Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fast food giant Taco Bell is one of America's most beloved chains. The restaurant dates back to 1951, when Glen Bell, inspired by ...

RANCHO SANTA FE Calif. Glen W. Bell Jr., founder of Taco Bell, the world’s largest fast-food Mexican chain, passed away at his home Sunday after a long illness. He was 86. Bell first began selling ...

Glen Bell of Weatherford, Texas peacefully passed away in his home February 18, 2025 at the age of 97. He was born May 1,1927 to John and Blanche Bell in Sayer, Oklahoma. The family moved to ...

Let us take a moment to pray praise the taco. Last July, Gidget, the talking prima donna Chihuahua best known for making Taco Bell’s fast food look cute (and, at times, even edible), passed away at 15 ...

Back in the 1930s, when Glen Bell was a teenaged migrant worker riding trains in California looking for a job, he probably didn’t imagine that he’d one day found a fast-food empire of Mexican-American ...

Glen W. Bell, founder of the Taco Bell restaurant chain, has passed away. He was 86. The entrepreneur died at his Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., home on Saturday evening, according to a statement on Taco ...

While you might believe you’re familiar with everything there is to know about this fast-food giant and its beloved menu, there’s always more to discover. The brand’s founder, Glen Bell, opened the ...

IRVINE CALIF. Taco Bell quick-service chain and the driving force behind the success of tacos as a fast-food staple, has been selected by Nation’s Restaurant News as the 2008 Pioneer Award winner.

Glen W. Bell Jr., 86, the innovator and entrepreneur who tapped an unsatiated hunger for Mexican fare as Americans discovered fast food, creating Taco Tia, El Taco and in 1962 his signature Taco Bell, ...