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.

However, three operations in Albuquerque, New Mexico, were not included in the deal and two existed until August 2011 as Pop ' N ' Taco, the same as in Los Angeles.

In March 2005, the Coalition of Immokalee Workers ( CIW ) won a landmark victory in its national boycott of Taco Bell for human rights.

Taco Bell agreed to meet all of the coalition's demands to improve wages and working conditions for Florida tomato pickers in its supply chain.

* Full transparency for Taco Bell ’ s tomato purchases in Florida ; the agreement commits Taco Bell to buy only from Florida growers who agree to the pass-through and to document and monitor the pass-through, providing complete records of Taco Bell ’ s Florida tomato purchases and growers ’ wage records to the CIW.

Taco Bell sponsors a promotion at home games for both the Portland Trail Blazers and the Cleveland Cavaliers in which everyone in attendance receives a coupon for a free Chalupa if the home team scores 100 points or more.

In 2009, Taco Bell introduced a music video style commercial entitled, " It's all about the Roosevelts " composed and produced by Danny de Matos at his studio for Amber Music on behalf of DraftFCB Agency.

Taco Bell first opened in Australia in September 1981, but Taco Bell was ordered to change its name after the owner of a local restaurant successfully sued Taco Bell for misleading conduct.

The first Taco Bell for the general public was opened in the Islazul Shopping Mall, Madrid, in December 2008.

A Taco Bell had long been a presence at the U. S. Army's Yongsan Garrison, which is off-limits to non-military people, and for a time there was a tongue-in-cheek grassroots campaign by non-Korean, non-military foreigners in Seoul to get another Taco Bell location.

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

Subway's trademark application for " footlong " has yet to be approved by the federal government ; A & W, Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, Long John Silver's and other restaurants are opposing that application.

Taco de lengua ( lengua being Spanish for tongue ) is a taco filled with beef tongue, and is especially popular in Mexican cuisine.

The musician Taco Ockerse stirred up controversy in 1983 by using dancers in blackface for his hit synthpop version of Puttin ' on the Ritz.

A later episode of The Simpsons, " Behind the Laughter ", features Willie Nelson saying, " Thank you, Taco, for that loving tribute to Falco ," within another fictional tribute.

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.

* In the 1980s, Dutch pop singer Taco released a version of it, which reached number 46 in the Canadian Charts on August 27, 1983, although it failed to crack the US Top 100 or the UK Top 40.

Gilliland also ran the number occasionally with his Taco Bell crew.

After four years of a tenacious and growing boycott, Taco Bell and Yum!

More eating establishments-Sonic Drive-In, Subway, Taco Casa, and Chucks BBQ, have opened in recent years, and also a new hotel, Best Express Inn & Suites.

During the seventh inning of each game, an auxiliary mascot named Henry the Puffy Taco is chased around the bases by a kid from the stands, typically between 6 and 10 years of age.

In 2003, Taco Bell lost a lawsuit by two Michigan men, who had pitched the concept of the Chihuahua to Taco Bell 6 years earlier.

While Taco John's targeted smaller Midwestern and Western communities in its early years, the chain has recently begun to open locations in larger metropolitan areas like Denver and Kansas City, where they've had a minor presence since the 1980s.