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Reader: Chipotle versus Taco Bell — one serves tasty food, one serves fuel

While Chipotle has been on a roll, with a fantastic quarterly earnings statement, Taco Bell is making a serious effort to get a chunk of Chipotle's customers -- adding a Cantina Power Menu to its healthier Cantina Bell menu. But as Jenn Wohletz notes in her top five reasons why...
By Patricia Calhoun
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While Chipotle has been on a roll, with a fantastic quarterly earnings statement, Taco Bell is making a serious effort to get a chunk of Chipotle’s customers — adding a Cantina Power Menu to its healthier Cantina Bell menu. But as Jenn Wohletz notes in her top five reasons why Taco Bell won’t kick Chipotle’s ass, Taco Bell just doesn’t have the muscle to take on the powerful, homegrown Chipotle. See also: Top five reasons why Taco Bell won’t kick Chipotle’s ass Says Dave Barnes:

One serves tasty food.

One serves fuel.

You choose which you want.

Or, if you are being really cheap, you order only 99¢ items.

How cheap would Taco Bell have to go before you’d forgo Chipotle?

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12’s public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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