Crunchwrap used $4-5, it’s almost $9 now… For what?
Wait until you learn in certain parts of the world they’re eating authentic tacos for only 70 cent
Fast food has been hit hard by the enshitification. More expensive and doesn’t even taste good anymore because they use even shittier ingredients than they used to. The only reason people still bother is typically lack of time to cook.
You can make most fast food items at home if you have the time. It will be cheaper and taste better.
You can get better food for cheaper at a local restaurant nowadays. Maybe not a fancy place but your local taco joint or diner.
A burger worth half a damn (in both taste and portion) in Burger King will cost me nearly as much as a smash burger with jalapeño aioli and loaded fries from a local burger joint. Pizza Hut/Domino’s is the same, there’s a proper italian dining place less than 50m from my place, prices are comparable but the taste just isn’t there for Pizza Hut or Domino’s.
I’m a very stingy person but that price difference is not worth the difference in quality.
I wish that was the case where I live.
Its more expensive, tastes worse, is prepared worse, and uses worse ingredients. The fuck is happening?
Capitalism
PROGRESS
The fuck is happening?
I’m cooking more at home! That’s what’s happening.
Same! Cooking at home tastes better, healthier and usually much cheaper. The only catch is it takes time…
But I was in a hurry and didn’t pack a lunch, that’s why I was shocked at how high the prices were at Taco Bell.
Taco Bell has always been slop You just had the iron stomach of youth . 25 years ago that shit Inedible to me I would eat it and Just feel like shit.
But I will concede this that restaurants as a whole have gotten shittier in the last five years. It’s not just Taco Bell
I disagree. There was definitely a cutoff point. Somewhere around 2008, where Taco Bell’s meat became vastly worse.
Those were in my poverty days, so I ate Taco Bell quite a bit and it was like one day everything was what I expected and the next day everything was gritty and greasy and unsatisfying.
Everyone goes through that with all fast food.
It was slop, but it was cheap slop.
Yeah used to be able to drop 5$ there and get FULL. Not anymore. Last time I went I grabbed food for 3 people and it was like 30$ and for my part of it I was trying to be cheap as possible.
Quarter after quarter of expected growth in an industry that only works with cheap prices.
Addiction
Everything is artificially inflated by 1.7x to 2.4x ever since covid. The inflation you are seeing is not real inflation but rather manufactured by those in high-up positions at most fortune-500 companies.
Fast food is ridiculous now. Everything around here is almost twice what it cost 5-6 years ago. Might as well go to an actually good restaurant for that.
And it’s not even that fast
It’s also not food
Yup, also while prices may have gone up across the board the spread of prices seems to have reduced. At this point eating out is a bad value but I feel like spending $30 on a good meal gives me better value than a nearly $20 fast food meal.
Yup. And I can usually get an additional 1-3 leftover meals from that $30 good meal from a local restaurant.
They’re testing how hard they can squeeze their customer base and still profit. Prices will continue to increase as long as people pay.
lmao just eat real mexican/texmex food
Man I remember when a taco was 49 cents. Jesus I feel like a fucking dino now, it’s happened.
Inflation in the West is correlated to de-dollarization happening worldwide
Interestingly; Taco Bell has some of the cheapest fast food you can get with their luxe box line, but that more speaks to how bad everything else has gotten post-covid and during this term.
This! I have their app and I can still get a meal for $10 or under, even in California. Probably one of the last decent deals in fast food, along with In N Out.
Yeah the prices are getting out of control. It can be cheaper to eat at a fast casual restaurant.
It’s not just you. The price has gone up, but the quality has likely gone down.
Likely?
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The quality has gone down and the price has come up
And long ago he finished his Baja Blast cup
But he’s groaning and moaning and suffering the squirts
And regretting his decisions for which his asshole still burns
He’s going… To the bathroom
Taco Bell has always been a particular case of “how the fuck are they still in business??” …on top of way over priced, subpar quality, and subpar taste, they sell a product in a saturated market, and nearly all of their competitors are better.
Even if we’re talking shitty fast food, there are dozens of Taco Bell like chains, and almost all of them are better than or at least equal to Taco Bell.
And outside of shitty fast food, actual Mexican food is all over the place. To include more authentic taquarias that usually sell tacos and burritos for like half of what Taco Bell does and their product is fucking delicious. We have one of those near were I live - right across the street from a Taco Bell… and every day Taco Bell has a line around the fucking building, while the cheaper, better, and ready-to-take-your-order place is right fucking there! Drives me insane.
I went to a Taco Bell recently and was wowed by the price. Last time I went was during 2020.
Don’t go back. They don’t deserve the prices they are charging.
I ate there a month ago after years of not going.
You’re correct, however, I think they use the insane price on individual items to make their combo boxes, or whatever they’re called, seem like a better deal.
And to encourage you to use their app as well. Remember when 7/11 got the app a soda went from .89 to 1.29. “If you get the app you save money!”
No you’re charging me for not having the app. That’s what just happened.
It’s also part of why things have gotten slower. Again to use 7/11… now every person in line in front of you has to spend 30 more seconds fumbling with their phone or key fob barcode to buy their one damn soda.
I’m bitter about it lol
All these replies and you’re the only one to mention the apps. It’s absolutely one of the reasons why (beyond them using “inflation” to cover for straight greed).
By jacking their prices way up, and only offering discounts via their apps, they win either way - You pay ridiculous amounts, or you pay slightly less ridiculous amounts and they get your data.
I wouldn’t even mind the stealing of my information so much if they were at least quick about it. Imagine Facebook every few minutes stopped working and said “now stealing your information… please wait…”
One of the 7/11 clerks told me you get 11 or 12 cents off per gallon every x (he said 7 I think) fuel visits when you sign up. In between it drops to 5 cents. Turns out no. You get 11 or 12 cents the first time and after that it’s always 5 cents.
Yeah, it’s like 1 good item + 2 bullshit items and a drink for $9 in the deluxe box.
