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Company History?

Some information on the company history would be nice...who started it, when and where, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.227.55.55 (talk) 15:51, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

It's completely inaccurate. Glen Bell "invented" the burrito? Highly doubtful. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.7.99.239 (talk) 04:47, 19 April 2009 (UTC)

WE ARE NOT A PRICING GUIDE

Holy ****. We are an encyclopedia for crying out loud, not a damn pricing guide. The whole 59 - 79 - 99 cent menu sections should be removed immediately. I will return later on this weekend to do so unless there are any valid objections explaining how this possibly serves are encyclopedic material (and can provide non-trivial third party sources with coverage on said material). JBsupreme (talk) 08:44, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

• Agreed. Since there is no separate Taco Bell products page such as the Burger_King_products page, then perhaps the redundant menu and product information should be moved to its own product page without any mention of the prices. That way, a clean overview of current and discontinued products can be listed without wreaking havoc in the main article. At least that is what I would suggest based on other fast food product pages which have this structure in the English Wikipedia.Toni S. (talk) 15:06, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

More discontinued items

I seem to remember Taco Bell having the Mexican Fortune Cookie -- a taco shell with food stamps in it -- on their menu during the mid-'80s, back when I was in high school. Can anyone confirm that this memory of mine is correct? If so, could you please put this info in the "Promotional/discontinued items" section of the article? OrnFreeTaa (talk) 16:21, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

You need more than somebody's memory. You need real sources per WP policy (this article has few enough of them; we don't need any more unsourced "facts"). By the way, I believe this story is a hoax. I hope this helps. Yours faithfully, GeorgeLouis (talk) 05:40, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

For an example of the kind of people who would continue this calumny, go to this neo-Nazi site at http://www.zogsnightmare.com/mexijokes.htm. Yours once more, GeorgeLouis (talk) 06:03, 6 February 2009 (UTC)

Unsourced material removed.

After many months of watching this page and wondering if anybody were ever going to find Sources for what is in it, I have finally removed the Unsourced material (in accordance with a tag placed at the top of the page in August 2007). What remains might or might not be accurate: I have not followed all the outside links to see if the material is accurately sourced. If you want to put anything back, kindly do so along with a proper Source. Sincerely, your friend, GeorgeLouis (talk) 06:38, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

False information

"United Arab Emirates

• The first Taco Bell in the Middle East opened in November 2008 in Dubai at the Dubai Mall.".

There were Taco Bell in Saudi Arabia in the 90's but withdrawn for huge loses.link (Expansion section).  A M M A R  10:37, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

tat sorce is notcredble-72.155.228.207 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 08:23, 17 April 2009 (UTC).

Coke at Taco Bells

taco bells that they have coke (not pepsi) is at Western Michigan University ,Brigham Young University, University of Houston, California State University (Long Beach campus), George Mason University,and Indiana State University campus dining halls even though the other taco bells have pepsi. it is very strange considering taco bell to have pepsi while those locations have coke. did you also saw some other taco bells have coke? 71.188.12.149 (talk) 21:35, 7 March 2009 (UTC)

• It could be that these locations (all college campuses) could have an exclusive contract with Coca-Cola, and therefore Taco Bell would not be able to operate unless they sold Coke products. This is common across many universities. Either way, I don't believe the matter of Taco Bell locations selling Coke products warrant an entry in Wikipedia. Navie05 (talk) 21:43, 3 July 2009 (UTC)

The CIW

On march 2005, The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) won landmark victory in their national boycott of Taco Bell for human rights.Taco Bell agreed to meet all their demands to improve wages and working conditions for Florida tomato pickers in its supply chain.

After four years of a tenacious and growing boycott, Taco Bell and Yum Brands agreed on March 8th, to make a historic agreement called CIW-Yum agreement with representatives of CIW at Yum Brands headquarters in Louisville, Kentucky.

