Taco Bell bets on China, goes easy on the grease

Shanghai

UNTIL he was appointed manager of a Taco Bell restaurant in China, Will Cao had never seen a taco before. When confronted with its hard, U-shaped shell in Los Angeles last June, he wondered: How do you eat it?

"Everything was spilling all over the place," said Mr Cao, a 31-year-old Shanghai resident. "Then I looked at the other customers to learn that actually you are supposed to tilt your neck to eat it."