RANCHO SANTA FE Calif. Glen W. Bell Jr., founder of Taco Bell, the world’s largest fast-food Mexican chain, passed away at his home Sunday after a long illness. He was 86. Bell first began selling ...

The first restaurant that bore Glen Bell’s name had nothing to do with tacos. Not at first, anyway. Bell’s Hamburgers sold just that when he opened it in 1948 in San Bernardino, Calif., a few miles ...

Back in the 1930s, when Glen Bell was a teenaged migrant worker riding trains in California looking for a job, he probably didn’t imagine that he’d one day found a fast-food empire of Mexican-American ...

Glen W. Bell Jr., founder of the Taco Bell chain, which put Mexican fast food on the nation’s menu, has died. He was 86. Mr. Bell died Saturday night at his home in Rancho Santa Fe. He had suffered ...