If Google is handing out cars to take people to get chalupas, sign us up. While testing the company's new self-driving vehicle, Google had the Toyota Prius navigate city streets to take its blind "driver" to Taco Bell, as seen in a video of the test. More »
We know how it goes — it's 2 a.m., the bar has pushed you out the door and the first thing your mind turns to is where to pick up a little late-night satisfaction. In the form of fast food Mexican, of course. Woe betide the Taco Bell aficionado yearning for a "boreto" who is ignorant not only of how to spell burrito, but of the customs of Daylight Savings Time, then. More »
UPDATE: After further review of when this news was posted and reviewing taco calendars, we realize that the Doritos tacos are actually ALREADY ON SALE. Forgive the confusion, and commence freaking out. More »
When you're told you're a winner, it's fun to believe it. But in the case of a number of Tco Bell customers who thought they'd scored a free PlayStation Vita, the company is dashing a lot of dreams. Turns out someone gamed the system, apparently tinkering with the site to tell people they'd won when they really hadn't. This, according to Taco Bell. More »
Last fall, at least 68 people in 10 states fell ill following an outbreak of Salmonella Enteritidis. In the months since, the Centers for Disease Control have only referred to a possible source of that strain as "Restaurant Chain A," but a new report claims to have confirmed that the anonymous chain is actually Taco Bell. More »
Even at fancy shmancy brunch places with delicate parchment menus, the breakfasting masses love them a tasty breakfast burrito. It seems Taco Bell has finally put two and two together, as they've debuted a breakfast menu with fast-food Mexican breakfast items to go. More »
Taco Bell is finally joining the fast food trend of trying to offer something worth eating when it's not 2 a.m. on a Saturday after the beer pong championships. Its new "Cantina Bell" menu will feature fresh ingredients and more upmarket offerings in two test locations starting Jan. 26. More »
Taco Bell has been rolling out the Doritos Locos Taco over the past year. Now the company has reportedly declared that the taco — which does indeed have a Doritos-based shell — is a "breakthrough product designed to reinvent the taco," and the company's strategy for 2012 will be built around it. More »
There's better ways to lodge a complaint against Taco Bell than by lofting a Molotov cocktail at the drive-thru window, but filling out a suggestion card wasn't the one this incensed Georgia customer chose at 5am. More »
Perfect for those who would rather not eat their tacos and Doritos separately, the Doritos Locos Taco ditches the boring yellow corn tortilla exterior for bright, finger-staining orange. And it's ever-so-slowly making its way around the country. More »
Some people take their missing hot sauce far too seriously. An irate Taco Bell customer was so enraged after he found out his order was missing the condiment that he allegedly returned to the restaurant with a shotgun and pulled it on the offending employee. Now the suspect has been arrested and faces up to 10 years in prison. More »
No matter how bad you need a taco late at night, and regardless of how miffed you are that Taco Bell will not hook you up via its drive-thru when you're on foot, your plight is not an emergency that warrants a 911 call. More »
It's never a good idea to declare your infatuation with someone by handcuffing yourself to them. Doing so when both you and your victim happen to work for a prominent fast food establishment only adds the shame of national headlines to your embarrassment. More »
It's low-down and despicable enough to try to sell your child, but one woman has taken baby-selling to a new low, after she allegedly tried to unload her newborn for a paltry $500 at a Taco Bell. Of all places! More »
The sign, a glorious product of put-upon employee rage, began tearing up the Internet this morning. Apparently, a Taco Bell employee near Buffalo, NY went out in style, changing the sign out front to say, "I QUIT - ADAM / F*** YOU :)" A local television station reports that the now-former employee reached his limit after working twenty-two days straight and being denied a day off for Independence Day. (Yes, NSFW language inside.) More »
Taco Bell apparently believes the secret eighth layer to its metaphorical burrito is free WiFi. Perhaps looking to edge in on the foot traffic coffee shops and bookstores draw in with the service, Taco Bell announced plans to set up 5,600 restaurants over the next four years for wireless internet. More »
