(1) Taco Bell is not Mexican food. It is Taco Bell food. Most people know this well. ;)
(2) If there are, i.e., 50 million visits for the product due to morbid curiosity, death wishes, and/or repeat happy customers and the average ticket is $4, even if the experiment is a "failure," it was not. It is not much different than Coke or Pepsi putting a horrible product out there, that countless millions try once or twice, and that shoves shelf space away from another product.

Perhaps Mexican Junk Food. Regardless, I can't believe how cheap the food is, and actually is excellent variety and unique food offerings.

New Taco Bell Cantina Burrito
 

I didn't know TB revamped their cantina burrito until yesterday when I noticed the bag felt lighter :D They eliminated the rice and beans and added more meat for increased protein. It's about 40 % smaller than the old one but still the same price and only a few grams of fat less. Meh. I miss the old one.

Chalupas and Beer? Taco Bell to Serve Alcohol
 

Beer and 99c bean burritos ! What more could you ask for .....

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Taco Bell wants to give you a buzz with your burrito, planning to open new “cantina” restaurants as it tries to compete with more upscale fast-casual joints.

The Irvine-based company said Tuesday that its new “urban” restaurants will serve alcohol and have open kitchens and a plethora of technology to streamline the ordering experience.

The first Taco Bell Cantina is set to open in Chicago next week, with the second debuting in San Francisco later this month.
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http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...915-story.html

Will it be available for To-Go or drive through orders? :confused:

If you had read the article, you will have seen that there will be no Drive-Thru's. Many local regulations forbid open alcoholic beverages of any kind in a vehicle, so this would be a no-go.

If YUM! Brands decide to convert some of their current locations, they may find some local regulations would prevent them from doing so. Here in South Florida, no restaurants can serve any type of alcohol within a certain number of feet of a school or park.

Burger King has something like this on South Beach called the Whopper Bar, as it serves bottled beer along with a normal lunch menu. It's located in the tourist district and does not have a drive-thru.

When I lived in MD they allowed liquor stores to have drive thrus ... and in NVa other similar fast food places, like Moes, serves bottled beer.

... but as suggested, the rules are probably dizzying in how different they are from state to state, co to co, ... town to town

I have to admit that the AM Crunchwrap is pretty tasty. It's simply a flat breakfast burrito...or basically a breakfast burrito made by someone too lazy to chop up anything. :D

Doesn't it also have a hard taco shell-type layer?

No. Inside is (top to bottom) some kind of sauce, shredded cheese, scrambled eggs, sausage patty (not chopped), and hashbrown (not chopped). It's all wrapped in a tortilla and put in the grill press to warm/brown.

Didn't realize that.

Taco Bell's "Cantina" restaurants very much remind me of their "Border Grill" (or was it "Border Bell"?) experiment in the late 90s. They tried to latch on to the emerging trend of fast-casual restaurants. I'm not sure what Taco Bell considered its results to be, but from the outside it sure looked like a failure as the restaurant near me never seemed to have any business and was converted to a regular Taco Bell within a year or two.

I think you are confusing it with the crunch wrap.

On a related note, has anyone been to "U.S. Taco Co."?

Apparently, it's a spin-off from Taco Bell as they are both owned (I think) by the same company. It's in Huntington Beach, CA.

Probably. Both are bad for people.