Taco Bell is fine but have you seen Wendy’s prices? Holy crap!
Yeah except I can get s whole ass meal every Wednesday and Friday for $2… No matter what I have to pay $7 at taco bell. Used to be like $2-$3 for a few decent filling burritos
This wondering is how you get into politics
Their $7 lux cravings box is the best deal out there right now as far as I know. But that’s it, the rest of the menu is overpriced just like the others.
Taco tarrifs: the downfall of society
Fast food is still affordable!!!
If you use the app and don’t get only exactly what you want but what the app gives deals on! At the low low cost of sharing your personal data to their marketing and development teams! (And maybe their 3rd parties depending)
Class consciousness is what we need, comrade
And enjoy your taco
If they’re too expensive, stop giving them money. Make food at home or go to a local small business, not a chain franchisee.
Sometimes you just want a Crunchwrap quick, and you can’t get that from a local joint. I don’t always want to wait 20 minutes for a local joint, and half of them are closed by 8. So they’re useless at the time I want Taco Bell.
My question is, why does the crunchwrap suck so much now?
Way less of everything in it. Seems like it’s just tortilla, tostada, and lettuce now. A token smearing of beans and/or protein.
It seems the same as it’s always been where I am, but my local Taco Bells are out of beef every other day or their system is down…so I’m lucky if I can just get them
The app-only build your own box is still one of the best deals in fast food IMO. $6
And it’s so much worse quality than it was just like, 5 years ago
Order the Meal for 4 from the website/app. Two Crunchwraps, 2 Chicken quesadillas, 4 tacos, 2 chips and cheese, $20. Feeds two people and there’s usually leftovers, or will feed one person for 2 days.
Or the Meal for 2: Two Crunchwraps, 2 Bean burritos, 2 tacos, and 2 chips and cheese. $12.
Same goes for Jack ITB. They have 2 for $3 and 2 for $5 burgers, and tacos are still 2 for 99¢. Just gotta use the app or order online.
because the cost of food has nothing to do with world politics.
The price of taco bell has very little to do with the cost of food.
The moment they took the cheesy potato burrito off the menu, it was over…
A friend told us to get a Lux Box or w/e they’re called after a concert a few months ago, and it had A LOT of food for the low price. Like a burrito, chalupa, taco, cinnamon twists and a drink for $6 or $7, which sounds like a great deal right now. Idk if they still have it or if it was a limited promotion, but that’s what I’d get if I go there again (I don’t do fast food but very rarely). Other than that, the standard priced items are definitely expensive.
The thing is, you could more or less order that for $5 as late as a year or so ago with some customizations to their other boxes. (Granted, I place no value on the cinnamon twists)
Most of the Taco bells by me have a $5.99 box. It’s online only so you have to order it from your phone and pick it up at the counter. It comes with a drink, One of the heavier entrees, one of the generic entrees and one of the sides. I usually do a cheesy gordita crunch, five layer burrito, cheesy potatoes.
Seeing that the drink alone would be $2.45 that’s one hell of a deal.
That’s said, Taco bells are mostly independent and if you’re in some location like LA you might be SOL.
drink alone would be $2.45
which is, itself, absolutely ridiculous.
Especially saying that Pepsi owns the brand.
I was buying 5 gallon syrup boxes from restaurant supply stores and making soda with my SodaStream. A good day I could approach the price of a sale 2 liter bottle. Assuming the cups lids and straws aren’t free, The ice is nearly free, The carbonation is relatively cheap. They’re probably making at least two full dollars profit per cup.
Add in the overhead:
- Refrigeration (electricity or otherwise)
- Labor ($7.25+; $15+ in some areas)
- Insurance (In case you get sick from the soda, and you sue them)
- Sanitation (outside contractor, with their materials, labor, and markups)
- Maintenance (machine repairs, etc)
I wish I could agree they were making that much money. But when you include all the costs that they have to run just the soda machine, with all the varieties of soda that they have, they’re not clearing that much profit per cup.
When I worked at Roy Rogers in the '90s, our large cups cost us 25 cents with product. (On paper) They were $1.37 retail.
Accounting for inflation, $1.37 becomes $2.65.
That tracks squarely for a 48 cent cup If all of the things were equal.
I’m sure that number didn’t include labor but at least we can see that things haven’t really slid in fast food more than they were in the '90s. At least for this one item.
It only seems like a deal because the in-store prices are artificially inflated to begin with.
You know, yes I could probably make 20 of those meals for $30 at the grocery store. But in the realm of a McDonald’s meal with a side and a dessert costing closer to 20 bucks, $7 isn’t horrible in this economy.
