Restaurants
Quick-service tacos, burritos and related Mexican-inspired foods.
2026 · traditional; purchased site
P6 2026 · US end-of-period total · company and franchise/license
P6 2026 · worldwide total · company and franchise/license
Fiscal 2025 · worldwide Taco Bell Division
$1,859,750–$4,312,200
Opening costs vary by format, location and lease terms.
2026 FDD Item 7
Assumes a purchased site ($400,000–$1,500,000 real property) and Dallas, Texas construction/equipment estimates ($1,000,000–$2,000,000 building/site work). Includes $45,000 initial franchise fee and $40,000–$60,000 additional funds for three months.
2026 FDD Item 7
Assumes a leased site ($30,000–$65,000 initial real property rent) with or without drive-thru and Dallas, Texas construction/equipment estimates ($550,000–$1,000,000 building/site work). Includes $25,000–$45,000 initial franchise fee and $40,000–$60,000 additional funds for three months.
Selected ongoing charges, not a complete fee schedule. Confirm the current FDD and the terms for your format.
Revenue is sales before expenses, not owner income. Compare matching periods, formats and location samples.
7,803 U.S. locations (P6 2026 · US end-of-period total · company and franchise/license).
Existing locations do not establish that a new territory is available. Confirm your market with the franchisor.
7,803 U.S. Taco Bell restaurants at the end of P6 2026, including 662 company and 7,141 franchise and license restaurants. The source reports YTD actual activity through P6 2026 and an end-of-period stock; new builds and closures are not substituted for the stock total. US excludes international markets; the source's country table separately reports the US total and does not use a percentage to infer it. The figure includes company and franchise/license restaurants, not only franchisees.
Disclosed opening estimate: $1,859,750–$4,312,200. Purchased-site assumptions; construction and equipment use Dallas estimates. Local costs, program terms and exclusions require review. This is the printed Item 7 estimate for the named format, not applicant liquidity or a universal budget fit. Full footnote/program review is deferred. Building/site and equipment estimates use the Dallas, Texas market; other marked expenses span the U.S. Separate Express offering not covered. Location-specific costs, conditional programs and further footnotes require full review; no automatic budget fit. Traditional real-property estimates use purchased sites; In-Line/End-Cap estimates use leased sites. Building/site and equipment assumptions use Dallas, Texas; other marked expenditures describe U.S. estimates. These are not uniform nationwide all-in budgets. Additional funds cover incremental costs for the first three months; training travel/living costs remain the applicant’s responsibility. Estimates exclude finance charges, interest and debt service except specified late charges. Existing franchisor/affiliate restaurants are a distinct acquisition model: $175,000–$1,800,000 or more, excluding real property. The source does not disclose a closed upper bound. This extra observation is context only, not one of the author’s 12 facts. This is the Traditional FDD package with Traditional and In-Line/End-Cap models. Do not map these terms to the separately offered Express FDD. Traditional uses purchased-site assumptions; In-Line/End-Cap uses leased-site assumptions. Printed cross-references differ in incentive/real-property notes; no silent repair. Required future upgrades and separate technology obligations are not a guaranteed fixed investment.
$18,361,000,000 in reported worldwide Taco Bell Division system sales for fiscal 2025, ended December 31, 2025. Includes company-owned and franchised restaurants. Includes company-owned and franchise restaurants, regardless of ownership. Includes only the portion of customer payments to ordering/delivery third parties on which that third party owes Yum a percentage license fee; not every delivery fee. Reported currency-translated amount, not the separately disclosed FX-adjusted18,348million. Nearest whole USDmillion source precision; not average sales or owner income. Source reports 18,361 million USD; the table displays the scale-equivalent whole-dollar amount without adding source precision. Sales are not average unit revenue, franchisor revenue, profit or owner income. Reported dollar sales include currency translation; separate FX-adjusted18,348 million is not substituted. Nearest whole USD million as presented. Sales include company and franchise/licensed system; not franchisor revenue or owner income. FY2025 reporting period, not current run rate.
9,046 worldwide Taco Bell Division restaurants at June 30, 2026, including 676 company-owned and 8,370 franchise and license restaurants. Taco Bell Division scope; the total includes company-owned and franchise/license restaurants. The figure is an end-of-period stock as of June 30, 2026; openings, closures and ownership changes are not substituted. No U.S. count is inferred from the reported international percentage.
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