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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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I don't mean to be rude but I'm just curious... did you try simply not giving them junk food? I have done some research on this and have not found any good evidence that most autistic children will actually starve themselves for any meaningful amount of time if their picky foods are not provided.
Framing it as "being picky" is really not helpful. As somebody on the spectrum, my (fortunately very few) food sensitivities aren't a mere matter of preference... they're the result of me experiencing visceral, nauseating revulsion at specific tastes/textures/smells. If it's the only option, I will absolutely skip a meal entirely rather than deal with it. I would probably have to be at the point of literally (not fig…
More recently, she apologized for putting me through that nearly every day growing up.
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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 discriminatio…
You think coupons and deals (e.g. the constant stream of BOGOs, late-night specials, et cetera) are new?
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.
That's about the only time I can stomach Taco Bell.
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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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The only issue with that Cantina is it has a really crap crowd and the quality is mixed on their prep.
I'm curious what kind of crowd one looks for at a Taco Bell bar?
Taco Bell is my favorite fast food, but I'm on a boycott after an app-induced billing error that ate an entire gift card... Their customer support is atrocious so I'll just spend my money elsewhere.
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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).
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This is the real answer. Price discrimination used to involve physical coupons, but now the coupons are in the app. Since apps are easier to obtain (and have in your pocket at all times) than physical coupons, the price discrepancy (between full price and discounted price) is wider than ever, to ensure revenue is sustained despite the higher percentage of discounted orders. That means high menu prices making the news…
I've come to realize I don't want to put that kind of brain energy into ordering fast food. So I just stopped going. I make up some refried beans and some meat (normally chili verde) and freeze them (separately) for when I want 'fast food'. If I have to play (and learn how to maximize) some corporate dark pattern games then nah, I'm good bro.
It's weird, but it's actually an incredible way for the more well-off to subsidize the less well-off (at the risk of enticing some folks, who have the means but love a deal, to be penny-wise pound-foolish at everyone's expense including their own). At the end of the day, more people get fed at the price point they can deal with.
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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).