🎧 Listen: In today’s episode of The Journal podcast, jdeavila breaks down Taco Bell’s battle with another fast-food chain and a New Jersey restaurant over their “Taco Tuesday” trademarks
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Jessica Mendoza: But now a major player in the taco industry is coming after Gregory's trademark. Last month, Taco Bell announced they want to, "liberate" all Taco Tuesday trademarks so that anyone can use the phrase, and Gregory has to decide if he's going to fight them on it. Jessica Mendoza: The following year, Gregory took over his family's longtime restaurant business on the Jersey Shore. While he was updating the menu, he says he remembered the lines he saw for tacos.
Rachel Humphreys: And do you ever feel bad about it? Do you ever think it's unfair that you can do that and stop them from having a Taco Tuesday? Jessica Mendoza: Over the years, Gregory says he sent more than 40 cease-and-desist letters to other businesses, and he's had to fight off bigger challenges to his trademark too. Back in the 1980s, a taco chain in the Midwest called Taco John's wanted to use the phrase.
Jessica Mendoza: And for decades, that has been the status quo. Restaurants aren't supposed to use the phrase Taco Tuesday, but around the country, many places still do. It's on Taco John's and Gregory's to tell them to stop. But now a taco titan wants to put an end to the trademark altogether. That's next. We have Taco John's, we have Gregory's, but more recently, an even bigger name kind of enters the fray over trademarking Taco Tuesday.
Jessica Mendoza: LeBron James often posts on social media about his own Taco Tuesday nights. And in 2019, he unsuccessfully tried to trademark the phrase himself. Jessica Mendoza: A lot of bars and restaurants already use the phrase Taco Tuesday, I'm in DC. They have it around here. So, why does it need to be liberated?
Jessica Mendoza: I put Gregory's response to Taylor Montgomery of Taco Bell and he said that it is "sappy" to say that you're liberating Taco Tuesday. What do you say to that?
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