Glen Bell, founder of Taco Bell, dies at 86

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Bell first sold tacos for 19 cents in San Bernardino in 1951, and he built Taco Bell from one Downey stand in 1962 to a $125-million business when he sold it in 1978.

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

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-glen-bell19-2010jan19,0,4699152.story
 
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