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Scotsman
a day ago
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Edinburgh Fringe musicals and opera reviews: Nerds
Musical lovers, take note of our latest round-up of reviews for the Fringe's musicals. Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Nerds ★★★★ Underbelly, Bristo Square (Venue 302) until 25 August It has taken Nerds almost ten years to recover from a financial pasting on the verge of its Broadway run, dogged by false fiscal promises and subsequent lawsuits which inspired the Hollywood Reporter to hail it 'the Fyre Festival of musicals'. Anyone would think there was a hot new product at stake which would revolutionize life as we know it…. Thankfully, Nerds has recovered from its playground dust-up to emerge as one of the most fun shows on this year's Fringe, tracing the epic rivalry between Bill Gates and Steve Jobs from their days presenting PC prototypes at the Homebrew Computer Club through the peaks and troughs of Silicon Valley to their triumphant moments on the Microsoft and Apple mountaintops. And what better way to tell the story than through the medium of jazz hands musical Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Nerds is (almost) as smart as the men it satirises. Gates, played to fusspot perfection by Dan Buckley, is the classic preppy introvert. He may have been bullied in childhood, but he's a heck of a singer. Kane Oliver Parry matches him as a preening Jobs, the pot-smoking hippie visionary who reinvents himself as a steely businessman. Their respective partners, Paul Allen and Steve Wozniak, are played as dispensable sidekicks in a world where the girls all wear glasses and are there to crush on the digital geniuses despite being the smartest guys in the room. Cue lots of coding metaphors and sassy (algo)rhythms as Gates and Jobs enter their almighty tussle for techno and marketing supremacy. Jobs literally gives a rock'n'roll presentation at the 1984 launch of the Mackintosh computer, while Windows is introduced with a dorky hip-hop number. Word to Word. No bugs or buffering here - this is slick and consistently witty fare from an immaculately drilled eight-strong ensemble who know they've got a comeback hit. Fiona Shepherd Footballer's Wives: The Musical ★★★ Assembly Rooms (Venue 20) until 24 August ITV's early 2000's trash TV series is actually fine material for a musical makeover with its glitz, glamour and the near-operatic levels of bitchiness evinced by its led character Tanya Turner. Wife of the captain of fictional club Earl's Court F.C. Turner (the dynamic Ceili O'Connor) here schemes to save her husband's career — and maintain her status — in the face of new transfers and younger WAGs. Turner makes for a formidable antiheroine, a character so Machiavellian that cannot help but root for her and O'Connor's powerful voice and undeniable star presence drive the show. The downside is that whenever O'Connor is not on stage, the narrative starts to drag. The subplots — and secondary characters — are hardly compelling and while the songs by Kath Gotts are fine, there are no real stand-outs . Even Turner's big numbers are unlikely to get your toes tapping — although she does sell the absolute hell out of them. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad It's suitably vulgar without being particularly funny with it and even Arlene Phillips' choreography looks well-drilled rather than exciting. Ultimately, the show is like a well-manicured hand job from a WAG (one imagines); perfectly serviceable, thoroughly professional and, indeed, quite pleasant at times but you'll struggle to remember much about it in the morning. Rory Ford Escape Room: The Musical ★★★ Just the Tonic at The Caves (Venue 88) until 24 August Once passionate devotees of escape rooms, six university pals receive mysterious anonymous invitations to reassemble for one final challenge, after their friendships have lapsed for a couple of years. But the tricks and puzzles they're solving seem to have uncanny parallels in unresolved issues from the group's days of study. Tom Rolph and Michael Rincon's likeable musical has a neat set-up, and the creators come up with an enjoyably daft collection of characters to spin out their storyline's threads of petty competition, unspoken rivalry and – of course – unrequited love. Musical numbers are effective (although repeating two of them wholesale feels a little too much), and choreographers Hermione Lester and Naomi Park's dance numbers are surprisingly and impressively elaborate. The characters, though, could do with a fair bit more depth before we feel a proper connection with them, and one love-triangle storyline pushes credulity to breaking point and beyond. And though the fourth wall remains shattered from start to finish of the show (to the extent that 'audience member' Pierre – an enjoyably better-than-all-this Frenchman – finds himself part of the action), the meta-theatrics also detract from the puzzle solving, which for a bunch of escape room obsessives seems unconvincingly unimportant. Nonetheless, an entertaining hour with colourful performances. David Kettle Daddy Tomorrow Will I Be A Man? is