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Looks like this only includes ones that allow you to use the app, so it is missing ones like the most expensive one in Seattle (possibly the US?). https://www.thestranger.com/food-and-drink/2023/05/16/789929...
There should be a term (if there isn't already) for the phenomenon of bias or flat out incorrect conclusions caused by sourcing whatever data happens to be easy/convenient rather than a complete or more apt data set.
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U.S. labor is expensive, and the app delegates the order-taking job from an employee to the customer, keeping food prices more competitive and/or keeping the restaurant profitable. (Land cost is the other big expense.)
None of that justifies an app, vs an in-store kiosk or a website.
As for app vs website, I agree, website would be similarly good. This could be said about tons of apps.
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U.S. labor is expensive, and the app delegates the order-taking job from an employee to the customer, keeping food prices more competitive and/or keeping the restaurant profitable. (Land cost is the other big expense.)
None of that justifies an app, vs an in-store kiosk or a website.
Apps are used rather than PWA websites because most users find it difficult to save a mobile website to their homepage and mobile web push notifications etc add extra friction compared to native apps.
Not sure why almost all of Tennessee is unavailable, but I can say that their prices here have risen astronomically. Our Taco Bell used to have a line around the building pretty consistently, now it’s essentially empty all the time.
Not sure why almost all of Tennessee is unavailable, but I can say that their prices here have risen astronomically. Our Taco Bell used to have a line around the building pretty consistently, now it’s essentially empty all the time.
I have wondered how true this is: 1) Covid caused a huge reduction in business. 2) Businesses charged more per person to sustain themselves. 3) Post-Covid people are buying less due to the higher prices so its sticky. My local Qdoba is so expensive I won't eat there any more, but a few people do. What would happen if they dropped prices significantly and advertised that to bring people back? I don't know... There are…
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I didn't realize there was this much price variance in Taco Bell. That's the most interesting feature, to me.
The corporate is located on a major collector street with many other fast food options while the franchise location is in the transition zone between a walkable downtown and car oriented development but both have a drive-thru. Not sure if it's just corporate policy to keep prices at a low baseline for their locations or it's due to there being competition from other fast food restaurants nearby but it's just half a mile between them so a 67% price difference is pretty strange.
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/
As a developer with a red/green colorblindness, I've had to point this out to UX designers I've worked with over the years. I ended up making a small game to show how frustrating it can be to use UIs that rely on color alone to express information. https://jdestaz.itch.io/colorblind-curse
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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?
(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 most product decisions and a mobile app is a (free) product distributed by the chain.
(3) Data collection. Not only can anonymized data be monetized, but selling data directly attributable to individuals is a major source of revenue for many organizations, and I doubt Taco Bell (or Yum! Brands in general) is not among them.
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Why does Taco Bell have an app? What is its purpose?
lots of fast food have apps that track purchasing and give you coupons or deals that you can't get just ordering in the store now. It's like loyalty cards for McDonald's or tb.
I installed the Wendy's app a while back, and by optimizing my selections, all of my orders since then have cost less than half of menu prices on average. For example, get a $3 item for $1 with any other purchase (so you tack on a $1 frosty), or buy a $6 item get another free. Taco Bell's app deals aren't quite as deep but you get the point. When tons of people are placing orders this way, menu prices must creep up to compensate.
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I have wondered how true this is: 1) Covid caused a huge reduction in business. 2) Businesses charged more per person to sustain themselves. 3) Post-Covid people are buying less due to the higher prices so its sticky. My local Qdoba is so expensive I won't eat there any more, but a few people do. What would happen if they dropped prices significantly and advertised that to bring people back? I don't know... There are…
MBAs aren't that stupid. Either they make more money by selling less at a higher price (consider, a 20% increase in price might be a 50% increase in profit), or they are sowing losses for tax purposes.
Please explain what tax purpose losing money (or earning less money than possible) serves.