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For those who demand synchronous proof of low expectations to commit.
Nothing wrong with repurposing Taco Bells as wedding bells.
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How economical is your local Taco Bell?
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Re: How economical is your local Taco Bell?
#282Most expensive in North America is the Universal Studios Location.
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#283Incidentally, 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.
There's at least one in Boulder too, near Broadway and Baseline.
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And, critically, with the high volume they're able to keep supplies fresh and staff well-trained. Taco bell is still just salty, fatty fast-food, but that one is top-tier (locations right off major interstates in well-lot towns tend to have better food too). The vast majority of locations are worse -- bad burrito folding, sloppy ingredient measuring, stale tortillas, crusty beans, .... I think the public sentiment wo…
> top-tier my sample size is small, but I've found it far from top tier (I would put Five Guys and Shake Shack as top tier fast food, and In-N-Out except for their fries).
Not sure why you’re downvoted but you’re right. Although none of the places you mentioned are technically “fast food” — they’re fresh made to order always which is counter to the concept of fast food and as a result are very good respectable food.
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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…
1) Initially 2) Absolutely 3) False. Consumer spending on non durable goods is still rising. Disposable income is still available. Durable goods spending exploded after COVID. https://wolfstreet.com/2024/08/30/our-drunken-sailors-are-at...
> Disposable income is still available. Durable goods spending exploded after COVID.
Only for some. Household debt is at an all time high, and evictions and utility disconnections are skyrocketing. Homelessness is at record highs. Hunger in the US is soaring too. 18 million households last year struggled at some point to secure enough food, the worst its been in nearly a decade. Many people are suffering under the outrageous prices companies are charging.
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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?
I liken it to the impulse aisle at the grocery store.
In my experience, they will send you discounts (BOGO) or free stuff when you're most likely to buy. One of my teammates and I both installed their mobile app. I would get free coupons for like nachos or a taco on the days that I regularly went, usually in the mornings and the coupons were only good for about 24 hours. Conversely, my hockey teammate used to get his later in the afternoon because he was religious about stopping on the way home from our gams which was usually pretty late at night.
They're banking on (and usually right) that if they give you a small carrot for something free, you'll use the app to buy more stuff. In my experience it really took a lot for me to not buy more than I needed. So I would include the freebie along with whatever else I was buying to try and save a buck or two. Whereas my teammate would get his normal order plus whatever freebie they were offering.
either way, it worked. Many times instead of going somewhere else, I would go there, and use their mobile app and get my freebies.
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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…
In addition, price discrimination: you can offer deals in the app to price-sensitive consumers that don't cannibalise in-store sales from convenience-sensitive ones. Same concept as couponing.
Which is a roundabout way to say what they actually do, which is to offer "price sensitive" consumers the same prices they used to offer everyone if they are willing to go through stupid hoops worth of "deals" and "coupons" and "engage with our app every day or else your Good Little Consumer (tm) score goes down and we stop giving you discount pricing", and then raise the prices for everyone else.
Price discrimination is about raising prices.
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#288Not 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…
A lot of people have been priced out of some things, including fast food. I've got the cash to spend, but some prices are so high at this point that I can't order out like I used to without feeling ripped off, so I don't.
Another side effect of the pandemic is that spending habits changed and people realized how easily they could do without foods and products they were used to getting. When people weren't able to get the things they wanted they were forced to try alternatives, or even cooking for themselves in some cases, when they wouldn't have otherwise.
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#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
> top-tier my sample size is small, but I've found it far from top tier (I would put Five Guys and Shake Shack as top tier fast food, and In-N-Out except for their fries).
Not sure why you’re downvoted but you’re right. Although none of the places you mentioned are technically “fast food” — they’re fresh made to order always which is counter to the concept of fast food and as a result are very good respectable food.
The OP is talking about the specific location, not the chain itself.
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#290Surprising 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/
It’s still a Taco Bell with a few much better sit down places in the adjacent strip mall
I intentionally went there a few years ago when I was in the area to check it out because a few people at work were making a big deal about it.
It fine and all but it was still just a normal Taco Bell like you said, the only thing nicer about it is the decor.