Tacobell Founder deceased

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http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/orange_county&id=7225326

RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. (KABC) -- The founder of Irvine-based fast-food chain Taco Bell died on Sunday at the age of 86.

Glen W. Bell, Jr. was a World War II veteran from Lynwood. Bell's first venture in the restaurant business was in 1948, when he opened Bell's Drive-In in San Bernardino. The restaurant originally served hamburgers and hot dogs, but Bell soon decided to set his menu apart from the wildly successful McDonald's franchise by adding Mexican food.

Bell and a group of business partners opened El Tacos in the Long Beach area in 1958, which became profitable. Still, Bell wanted to start his own chain, so he sold his share of the business. Bell and one of his employees started Der Wienerschnitzel in 1961.

Another one of Bell's employees opened a chain that would later be known as Del Taco.

Finally, in 1962, Bell opened his first Taco Bell restaurant in Downey. More restaurants popped up in the Long Beach, Paramount and Los Angeles areas. Bell sold his first Taco Bell franchise in 1964, and in 1978, Bell sold his 868 Taco Bell restaurants to PepsiCo.

Taco Bell is now owned by Yum! Brands Inc. and serves more than 36.8 million people each week in more than 5,600 restaurants in the U.S. The company says that more than 2 billion tacos and 1 billion burritos are served throughout the United States each year.

"Glen Bell was a visionary and innovator in the restaurant industry, as well as a dedicated family man," said Greg Creed, president and chief concept officer of Taco Bell in a news release. "His innovative business acumen started out of humble beginnings and created one of the nation's largest restaurant chains in Taco Bell."

Bell died at his home in Rancho Santa Fe. He is survived by his wife and two sons.
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If he lived to 86, there's no way he ate any of his own product.

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ditto, you beat me to it

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...anybody seen the dog?

Hey Jim?

Are you referring to Squeaks post?

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...anybody seen the dog?

Hey Jim?

Are you referring to Squeaks post?

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oh you mean divots thread

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Yep.

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And I'm still blaming the whiskey.

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F*ck Taco Bell! Their food is shite.

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Lisa H. Will you be at the funeral?






Edit. Long live the BELLBEEFER!!

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I keep reading the title as "Tacobell found dead" and every time I think "how does that work?" and then I realize I've already been through this with myself a bunch of times today

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If he lived to 86, there's no way he ate any of his own product.

One of my grandpas died young, perhaps due to a diet including lard sandwiches.

It's sad when a family member passes at 88 instead of 90 something.

Genetics and exercise have at least as much to do with longevity as diet.

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Fark.com: "Taco Bell founder makes a run for the coroner."

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Agree on the genetics part at least. My grandmother died in her early eighties in 2004. She was smoking since she was 13 and became an alcoholic around the late sixties according to my Mom and Aunts and Uncles. So how did she die? House fire. She tried to put it out.

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If he lived to 86, there's no way he ate any of his own product.

One of my grandpas died young, perhaps due to a diet including lard sandwiches.

It's sad when a family member passes at 88 instead of 90 something.

Genetics and exercise have at least as much to do with longevity as diet.

A quote I heard that makes sense.

"Genetics loads the gun, lifestyle pulls the trigger."

“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966)

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Agree on the genetics part at least. My grandmother died in her early eighties in 2004. She was smoking since she was 13 and became an alcoholic around the late sixties according to my Mom and Aunts and Uncles. So how did she die? House fire. She tried to put it out.

Not to make light of your Grandmas passing...but,

Did they save her baby?

My Mom passed away the end of May, 2009.

She was one tough ol' girl, cut from the same cloth as your Grandma no doubt.

“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec quotes (Polish writer, poet and satirist 1906-1966)

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The company says that more than 2 billion tacos and 1 billion burritos are served throughout the United States each year.

Which greatly increased the sales of Tums, Pepto Bismo, toilet paper and, air freshener.

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