on now at The Space | Daddy Tomorrow Will I Be A Man? is on now at The Space Daddy, Tomorrow Will I Be a Man? ★★★ theSpace @ Niddry Street (Venue 9) until 23 August Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Musical? Personal history? Therapy session? This slight but likeable new musical is clearly a bit of all three for its writer and performer James Willstrop, former world squash champion, and a creditable actor and singer too, even if his projection could be a little stronger across both. It's his own life story, from an early love of squash to the later pains of training sessions, plus his parents' divorce and his own reluctance to embark on a family lest the same thing should happen again. Running through it all, however, is Willstrop's perpetual questioning of his purpose in life: is it to soar ever higher among sport's elite players, or is it to drop back down to Earth as a son, husband and (possibly) father? For someone shifting his relationship with an audience entirely, Willstrop is a naturally confident performer, bringing a lot of boyish charm to his tale, and a nice line in wisecracks too. His songs are functional but not especially memorable, and the intertwining timelines of his plot could be differentiated a little more meaningfully with some smarter direction. Nonetheless, it's a captivating hour in the company of a disarmingly sincere man taking on a new challenge in his life, and kudos for that. David Kettle Dystopia: The Rock Opera ★★★ Braw Venues @ Grand Lodge (Venue 7) until 16 August Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Welcome to the state of Dystopia - as long as you are super-rich or super-compliant. It's not hard to decode the authoritarian allusions in this satirical rock opera: the band members are wearing Trump, Putin and Kim Jong Un masks for starters. President Blame and his gazillionaire sidekick Oli Flashman preside over a culture of greed and fear but another political force is on the rise with gleaming showman Magnanimous Moon preferring the carrot to the stick. None of it is subtle, but neither is pomp rock. Show creators Beldon Haigh may not boast a War of the Worlds-style orchestral backing but they do have a church organ in their venue and they're gonna use it to embellish the standard classic rock sound, with diversions into blues, prog and Latin rock. More impressive are the visuals, with lyrics projected on to screens in the style of Soviet propaganda posters, designed by band members Justin Skelton and Willie Logan. Singer/co-narrator Fiona Lynch is the vocal powerhouse of the operation, while multi-instrumentalist Dru Baker adds comic acting skills to what emerges overall as a rather scrambled maximalist mix of ideas.
Buzz Feed
4 days ago
- Health
- Buzz Feed
Medical Professionals Share Horrifying Body Facts
I recently scoured a medical subreddit and asked medical professionals in the BuzzFeed Community to share a horrifying body fact they know that would make the average person wish they'd stayed completely oblivious. The responses I received did NOT disappoint. Without further ado, here are their 15 most creepy and horrifying body facts: "You can cough, sneeze, or vomit so hard you can collapse your lung." "Some people have what are called blebs on their lungs. I think of it like a blister on the lung. Blisters, well, they pop. If you do any of the above so, so, so hard or prolonged, that blister can rupture and cause an opening where air rushes into the pleural space (area between your lung and rib cage) and your lung will collapse. It's normally men. I've had patients that this has happened to from mundane things such as vomiting or from food poisoning."—ICU Nurse "You can contract chlamydia in your eyes. Usually, through the method you would think. I've seen two cases in 10 years, always because someone was cheating." "You really do see the light leave someone's eyes when they die. Almost like dead fish eyeballs. I've seen so many dead bodies, especially since I worked both rounds of COVID in the ICU." "Your belly button is a tiny jungle of bacteria — and it can host species not found anywhere else on Earth." "In a study by the Belly Button Biodiversity Project, scientists swabbed hundreds of navels and discovered thousands of bacterial species — many unique to individuals, and some previously unknown to science. It's basically a personalized petri dish in the middle of your torso."—Naturopathic Doctor "Cancer stinks. Like literally, it smells putrid, especially breast and skin cancer (in my experience). I've had so many cancer patients where you can just smell the tumors. It's like rotten, putrid, sour meat that's been rotting in the sun for weeks. Like a deer carcass that's been left on the side of the road in the summer heat for a month." "You can slow somebody's heart rate by pressing on their eyeballs. The individual response is fairly variable, but in some people it's pronounced enough that pressing on their eyeballs will actually stop their heart entirely!" "The elderly experiencing memory loss has been linked to having constipation." —ApatheticMoose "Lymph nodes are super tiny! I was in the OR watching my brain-dead patient getting her organs