Almost a year ago, our survey-loving siblings at Consumer Reports asked several thousand readers to rate burgers from 18 burger chains and to no one's surprise, McDonald's came in dead last. Not satisfied with merely finding the best and worst beef-on-a-bun, CR decided to go for the super-sized option, rating 53 restaurants in five categories to find which ones provide the best food, service and value to customers. More »
Curiously Australian Taco Bell CEO Greg Creed has no delusions about the product his company sells. Not that he thinks it's bad food, but that that, well... you often get what you pay for when you buy an $.89 taco. And Creed doesn't really worry about competing with Chipotle. More »
Taking a victory lap around the tactical retreat by the lawyers who had sued it for its beef not being beefy enough, Taco Bell took out a full-page ad asking the firm to say "sorry." More »
Shut the front door and hand me a bib and some wet wipes to wipe the flavored dust from my trembling mouth! Word on the street is Taco Bell is taking a logical, tasty step in testing out nacho-flavored Doritos as shells. More »
A SWAT team was called in to deal with a gunman who was enraged the price of Taco Bell Beefy Crunch Burritos had risen from their promotional price of $.99 to $1.49. More »
For a culture so obsessed with money, we sure don't know the value of it. Here is a video of a guy trying buy a $.99 Taco Bell taco with an American Eagle gold coin. It's legal tender for $50, but with gold the price of gold where it's at, has a meltdown value of more like $1428. The Taco Bell employee doesn't really want to take it, saying it's "for collecting" and is much happier when the guy pays with two one-dollar bills. To be fair, he gives up pretty quick and doesn't press his case, but that Taco slinger sure missed out. More »
Since the news broke about the lawsuit alleging that Taco Bell's ground beef doesn't meet the USDA's definition of "ground beef," there has been a lot of speculation about exactly what percentage of the taco filling is actually made up of non-meat ingredients. But what's been left out of the discussion is a closer look at what those extra recipe items are doing there. More »
Earlier this week a class action lawsuit was filed against Taco Bell, alleging that their beef is actually only 36% meat and the rest is "extenders" and other non-meat substances. Taco Bell's President and Chief Concept Officer Greg Creed has released a new and more in-depth statement that goes into detail about the percentage of ingredients in the recipe, like how it contains 88% USDA-inspected quality beef. More »
Earlier this week, the news broke that Taco Bell had been sued over allegations that — according to the USDA — the ground beef advertised in its tacos isn't ground beef but "meat filling" that contains a bunch of binders and extenders. Yesterday, Greg Creed, the curiously Australian president of the Bell issued a statement on the company's site. More »
To be beef, or not to be beef, that is the question in a lawsuit against Taco Bell for what one Alabama law firm claims is the company's dubious pronouncements of ground beef. The suit says the fast food purveyors are misleading customers by advertising its ground beef offerings as such. More »
Yum! Brands, the fast food company so excitable it requires an exclamation point, is about to trim some fat from its lineup up eateries. The company has announced its intention to put its Long John Silver's and A&W All-American Food chains on the market. More »
It's becoming more and more rare for customers to walk into a fast food restaurant and order individual meal components off the menu. Why do that when you can just order a #4 and get the sandwich, fries and drink together? It makes sense, but a new study says our penchant for buying bundled meals is causing us to eat more than we should. More »
McDonald's may be the fast food chain most are associating with the recently approved kid's meal regulations in San Francisco, but when it comes to calories in meals targeted to youngsters, the Golden Arches is nowhere near the worst. More »
Fine people of the Dallas-Forth Worth area, you have been tricked! No, not about Wade Phillips being a good football coach; but about the amount of sodium in your Taco Bell. More »
In June, we wrote about the Frankenburger, an experiment in which the Village Voice attempted to form a Voltron sandwich from the best bits of many fast food burgers. But the folks behind this video seem to be on the hunt for the most atrocious combination of fast foods — and they just might have succeeded. More »
Remember that scene in the Eddie Murphy film Coming to America where he and Arsenio Hall take out an armed robber (a barely recognizable Samuel L. Jackson) with a mop handle? Well, the real-life scene on Sunday at a Taco Bell in Indiana probably wasn't as cinematic, but it was cool nonetheless. More »
