{"id":222413,"date":"2025-12-08T20:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/222413\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:16:09","slug":"taco-bell-creates-30-new-jobs-as-first-cork-location-opens-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/222413\/","title":{"rendered":"Taco Bell creates 30 new jobs as first Cork location opens tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">Applegreen in Ballincollig will open Cork\u2019s first Taco Bell restaurant tomorrow, with up to 30 new jobs created.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The service station provider announced its intention to open a restaurant in Cork last month, following the opening of two other Taco Bell locations in Co Meath and Co Dublin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The new restaurant in Ballincollig, which will be open from 10am, comes as part of a major refurbishment of Applegreen\u2019s Ballincollig location.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A new M&amp;S Food shop-in-shop outlet and a new Crafted Kitchen &amp; Deli will also open at the Cork service station tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The American fast-food chain, which specialises in Mexican-inspired (Tex-Mex) fast-food, will see give Cork customers access a range of its fan-favourites including crispy chicken burritos, beef burritos, the Crunchwrap Supreme, quesadillas, and seasoned fries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Seamus Stapleton, managing director of Applegreen\u2019s Republic of Ireland business said the organisation is \u201creally excited to be bringing Taco Bell to Ballincollig, and Cork.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> \u201cApplegreen\u2019s first two Irish Taco Bell restaurants have been hugely popular with customers, and we are delighted to be further expanding our partnership with this new outlet in Ballincollig,&#8221; said Mr Stapleton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n            \u201cThe significant refurbishment of the Ballincollig store is part of Applegreen\u2019s investment of more than \u20ac50 million in the Irish market this year.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cWe are continually investing to upgrade existing locations and to add new sites to our business in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cBy partnering with leading brands such as Taco Bell and Marks &amp; Spencer, as well as enhancing our own brand through our new Crafted Kitchen &amp; Deli, we are offering an even better experience for customers that use our Ballincollig store.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Applegreen customers at Ballincollig will now have access to more than 400 M&amp;S products, including Colin the Caterpillar cakes, Percy Pig sweets, and freshly baked M&amp;S cookies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"> The Ballincollig station will also feature a new click &amp; collect service for M&amp;S clothing and selected home product ranges, providing customers with the convenience of ordering online and picking up in-store free-of-charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Applegreen in Ballincollig will open Cork\u2019s first Taco Bell restaurant tomorrow, with up to 30 new jobs created.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[2736,781,79,18,19,17],"class_list":{"0":"post-222413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-cork-business","9":"tag-cork-news","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115685791194030561","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}