Last month, I visited the Taco Bell Cantina in Chicago, one of the first of these prototypes.

Diners can pair their Twisted Freezes with one of the tapas-style menu items exclusive to Cantina restaurants – including nachos and rolled tacos – during designated hours each evening.” “Designed to set the stage for a social dining experience, the restaurant will serve alcohol, including beer and Twisted Freezes – a unique offering provided only in Taco Bell Cantina locations. “The two-story restaurant will feature an outdoor patio for al fresco dining experiences, digital displays and offerings unique to the Las Vegas experience,” reads the company press release about the new Vegas location. This evolution started with apps that allow customization, but is now taking on physical form in a way not unlike Demolition Man. See for yourself:īack in 2014, I addressed Taco Bell’s specific efforts to incorporate elements of the fast-casual industry, which are popular with Millennial consumers and from which this new kind of sit-down Taco Bell restaurant has sprung. Its futuristic, glass-and-metal design does bear some resemblance to the Taco Bell of Demolition Man where, to Stallone’s bemusement, he and his sidekick/love interest Sandra Bullock set off for a classy dinner. But on Tuesday, the California-based fast-food company did release a rendering of its fancy new flagship Cantina store in Las Vegas (pictured above). Fortunately (or unfortunately), that hasn’t come to pass yet. And, believe it or not, Demolition Man may have just done that.Įnvisioning the world in 2032, the Stallone/Snipes vehicle’s best remembered prediction is that, in the aftermath of the franchise wars, Taco Bell is the only restaurant left standing.

It’s a terrrrrible movie.īut it only takes one semi-accurate act of augury to cement celluloid immortality. In the (reasonably small) genre of future-predicting films, the 1993 action flick Demolition Man gets the short shrift when held against such classics as Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Spielberg’s Minority Report, or Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021.

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