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Posted: 11/6/2024 5:48:19 PM EST
Went through the drive thru at Taco Bell the other day...something I don't do often. Ordered 5 taco supremes (3 for me, 2 for wife) and total with tax was just a hair under $20. How do people afford to eat out anymore? I can remember when a taco was $.99 and a supreme was like $1.50.
It seems like we're in a death spiral where wage demands for unskilled labor are racing to price the goods they make/serve out of existence. How does a Trump economy fix that? |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 11/6/2024 5:49:16 PM EST
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I got lunch today from Jimmy Johns $15.89 for a sandwich, a bag of chips and a drink. No wonder we had a red wave last night.
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USA
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Posted: 11/6/2024 5:50:07 PM EST
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Keep eating tacos like that and the problem will self correct.
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USA
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Posted: 11/6/2024 5:50:26 PM EST
[#3]
High school students won't work, so we had to turn entry level jobs into careers.
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Posted: 11/6/2024 5:51:12 PM EST
[#4]
OP, you need to order off the value menu. They charge you more than twice as much for sour cream and shitty tomatoes that dont taste like anything. Just get regular crunch tacos.
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Posted: 11/6/2024 5:52:01 PM EST
[#5]
Yeah, TB has gotten ridiculously expensive the last few years. I get like 3 things and it's $16.XX.
I remember when I was a kid in the 90s almost everything on the menu was under a dollar. I remember in 2005-2010ish I used to get 2x beef and potato burritos for lunch at $1.29 each. Less than $3 total for lunch. At the current prices it makes more sense to just spend $10 more and go to a real Mexican restaurant. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 11/6/2024 5:54:17 PM EST
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They've found ways to make "premium item menus " pay for the hole business by just putting $.20 more of toppings.
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Posted: 11/6/2024 5:54:55 PM EST
[#7]
I went to TB for the first time in twenty years last week. Burrito supreme was almost $8, and was sized like the old bean burritos.
And it wasn't shitty, but it certainly wasn't good. Sorry TB, the fling was not worth it. |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 5:56:26 PM EST
[#8]
Get regular tacos and add your own sour cream.
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Posted: 11/6/2024 5:58:06 PM EST
[#9]
Fast food is stupid.
You could’ve eaten real tacos at an actual restaurant for the same price. |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:03:40 PM EST
[#10]
Originally Posted By kcobean: Went through the drive thru at Taco Bell the other day...something I don't do often. Ordered 5 taco supremes (3 for me, 2 for wife) and total with tax was just a hair under $20. How do people afford to eat out anymore? I can remember when a taco was $.99 and a supreme was like $1.50. It seems like we're in a death spiral where wage demands for unskilled labor are racing to price the goods they make/serve out of existence. How does a Trump economy fix that? You could get legit tacos from an actual Mexican restaurant for cheaper. |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:09:58 PM EST
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When I was in high school I loved their Tostadas.
I heard that they brought them back recently. So I went there to get a few of them for nostalgic reasons. Holy shit, the thing was tiny, had hardly any beans, lettuce and cheese. It was just sad looking in the way it was all put together also. And they wanted $2.50 per. I don't understand how these fast food places stay in business. |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:11:03 PM EST
[#12]
Switch to Del Taco.
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:12:58 PM EST
[#13]
Originally Posted By kcobean: Went through the drive thru at Taco Bell the other day...something I don't do often. Ordered 5 taco supremes (3 for me, 2 for wife) and total with tax was just a hair under $20. How do people afford to eat out anymore? I can remember when a taco was $.99 and a supreme was like $1.50. It seems like we're in a death spiral where wage demands for unskilled labor are racing to price the goods they make/serve out of existence. How does a Trump economy fix that? Cutting energy cost will help i imagine |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:14:26 PM EST
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In our county here in Washington I believe first of the year minimum wage goes to $20..
