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Tuesday, March 09, 2010
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The Food & Coupons
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- Taco Bell was founded in 1962 by Glen Bell in Downey, California. The first franchise was sold in 1964.
- Five items were on the original Taco Bell menu - tacos, beans, bean burritos, tostadas and Bell burgers. The first taco sold for 19 cents.
- The first Taco Bell restaurant was 400 sq. ft., with a walk-up window only.
- Taco Bell has approximately 4,800 restaurants in the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii.
- Taco Bell employs more than 100,000 people nationwide in their company-operated restaurants, franchised units and corporate offices.
- More than 55 million people visit a Taco Bell restaurant in any given week in the United States.
Taco Bell system wide sales exceed 5.0 billion.
- About half of the US population (123 million people) see a Taco Bell commercial at least once a week. Taco Bell restaurants use over 92 million pounds of cheddar cheese in one year.
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 The first Pizza Hut restaurant opened in 1958 in Wichita Kansas, started by two college-aged brothers who borrowed $600 from their mother.- "Putt-Putt to Pizza Hut" musical jingle was developed in 1965 for Pizza Hut's first television commercial.
- In 1966, Pizza Hut built its home office in Wichita to handle business for 145 Pizza Hut restaurants.
- The red roof was adopted for restaurants in 1969.
- In 1971, Pizza Hut became the number one pizza restaurant chain in the world in both sales and number of restaurants.
- In 1989, for the first time in history, Pizza Hut pizza was delivered to the White House. First Lady Barbara Bush threw a party for 200 Washington, D.C. children during a "Reading is Fundamental" reception.
- In 1990, Pizza Hut delivered more than 1,340,000 pizzas, or about 7,000 pies a minute on "Super Bowl Sunday".
- Pizza Hut made its fastest and farthest delivery in 1993, Six hundred large pepperoni pizzas were delivered on a 24 hour flight for Dover Air Force Base to U.S. service personnel in Mogadishu, Somalia
- The Colonel started his business at the age of 65, while living on his $105 Social Security checks.
- Colonel Harland Sanders perfected his secret blend of 11 herbs and spices in his Corbin, Kentucky restaurant in 1939.
- KFC listed on New York Stock Exchange. Colonel Sanders buys first 100 shares.
- KFC becomes a subsidiary of PepsiCo, Inc. for $840 million. Grand opening of Colonel Sanders Technical Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
- KFC opens one restaurant every day around the world.
- KFC was the first Western fast food restaurant to enter China, opening its first restaurant on Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1987.
- KFC officially opens its 9,000th restaurant in the world in Shanghai, China and announces a $200 million investment over the next four years for 200 restaurants in 48 Chinese cities.
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- Taco Bell was founded in 1962 by Glen Bell in Downey, California. The first franchise was sold in 1964.
- Five items were on the original Taco Bell menu - tacos, beans, bean burritos, tostadas and Bell burgers. The first taco sold for 19 cents.
- The first Taco Bell restaurant was 400 sq. ft., with a walk-up window only.
- Taco Bell has approximately 4,800 restaurants in the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii.
- Taco Bell employs more than 100,000 people nationwide in their company-operated restaurants, franchised units and corporate offices.
- More than 55 million people visit a Taco Bell restaurant in any given week in the United States.
Taco Bell system wide sales exceed 5.0 billion.
- About half of the US population (123 million people) see a Taco Bell commercial at least once a week. Taco Bell restaurants use over 92 million pounds of cheddar cheese in one year.
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- The first Pizza Hut restaurant opened in 1958 in Wichita Kansas, started by two college-aged brothers who borrowed $600 from their mother.
- "Putt-Putt to Pizza Hut" musical jingle was developed in 1965 for Pizza Hut's first television commercial.
- In 1966, Pizza Hut built its home office in Wichita to handle business for 145 Pizza Hut restaurants.
- The red roof was adopted for restaurants in 1969.
- In 1971, Pizza Hut became the number one pizza restaurant chain in the world in both sales and number of restaurants.
- In 1989, for the first time in history, Pizza Hut pizza was delivered to the White House. First Lady Barbara Bush threw a party for 200 Washington, D.C. children during a "Reading is Fundamental" reception.
- In 1990, Pizza Hut delivered more than 1,340,000 pizzas, or about 7,000 pies a minute on "Super Bowl Sunday".
- Pizza Hut made its fastest and farthest delivery in 1993, Six hundred large pepperoni pizzas were delivered on a 24 hour flight for Dover Air Force Base to U.S. service personnel in Mogadishu, Somalia
- The Colonel started his business at the age of 65, while living on his $105 Social Security checks.
- Colonel Harland Sanders perfected his secret blend of 11 herbs and spices in his Corbin, Kentucky restaurant in 1939.
- KFC listed on New York Stock Exchange. Colonel Sanders buys first 100 shares.
- KFC becomes a subsidiary of PepsiCo, Inc. for $840 million. Grand opening of Colonel Sanders Technical Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
- KFC opens one restaurant every day around the world.
- KFC was the first Western fast food restaurant to enter China, opening its first restaurant on Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1987.
- KFC officially opens its 9,000th restaurant in the world in Shanghai, China and announces a $200 million investment over the next four years for 200 restaurants in 48 Chinese cities.
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