Fast food of the future. I'm Jason Horton.

I'm Rebecca Leib.

And this is Ghost Town.

There's a new concept Taco Bell coming to town and it will be the first of its kind get this

in the world. The quick service restaurant will open in Minnesota in the spring.

But why here? Well, because it was invented here.

I grew up loving and eating lots of Taco Bell. So if you're like me,

this episode might not be new to you. Today we're talking about the hottest fast food technology.

Taco Bell's DeFi restaurant. A new restaurant for the Taco Bell lover of the future.

In 2021 Taco Bell announced that it would create something new. A restaurant called The DeFi.

Have you heard of it? Oh my god. The Taco Bell DeFi prototype restaurant broke ground in Brooklyn

Park, Minnesota in December and opened its doors on June 7th, 2022. The 3000 square foot

two-story Taco Bell is very futuristic with lots of purple neon lighting,

a four-lane drive-through, touchpad screens, individual customer codes, and a second-story

kitchen. The best part though, and likely in response to COVID-19, is that there's no human

contact at the restaurant at all. Instead, a mini elevator or what Taco Bell calls a vertical

lift or food tube acts as the link between the kitchen and the customer. This new restaurant is

designed again for COVID, for sure, and also to be as efficient as possible. And of course,

in the future, there isn't time to dine in. You have to get to Zoom meetings and rocket launches.

So there's no sitting area. You just roll in, grab your food,

among the neon lights, and roll the fuck out.

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