Taco Bell for M3
Forecourt retailer Applegreen will open the country's first Taco Bell restaurant in September as part of a €15m investment in a new motorway service area at Junction 6 on the M3 in Dunshaughlin, Co Meath.
Applegreen is creating 100 new jobs at the new Dunshaughlin facility.
It will include an M&S Food shop-in-shop outlet, a new Braeburn Coffee Café, a Burger King restaurant, and Crafted - Applegreen's new deli offering - as well as a convenience store, a service station forecourt, and an initial eight ultra-fast EV charging ports, with more chargers to come when further power is available at the site.
The opening of the new Dunshaughlin motorway service area is part of Applegreen's €1 billion plan to expand its business in Ireland, the UK and the US over the next five years. The Dunshaughlin facility is Applegreen's largest single investment project in Ireland this year.
Applegreen opened its first service station in Ballyfermot in Dublin in 1992 and now operates almost 200 locations in the Irish market. It typically invests over €50m every year in the Irish market on new store openings, upgrades and improvements.
Seamus Stapleton, managing director of Applegreen's Republic of Ireland business, said the company plans to open several additional Taco Bell restaurants at its Irish locations over the next five years.
Matthew Johnson, new market lead for Taco Bell Europe, said that by partnering with Applegreen, Taco Bell is able to bring its menu and unique dining experience to Ireland and continue to grow as a global brand.
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