The CIW-Yum agreement sets several important precedents, establishing:

• The first-ever direct, ongoing payment by a fast-food industry leader to farm workers in its supply chain to address sub-standard farm labor wages (nearly doubling the percentage of the final retail price that goes to the workers who pick the produce

• The first-ever enforceable Code of Conduct for agricultural suppliers in the fast-food industry (which includes the CIW, a worker-based organization, as part of the investigative body for monitoring worker complaints);

• Market incentives for agricultural suppliers willing to respect their workers’ human rights, even when those rights are not guaranteed by law;

• 100% 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). --Coolhvh (talk) 02:54, 18 March 2009 (UTC) --Coolhvh (talk) 02:18, 18 March 2009 (UTC)--Coolhvh (talk) 02:19, 18 March 2009 (UTC)

Controversies.

I deleted the item about the biotech corn because the reference is nine years old and does not give the upshot of the event. It reports only the beginning and not the follow-up. Like the other two items in this section, it is one-sided. Yours, GeorgeLouis (talk) 01:47, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

We might be able to re-add it if we find a better source. The age of a reference should not determine whether it's factual or not.. so any reference from 9 years ago that actually shows solid fact about this Biotech corn incident would still be welcomed. While looking through related articles at CNN (where the original cite was), I found another article that says the corn WAS confirmed to have been found. Read on here: [1]. Maybe something could be pulled from there or other sources? --Poet  Talk  19:58, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

No sources

This article, historically, has been marred by people adding what seems to them as good information but which does not include reliable sources. To keep this article from getting way out of hand, can we always have a good source attached to the information when it is added? Sincerely yours, GeorgeLouis (talk) 00:52, 6 June 2009 (UTC)

Taco Liberty Bell?

What, no mention of the various pre-2000 Taco Bell campaigns? There was quite a bit before "Yo quiero Taco Bell", you know. There should also be a mention of the infamous Taco Liberty Bell somewhere in the article. 147.70.242.54 (talk) 16:46, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Kind of like when McDonald's bought the San Diego Padres, except that joke turned out to be for real. Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots 17:03, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Taco Bell Cyprus

Since i'm not an editor I decided to just show this info. Taco Bell is going to open in Cyprus by the end of the year. I have this source : http://www.worldfranchiseassociates.com/franchise-news-article.php?nid=91 If you check out Google, you'll see more sources of it available, but this one was the most clear. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.81.5.101 (talk) 22:50, 5 November 2009 (UTC)

Pulled out of Australia

The article says Taco Bell was pulled out of Australia without a source. Now I did as much online sleuthing as I could, and what I came up with was a bunch of forum and discussion posts on how there used to be a lot of them but they all closed down. One forum said there were 3 or 4 in Sydney but that they all closed and only one or two outside of the city remained open. This discussion was from 2007, so it may be that the closures continued. However, and this is a huge however, I cannot find any valid media sources on the subject, nor can I find any evidence that the Taco Bell locations exist or ever did exist. I did a quick Google Maps search of the area and came up with no Taco Bell locations (although this is probably not accurate either).

It would be interesting to mention the chain started up but ultimately pulled out of the market there. Unfortunately, I'm not sure that can be done because if there are no articles now on the subject, will there ever be? --Poet  Talk  20:12, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Taco Bell did indeed have Sydney locations. The most primary of those being the location on George St, Sydney CBD. The venue was on the same block as what is now known as Star Bar. Photos at Star Bar show the Taco Bell on the main strip during it's opening, and refurb from the now defunct previous owners. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.214.72.20 (talk) 12:11, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

not the best method of protection, but I guess it'll do! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lime in the Coconut (talk • contribs) 15:22, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Odd Edit links

In the Chihuahua section, there's a large group of edit links with no apparent purpose. Anyone else notice it? I couldn't find what was causing them. Dashren2001 (talk) 22:03, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Franchise Wars

I'm sure this was somewhere in the previous two archives, though I couldn't seem to find it anywhere.

Why no trivial piece of information about Taco Bell's victory in the Franchise wars of the late 20th century? Saw a documentary on it once, think the name was Demolition Man or something like it... Lime in the Coconut 15:36, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Ok so maybe it's not the most important bit of info, but it's about 1/3 - 1/4 of the Norsk version of the article, so why not?  :)

Because the general consensus is that the mention of this in Demolition Man is not pertinent to the article as it is a trivial, random fact that does not add to the content of the article. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 19:00, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Fair enough, just couldn't find that consensus anywhere. Lime in the Coconut 19:04, 29 December 2009 (UTC)