Get ready to rock, Doritos-heads. You’ll soon be able to turn your tongue, fingers and hoodie strings orange by eating at Taco Bell. The national rollout is on March 8, but the buzz has been building for months. A clock on Taco Bell’s website is counting down the seconds until launch date of the product that it brags, has “Taco Bell on the inside and Doritos on the outside.”
Wounded brands such as Taco Bell can take years to recover. What the 5,600-unit fast-food behemoth is about to try is almost unprecedented. It’s making so many major changes at the same time that next to the wildly successful McDonald’s turnaround of the past decade, this could rank as one of fast food’s most complex turnaround attempts in decades. Its likelihood of success – or failure – rests on the head of a Doritos chip.