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Live Más 2024 Scholarship Winners!
It’s everyone’s favorite season! Live Más Scholarship winner announcements! And Border Foods is proud to reveal 13 winners from our very own Taco Bell restaurants. This is no ordinary scholarship, Live Más is a passion–based opportunity that allows recipients to make their dreams come true and, in the process, make the world around them a little better, too. Per Taco Bell requirements, applicants share their education plan and how it…
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REMODELING SEASON REVS UP
Spring has barely sprung and we’ve already completed four of our 2024 Taco Bell remodels! One recently completed project in Holland, MI is holding our attention. Located on South Washington, it’s a midterm remodel (occurs every 10 or 12 and a half years) with updated exteriors, digital drive-thru menus, new décor and updated LED lighting. Eighty percent of Border Foods’ 2024 remodels through June are midterm. What makes this revamped…
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ALWAYS A BLAST AT BORDER’S BOTB!
Many of our top performers are sun-kissed, having just returned from Border Foods’ company-sponsored “Best of the Best” (BOTB) rewards trip in Cancún, Mexico. Bringing the best of Border and the ‘Bell straight to the beach! To snag a seat at BOTB is a big deal around here. The majority of this year’s trip winners represent the top 20% of our 250-plus Taco Bells. And as many will tell…
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Area Coach Nicole Leads by Example
Nicole Terry began her career with Taco Bell as a crew member in 1996 at the age of 19. After a brief hiatus, she returned in 2019, shortly after welcoming a baby. Nicole did a lot of growing up during those years away, and it’s safe to say Border Foods did, too! Border owned just 81 stores when Nicole stepped away and now we’re up to 240 locations! One thing…
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TJ: HAPPY TO BE BACK AT BORDER
TJ Wegler is a repeat hire at Border Foods. He worked for us a decade ago, left to explore other opportunities in restaurant management, and then returned in the midst of the pandemic. He‘s now RGM of our Osseo, MN Taco Bell on the border of Osseo and Brooklyn Park. TJ can tell you exactly what drew him back to Border Foods in 2020 — it was a career defining…
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RGM Matar is Fluent in Family
Matar Ndiaye is the Restaurant General Manager (RGM) of Border Foods’ Roseville, MN Taco Bell, but his story begins much farther away in Senegal, West Africa, where he is from. His international upbringing allowed him the opportunity to learn four languages and instilled a mindset to approach new opportunities with excitement. Matar may have moved thousands of miles away from where he grew up, but he has found family in…
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RGM Tim is Family Focused in West St. Paul
Tim Engel is a Restaurant General Manager (RGM) for Border Foods’ Taco Bell on Robert Street in West St. Paul, MN. He was working for another QSR franchise when, with fatherhood on the horizon, he says he “ … was looking for something that could manage work and life a little bit easier.” That’s where we came in! Tim joined the Border Foods team two years ago and, “it’s been…
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WIN. REST. REPEAT. MEET EIGHT-TIME BOTB WINNER
Heather Schwartz has been to Mexico for the Best of the Best (BOTB) trip every year that she’s been employed with us. That’s eight times in a row! When she’s not at the pool, we assure you this gal keeps busy. Heather is Restaurant General Manager (RGM) of our Willmar, MN Taco Bell, which has been No. 1 companywide three of the last five years (just surpassed $2 million in…
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LEADERS WITH BIG HEART AT BORDER!
Announcing this year’s Heart of Border Foods recipients, honoring a small but mighty group of leaders who embody all that is good in the Border world. Congratulations to the following individuals! Brian Axness, CFO Brian is “a super inclusive leader” who “challenges everyone around him” and brings incredible enthusiasm (watch video to hear these sentiments for yourself). Need we say more?! Brian joined the company when payroll and accounting were…
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Serving Up Support to Chase Your Dreams: Scholarship Applications are Now Open!
Border Foods is investing in YOUR higher education. Education is important to us! That’s why we created the Border Foods and Carol Williams Scholarships, aimed at supporting our team members in pursuit of dreams outside the restaurant. Since we launched these programs in 2019, we’ve given out hundreds of thousands of dollars in scholarship money to students within the Border Foods family. And we’ve got more than TRIPLE that amount…
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