Gird your loins 
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:18:40 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By FuriousYachtsman: Fast food is stupid. You could’ve eaten real tacos at an actual restaurant for the same price. Its because you're covered up with Mexicans. Traditional tacos are $4 each at any restaurant anywhere else. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:19:30 PM EST
[#16]
Taco bell has turned to crap. And I used to love Taco Bell.
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:22:17 PM EST
[#17]
 1989 Taco Bell Commercial |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:22:45 PM EST
[#18]
Man they saw you coming.
Look what a ten spot gets you. 
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:23:25 PM EST
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I had a bunch of shit to do last week, needed a quick lunch, stopped into McDonald's, realized all the meat burgers were pulled because of the CIA - Trump put listeria in the food thing.
Got the Chicken Big Mac and a Coke. No fries. $10. Tasted like ass. Shit bigly later that evening. Zero stars. Do not recommend. |
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USA
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:24:50 PM EST
[#20]
Democrats got their wish with Covid shortages and they increased the wages for the unintelligent workforce
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:26:10 PM EST
[#21]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By southerncross: Its because you're covered up with Mexicans. Traditional tacos are $4 each at any restaurant anywhere else. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By southerncross: Originally Posted By FuriousYachtsman: Fast food is stupid. You could’ve eaten real tacos at an actual restaurant for the same price. Its because you're covered up with Mexicans. Traditional tacos are $4 each at any restaurant anywhere else. 1. You don’t need fifteen tacos from a real restaurant like you do at Taco Bell. 2. Taco Bell exists here too - stupid people live in every state. |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:27:00 PM EST
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These threads always crack me up. Fast food has been gross for a long time. Now that prices are gross as well, you guys are still eating it up.
Most of you have a grocery store in town, right? |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:29:22 PM EST
[#23]
Get the app(s).
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:30:51 PM EST
[#24]
I get the $7 box,burrito, 2 specialty tacos, chips and cheese and a drink
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:31:14 PM EST
[#25]
Your wife didn't pay?
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:31:17 PM EST
[#26]
Don't go to Five Guys!
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WI, USA
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:33:38 PM EST
[#27]
Go to another place, use your phone to order food, etc. These are GDs ideas to fix runaway inflation. Just use an app on your phone or go to Juan Miguels hole in the wall in bumbfuck USA, then inflation doesn't happen.
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:34:37 PM EST
[#28]
I don't know WTF is up with Taco Bell. It's cheaper to go to the sit down Mexican restaurant in the same shopping center and get three carne asada tacos with a side of beans and rice. Oh and of course the complementary chips and salsa.
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GA, USA
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:34:43 PM EST
[#29]
And they're way cheaper at the actual Mexican restaurant. Why would anyone eat that garbage?
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TX, USA
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:36:59 PM EST
[#30]
Try a good taco place!
We went to Velvet Taco and got 8 tacos, 2 drinks & a chips/queso and it was $100! Dang good, but holy crap... |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:37:57 PM EST
[#31]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TommyChong: I got lunch today from Jimmy Johns $15.89 for a sandwich, a bag of chips and a drink. No wonder we had a red wave last night. wendy's. small baconator, ghost chicken sandwich, small fry. $19something. not even real food. |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:39:35 PM EST
[#32]
The old model was to move a lot of volume at low profit. The new business model (meaning the last 20 years) is to move as little volume as possible at the highest profit possible. Same as GMC/Ford being VERY willing to move greatly fewer pickup trucks, but near or over $100k each.
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:42:19 PM EST
[#33]
 we don’t have to eat your stinking tacos we got money |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:42:30 PM EST
[#34]
Looking on the app, just a bit over $14 here for 5 taco supremes.
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:42:41 PM EST
[#35]
Op pulls up to the menu board and looks at the product with a price right beside it. Op is told the food total by the drive-through person. Op still pays the price, and eats the food. Op then starts a thread in GD to complain about the cost of the product he chose to order, and then paid for, even after he knew what the price would be. Insert pic of old man yelling at tacos. . |
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FL, USA
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:46:11 PM EST
[#36]
That's because the profit margins in the fast food business is not the greatest anymore.
