Taco tarrifs: the downfall of society
Taco Bell is fine but have you seen Wendy’s prices? Holy crap!
Yeah except I can get s whole ass meal every Wednesday and Friday for $2… No matter what I have to pay $7 at taco bell. Used to be like $2-$3 for a few decent filling burritos
I can find several items at the Taco Bell near me that are just under $3.
Fun fact: “Make it Fresco” will replace any dairy based items and add basically pico de gallo. I love doing this cause I don’t like the sour cream and nacho sauce anyways. Add lettuce for $.50 and you can almost transform the Cheesy Double Beef Burrito into the Burrito Supreme at half the cost.
because the cost of food has nothing to do with world politics.
The price of taco bell has very little to do with the cost of food.
The price of anything has less to do with the cost
We’ve managed to get our order down to ~$17-20 for 2 people. 2 cheesy bean and rice burritos, 2 tostadas, 2 soft taco supremes.
The Meal for 2 is half as much and has more food. Or get the Meal for 4 and get twice as much food for the same price.
I know there are regional differences, but using the app in my relatively high cost of living area I can do a cravings box with a crunchwrap supreme, cheesy bean and rice burrito, fiesta potatoes, and medium drink for $6.49. are you using the app and online exclusives to keep the price down?
We usually just order at the window but I’m gonna try the box next time.
It’s the only way to go. Assuming you like the available options.
I love the Crunchwrap so idk why we haven’t been buying this already. #TBTips
If they’re too expensive, stop giving them money. Make food at home or go to a local small business, not a chain franchisee.
Making food at home is great, but how does going to local small business help? Taco Bell taco costs $4.69 and local restaurant taco costs $21?
I’ve found Mexican places are just about the cheapest sit down restaurants, but I’m sure it varies some by location.
Sometimes you just want a Crunchwrap quick, and you can’t get that from a local joint. I don’t always want to wait 20 minutes for a local joint, and half of them are closed by 8. So they’re useless at the time I want Taco Bell.
Order the Meal for 4 from the website/app. Two Crunchwraps, 2 Chicken quesadillas, 4 tacos, 2 chips and cheese, $20. Feeds two people and there’s usually leftovers, or will feed one person for 2 days.
Or the Meal for 2: Two Crunchwraps, 2 Bean burritos, 2 tacos, and 2 chips and cheese. $12.
Same goes for Jack ITB. They have 2 for $3 and 2 for $5 burgers, and tacos are still 2 for 99¢. Just gotta use the app or order online.
A friend told us to get a Lux Box or w/e they’re called after a concert a few months ago, and it had A LOT of food for the low price. Like a burrito, chalupa, taco, cinnamon twists and a drink for $6 or $7, which sounds like a great deal right now. Idk if they still have it or if it was a limited promotion, but that’s what I’d get if I go there again (I don’t do fast food but very rarely). Other than that, the standard priced items are definitely expensive.
The thing is, you could more or less order that for $5 as late as a year or so ago with some customizations to their other boxes. (Granted, I place no value on the cinnamon twists)
Class consciousness is what we need, comrade
And enjoy your taco
Cuz of world politics.
You used to be able to get a soft or hard-shelled taco for 59 cents.
3 for 99 on tues
I just spent 25 dollars at Hardee’s for two meals. I never buy fast food but I wanted to get my kid something quick at 6am for wrestling. Breh. What.the.hell…
I’ve gone to two Hardee’s in two different states that blatantly and repeatedly charged more than they listed on the menu.
That said, they have the best biscuits possibly in the world.
And that’s why I still go lol
I remember years ago when I went to order one of those $5 meal boxes at Taco Bell. I asked for it by calling it the “$5 box” or something. The person over the speaker replied with “it’s $9 here” lmao. That was pre-COVID and it had been advertised as a $5 box where I was from.
The app-only build your own box is still one of the best deals in fast food IMO. $6
Fast food is still affordable!!!
If you use the app and don’t get only exactly what you want but what the app gives deals on! At the low low cost of sharing your personal data to their marketing and development teams! (And maybe their 3rd parties depending)
You’re not getting better deals. They’re subsidising the cheaper prices with the data they collect on you with the app.
The amount of people who have responded to me saying “I don’t go to fast food anymore, it’s too expensive” who proudly proclaim “just use the apps!!!” Just saddens me.
For all the reasons you said and more. No, they lost my business, I go to the local place now. Only time I get fast food now is in airports
“I found a way to stay tied to giant megacorporations!”
head pats at the speed of light
WHAT A GOOD CONSUMER
I’ve almost completely eliminated fast food from my diet (Taco Bell is the only one I will go to on occasion because it really is its own genre of food. I love me some real Mexican food, but I also love Taco Bell. They are different things) because it has gotten so goddamn expensive.
At this point, I can spend another $3 and go to a local place with fresh cooked food that is 1000% better, and then have enough leftovers for two more meals.
The only reason it ever made sense to get fast food, historically, was that it was dirt cheap. I remember when Chick-fil-a value meals were $5-6. That price has increased by like 150% in ~10-15 years.
And in the same time, the wages that they pay have dropped relative to inflation.
Most of the Taco bells by me have a $5.99 box. It’s online only so you have to order it from your phone and pick it up at the counter. It comes with a drink, One of the heavier entrees, one of the generic entrees and one of the sides. I usually do a cheesy gordita crunch, five layer burrito, cheesy potatoes.
Seeing that the drink alone would be $2.45 that’s one hell of a deal.
That’s said, Taco bells are mostly independent and if you’re in some location like LA you might be SOL.
It’s online only so you have to order it from your phone
Hard pass!
Are you 80?
No, but I’m old enough to know that I don’t want an app, extra spying, and push ads to buy a taco.
Oh I run domain blocking on a lot of that stuff. I don’t get push ads or anything.
Their anti-corp they shouldn’t even be there in the first place :)
drink alone would be $2.45
which is, itself, absolutely ridiculous.
Especially saying that Pepsi owns the brand.
I was buying 5 gallon syrup boxes from restaurant supply stores and making soda with my SodaStream. A good day I could approach the price of a sale 2 liter bottle. Assuming the cups lids and straws aren’t free, The ice is nearly free, The carbonation is relatively cheap. They’re probably making at least two full dollars profit per cup.
Add in the overhead:
- Refrigeration (electricity or otherwise)
- Labor ($7.25+; $15+ in some areas)
- Insurance (In case you get sick from the soda, and you sue them)
- Sanitation (outside contractor, with their materials, labor, and markups)
- Maintenance (machine repairs, etc)
I wish I could agree they were making that much money. But when you include all the costs that they have to run just the soda machine, with all the varieties of soda that they have, they’re not clearing that much profit per cup.
When I worked at Roy Rogers in the '90s, our large cups cost us 25 cents with product. (On paper) They were $1.37 retail.
Accounting for inflation, $1.37 becomes $2.65.
That tracks squarely for a 48 cent cup If all of the things were equal.
I’m sure that number didn’t include labor but at least we can see that things haven’t really slid in fast food more than they were in the '90s. At least for this one item.
Fast food restaurants pay less than a penny per ounce for soda.
It only seems like a deal because the in-store prices are artificially inflated to begin with.
You know, yes I could probably make 20 of those meals for $30 at the grocery store. But in the realm of a McDonald’s meal with a side and a dessert costing closer to 20 bucks, $7 isn’t horrible in this economy.
Fast food, now with extra data theft, and push ads!
