Taco Bell Fun Facts
Taco Bell serves more than 2 billion customers each year in more than 6,500 restaurants mostly in the U.S., more than 80 percent of which are owned and operated by independent franchisees.
Taco Bell employs more than 143,000 people in company-operated and franchised units and corporate offices in the US.
The Mountain Dew BAJA BLAST was made specially to go with great-tasting Taco Bell® food.
Nearly 150 million people see a Taco Bell commercial once a week - more than half the US population.
Over 2 billion tacos and 1 billion burritos of all varieties are served in Taco Bell restaurants each year.
•In an average year in the US, Taco Bell consumers, company and franchise restaurants, consume:
- 3.8 billion corn and flower tortillas
- 62 million pounds of pinto beans
- 295 million pounds of seasoned ground beef
- 106 million pounds of cheese
The preformed taco shell was invented in 1951 by Taco Bell's® founder Glen Bell!
A group of four guys in Oregon once hit 19 restaurants in a single day on their cross-country trip, visiting 100 Taco Bell restaurants in a week.
In Mexico, "pico de gallo," translates literally as "rooster’s beak."
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.
Taco Bell has attempted to enter the Mexican market twice. After a highly-publicised launch in Mexico City in 1992, all the restaurants were closed two years later. In September 2007, Taco Bell returned to Monterrey, projecting an American image with an Americanized menu that included french fries, but it closed in January 2010 due to low patronage.