Taco bell is not owned by quote dirty mexicans unqout............I find the term dirty mexican offensive since my mother is mexican and was born here in Texas...maybe you should read up on Taco Bell and not slaming mexicans please
In 1999 the KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut cooperatives joined to form Unified FoodService Purchasing, the largest purchasing cooperative for fast-food restaurants in the US. Also in 1999 TRICON spent some $2 billion on a massive Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace promotion that failed to increase traffic at its restaurants. Vice chairman David Novak took over as CEO in 2000. Also that year the company joined Burger King in lending $150 million to its distributor, AmeriServe (now McLane Foodservice), which had filed for bankruptcy. The following year TRICON began experimenting with debit and credit cards at Pizza Huts and KFCs. It also opened more than 300 multibranded sites.
In 2002 TRICON acquired Yorkshire Global Restaurants for $320 million, which brought Long John Silver's and A&W All-American Food Restaurants into the fold. Now a five-pack of well-known brands rather than a trio, TRICON changed its name to YUM! Brands. Later that year it formed a joint venture with Favorite Restaurants Group (the franchisee of more than 110 KFCs and Pizza Huts in Indonesia and Hong Kong) to open a chain of Yan Can Asian restaurants based around popular international chef Martin Yan. In April 2004 YUM! Brands dissolved its partnership in Yan Can and