Craig Welch wrote:

"For the second time in 22 years, the American Taco Bell chain has
failed in Australia, showing that Australians might like eating in
Mexican restaurants and cooking Mexican meals at home, but Mexican
fast food is definitely not on the menu.


If I'm in a bind and desperately needing food I'll take Taco Bell over
McDonald's any day... Three crunchy Tacos and one Bean Burrito w/extra
Red Sauce sure beats the hell out of a Big Mac with Fries... Burger King
ain't so bad by Fast Food Standards (well the Burgers anyway - the fries
still suck) but they seem to be disappearing all over town...

~john!


--
Say hello to the rug's topography...It holds quite a lot of interest
with your face down on it...

Craig Welch wrote:

Different strokes ... you wouldn't find me at any of these chains.


As a broke college student I've eaten *much* worse... and honestly some
of the best fried chicken I've ever tried was purchased from a small gas
station in the ghetto... It's known as Kentucky Fried Texaco around
campus... some definite good eats...

~john!

--
Say hello to the rug's topography...It holds quite a lot of interest
with your face down on it...

"Craig Welch" wrote in message
...
From today's AFR:

"For the second time in 22 years, the American Taco Bell chain has
failed in Australia, showing that Australians might like eating in
Mexican restaurants and cooking Mexican meals at home, but Mexican
fast food is definitely not on the menu.


Did they try beer tacos?


--
The generation that used acid to escape reality
Is now using antacid to deal with reality
http://www.dwacon.com

Craig Welch wrote:
"For the second time in 22 years, the American Taco Bell chain has
failed in Australia, showing that Australians might like eating in
Mexican restaurants and cooking Mexican meals at home, but Mexican
fast food is definitely not on the menu.

Taco Bell is successful in Mexico City.

"Yum worked hard to make Taco Bell a success, regularly rejigging
its menu, adding new products and running ad campaigns imported from
the United States. Nothing worked. Sales were weak and p8urchase
frequency - a key measure of success in the fast-food industry - was
low."

Nachos Bellgrande' with Koala.

--Blair
"Third time's a charm."

"Craig Welch" wrote in message
...
From today's AFR:

"For the second time in 22 years, the American Taco Bell chain has
failed in Australia, showing that Australians might like eating in
Mexican restaurants and cooking Mexican meals at home, but Mexican
fast food is definitely not on the menu.

"Yum Restaurants, the second-bigges fast-food company in the world
and owner of chains such as KFC and Pizza Hut, is dismantling its
14-store Taco Bell chain in Sydney.

"Taco Bell first arrived in Australia in 1981, under the TAco Amigo
brand (TAco Bell was already registered here). Sales were sluggish
and the chain was closed in 1987. It was revived in 1998.

snip

"Yum worked hard to make Taco Bell a success, regularly rejigging
its menu, adding new products and running ad campaigns imported from
the United States. Nothing worked. Sales were weak and p8urchase
frequency - a key measure of success in the fast-food industry - was
low."

======================================

Good riddance, says I!

--
Craig

Score 1 for the good guys.

Jack Repulse

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:01:19 +1000, Craig Welch
wrote:

From today's AFR:

"For the second time in 22 years, the American Taco Bell chain has
failed in Australia, showing that Australians might like eating in
Mexican restaurants and cooking Mexican meals at home, but Mexican
fast food is definitely not on the menu.

"Yum Restaurants, the second-bigges fast-food company in the world
and owner of chains such as KFC and Pizza Hut, is dismantling its
14-store Taco Bell chain in Sydney.

I thought PepsiCo owned KFC, Taco Hell, and Pizza Hut?

......Alan.

--
Curiosity killed the cat -
lack of it is killing mankind.

A.T. Hagan wrote:

I thought PepsiCo owned KFC, Taco Hell, and Pizza Hut?

Yeah... that's what I've always thought too... It explains why Taco Hell
and Pizza Hut never serve Coke...

~john!

--
Say hello to the rug's topography...It holds quite a lot of interest
with your face down on it...

"levelwave" wrote in message
...
Craig Welch wrote:

Different strokes ... you wouldn't find me at any of these chains.


As a broke college student I've eaten *much* worse... and honestly some
of the best fried chicken I've ever tried was purchased from a small gas
station in the ghetto... It's known as Kentucky Fried Texaco around
campus... some definite good eats...

~john!

--
Say hello to the rug's topography...It holds quite a lot of interest
with your face down on it...


