Taco Cabana
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Taco Cabana is a U.S.-based fast food restaurant chain specializing in Tex-Mex cuisine owned by Carrols Corporation. As of 2006, it has over 130 locations throughout Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.
Many Taco Cabana restaurants remain open 24 hours a day, and for most of the chain's history all were painted in a distinctive pink-and-green color scheme.
[edit] History
The chain was started in 1978 in San Antonio, Texas.
Two Pesos, a competitor, established a similar chain of restaurants in the 1980s. Two Pesos restaurants were alleged to have copied the "look and feel" of Taco Cabana restaurants. Taco Cabana sued Two Pesos for infringement of trade dress under the Lanham Act. The 1992 case was appealed to the Supreme Court and decided in favor of Taco Cabana. Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc. is often cited as a landmark case in trade dress. Taco Cabana used the proceeds of the case to acquire the Two Pesos chain. Many Two Pesos restaurants were converted into Taco Cabana restaurants.
Since 2001, the company has been owned by Carrols Corporation, who also owns Pollo Tropical and is one of the U.S.'s largest Burger King franchisees.
[edit] References
Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc., 505 U.S. 763 (1992)
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