removed for transplant. They showed me the lymph nodes. I had no idea they were so tiny because they can cause such huge and painful problems. It was about the size of a single Nerds candy. All scattered throughout our body are Nerd candies." "I attended a bedridden, 86-year-old man who was cared for by his wife at home, who was also in her 80s. He developed a huge bedsore on his lower back, the size of a dinner plate, that exposed his spine and surrounding muscles. The wound was full of pus, and some maggots crawled out. One thing to learn about the skin: A sore will start to develop on healthy, intact skin if pressure is applied to it, even for less than a week. It's good practice to turn a bedridden patient to one side a few times to avoid the complication of bed sores." —Retired Family Doctor "Fat can be yellow like chicken fat. I was in the OR watching my brain-dead patient's organs get harvested for transplant. When they took out the heart, the surgeon pointed out things on the heart before it was bagged and put on ice in a cooler. The heart was somewhat fatty, and the fat looked like yellow chicken fat. I mean, we are still all meat in the end." "Bartholin gland. It produces the vagina's lubricant and can get clogged or develop cysts. As a nurse, I have had patients with this, and it seems very, very painful!" "You can get lidocaine poisoning with everyday over-the-counter products. Lidocaine creams, patches, ointments, whatever." "Your blood can become so fatty that you can see the fat separate, like meat tallow." "I had a patient whose lipase was greater than 50,000. It was during COVID. He was so lonely that he nearly ate himself to death. He had a central line. I drew up my blood waste and set it on the sink. I forgot it was there until a little while later. When I went to throw it away, the blood and fat had separated. Half of the syringe was dark red blood, and the other half was milky and fatty."—ICU Nurse "Humans have anal glands! Owners of dogs and cats may know that there are two fluid-holding glands on the anus. This incredibly stinky fluid is squeezed out as a firm stool passes through the anus. Sometimes the glands become impacted and need to be expressed (squeezed) and/or treated for infection. Luckily, ours are microscopic, but every pet owner I have told about this is horrified." And finally... "You have more bacteria cells in your body than you have human cells in your body. We are basically walking bacteria factories." Did any of these body facts surprise you? Medical professionals, what are some things you know about the human body that most people don't? Tell us in the comments below or use this Google form to remain anonymous.
Scotsman
29-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Scotsman
Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Bill Gates musical dubbed 'Fyre Festival of Broadway' resurrected after a decade
Sign up to our Arts and Culture newsletter, get the latest news and reviews from our specialist arts writers Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... It was dubbed the 'Fyre Festival of Broadway', after a much-heralded New York run collapsed at the 11th hour amid a debacle that culminated in a $6 million lawsuit linked to claims of financial mismanagement by its maverick producer. Nerds is to open at Underbelly this week. | Nerds Now musical Nerds, based on the lives of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, is to finally be resurrected after more than a decade at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which the creators of the show described as 'the world's scrappiest, boldest stage'. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad The musical was pulled two weeks before it was due to start its Broadway run in 2016 after investment many involved had understood to have been already secured by producer Carl Levin failed to materialise. It was one of the few times in Broadway history such a thing has happened. The show sees Microsoft founder Mr Gates meet Apple head Mr Jobs. Nerds chronicles the rise from their early days in the tech industry to the influence their creations now have over the world. It was premiered at the New York Musical Theatre Festival in 2005, and subsequently had two runs at the Philadelphia Theatre Company and North Carolina Theatre in 2013. Two weeks before it was due to launch at the Longacre Theatre theatre on Broadway, after years in production, Nerds was suddenly pulled by Mr Levin, who claimed the show had 'lost a major investment'. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad However, a subsequent lawsuit brought by investors who said they were told by Mr Levin that all funding was in place claimed in reality only $200,000 [£149,041] of more than $6m needed had been raised. The lawsuit, which was eventually thrown out due to a technicality, also claimed Mr Levin had said Mark Zuckerberg's sister and Microsoft were also backing the venture. Now, almost a decade after the 2016 saga - dubbed 'the Fyre Festival of Broadway' by the Hollywood Reporter - the show is to open at the Fringe on Thursday. Glasgow's failed Willy Wonka experience, which hit the headlines last year when members of the public complained after being sold £35-a-head tickets for a near-empty warehouse, has also been compared to Fyre Festival. Mr Levin is no longer involved in the production. Creators Jordan Allen-Dutton, Erik Weiner and Hal Goldberg, said: 'Nerds is a musical about two revolutionary, socially awkward geeks - Bill Gates and Steve Jobs - who accidentally reinvented civilisation by building things that go beep in the garage. It's a funny and touching dot-comedy, with bad fashion, robotic jazz hands and a rap battle that might just redefine nerd-kind. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'We're bringing it to the Edinburgh Fringe because no matter how wild tech gets, nothing beats the raw, analogue magic of live theatre - and there's no better place to unleash a scrappy origin story than the world's scrappiest, boldest stage.' Producer Paul Taylor-Mills said: 'I'm thrilled to be bringing Nerds to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer after the success of I Wish You Well and My Son's a Queer, both having played the Fringe before taking the West End and the world by storm. 'There's few better places in the world to premiere new work than the thrilling, creative climate of Edinburgh. Nerds is a joyous, camp and hilarious look at some of the most iconic figures in tech history, just what the world needs right now.'
Daily Mail
23-06-2025
- Politics
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Inside Israel's Unit 8200: The team of teen tech whizzes who tracked down Iran's uranium enrichment sites
Israel has an equivalent of the United States National Security Agency that carries out cyber warfare and other types of clandestine operations, but with one notable difference: It's staffed largely by teenagers. The soldiers of Israel Defense Forces Unit 8200 - most living with their parents and working for peanuts as part of the country's compulsory military service - located the Iranian uranium enrichment sites Israel has been trying to destroy for the past week. They produced the anti-Ayatollah video with which they interrupted Iran 's state-run news broadcast on Wednesday. And they pinpointed the Iranian leaders and nuclear scientists on Israel's hit list. A unit veteran, now in his early 30s and running an artificial intelligence start-up in Southern California, calls its 18 to 21-year-old active-duty soldiers 'the most nerdy of nerds.' 'These are the hackers, the chess players, the eggheads you knew in high school, but to the Nth degree,' he says, insisting on anonymity for fear, he claims, that 'anyone who's done intelligence in Israel isn't safe' these days, even in the US. It is a mark of the perceived threat that the Iranian missiles that hit southern Israel Thursday morning may have been aimed at a site in the area where Unit 8200 soldiers have been working, not at the civilian hospital on which the Israeli government and Western news outlets have focused. Iranian state media said the primary target of its attack that damaged Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheba was a nearby Israeli military intelligence site. Iran's Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi posted on X that Iran's military 'accurately' eliminated that site, as well as 'another vital target,' but didn't identify their locations. Israeli attacks were reported at sites across Tehran as well as in cities and provinces known to host key nuclear facilities and military installations, including Isfahan - the location of the Natanz FEP - Tabriz, Kermanshah, Arak and Shiraz Israel hasn't responded to those claims, or whether Unit 8200 soldiers were hit. Instead, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday pointed to the 71 people injured at the hospital, accusing Iran of deliberately targeting civilians - even though his own military has been bombing civilian hospitals throughout Gaza since the deadly, Hamas-led terror attacks in October 2023. Unit 8200, known in Israel as Shmone Matayim, is IDF's largest unit, believed to have about 5,000 active-duty soldiers ages 18 to 21, with older veterans on reserve. Soldiers in the elite intelligence corps typically are recruited right out of high school based on the speed of their learning and ability to solve complex problems. Many attended after-school feeder programs that trained them in computer coding and hacking, and some had private coaching to prepare for the unit's highly competitive entrance exams and interviews. Sources tell the Daily Mail that families go all out to boost their kids' chances of being among the one percent of all applicants accepted into the unit seen as a pathway to lucrative high-tech jobs. After completing their service, veterans of 8200 have gone on to found and lead information technology, artificial intelligence and cyber security startups in Israel and internationally. Unit 8200 has its roots in codebreaking and intelligence units formed upon Israel's establishment in 1948. Those units were made up largely of native Arabic speakers born in the countries Israel was either at war with or spying on. In the early years, soldiers used primitive listening devices that are now displayed in Glilot, its headquarters