{"id":64336,"date":"2025-10-07T02:43:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/64336\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T02:43:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:43:15","slug":"the-indo-daily-taco-bell-queues-restaurant-blues-are-us-giants-hurting-irelands-food-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/64336\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indo Daily: Taco Bell queues, restaurant blues \u2013 are US giants hurting Ireland&#8217;s food sector?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1b17844e-6aef-46f3-8a30-95fc149c85af.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Burgers, burritos and doughnuts &#8211; these are hardly exotic menu items for the average Irish family nowadays. But anyone who witnessed the hours-long queues for Ireland\u2019s first Taco Bell restaurant would be forgiven for thinking otherwise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The Mexican-inspired restaurant is just the latest in a flurry of chains looking to capitalise on our enduring appetite for US food brands. But with every Wendy\u2019s, Wingstop or Five Guys launch with a social media frenzy, it seems another local business closes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom5 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Are we really just curious about the food we\u2019ve seen in film and TV for decades, or do they operate at a scale local businesses can\u2019t match? Kevin Doyle is joined by John Meagher (senior features writer) and John Mulligan (senior business journalist) to ask if our hunger for American fast food is starving local businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Burgers, burritos and doughnuts &#8211; these are hardly exotic menu items for the average Irish family nowadays. But&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60,898],"class_list":{"0":"post-64336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}