Twenty years after the first McDonalds opened in Moscow, Russians still have a taste for the hamburgers that started in San Bernardino.

The Inland Empire has home to the start of McDonald’s and Taco Bell. Taco Bell founder Glen Bell, Jr. died last month.

Bell’s Drive-In, opened in 1948 in San Bernardino, and by many accounts it was inspired by the success he saw of the McDonald’s quick service concept. In the book “Fast Food Nation” author Eric Schlosser describes Bell as a ‘World War II veteran, a resident of San Bernardino, who ate at the new McDonald’s, and decided to copy it, using the assembly-line system to make Mexican food and founding a restaurant chain later known as Taco Bell.’

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Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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