Taco Bell Experiments with Fried Chicken

Taco Bell is channeling its inner KFC by testing out new menu items with crispy chicken. The reason for the new change? Taco Bell is trying to increase sales by expanding the menu to attract new customers (remember the new breakfast menu?). KFC, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands along with Taco Bell, is consulting the quick-service Tex-Mex chain on this new project. "We're looking at new items across the menu and fried chicken is one of them," spokesman Rob Poetsch says. But, he stresses, "we're a ways from any national introduction." The new menu items are currently being tested in 10 Taco Bell locations in Southern California said Poetsch in an email to 1851. Read more by clicking: http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/09/18/taco-bell-fried-chicken-crispy-chicken-fast-food-restaurants/15776301/