I dont do a lo of fast food at all.. but when it comes down to it
there is NO burger better than those at Carl's Jr! FOr what its worth, I am
in the states and I think Taco Bell tastes like ass!

Hark! I heard levelwave say:
Craig Welch wrote:

Different strokes ... you wouldn't find me at any of these chains.

I try to avoid fast food, but I confess to eating my share at Arby's
and Taco Time (not Taco Bell).

As a broke college student I've eaten *much* worse...

Microwaved Texaco burritos! Cheap and filling, but the day I
found a big hunk of paper in one, I decided they weren't worth
the dollar.

and honestly some
of the best fried chicken I've ever tried was purchased from a small gas
station in the ghetto... It's known as Kentucky Fried Texaco around
campus... some definite good eats...

Reminds me of a place in Lock Haven, PA called Suder's -- very good
fried chicken, also a gas station...


--
j.j. ~ mom, gamer, novice cook ~
...fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, yum!

Hark! I heard say:
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 14:01:19 +1000, Craig Welch
wrote:

From today's AFR:

"For the second time in 22 years, the American Taco Bell chain has
failed in Australia, showing that Australians might like eating in
Mexican restaurants and cooking Mexican meals at home, but Mexican
fast food is definitely not on the menu.

"Yum Restaurants, the second-bigges fast-food company in the world
and owner of chains such as KFC and Pizza Hut, is dismantling its
14-store Taco Bell chain in Sydney.

I thought PepsiCo owned KFC, Taco Hell, and Pizza Hut?

I thought so too, so I started looking. If you go to Yum's website:

http://www.yum.com/investors/overview.htm

"History: Yum! Brands, Inc., became Tricon Global Restaurants, Inc.,
an independent, publicly owned company October 7, 1997, as a result of
a spin-off from PepsiCo, who owned, and franchised the KFC, Pizza Hut,
and Taco Bell brands worldwide. "

Still, according to Pepsi's 2000 Annual Report:

http://www.pepsico.com/investors/ann...00/pepsi.shtml

"In fountain beverages, Tricon Global Restaurants, our largest fountain
customer, signed a multi-year agreement to make Pepsi-Cola the preferred
beverage supplier for its system of 20,000 Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC
restaurants in the United States. "

So there you have it. And I really should be spending my time more
productively this morning... ;-)


--
j.j. ~ mom, gamer, novice cook ~
...fish heads, fish heads, eat them up, yum!

"Blair P. Houghton" wrote:

Craig Welch wrote:
"For the second time in 22 years, the American Taco Bell chain has
failed in Australia, showing that Australians might like eating in
Mexican restaurants and cooking Mexican meals at home, but Mexican
fast food is definitely not on the menu.

Taco Bell is successful in Mexico City.

That doesn't suprise me one bit. American fast food would be interesting
to the locals.

Craig Welch wrote:

From today's AFR:

"For the second time in 22 years, the American Taco Bell chain has
failed in Australia, showing that Australians might like eating in
Mexican restaurants and cooking Mexican meals at home, but Mexican
fast food is definitely not on the menu.



It didn't last very long in the UK either, despite being placed in areas
with the highest number of American tourists.

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 23:39:16 -0500, levelwave
wrote:

Craig Welch wrote:

"For the second time in 22 years, the American Taco Bell chain has
failed in Australia, showing that Australians might like eating in
Mexican restaurants and cooking Mexican meals at home, but Mexican
fast food is definitely not on the menu.


Craig... can you inform me exactly WHAT Taco Bell has to do
with regular Mexican food? I've tried it, didn't like it...
can't cry over it failing in Australia. In fact the food
must be worse over there than here... that's the way fast
foods work. The farther they are from "home base", the
ickier they are.

Arri London wrote:
Craig Welch wrote:

From today's AFR:

"For the second time in 22 years, the American Taco Bell chain has
failed in Australia, showing that Australians might like eating in
Mexican restaurants and cooking Mexican meals at home, but Mexican
fast food is definitely not on the menu.



It didn't last very long in the UK either, despite being placed in areas
with the highest number of American tourists.

They should have added Chicken Tikka Masala Grilled Stuffed Burritos.

--Blair
"Woulda killed."

Dan wrote:

I dont do a lo of fast food at all.. but when it comes down to it
there is NO burger better than those at Carl's Jr! FOr what its worth, I am
in the states and I think Taco Bell tastes like ass!

Carl's Jr seems to be mainly based in California though. As far as I know,
there aren't any Carl's Jr. restaurants here in the Philly area where I live.