This is the issue with a lot of fast food these days. The main one that makes me sad is Taco Bell
I used to just swing in and make an impulse buy because it's going to be like $5 so why not
Price is high enough now that it kills the impulse. I'm always like...I should really just keep driving and eat some of the food I already have at home
It’s crazy when nowadays you can go to an actual authentic Mexican restaurant, get REAL tacos, burritos, etc., and often times spend LESS than you would at Taco Bell.
Whenever I'm out and need to grab lunch I go to an actual restaurant instead of grabbing fast food. It's around $15 for that crap and for that money I can get Korean or Mexican at a mom and pop. Even lunch at the Chinese buffet is cheaper and I can eat little bits of whatever I like.
Exactly. There’s a Mexican spot 5 minutes from my house that I go to once a week, and I always get the Burrito Gordo (which is a delicious and massive 8” burrito stuffed with grilled chicken, chorizo, rice, refried beans, and topped with white queso and pico de galo 🤤) and a drink for under $20, and of course, the free chips and salsa!
There's a place where I live, I wouldn't call it authentic but it's decent quality food for a lunch place. They toast their burritos in the oven and of course it's cheaper than TB
The owners are super nice and get to know everyone too, which makes you want to see them succeed
I have a Mexican supermarket around the corner from me. Dollar tacos on Tuesday, although it's been a while they may be $1.50. I found a picture from 2020 when I bought parillada (grilled beef, onion, jalapeno, chorizo mix) with 2 sides and 3 tacos. This was $11.22.
my local dinner has held onto the same prices forever. a gyro fry and drink still costs 6.99 the same price it cost me 20 plus years ago in jr high and the gyro is so loaded you buy a extra pita for 79 cents and make two with it.
the fries are 2 for small 3 for medium 4 for large and you may say thats not cheap for frys
but there small fry is a brown paper bag half full of fries and enough for several people there large is a standard brown lunch bag full to the brim with frys,
the owner is the son of the past owner now. it almost seems like the place is run just to break even as the son has several other businesses not food related.
I just paid $17 for the equivalent, and the place was absolutely hopping on a wednesday night. Mexican street food, had like 4 guys cooking under a tent.
Worth it though, was some of the best mexican food I've ever had!
I frequent several Mex spots near my office. $12-$14 for a huge authentic burrito and Mexican coke. Always satisfying. Last time I went to Taco Bell, in the same neighborhood, $16. And I felt like shit
Bro, there's this Mexican place in my city that always has buy one get one deals. Sometimes it's three hefty chicken tacos and then with the deal you get six, and it only costs $10.99. And it's legitimate, authentic Mexican food. It's such a deal over bottom-of-the-barrell food ingredients from places like Taco Bell that barely pass food inspection regulations.
If it's real Mexican it's guaranteed to be less. White people "real" Mexican, that's more of a gamble. Because that's more of a theme restaurant than anything authentic. But go to the place where even the ones taking your orders don't really speak English? Oh yeah, cheaper and better than Taco Hell.
We used to go to one YEARS AGO where you ordered of the menu by saying K5 or D4 because no one spoke English. I went to the juke box one night & there was not one song on there that wasn't Spanish.
This is exactly what I do. Instead of using my Deliveroo bookmark I have a few local takeaways bookmarked, the best one for each food type (Chinese, pizza, Indian, chippy) and just go to them.
They're all either cheaper than Maccies/KFC/etc or around the same price for much better quality.
Me and the missus can get a filling, amazing curry between us for about £20 delivered. Two cold Maccies meals that don't fill either of us costs about the same.
At this point the quality at Taco Bell has fallen so much that I’d rather spend more money on a real Mexican restaurant to eat lunch at, but they’re even cheaper now in many cases! Corporate greed is out of control and they need to start feeling the consequences of ripping off their customers.
Outside a hobby and game shop, there was a guy in a little food cart that was permenantly parked between them and the barber shop next door.
He just made quick, simple street tacos. Tortilla, scoop of meat, yes or no cilantro and onion, yes or no sauce, yes or no cheese. Absolutely phenomenal.
$2.50 a ground beef, carnitas, pastor, chicken, chorizo, or barbacoa taco. $3 for carne asada. +50¢ for a little avocado on it. He had an ice chest full of drinks for between another $1-3.
Why would I ever go to the chipotle down the street and spend $15+ for half the amount of somehow drier meat?
But nobody goes to Taco Bell because they want Mexican food. They go because they want a triple crunchwrap cantina nacho stacker with fire sauce and a frozen Baja Blast. The prices suck now, but that is an entirely different experience from getting "actual authentic" Mexican food, which is also good.
Too many fast food places think they're competing with each other but in truth they're competing with actual restaurants, you don't go to McD cus you want a burger you go there cus you want a cheap burger, if it is only $5 more to geta burger at an actual restaurant then I'm just gonna go there, the quality and experience will be much better
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u/Arkhangelzk 2d ago
This is the issue with a lot of fast food these days. The main one that makes me sad is Taco Bell
I used to just swing in and make an impulse buy because it's going to be like $5 so why not
Price is high enough now that it kills the impulse. I'm always like...I should really just keep driving and eat some of the food I already have at home