I think it's safe to say that most people have a decent grasp on the distinction between advertising and reality. Most of us know that the cheese on our Whopper isn't going to perfectly placed like the cheese on TV or that the bacon on our Baconator probably won't be identical to the crispy, glistening bacon we see on the poster. But at what point does fast food cross the line between "acceptably different" from the picture and "completely unrecognizable"? More »
A little while back, Jason came down with food poisoning after chowing down at his local Taco Bell. And when he later tried to give the fast food eatery a heads-up that others might get sick — and this was before anyone knew of the multi-state salmonella outbreak tied to Taco Bell — he was told that maybe he just hadn't eaten enough Taco Bell to toughen up his stomach. More »
It was reported last week that a recent multi-state outbreak of salmonella had been linked to food sold at Taco Bell. So it should come as no surprise that a lawsuit has been filed against the fast food chain over the incident. More »
In the last few months, at least 155 people in several states have become ill from a pair of rare strains of salmonella. And according to authorities, the source of the salmonella is food served at Taco Bell. More »
A few months back, we wrote about a couple in Illinois who tried to combine cheap with hilarious by getting married at a Taco Bell. For better or for worse, it looks like that happy couple is not alone, with an increasing number of people walking down the aisles of retail stores and restaurants. More »
There was a great man from Texas who once said something about "fool me once" or something like that. He might have been speaking about his fellow Texan, whose spot-on math skills caught his local Taco Bell over-taxing its customers twice — three years apart. More »
While Domino's has scrambled to re-imagine their pizza recipes and Pizza Hut continues to basically give away their pizzas for a pittance, it was Papa John's who apparently made the best impression on eaters in the last year. The Kentucky-based chain has topped not only its pizzeria rivals, but all fast foods in an annual survey of customer satisfaction. More »
It's not often that a story about a Taco Bell heist ends happily, but a would-be thief in Indiana was apparently so stricken with guilt (or afraid of getting caught) that he returned the cash he'd ripped off only days earlier. More »
Who can beat the amazing McDouble? The answer may well be no one, but we'll put it to a vote to settle the score as to which fast food value menu is king. Yesterday we put a call out for nominations, and these are the contenders that emerged from the crop. More »
While the U.S. government is getting rid of fast food options for soldiers in Afghanistan, meanwhile they spent quite a bit of cash to make sure troops stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, could pick up a Double Down or a Chalupa without having to have a care package sent from home. More »
Taco Bell has set up a website where you can print a coupon for a free Limeade Sparkler drink. The giveaway lasts until July 11, or until 500,000 drinks have been given away. More »
Taco Bell is known for offering sweet deals, but a Dayton woman should have known it was too good to be true when a drive-thru attendant handed her a $2,000 pimp roll rather than her burritos. More »
Not to be outdone by the proliferation of dollar menus and $10 pizzas, Taco Bell has announced $2 value meals. Yes, for a mere $2, you will soon be eating a taco or burrito, a medium soft drink and a bag of Doritos. More »
Some people love Taco Bell, and then there's some people that love Taco Bell so much they'll say their wedding vows inside one. Just ask the pair of Newlyweds from Normal, IL, who recently walked down the fast food aisle together. More »
A new study in the American Journal of Public Health states that several of the biggest U.S. health insurers are heavily invested in fast food companies, to the tune of $2 billion. This news has caused some to ask whether or not the insurance companies' vested interest in the growth of fast food stands in direct contrast to their interest in having healthy policy holders. More »
McDonald's: Taking his cue from both Cheeseburger Josh and that irritating "Gimme That Filet-o-Fish" ad, a dude in South Brunswick, NJ, got so impatient with the service at the drive-thru that he crawled through the window, slapped the employee and then escaped with his precious fish sandwich. More »
