{"id":4642,"date":"2014-03-06T22:54:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T15:21:58","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T06:00:00","slug":"taco-bell-rolling-out-breakfast-nationally-on-march-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/2014\/03\/06\/taco-bell-rolling-out-breakfast-nationally-on-march-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Taco Bell Rolling Out Breakfast Nationally on March 27"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taco Bell will add breakfast to the menu starting March 27. According to Taco Bell, this breakfast launch is the brand&#8217;s largest and most extensive menu change since Taco Bell first opened 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Taco Bell President Brian Niccol said the introduction of a breakfast menu started after customers showed interest. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fans already like to come to Taco Bell for lunch and dinner, and they share with us their love of late night.&#8221; Niccol said. &#8220;Now they&#8217;re not just asking, but telling us they want Taco Bell breakfast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The breakfast items will include the &#8220;Waffle Taco,&#8221; a waffle wrapped around either a sausage patty or bacon, with scrambled eggs, cheese and a side of syrup, the &#8220;A.M. Crunchwrap,&#8221; filled with scrambled eggs, a hash brown, cheese, bacon, sausage or steak wrapped in a flour tortilla, and the &#8220;A.M. Grilled Taco,&#8221; a grilled taco filled with scrambled eggs, bacon and cheese.<\/p>\n<p>Other breakfast items include a breakfast burrito and the &#8220;Cinnabon Delights,&#8221; which have been featured in the dessert menu for Taco Bell.<\/p>\n<p>According to NY Daily, Taco Bell is also bringing in new equipment to start serving drip coffee for the first time at the 5,500 participating restaurants nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Junior Tanner Sharp has heard the rumors about a breakfast menu coming to Taco Bell, but is skeptical of certain breakfast items.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have to admit the Waffle Taco sounds pretty terrible,&#8221; Sharp said. &#8220;I have low expectations, but I will try anything three times.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For junior Allie Marlin, eating breakfast usually doesn&#8217;t happen, but she said she is curious to try Taco Bell&#8217;s breakfast when it is released.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am excited to try the Cinnabon Delights,&#8221; Marlin said. &#8220;And their breakfast burritos sound great.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to Taco Bell&#8217;s Chief Marketing Officer Chris Brandt, breakfast is the fastest growing part of the day for quick service restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After years of the same old thing, we are confident our breakfast will wake up customers&#8217; morning routine,&#8221; Brandt said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taco Bell will add breakfast to the menu starting March 27. According to Taco Bell, this breakfast launch is the brand&#8217;s largest and most extensive menu change since Taco Bell&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[268],"class_list":["post-4642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus","tag-hurricane-florence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelink.harding.edu\/the-bison\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}