When you have to pay one worker at $20/hr while making a product that costs x amount, you need to find ways to cover your overhead costs somewhere. |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:46:13 PM EST
[#37]
These threads always end up with people yakking about "real Mexican food is ChEaPeR and BeTtEr"
Dude, check it out: we get it. But sometimes you want real Mexican, and *sometimes you want Taco Bell*. Nobody is conflating the two. |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:48:16 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MMcCall: These threads always end up with people yakking about "real Mexican food is ChEaPeR and BeTtEr" Dude, check it out: we get it. But sometimes you want real Mexican, and *sometimes you want Taco Bell*. Nobody is conflating the two. Right, they shouldn’t be confused. I like authentic Mexican food, and I like Taco Bell. I dont know that I’d call authentic Mexican cheaper, especially considering I’m downing a couple margaritas while I’m there. 
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:48:59 PM EST
[#39]
A large ( and its the same size as a 2018 medium) coke at burger King is 4.08 just a soda...
That's obscene. Mc Donalds isn't much better 3.99. For a large medium coke. This is why the democrats got smoked. Real inflation that we deal with every day is double or triple 2020 prices. I don't know many people (besides gd millionaires) who's income doubled over 4 years. |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:51:42 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Never_A_Wick: Right, they shouldn’t be confused. I like authentic Mexican food, and I like Taco Bell. I dont know that I’d call authentic Mexican cheaper, especially considering I’m downing a couple margaritas while I’m there. At least by that point you're not caring about the check too much :) |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:51:44 PM EST
[#41]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By HillaryClinton: Yeah, TB has gotten ridiculously expensive the last few years. I get like 3 things and it's $16.XX. I remember when I was a kid in the 90s almost everything on the menu was under a dollar. I remember in 2005-2010ish I used to get 2x beef and potato burritos for lunch at $1.29 each. Less than $3 total for lunch. At the current prices it makes more sense to just spend $10 more and go to a real Mexican restaurant. I went to mcdeath the other day for breakfast. Basic mcmuffin combo was over 8 bucks, and a sausage burrito combo was also over 8 bucks. Insane. I can't imagine what the steak bagel costs. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:52:24 PM EST
[#42]
A taco supreme is $2.69 here. Five would be $13.45 before tax
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GA, USA
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:53:57 PM EST
[Last Edit: Wagonteeth]
[#43]
Back in my day, you got 12 tacos for 4.99 amd a 12er or Milwaukees Best for $4.
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TX, USA
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:55:22 PM EST
[Last Edit: mcantu]
[#44]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By josepha1: I went to mcdeath the other day for breakfast. Basic mcmuffin combo was over 8 bucks, and a sausage burrito combo was also over 8 bucks. Insane. I can't imagine what the steak bagel costs. Sausage McMuffin combo is $4.69 here in Houston. What city are you in that it would be double that? |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:56:38 PM EST
[#45]
Back in highschool.79 tacos were good. Not now
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:58:33 PM EST
[#46]
It is absurd. Chili’s has a 1/2lb burger with fries and a drink for $12.99.
To get the equal at McDonald’s Burger King or Wendy’s…….. shit. Fast food is pointless nowadays except for breakfast. |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 6:59:25 PM EST
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In 1989, standard tacos were .89ea in California.
That's the year I moved to Texas and found they were only .39ea there. It was, however, a summer special price though. Tony |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 7:00:28 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By MMcCall: At least by that point you're not caring about the check too much :) Unfortunately I have no choice. Usually I take the wife and she drinks much more than me 
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Posted: 11/6/2024 7:02:01 PM EST
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Heck you can go to McDonalds and get their $5 value meal and a larger drink for well under $6 and it's a ton of food.
Then again, I really enjoy going to McDonalds once a week or so. |
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Posted: 11/6/2024 7:04:52 PM EST
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Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By TommyChong: I got lunch today from Jimmy Johns $15.89 for a sandwich, a bag of chips and a drink. No wonder we had a red wave last night. I bet that sammich was fucking delicious though. |
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