It's not exactly Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family, but on Monday night a trio of hungry robbers held up a Charlotte, NC, Taco Bell just to get some free food. More »
Consumerist reader Sean recently went to his local Taco Bell to grab a bite to eat. But when he wanted to make a slight substitution on his order, he had to pay extra. He doesn't think he should have been charged, so we want you... to make the call. More »
In a move bound to lure in a few Lent-observing Catholics and give those who keep Kosher another reason to stay away, Taco Bell goes live nationwide today with their new Pacific Shrimp Taco, available through April 11 and the first of three new menu items the fast feeder has in store for us. More »
It's en vogue for fast food companies to section off portions of their menus as "the healthy section," but the label doesn't convince many diners of the fact that the grub can be part of an effective weight-loss diet. More »
Did you ever visit a Taco Bell drive-thru late at night and wonder why it was named Taco Bell? It's because the very first one was opened in 1962 in California by a Marine named Glen W. Bell. The 86-year-old died this weekend and will be buried in a private ceremony. More »
Taco Bell is giving away printable coupons for free Fresco Tacos. Valid until a million taco coupons are printed. The rules say the manager's decision is final on whether or not to accept the coupon so if there's a mad free taco rush and Mr. Stanley doesn't feel like comping another Fresco Taco, don't come crying to mama. More »
A direct answer to Subway's Jared, Taco Bell's new spokeswoman Christine says she lost 54 pounds in two years in part by substituting the restaurant's lighter fare for her usual fast food splurges. More »
A man who either loves Taco Bell or hates his GI tract paid $72 for a taco at an Ohio Taco Bell on Monday. When the employee tried to give him his change, he refused and said that it was a Christmas gift, according to the local Fox news station: "He said, 'I don't need it so I want to pass it along.' ...the man then said 'Merry Christmas' and walked away." Presumably to a toilet. <—That wasn't very Christmas-y and I retract it. More »
—>So, you roll into Taco Bell at 3:30 am. They're closed. Sure, you're upset, but do you need to shoot the person working there? One guy in Miami thinks so, and he's apparently still at large after shooting a Taco Bell employee in the leg simply because the restaurant wasn't open. More »
—>Credit card skimmers aren't just on ATMs and in grocery stores, apparently they're at Taco Bell. The Colorado Springs Gazette reports that a ID theft ring was busted for skimming credit card numbers at a Taco Bell as well as stealing cards from people's gym lockers. More »
—>Gidget, the tiny Chihuahua star of Taco Bell's "Yo Quiero Taco Bell" ad series in the '90s, in addition to other ad and film work, died yesterday of an apparent stroke. She (yes, she) was fifteen years old. More »
—>Recently, those buzzkills at Time published this mouth-watering article about the massive caloric content of fast food. Apparently, the Senate is considering federal legislation that would require chain restaurants to list calorie counts on menus. More »
—>Consumer research company Experian Simmons (yes, owned by Experian), has released a new study of fast food industry covering the past 5 years, and it looks like we still love going to McDonald's more than any other fast food restaurant. More »
—>The Taco Bell in South Bend, Indiana is installing "self-locking" doors after two young girls walked in on four people having sex in the bathroom. Public sex in this particular bathroom is apparently such a problem that they tried keeping the bathrooms locked — but too many customers complained about having to ask for a key. More »
—>A Vancouver man says he was overcharged by Taco Bell — costing him hundreds of dollars in fees. The man used his debit card to buy $15 worth of Taco Bell for his family. The receipt read the correct amount, and he says he didn't notice that his card had been debited $150 until he started receiving overdraft fees for each item he bought after Taco Bell. More »
—>Are you the type of person who saves hot sauce packets? Well, we have good news. Reader Dennis has discovered that it takes 35 Taco Bell hot sauce packets to refill your store bought hot sauce bottle. More »
—>Sure, we have to admit that it's kind of funny, but our official position is that you should not use your immense technological skills to modify a radio to broadcast on the Taco Belldrive thru's frequency. Sadly, we did not get this important message out to two teenagers in Sedalia, Mo. More »
