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This year, Taco Bell broadened its stakes in love. On February 24th, 2023, Taco Bell held its very first metaverse wedding, where lifelong Taco Bell fans Sheel Mohnot and Amruta Godbole said “I do” in a wedding ceremony in Decentraland. 

Winning out over 300 couples, Sheel and Amruta give Taco Bell CEO Mark King the inside scoop on how they worked closely with Taco Bell to plan their wedding and will relive moments from their happily ever after. 

Watch Mark, Sheel and Amruta get interviewed inside the metaverse here.

At Taco Bell, living más isn’t just for our fans. It’s for our Team Members too, and we strive endlessly to create a culture that redefines what it means to work in a quick service restaurant. We set standards higher than the rest and reward passionate innovators with unconventional opportunities that ignite their inspiration, in and out of the workplace.

Taco Bell Chief People Officer Kelly McCulloch will host the latest episode live from Golden Bell in Hawaii. Golden Bell happens every yearto honor the best of the best General Managers and Area Coaches for being the top 100+ in the nation. This year, they were joined by this episode's guest,Amy Wargo. As a Team Member in a corporate restaurant, Amy has taken advantage of multiple Taco Bell programs and is making the most of her craveable career journey. Kelly sat with Amy in Hawaii to discuss her Taco Bell journey and how she Lives Más day-in and day-out. 

Watch Menu Blast, the cooking competition that Amy took part in here.

To kickoff 2023, Mark is joined by Katrina “KT” Thornton, Taco Bell’s first-ever Chief Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Officer, for the 20th episode of Recipe for Restless Creativity. For KT, EI&B is not about check marks. It’s about marking a new era and making impact known through results. In this episode, KT and Mark will dive into conversations about what that means for Taco Bell as we gear up to take on 2023 and beyond.

On the November episode of Restless Creativity, Mark is joined by Mike Grams, Taco Bell President and Global COO. Mike got his start at Taco Bell as an Assistant General Manager in Detroit in 1992 and has been with the brand for 30 years. As the President and Global COO, Mike is all about ‘what’s next’ inside and outside of the field. Mike and Mark will not only discuss Mike's lifelong commitment to Taco Bell but how he ensures the best customer experience, people development and brand standards to deliver an A+ experience in every restaurant.

At Taco Bell, we believe that smart partnerships are a key to success and inspiration. On this episode of Recipe for Restless Creativity, Mark King sits down with Russ Bendel, CEO of The Habit Burger Grill, to talk about the partnership between Taco Bell and Habit, Habit’s recent move to Yum! Brands, the learnings that have come with that move and, of course, how the two stay inspired to keep their brands motivated everyday.

At Taco Bell, we believe that staying restlessly creative — both personally and professionally — is the key to success. In this episode, Mark sits down with David Novak, Co-Founder and retired Chairman and CEO of Yum! Brands. The two will discuss David’s time with Yum! Brands as well as his new book Take Charge of You: How Self-Coaching Can Transform Your Life and Career. David will share the inspiration behind his new book, some of its highlights and even how his philosophy has influenced Taco Bell today.

In the past three years, Taco Bell has accelerated how, where and why it brings new experiences to its team members and fans in restaurants around the world. In the U.S., Go Mobile and Taco Bell Defy exemplify restaurant innovation not only for the brand, but also for the industry as a whole. Taco Bell continues to monitor key learnings and insights to leverage elements of these new formats and elevate experiences into existing and future builds.

To dive deeper into what’s next for Taco Bell development, Mark King sits down with Chuck Gladney, Head of Global Design and Architecture at Taco Bell. Chuck and Mark will be discussing Taco Bell’s digital solutions, its expansion of the Cantina concept and the positioning of each store asset as a brand billboard.

Taco Bell has jump-started its evolution to elevate its company culture by embedding Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (EI&B) into the way its teams lead and do business. To help drive cultural and systemic change in the workplace, Taco Bell hosted an Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Immersion event earlier this year. This event helped the organization actualize EI&B to life in everyday moments, following its continuing refinement of its EI&B strategy.

As part of this event’s itinerary, Mark King sat down with Bimma Williams, host of Claima Stories, to discuss how organizations can rally teams to personally lead and do business with an EI&B mindset.

There are a lot of things that set Taco Bell apart from its competitors. Our brand marketing ingenuity, our food innovation, our people and of course, our drive for impactful purpose. And in our mission to fuel good, we have a secret weapon: our partnership with the Taco Bell Foundation. Since 1992, the Taco Bell Foundation has helped America’s young people follow their dreams and reach their full potential. In this episode, Mark King sits down with Jennifer (Jen) Bradbury, the Executive Director of the Taco Bell Foundation to dive into how the Taco Bell Foundation has championed young people for the past 30 years and where the next 30 years will take them.

Though there are many fan-favorite items at Taco Bell, no other item has had such passion as the Mexican Pizza. From its 1985 debut on menus, the  Mexican Pizza has created a loyal cult following. So, after its short hiatus in 2020 resulting in an uproar from fans, Taco Bell is thrilled to bring the Mexican Pizza back to menus on May 19.

In this episode, Mark is joined by Liz Matthews, Taco Bell’s Chief Food Innovation Officer. The two will take us behind the scenes and into the kitchen as they discuss what the return of this cult favorite means to the brand and its menu.

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