TacoBell

By Mike Pomranz | FoodAndWine.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Foodie And the chain launched a new sleepwear line for the breakfast crowd this week. For years, Taco Bell positioned itself as a late-night dining option with the help of its "Fourth Meal" campaign, but recently, the Tex-Mex chain has been putting a renewed focus on a meal that the party crowd often sleeps through: breakfast. Taco Bell first launched breakfast back in 2014, but the COVID-19 pandemic threw a wrench in their usual service, with locations starting to ax breakfast in March 2020. However, in August, Taco Bell announced that breakfast would be returning…

By Mike Pomranz | FoodAndWine.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Foodie The chain is testing a subscription service in select locations. Remember, if you can, a time before the pandemic: a long, long, less-than-two-years ago. In that halcyon era, a trend had emerged of chains selling "passes" — a discounted price to access a large amount of food over a specific time span. Olive Garden's heavily-hyped Pasta Pass was an instant success in 2014, and others followed: For instance, Smashburger and Red Robin both offered burger passes; 7-Eleven sold a cup with unlimited free refills for a year, and Panera launched a monthly coffee subscription service. It's been a while…

By Mike Pomranz | FoodAndWine.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Foodie In a partnership with TerraCycle, customers can send packets off for recycling via UPS. Back in April, Taco Bell announced they had teamed up with the outside-of-the-box recycling company TerraCycle for a program that would allow heat lovers to give a second life to some of the 8.2 billion plastic hot sauce packets the company hands out each year (other than trying to sell them for exorbitant prices on eBay). At the time, the details on how the program would work hadn't really been hammered out, other than to imply that the nationwide program…

By Mike Pomranz | FoodAndWine.Com Troy Warren for CNT #Foodie Some locations shut down breakfast service over 17 months ago. The COVID-19 pandemic upended life as we know it — in ways both dramatic and subtle. Somewhere in the middle was the loss of fast food breakfast service: Fewer morning commuters meant fewer people buying breakfast on the go, and as a result, some chains decided to reduce or eliminate their morning menus. Taco Bell was among the chains that has limited their breakfast service (among other items) over the past year-plus. But for anyone who has been craving breakfast burritos, good news: The…