Richard Montañez’s rags-to-riches story remains in dispute after a judge ruled in favor of Frito-Lay and PepsiCo, but he has ...

The ex-janitor-turned-executive who said he invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos sued his former employers, saying he was harmed when ...

Sal Montanez, a behavioral health services coordinator in rural California, was awarded the inaugural Richard Van Horn Award ...

Montanez, who stated off as as a Frito-Lay janitor, said he sparked what became Flamin’ Hot Cheetos around 1989.

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by Richard Montañez, who claimed to be the inventor of Flamin' Hot Cheetos, ...

Richard Montanez allegedly pitched his idea to a Frito exec and rose from a janitor to become Frito-Lay’s vice president of ...

A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the man who says he invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. Richard Montañez had sued ...

PepsiCo won the dismissal of a lawsuit by a former executive who said the food and beverage company defrauded and defamed him ...

In a decision on Wednesday, US District Judge John Holcomb said Richard Montanez, who retired from PepsiCo in 2019 to become a full-time motivational speaker, did not show that PepsiCo and its ...

PepsiCo won the dismissal of a lawsuit by a former executive who said the company defamed him by denying that he invented the popular spicy chips.