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I’d be curious to plot this next to home prices. It looks like places that are more expensive to live have higher Taco Bell prices.. which kinda checks out.
You can also see this by swapping the product to Guacamole
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Many of their stores don't have cashier's. You have to use a kiosk or the app.
The weirdest experience I had was a local burger joint I walked into that was completely empty with nobody eating there and nobody working at the counter and it didn't help that the decor was completely "blacked out". My first impression was that it wasn't open but I placed my order on a (ordinary sized) tablet and got my food and the people who came out to serve it were really nice. The other day I was at McD's and…
The elderly lady was probably doing what mom does when presented with a kiosk, pretending to be too dumb to click on a picture of the food they want.
They are missing the Seattle Lower Queen Anne Taco Bell/KFC combo store that is known to be the most expensive Taco Bell in the nation. https://locations.tacobell.com/wa/seattle/210-w--mercer-st-.... Anyways, you hear horror pricing stories about this one store.
It’s only a matter of time before someone creates a Taco Bell dynamic pricing engine / realpage like price fixing service. I’m sure it’s already here considering most of these Taco Bell’s are owned by private equity groups.
Surprising that the legendary Taco Bell in Pacifica isn’t the most expensive one, though it is close. It has a fireplace, it serves margaritas, and it has a walk-up window for hungry surfers. https://californiaisforadventure.com/pacifica-taco-bell/
For the umpteen millionth time, please please please do not use red/green for the scale, it is very difficult for colorblind people to distinguish, which is ~5% of the male population. Look at Colorbrewer for some alternative suggestions: https://colorbrewer2.org/
What percent of the rest of the population is confused by not using red & green?
Presumably none if you build your site in an accessible manner. It costs basically nothing to accommodate the 1/12 of the population that has color-blindness.
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(1) Studies have shown that patron will make larger and more frequent orders when placed through an app rather than in person. This increases revenues. (2) The app gathers statistics. Marketing and sales are so addicted to massive amounts of all kinds of information they have trouble finding veins that are not collapsed and their coworkers all carry naloxone. In most organizations, the marketing and sales people make…
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Apparently the prices are scraped from the mobile app. I installed the mobile app and for some reason, and that location can’t be found inside the mobile app. Actually, you cannot (I can’t anyway) order from that location from the website either. It just goes to show data cleaning is hard. It’s true for statistics and it’s probably just as true for LLMs.
Why does Taco Bell have an app? What is its purpose?
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>experiencing visceral, nauseating revulsion at specific tastes/textures/smells. It's definitely hard but this can be overcome with work. In my much younger days I had this reaction with a lot of foods that I now eat. I knew I was going to have to overcome a lot of my hangups about food in order to be at least semi-healthy, so I did in my late teens/early 20s. Before that the only thing I ate was pasta.
Everyone is different, and what an adult can overcome is different than what a child can overcome.
I'm not saying it's easy, because it isn't. But it's very much possible.
I'm also not saying all food aversions need to be worked through, however, allowing your children to have a severely limited diet doesn't set them up for long-term success.
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IIUC, virtually all of the crazy airport prices come from management companies like HMS Host, Sodexo, etc - which manage most of the restaurants and stores in airports. Their business model is - they big up the price of all the available spots such that no one can make money unless they charge exorbitant prices. After they capture the majority of the market, they're free to charge a ton of money. How they haven't bee…
I was pleasantly shocked to find a 7-11 in an airport that charged their normal price for coffee.
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(1) Studies have shown that patron will make larger and more frequent orders when placed through an app rather than in person. This increases revenues. (2) The app gathers statistics. Marketing and sales are so addicted to massive amounts of all kinds of information they have trouble finding veins that are not collapsed and their coworkers all carry naloxone. In most organizations, the marketing and sales people make…
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