Kingdom as part of a large planned expansion into Europe, with trial outlets opening first in Spain in early 2009.

announced in 2005 that it would expand the multi-brand concept and pair Long John Silver's with KFC, just as they had paired Taco Bell and Pizza Hut along with A & W, and Long John Silver's was since paired with all of Yum!

Taco Bell in Iceland is operated as a part of the KFC establishment in Hafnarfjörður, suburb of Reykjavík.

operates or licenses Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and WingStreet restaurants worldwide.

was created on October 7, 1997, as Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc. an independent company, as a result of a spin-out from PepsiCo, which owned and franchised the KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell brands worldwide.

announced its intentions to divest itself of its Long John Silver's and A & W brands to focus on its core brands of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.

The foreign expansion — particularly that of Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut — was cited in the firm's January 18, 2011 announcement of its intention to sell the A & W and Long John Silver's chains.

restaurant facility co-branded as Taco Bell and KFC in San Francisco, California

A Taco Bell and a KFC on adjacent lots in Burlington, North Carolina

* Besides Lambert's Cafe, other Sikeston restaurants include Arby's, Applebee's, Buffalo Wild Wings, Burger King, Dairy Queen, Domino's Pizza, Hardee's, Jay's Chicken, Kirby's Sandwich Shop, KFC, Long John Silver's / A & W, Mexican Villa ( open since 1977 ), McDonald's, Papa Murphy's, Pizza Inn, Pizza Hut, Sonic Drive-In, Subway, Ruby Tuesday in Miner, Taco John's, Taco Bell, and Wendy's.

Bluffton has 6 fast food restaurants, including McDonald's, Arby's, Subway, Taco Bell, KFC, and Burger King.

Tricon Global, owner of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, adopted the symbol " YUM " to represent its corporate mission when the company was spun out of PepsiCo in 1997.

Brands ( parent of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut totaling 37, 000 locations ), McDonald's, and Subway ( 32, 000 locations ).

Brands with its KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, A & W Restaurants and Long John Silvers concepts to help expand brands without the additional expense of new buildings and land.

Brands, a corporation that operates Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut

Brands in the world, owning over 446 restaurants of various Yum !- owned chains in Canada, namely KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and WingStreet.

The majority of its locations are KFC restaurants, some of which are co-branded with the Taco Bell and Pizza Hut brands.

Neighboring fast food restaurant advertisement signs in Bowling Green, Kentucky for Wendy's, KFC, Krystal ( restaurant ) | Krystal and Taco Bell

Students enjoy food at two on campus snack bars ( Exit West Cafe and The Peach Pit ), Friendly's Cafe, Taco Bell Express, Freshen's Smoothies and Pretzels, KFC Express, Pizza Hut Express, as well as all-you-can-eat cafeteria style dining.