{"id":8241,"date":"2013-03-13T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T13:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8241"},"modified":"2013-03-13T03:50:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-13T07:50:42","slug":"the-taco-that-shows-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-taco-that-shows-the-future\/","title":{"rendered":"The Taco That Shows The Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/031313_0747_TheTacoThat1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Doritos Locos Taco is a taco with the standard Taco Bell filling\u2026wrapped in a shell of Doritos Nacho Cheese. It might save the country writes Daniel Gross. Or at least show the way forwards:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taco Bell sold more than 1 million Doritos Locos Tacos every <em>day<\/em> in 2012.<\/li>\n<li>This is why Taco Bell grew faster than other more famous chains such as KFC, Pizza Hut, and McDonald&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li>Taco Bell had to hire an additional 15,000 employees to deal with the growth.<\/li>\n<li>This demonstrates that it&#8217;s possible for companies to grow within America selling products to Americans.<\/li>\n<li>It also demonstrates the importance of intellectual property and brand licensing. No other chain can make a Doritos Taco, giving Taco Bell a monopoly on the product.<\/li>\n<li>Taco Bell&#8217;s current CEO is an Australian\u2026whose trying to sell Mexican food to Americans. This shows the transformative effects of globalization in America.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about how you can see the future of the United States in this one taco, why Taco Bell hasn&#8217;t tried expanding to other countries, and how Taco Bell feels about horsemeat over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/03\/12\/this-taco-save-america.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2013\/03\/12\/this-taco-save-america.html\">The Daily Beast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Doritos Locos Taco is a taco with the standard Taco Bell filling\u2026wrapped in a shell of Doritos Nacho Cheese. It might save the country writes Daniel Gross. Or at least show the way forwards: Taco Bell sold more than 1 million Doritos Locos Tacos every day in 2012. This is why Taco Bell grew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8240,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-8241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin","tag-foodonomics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/031313_0747_TheTacoThat1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8241"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8243,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8241\/revisions\/8243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}