Taco Bell
1 Glen Bell Way, Irvine, CA 92618-3344
Ownership Hierarchy
Approximately 95-100% of the Taco Bell restaurant locations are linked in the Atlas Research Platform.
Enterprise Snapshot
(US & CAN)
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Cuisines
1 of 1 shownStates & Provinces
3 of 55 shownSummary
Taco Bell, headquartered in Irvine, CA, is a Mexican-inspired quick-service chain founded by Glen Bell in 1962. Its now owned by Yum Brands and is mostly franchised.
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Ownership & Concepts
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Locations & Markets
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How This Profile Is Built
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Research Notes
Current FDDs in process. Units will be updated periodically as available.
The Restaurant Enterprise Index is RestaurantData’s research framework for organizing major restaurant enterprises, including franchisors, franchisees, multi-concept operators, and parent organizations.
Certain sales and location totals are presented as estimates when companies do not publish single current figures.
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Verify Our Data Methodology
- Foundation: Active state business registries form the primary backbone of every record.
- Sources: Publicly available filings throughout, including public Franchise Disclosure Documents (FDDs).
- Integrity: Zero proprietary third-party databases utilized.
- Verification: Entity/concept records are validated at the source by our in-house research team.
Leveraging Human-Verified Connections
- Collection: Filings and public records are gathered through intake procedures.
- Verification: In-house researchers review every record before it enters the database.
- Ownership Chain: Where relationships can be established, researchers work upward from a concept headquarters or single concept through parent, grandparent, and ultimate parent, resolving operators into one connected structure.
Maintaining the Longitudinal Record
- Duration: Continuous tracking since 1997. Twenty-nine years of unit-level history.
- Method: Same methodology applied across the full period so year-over-year comparisons hold.
- Change Tracking: Openings, closures, ownership transfers, and operator consolidation are recorded as they occur, not backfilled.
- Result: Expansion and contraction trends visible over decades, not snapshots.
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