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.

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.

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 2012.

They towed a large target out into the Pacific Ocean, announcing that if the target was hit by a falling piece of Mir, every person in the United States would be entitled to a free Taco Bell taco.

On July 21, 2009, Gidget, the Chihuahua featured in Taco Bell ads in the late 1990s, was euthanized after suffering a stroke.

A large advertising push by Taco Bell was begun in late February 2011 in response to a consumer protection lawsuit filed against the company by an Alabama law firm.

Analyst Laura Ries, of marketing strategy firm Ries & Ries, stated she believed Taco Bell's latest response was a mistake.

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 local restaurant was called " Taco Bell's Casa " and had been operating in Australia since the 1970s.

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.

The first Polish Taco Bell store was opened in 1993.

The first Taco Bell in Spain was opened at Naval Station Rota in 2004 and is available only to those authorized to access the naval base.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Wichita was also a significant entrepreneurial business center during the pre and post-war period, with Coleman, Mentholatum, Pizza Hut, White Castle, Taco Tico and Koch Industries having all been founded in Wichita.

Originally named Casa Del Taco (" House of the Taco "), the first Del Taco restaurant was founded in 1964 in Yermo, California by Ed Hackbarth and David Jameson.

In 1966, the trio founded Red-E-Food Systems, Inc. with the idea of franchising the Casa Del Taco brand.

Grace, primarily a chemicals company, founded a new company, Del Taco Restaurants Inc. of Dallas, Texas, and a new subsidiary, DTG Inc., to oversee the various fast food chains it was acquiring.

Taco Cabana, which was founded by Mike and Felix Stehling in 1978, opened its first restaurant at the corner of San Pedro and Hildebrand Avenues in Midtown San Antonio.

Taco Bueno was founded in 1967 by Bill J. Waugh, an Abilene Christian University ( ACU ) art graduate.

The fast-food restaurant chain Del Taco was founded in Yermo in 1964 and the original structure remains active as a local fast food restaurant, The Burger Den.

It was founded by former Del Taco employee Dick Naugle.

The chain was founded in 1969 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and currently has more than 400 Taco John ’ s restaurants in 24 states.

After initially working as an engineer, Campbell and his wife founded BIMA Corporation, a company that specialized in Taco Bell franchises.