#4 on the Franchise 500: Why Taco Bell Has Its Sights Set On Your City
The #4 company on our Franchise 500 list knows that to grow its customer base, it must go where customers are: metropolitan communities.
by Matthew McCreary
Jan 01, 2019
1 minute
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Started franchising: 1964
Total units: 6,999
Cost to open: $525.1K to $2.6M
There’s plenty of reason to toast -- and not just because the company’s Cantina locations option.
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