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Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by wkat4242 »

infecto wrote: post #90
guidedlight wrote: post #61

Wow. Most of these are really close together. The US clearly eats way too much fast food.

Although the U.S. does have an abundance of fast food chains, I find these types of reductionist comments unhelpful. If you look at a map of a metropolitan area in Europe, you’d likely see several McDonald's or other popular fast food chains located fairly close to each other as well.

Yes but they mainly focus on tourists here. Here in Spain we never go to fast food even for a quick lunch. There's so many better cheaper options

Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by soperj »

eldaisfish wrote: post #185
bregma wrote: post #138

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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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the LLM was trained on their posts.

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Post by jdminhbg »

onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #173
tyingq wrote: post #128

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I wonder if there are any airport located Taco Bells. Those kind of captive locations are notorious for crazy prices.

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…

> How they haven't been charged for collusion and price fixing is beyond me.

I'm pretty sure it's because they're cutting the (govt-owned/operated) airports in on the action.

Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by varjag »

wkat4242 wrote: post #217

Taco Bell here in Barcelona is ridiculously expensive and extremely poor quality. There's so many great taco restaurants here where you actually get great food for good money. I guess they're just aiming at rich tourists.

FWIW Taco Bell places I tried in CA were poor quality as well. Guess it's one of the things you have to grow up with to enjoy.

Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by jandrese »

tyingq wrote: post #128
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #30

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.

I wonder if there are any airport located Taco Bells. Those kind of captive locations are notorious for crazy prices.

I noted that the most expensive Taco Bell in the DC/MD/VA region is the one inside of Union Station near the Amtrak terminal.

Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by CalRobert »

zoover2020 wrote: post #178
CalRobert wrote: post #166

Incidentally, I was delighted to see a Taco Bell in Amersfoort, Netherlands, recently. Ten tacos for 14 euro isn't QUITE the 59, 79, 99 cent menu of my youth, but it isn't bad. I still bitterly miss the Chili Cheese burrito, Taco Bell's crowning achievement. RIP chilicheese.org :-( https://web.archive.org/web/20190313160757/http://chilichees...

Out of curiosity, what were you doing in Amersfoort? I've not seen it mentioned much (my grand parents are from there)

I live in Hilversum, a twelve minute train ride away! Moved here a year ago, I’m originally from California .

Just went to check out the beautiful old town. We also have considered moving there. Honestly the Taco Bell was a real highlight, but that isn’t meant as a slight, I just loved Taco Bell growing up.

They didn’t have Baja Blast though :-(

Next time I want to check out the Mondrian museum.

Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by CalRobert »

mordero wrote: post #170
CalRobert wrote: post #166

Incidentally, I was delighted to see a Taco Bell in Amersfoort, Netherlands, recently. Ten tacos for 14 euro isn't QUITE the 59, 79, 99 cent menu of my youth, but it isn't bad. I still bitterly miss the Chili Cheese burrito, Taco Bell's crowning achievement. RIP chilicheese.org :-( https://web.archive.org/web/20190313160757/http://chilichees...

There are still some Taco Bells that sell the Chili Cheese burrito (at least in the Mid-West US)! Unfortunately not as cheap as it used to be (its ~$3 here), but any time I go to a Taco Bell I always ask just in case.

Gotta get some protests going

Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by jdminhbg »

PaulHoule wrote: post #155
javagram wrote: post #133

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The app makes it so your food is ready soon after you arrive. You can spend all the time browsing the menu and ordering before arriving at the physical location and then the food is already prepared or is made upon your arrival. 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 nat…

I just typed "taco" in the search bar of Safari and the second autocomplete result was for the restaurant 1.7 miles from me, the third was for the tacobell.com. Easy! In contrast I struggle to find apps installed on my iPad because the icons look all the same. Apple has a leg up on Android but for me Apple's icons are mainly forgettable or meaningless and most icons from third parties are a forgettable stylized lette…

You found a link to tacobell.com, that's great, but you're like 1/10 of the way there now. You have to open it, load all the resources, give it permission to use your location so you can find which store to order from, place the order, enter your payment information, and then move to your email app to get order updates. An app caches all of that locally, has your information saved, is pre-cleared for location permissions, etc.

> People had plain ordinary web sites to order food online a decade using cgi-bin and the equivalent before there were things like Angular and React.

This is true. I wonder if there is any difference in the $ amount of food ordered using iOS/Android apps now vs food ordered using cgi-bin then.

Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by jprd »

gowld wrote: post #122
phkahler wrote: post #115

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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.

> MBAs aren't that stupid.

Citations?

Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?

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Post by CalRobert »

wkat4242 wrote: post #220
zoover2020 wrote: post #178

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Out of curiosity, what were you doing in Amersfoort? I've not seen it mentioned much (my grand parents are from there)

Not the OP but it's a city that many people simply live and work in, just saying :)

By any chance does that include yourself? I’ve been trying to find more nerds in the gooi
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