Type Wholly owned subsidiary

Industry Fast Food

Founded March 21, 1962 (Downey, California)

Headquarters Irvine, California, United States

Number of locations 6,446 restaurants (2009)

Key peopleGlen Bell (founder)Greg Creed (president/CEO)

Products Tacos, burritos, and other Tex-Mex cuisine-related fast food

Revenue ▲$1.9 billion USD (2009)

Employees 175,000+

Parent Yum! Brands

Website tacobell.com

Taco bell

• Taco Bell is an American restaurant chain based in Irvine, California.

• A subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., it specializes in Mexican-style food and quick service.

• Taco Bell serves tacos, burritos, quesadillas, nachos, other specialty items and a variety of "Value Menu" items.

Conti…

• Taco Bell serves more than 2 billion consumers each year in more than 5,800 restaurants in the U.S., of which more than 80 percent are owned and operated by independent franchisees.

Related to Management

• Peter McGarahan, senior manager of network operations support, Information Technology Group at Taco Bell Corp., Irvine, Calif.

• Created `Systems Solution Team' : to get everybody to be an information consultant rather than a help desk analyst.“

Mgt info sys used in taco bell

• "They have been instrumental in developing SupportMagic SQL," a new version slated to ship in January for Watcom SQL,

• Oracle, Sybase and Microsoft SQL Server databases.

New Plans

• McGarahan plans to use Microsoft's Systems Management Server (SMS) to collect inventory-type information and feed it back to Asset Plus.

• Asset Plus, says AT&T Systems Leasing, has two major components:-

1. Asset Acquisition, which lets users create and store acquisition documents

2. Asset Management, which tracks and manages assets from acquisition through disposition.

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