RyansWorld: Taco Bell
From Future
Taco Bell will become one of the most premier five-star restaurants with the best reputation worldwide by the 2020s. However, the restaurant chain will still have competition even though the North American economy (and North America itself) will briefly enter a state of anarchy due to the failing automobile and banking industries. However, the North America extension of the recession will end by 2013 (with the economic crisis not ending worldwide until the year 2017 and Canada's national recession ending by late July 2011). The anarchy in the economy and the North American job market will cease by the year 2013 and the year 2015 will be a prosperous period (at least in North America).
However, many influences will change Taco Bell. Thanks in part to people seeking healthier lifestyles, a decision by the top executives to eliminate racial stereotypes that indicate that "Mexican food" is "fast food for cheap, lazy, and obese people", and mandatory fitness programs that treat obesity as a mental illness rather than a sign of cultural prosperity, Taco Bell slowly transforms itself from a fast food restaurant for the high school crowd who frequently wears jeans to a hip, fancy restaurant that plays world beat music, has a dress code that requires collared shirts, and tiny food that is a fusion of fancy cocktail morsels and their former menu of tacos and nachos.
[edit] Taco Bell as high culture
By the year 2032, Taco Bell becomes an institution of high culture, similar to the honor professional wrestling will receive approximately 70 years later. Customers who have been to a Taco Bell prior to the year 1997 will not be able to recognize the Taco Bell of the 2020s and 2030s, with their 5-fork arrangement, fancy napkins, and white linen tableclothes.
Because the urban crowd craves sophisticated restaurants (like the Pickel Barrel in Toronto or the Rainforest Cafe in Niagara Falls, Ontario), prices will be higher in New York City and Los Angeles where the first "formal" Taco Bells will become runaway successes before this novel idea spreads throughout every Taco Bell in the world. Adding to the high culture appeal is that unlike McDonald's, Taco Bell employees need at least a bachelor's degree in culinary studies from a national recognized culinary school (McDonald's will only require the person to have a high school diploma and be at least 18 years of age).
[edit] Competition's reactions
In the wake of Taco Bell's transformation from fast food restaurant to five-star gourment restaurant, McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's will take in the refugees who cannot handle the more fancier Taco Bell. As a result of this, executives in these restaurants keep their restaurants casual and laden with fast food until the 22nd century, when fishsicles (popsicles made of in vitro fish) becomes the latest craze in the food industry. Only Pizza Hut and Taco Bell franchises ever have the economic feasibility to become semi-formal five-fork dining places.