—>Seriously, has it come to this? Now we have to resort to fountain drink station sleuthing to figure out whether our local fast food restaurant is lying to us? Nathan used his knowledge of drink machine buttonry to figure out that the machine does indeed offer up plain municipal water. The "water" button has been colored black with a marker, however, to help it blend in with the machine. More »
—>Reader Kevin sent us the following entry from his town's police dispatch log. It seems that the "Steal A Taco" promotion was causing some problems at the drive-thru window of his local Taco Bell. More »
—>That "Steal A Base, Steal A Taco" promotion is today, October 28th, from 2pm to 6pm. Get a free beef crunchy taco thanks to Jason Bartlett of the Tampa Bay Rays. More »
—>A base was stolen last night in Game 1 of the World Series (yes, it seems that they do still bother to televise baseball after the Red Sox are eliminated,) meaning that everyone in America is eligible to receive a free taco. You have the Tampa Bay Rays and shortstop Jason Bartlett to thank this year. Be sure to send him a note. More »
—>Someone in Taco Bell's marketing department is unclear on the concept of "losing weight," or else just completely amoral (hence the marketing job), because the company is "sponsoring" Oklahoma City residents who have taken part in a weight loss challenge by giving away free tacos. To be fair, these "fresco crunchy tacos" are less than 200 calories each (the company says 150 calories, 8 grams of fat, but this independent analysis puts it slightly higher). But still—tacos? Free tacos to people who are trying to lose weight? More »
—>A police officer and his family from Sydney, Nebraska have been awarded $40,000 from their lawsuit which alleged that a KFC/Taco Bell store had served them food contaminated with an employee's spit and urine in 2005. The lawsuit stated that fellow workers actually saw the employee taint the food and told management who failed to alert the family, according to the AP. Consequently, the officer's two sons became violently ill. His 4-year-old was hospitalized and treated for gastroenteritis and dehydration. Details, inside... More »
—>Junk food connoisseurs will be elated to learn that according to Fox 5, Yum! Brand restaurants are now restocking tomatoes after the recent salmonella outbreak which has forced many restaurants to take them off the menu. Federal officials say that the outbreak has sickened 277 people nationwide. The Yum! Brand restaurants include Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, A&W and Long John Silver's. This article does not imply, however, that their food alone won't make you sick. More »
—>Whether you're trying to get as much of your Yum! Brand food into your mouth as humanly possible or just not in the mood to raise those heavy old arms to feed yourself, new wearable feed bags are functional, fashionable and sweeping the nation. Foods from Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut work the best, but we've found that wearable feedbags work on almost any kind of food, and they look great too. See The Onion video, inside... More »
—>A reader sent us the contents of a Better Business Bureau complaint filed against Taco Bell. It describes how a customer tried repeatedly to find out what grade beef Taco Bell uses in its food, and how nobody at the company was able or willing to provide an answer. Not surprisingly, the BBB complaint also went unanswered. Let's just hope they're not sourcing their beef from forklift cattle, which is like downer cattle but has odd prong-shaped bruises on the side. More »
—>If you, like so many grade-school children, dreamed of one day working at Taco Bell, but worried whether you had the technical aptitude to master their complex procedures and delicate processes, study this Taco Bell insider document, snagged by ANIMAL, and possibly the most scintillating of all the leaked materials we have ever posted, and you'll have a leg up on all the former i-bankers clamoring for the same position. Flowchart in full glory, inside... More »
Rob, the Director of Public Relations for Taco Bell, writes in to let us know that the nutritional information on the "Fresco Menu" is correct. More »
Not Making This Up: The chief operating and development officer of Yum brands, which includes Taco Bell, KFC, Long John Silver's and Pizza Hut, is named Mr. Hearl. Mr. Hearl is retiring and will be replaced by Mr. Eaton. Seriously. [Wall Street Journal] More »
—>Winnie Shilson has worked for Taco Bell for 30 years. She has been robbed at gun point twice, and 9 years ago she took a bullet in the leg when a robber started shooting the Taco Bell's safe. Winnie was fired recently, after two negative performance reviews. She's convinced that Taco Bell wanted to rid themselves of her $45,000 a year salary.