north of Tel Aviv. The long hours they spent listening to Israel's enemies preserved not only their language fluency but also their familiarity with the mindsets of their country's enemies. Over the decades, the unit turned into somewhat of a tech incubator. Its culture is said to be relaxed and encourages creativity and independent thought, much like a startup. Some of its soldiers can be recognized by their wrinkled uniforms, disheveled hair or long earrings - things frowned upon in IDF's regular rank and file. Some conservative, rural and religious Jewish Israelis complained that the unit was dominated by highly educated, atheist and liberal Tel Avivians whose views on politics and the military aren't necessarily shared throughout the country. IDF has taken steps to diversify 8200's soldiers under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition, the most far-right in Israel's history. Although its operations are classified, the unit has been reported to have launched the computer virus that disabled Iranian nuclear centrifuges from 2005 to 2010, cyber-attacked Lebanon's state telecom company in 2017, and helped thwart a 2018 ISIS attack on a civilian airline traveling to the United Arab Emirates from Australia. Subunits of 8200 are said to have been involved in the development and testing of the pagers and walkie-talkies that Israel engineered to explode in the hands of Hezbollah militants in Lebanon last September. Closer to home, the unit has been surveilling Palestinians for decades, and in 2014 was denounced by a group of reservists for what they deemed to be unethical breaches of privacy on Palestinians not involved in violence. Such criticisms have grown internationally since Israel has been at war in Gaza, where IDF uses artificial intelligence derived from the unit to target Gazans suspected of involvement with Hamas. News investigations have revealed deadly ways inaccurate data used by the unit and faulty algorithms can go wrong. Within Israel, Unit 8200's reputation for gathering complete and accurate intelligence came under question after it failed to prevent the Hamas-led terror attacks on October 7, 2023. Those attacks killed 1,200 people across southern Israel and led to 251 others being taken hostage. They also prompted the now 20-month-long war in Gaza during which Israel has killed 55,637 Palestinians and injured 129,880, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. The unit's commander resigned over criticisms that 8200's researchers had identified signs of the Hamas attack several months before it happened, but that he didn't press hard enough on Israel's most senior military and political leaders to prevent it. Defenders of the unit have countered that it shouldn't be blamed for higher-ups' inaction. The unit is based mainly in a set of nondescript office buildings near the headquarters of Mossad, Israel's spy agency, in Glilot, north of Tel Aviv. Aside from Iran's nuclear enrichment site (pictured), the unit also claims responsibility for destroyed data at Iran's state-owned Bank Sepah and for wiping out $90M from Iran's largest cryptocurrency exchange The complex was targeted by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah last fall after the notorious pager and walkie-talking attacks. Iran, for its part, has other reasons to target the unit. Its soldiers — or at least its veterans — are believed to have taken some part in two cyberattacks on Iran in the past week, both carried out by a collective of pro-Israel hackers calling itself 'Predatory Sparrow.' On Tuesday, the group claimed to have destroyed data at Iran's state-owned Bank Sepah. And on Wednesday, it took credit for wiping out $90 million from one of Iran's largest cryptocurrency exchanges which allegedly helps the Iranian government avoid sanctions and fund its nuclear program and other secret operations. In years past, soldiers with Unit 8200 are also believed to have blocked usage of ATM and gas pumps in Iran and hacked into the nation's digital highway sign system, posting messages critical of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Persian speakers within the unit also are said to have fomented fear and paranoia among Iran's Revolutionary Guard soldiers and nuclear scientists by leveraging compromising personal information against them to squeeze out state secrets. Iran hit the Glilot area with ballistic missiles on Tuesday morning. In a statement, its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) wrote that 'Despite the presence of highly advanced defense systems,' it 'struck the Zionist regime's military intelligence center… and the center for planning terror operations and evils of the Zionist regime…' 'This center is currently burning,' the IRGC wrote later that day. It is unclear if the buildings damaged were on or off the base and whether, either before or after Tuesday's missile barrage, IDF relocated Unit 8200 soldiers 75 miles south to Beersheba near the site of Thursday's attack. 'I'm worried about those guys,' says the unit veteran in California, who has a cousin currently serving in 8200. 'They've made a ton of trouble for Iran and probably have serious targets on their backs.'
