Taco Bell offers $1 Mexican pizza, other lettuce-free deals to win back customers after outbreak

Taco Bell is offering steep discounts on lettuce-free menu items as the fast-food chain works to recover from the business impact of the cyclospora outbreak. Cyclospora is a microscopic parasite known to cause cyclosporiasis, the hallmark symptom of which is diarrhea, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Cases linked to the multistate cyclospora outbreak began surfacing in May. The FDA said its traceback investigation identified shredded iceberg lettuce supplied by Taylor Fa