"I bawled for three days after I got fired," she says. "I was the most loyal, dedicated employee they could have. In 30 years, I never called in sick or was late to work. Not once! And I was good at my job. Damn good." More »
Just a quick video reminder from the Curiously Australian President of Taco Bell, Greg Creed: You can get your free taco from 2-5 today at Taco Bell, thanks to Jacoby Ellsbury of the Boston Red Sox. More »
—>Red Sox player Jacoby Ellsbury stole a base last night in Game 2 against the Colorado Rockies, so you'll be getting a free taco from Taco Bell. More »
—>A family from Sidney, Iowa has filed suit against the owners of a KFC/Taco Bell after they were served food that was allegedly contaminated by an employee. According to the lawsuit, the couple's 4 year-old son became "violently ill" after being served food that had been contaminated by an employee who "maintained 'special servings'" of food contaminated with urine and saliva so that it could be fed to unsuspecting police officers. More »
—>According to a recent survey, chain restaurants are failing to satisfy their customers. The survey of over 3,000 people showed across the board performance drops from last year; customer satisfaction for McDonald's, Taco Bell, and Burger King all fell by more than 5%. KFC fell by 8.5%. More »
—>Yum! Brands just issued a press release apologizing once again for that rat infested KFC/Taco Bell in NYC. Further, they confirmed that the rat infested restaurant had served its last customer.
Since the incident, this KFC-Taco Bell restaurant has been closed for business, and it will not reopen.
Done! No more KFC/Taco Bell. It's gone forever and ever. It's been abandoned to the rats who claimed it as their own. More »
—>New York City's Health Department has taken the blame for the KFC/Taco Bell rat infestation that made national news. (If, though some miracle you haven't seen the footage yet, i.e. you've just come out of a coma or recently regained lost eye-sight, do give it a look. It's worth it.) Anyhow, the inspector who gave a pass to the KFC/Taco Bell has resigned and the Health Department is, like, really sorry and stuff. More »
—>Get ready for the Taco Bell Breakfast Menu! The menu consists of 8 items, including a sausage and bacon grilled burrito; a guacamole bacon grilled burrito; a bacon and egg taco; and Bell breakfast potatoes. More »
The manager said two men in a green car ordered food just before midnight and she told them she was out of certain condiments they had requested. About 20 minutes later she said a man called yelling at her that he did not get all his food. She told the man the store was closed, but he could come by the next morning and talk to the day manager. Five minutes later she heard a loud bang at the drive-thru window and found food splattered outside, according to the report. The manager said she saw the same green car driving away toward Interstate 40.
We will concede the point that Taco Bell is nearly inedible without sauce so hot it is of significant interest to science. —MEGHANN MARCO More »
—>Taco Bell's former green onion supplier is suing Taco Bell for libel after the taco giant incorrectly linked green onions to the e. coli scare that sickened more than 70 people last year. More »
After a day of reinspections yesterday, the company that owns KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut decided to close all its ADF Companies franchises that have not yet been inspected by the Health Department. More »
The health inspector - whose name was not released - was "removed from restaurant inspection duty," while the city's health department reviews other inspections the staffer performed since being put on the job in June 2006, officials said. More »
—>KFC/Taco Bell left a note over on Vincent Ferrari's blog on a post about the profusion of rats at a western Manhattan KFC. We really liked this part (emphasis added): More »
UPDATE: We're looking to update this list. Click here to help! Not content ordering from the menu? Need to have that extra little bit of class that comes from "knowing the chef"? Here it is, your guide to secret menu items. Sure, it's not the secret rib eye at Nobu, but it's something. Before reading this please note that this article has not been fact-checked. This report is based purely on reader suggestions. We are posting them entirely without confirmation and are not going to try to order any of this crap in order to confirm its existence. We would die of heart disease, be broke, and our ass would be the size of Texas. This is the internet, the internet is not fact-checked, and these are your secret menu items. Enjoy.
"It doesn't look like the inspection that was done Thursday met our standards," said Geoffrey Cowley, a health department spokesman. "I don't want to prejudge that. We're concerned and we're going to carefully reevaluate that inspection."