Miami Herald
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Miami Herald
Wendy's menu reveals a spicy new addition this week
As the beginning of summer nears and we all do our best to endure the increasing heat, people tend to be on the lookout for fun new things to try. That might look like a day at the beach for some, a cookout for others, or even just a reason to try something new at their favorite local fast-food joint. Don't miss the move: Subscribe to TheStreet's free daily newsletter Summer can be a lucrative time for fast-food companies, as customers are often on the lookout for ways to cool down while they're out and about. Chains often respond with ice cream or frozen drinks, tempting fans to add something new and chilly when they order a quick lunch on the go. Related: Wendy's makes move to take down McDonald's, Burger King For Burger King, that looks like a a frozen strawberry drink topped with Nerds candy. At McDonald's, the McFlurry is getting a limited edition twist with Hershey's Smores. And at Taco Bell, it's "Refrescas" in fruity flavors like Mango Peach and Dragonfruit Berry. Now Wendy's (WEN) is tossing its effort into the mix, but instead of going cold, it's decided to dial up the heat. As we've previously reported, Wendy's has a collaboration coming soon with Mexican snack favorite Takis. Now food blogger and reliable leaker Markie Devo has revealed more about it via a tweet on X shared on June 17, showing off not only the details of the meal but also dropping the release date. "OYYY!! Mamacita Wendy's is getting extra fuego!! Wendy's X Takis Fuego Meal! This menu is dropping nationwide at Wendy's locations on June 20th," he wrote. Related: National fast-food chicken chain faces horrible accusations While the details about the new Fuego Chicken Sandwich are the same - a spicy chicken filet with chili lime and cheddar cheese sauce, topped with crushed Takis Fuego chips and creamy corn spread - the new post shows off a special bag for the "Fuego Fries," which tears away so you can dump your fries out and enjoy them right out of the bag. Wendy's also posted its own tease via X on June 17, tweeting an image of its famous mascot arm-wrestling with a Taki's bag and saying "if you can guess what it is, you win @takisusa" and the date "6/20/2025." Consumers are pulling back on unnecessary spending in reaction to the trade war, and fast-food companies are already feeling the burn. McDonald's, easily on the top of the pile as far as revenue, reported a second quarter of sales declines during its Q1 earnings call and a year-over-year decline in net revenue. Same-store sales also dropped by 3.6%, the biggest drop the fast-food chain has seen since the pandemic. Wendy's reported a 2.1% year-on-year revenue decline to $523.5 million of revenue in Q1, in line with Wall Street's estimates - so it also needs a boost in what CEO Kirk Tanner called a "challenging consumer environment" during its earnings call. One of the few chains that's not suffering is Taco Bell, which reported same-store sales rose by 9% in Q1, while system sales were up 11%. "A tough operating environment probably favors Taco Bell. It's just firing on all cylinders right now," Yum chief executive officer David Gibbs said during Wednesday morning's earnings call. "Penetration is going up, bringing more customers into the brand with things like Cantina Chicken. Value stands out. And innovation - nobody else sells anything close to what we sell. We're in an enviable position." Related: McDonald's is facing a harsh new reality as customer behavior shifts The Arena Media Brands, LLC THESTREET is a registered trademark of TheStreet, Inc.
