Applegreen opened Ireland’s first Taco Bell restaurant this week, as part of a €15 million investment in a new motorway service area at Junction 6 on the M3, in Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath. The motorway service area also has an Applegreen convenience store, a children’s play area, and a service station forecourt. “We’re delighted to bring Taco Bell to the Irish market, and to open our newest site in Ireland,” said Seamus Stapleton, managing director of Applegreen’s Republic of Ireland business. Applegreen, which typically invests up to €50 million annually in its Irish business, is also continuing to expand its Braeburn Coffee cafe business and its partnership with M&S Food. It opened its first service station in Ballyfermot, in Dublin, in 1992 and now operates almost 200 locations in the Irish market.