Restaurants & Bars

Taco Bell Now Offering $100K Salaries: See Anne Arundel Locations

The company that owns the fast-food Mexican chain has announced a new program that will test out boosting managers' salaries in a big way.

Yum! Brands, which owns Taco Bell, will test out paying general managers a $100,000 salary at selected locations.
Yum! Brands, which owns Taco Bell, will test out paying general managers a $100,000 salary at selected locations. (Photo via Taco Bell Newsroom)

ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MD — If we told you that you could earn a six-figure salary working at an area restaurant, you'd probably guess we were talking about one of the fancy, white table-cloth spots, right? Well, what if we told you it was Taco Bell?

Yum! Brands, which owns the Mexican fast-food chain, announced recently that later this year it will be testing $100,000 annual salaries for general managers of company-owned Taco Bells in select locations. The announcement was part of a series of initiatives the company is rolling out that is says are meant to enhance restaurant performance, employee satisfaction, recruitment and retention.

In Anne Arundel County, there are Taco Bells located at:

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  • 8099 Edwin Raynor Blvd., Pasadena
  • 1088 State Route 3 N., Gambrills
  • 8081 Veterans Highway, Millersville
  • 578 Richie Hwy., Severna Park
  • 1803 West St., Annapolis
  • 2639 Annapolis Rd., Hanover
  • 3091 Solomons Island Rd., Edgewater
  • 5184 Raynor Ave., Linthicum Heights

The company did not announce which locations will test out the $100,000 manager's salary. Current salaries for the managers of company-owned Taco Bell restaurants range from $50,000-$80,000, Bloomberg reports. What do you think? Would you take a job managing a Taco Bell for $100,000 a year. Let us know in the comments or on social media.

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