The so-called inspection was performed in response to complaints about rats in the restaurant, and yet the inspector couldn't find any. How mysterious. —MEGHANN MARCO More »
Raw video footage of the massive rat infestation in a West Village KFC/Taco Bell. If you do not watch another You Tube video today, or for the rest of your life, watch this one. More »
Police arrested 47-year-old Davis Katlaps of Lake Oswego, Ore., and charged him with driving under the influence after he reportedly blew .283 on an Intoxilyzer
—>The curiously Australian president of Taco Bell, Greg Creed, has invited (via open letter) one "Kevin Federline" to work at Taco Bell for the period of one hour. If the soon-to-be-former Mr. Britney Spears agrees, anyone who comes to the Taco Bell to watch will receive "an order of our new Carne Asada Steak Grilled Taquitos for free." The letter comes in response to a statement K-Fed made about his children working at Taco Bell. Read the letter inside. More »
One likely problem is the proximity of ranching and farming operations in parts of California. Cattle and other animals harbor the bacteria, which is shed in their feces. More »
"Maybe," thought the governor and the governor alone, "I should get eat some Taco Bell, on TV, with the curiously Australian president of Taco Bell, Greg Creed." More »
—>A customer of a Louisville KFC/Taco Bell is claiming that smears of human blood were all over her order. " Briana Ralston says she and her 1-year-old daughter were already home, had already eaten part of their dinner by the time they discovered what looks like human blood on the bag and wrappers — even where the wrappers came into contact with the food." More »
USA Today is reporting a poll claiming, "36% of Taco Bell's best customers — those who eat there once a month or even daily — say that after the recent illnesses, they now eat at Taco Bell less often, or not at all." More »
The Falls River Major Crimes Division has cleared Taco Bell in the case of the spiked taco. "Police reported "an opiate" was found in the half-eaten taco a Fall River man said made him sick after eating at the Taco Bell." Unfortunately for local Fall River lawyers, it seems like the dude spiked his own taco. After the half-eaten morsel was analyzed at the state crime lab, the opiates in the taco were confirmed, but the alleged taco victim, "Phillip Daggett, 27, has declined to cooperate in the investigation and has refused to speak with a detective assigned to the department's Major Crimes Division." More »
According to the AP, "McLane Foodservice Inc., the distributor to the Taco Bell restaurants linked with an outbreak of E. coli, said Monday a site investigation by a New Jersey health agency found no evidence of improper storage or handling practices." More »
Taco Bell said on Sunday it had temporarily closed one of its fast-food outlets and was working with New Jersey health authorities seeking the cause of an outbreak of e. Coli which has sickened nearly a dozen people, six of whom remain in hospital.
Do you like tacos more than playing video games? Well, you might want to consider this offer from Taco Bell: In exchange for your PS3, Taco Bell is willing to give you a lifetime supply of tacos (read, $12,500 in Taco Bell Bucks). Can one human colon take that much Taco Bell? No man can say. More »
From Yahoo News: "Taco Bell will be the latest fast-food chain to cut artery-clogging trans fats from cooking oils in its U.S. restaurants, the company announced Thursday. More »
• Tonight I was paying at a gas station and I used the keypad to enter my pin. The numbers 2, 3 and 4 showed tremendous wear compared to all other keys except the enter key. Are these numbers most common in pins? [Link]More »
I officially hate these Taco Bell jackasses now. Pedestrian rhetoric and wooting in the Taco Bell parking lot leads to storming a busy Taco Bell and disrupting everyone's meal as they just completely trash the place by dropping 400 pounds worth of garbage on the floor. They claim that they "returned the sauce out of kindness" after rejecting the idea of using it as a prank, but come on... this was the prank. More »
When a group of 15 masked men violently storm a Taco Bell, it has all the hallmarks of the world's first burrito-terrorist incident. But these masked men weren't out for blood, just for hot sauce. More »
Under fire from their bizarre 'Fourth Meal' campaign, Taco Bell has taken an odd defensive tact. Instead of claiming that they invented the fourth meal (a midnight burrito gorge fest, scheduled between dinner and breakfast to help you get through that calorically taxing 'sleepytime' period of the day), Taco Bell explains... More »
—>Fast Food News is claiming that the time will soon come when you will no longer need to rely upon a teenage Deadhead taking a break from popping his pimples to cook up your burgers: the fast food industry is moving towards self-service. More »
