is it me or have they upped the quality of their food substantially?
I got a crunch wrap supreme for the first time in years yesterday and it was fricking magnificent. Thick, meaty, juicy, the tortilla was fresh. I almost went through the drive through and ordered another.
Also joining forces with KFC was genius tier.
literal schizoid personality disorder
Basically the plot of Haruhi
>i am god
>must of
Based dogisaga
fricking sad
>based
She should stick to what she does best being impregnated by nazis
lain?
no one thinks this
the quality and choices have declined significantly
I can only imagine this is an artificial shill thread
I rarely hear anyone crying about “quality of X has gone down” outside of this board, where the resident mong patrol say that about literally every restaurant in existence.
Taco Bell tastes the same as it did 30 years ago. You’ve just become contrarian and miserable.
Personally I think inflation and perceived value also plays a part. Those soft tacos taste $0.89 good, they do not taste $2.29 good.
They’re $1.79 at my local according to their online menu, but I see your point.
Though wasn’t it like 25 years ago they were .89?
About 10, but that was in the tiny town of 2500 I grew up in. In a big frick-off metropolis now, and I will say big-city slop does taste better than podunk hamlet slop, but it's still a fricking obscene price in my curmudgeonly eyes.
You're wrong. Taco Bell was in a nearly decade long golden age before 2020. Creative limited time menu items, innovative new mainstays, expansion of breakfast, super late hours on weekends.
After 2020 we got: recycled boring new items, elimination of flagship items (inb4 "mexican pizza is back tho"), breakfast availability greatly scaled back, and earlier closing times at the drive thru.
Go clock out, shill.
What's point of shilling on Culinaly?
the same point of shilling everywhere else
>We want the Culinaly crowd
Said no company ever
Joke’s on you, bro.
As a demographic, contrarian poorgay autistic zoomers who hate everything are worth literally tens of hundreds of dollars.
Some analysis say it could even be dozens of hundreds.
We aren’t going to just leave that sort of cash on the table.
>t. Chief Marketing Officer
>anon is hungry
>goes to Culinaly
>sees thread about taco bell
>knows it's a shill thread
>doesn't matter, anon is now thinking about maybe getting taco bell
Right.
Every time I browse Culinaly hungry I just gotta go get fast food when I see it.
>anon is hungry
>goes on a fricking cooking board
>eats whatever he sees like a moron
>"must be the shills"
that's kind of the point of food advertisement
snag idiots when they're hungry
Why are idiots coming to a food and cooking board when they're hungry and complaining about shills then? Oh yeah, cause they're idiots, gotcha.
Why are you here you big dumbo b***h breasts homosexual? To wave your big fat gay ass around?
You sound like a moron, and your justification for b***hing about shills confirms that.
Are you on your period or something? Tons of people browse Culinaly when they're hungry. People b***h about shills because it's fricking Culinaly.
Then they go and buy a big mac
you're a whiny little gay arent ya
Browsing Culinaly when you're hungry and then b***hing about people making you go to fast food is literally female behavior. Just don't come then you fricking moron.
So you are on your period
Anon asked what the point of shilling on Culinaly would be and I explained it to him
Go take a chill pill you little baby man
The reason was fricking dumb and it makes every shill comment poster look like even more of a fricking moron. Sorry if you took personal offense to it because you're also moronic but I didn't mean you specifically.
Got a lot of sand in your vegana huh
Hope you find your way to a better mood
>muh vegana every post
It just comes off as projection at this point. And it wouldn't shock me with that absolutely moronic reasoning you laid out earlier.
I don't think you understand the conversation that was had.
I think you took what I said as if I said it about you even though I'm being very specific who I'm talking about. Either way you're a fricking moron.
You're a homosexual
You'd like that wouldn't you? Can't go a single post without projecting it.
Just calling you out for being a whiny little b***h throwing a tantrum over nothing
Nobody's throwing a tantrum you trog, you're justification was moronic so I'm calling people who actually do that moronic and why. You're the one being a little b***h and projecting anger, veganas, and homosexuality to me because you're taking personal offense and you know I'm right.
> I'm calling people who actually do that moronic
People who do WHAT?
b***h about shilling?
The conversation was never about that
It was about why a company WOULD shill here in the first place
>People who do WHAT?
see
I repeat it multiple times as well because I'm aware I'm talking to a dense moron.
But that's not what the conversation was about at all. You're just interjecting with an unrelated opinion.
bro follow the reply chain all the way up, that's all ive been saying over and over. You're so fricking stupid it's comical.
>"why would anyone shill on Culinaly?"
>"because advertisers target people for impulse-buys on social media and popular websites"
>WTF THATS moronic UR A moron
what?
>social media and popular websites
Neither of this applies to Culinaly dumbass, try again.
Not the guy you're arguing with but you legit have brain problems if you don't think this place (Culinaly in general, /seekay/ especially) doesn't get shilled to hell and back. It's free to post, no registration required and how many millions of unique visitors does it get a month? Like a lot. It'd be dumb *not* to shill here when it's relatively effortless, practically free and you get tons of eyeballs.
I refuse to believe millions of people post on fricking Culinaly a month.
>every visitor posts
anyways, believe what you want homie. I'll continue to drop turds on obvious shill threads because its fun and $.05 per thread "contributors" get bent out of shape over it.
>being this fricking pedantic
I refuse to believe millions of people *visit* on fricking Culinaly a month.
Also I don't give a frick about you posting "hurr shill" in every thread and I give a frick less after seeing the batshit reasoning behind it. I'm content with derailing threads to call you a moron though.
Culinaly is a popular website
Companies can advertise their food products on this board for basically free
It's not a hard concept to understand
I really don't get why you're having such a hard time with this. It's like you're angry at the very concept that a company would get some free advertising.
If I didn't know better, I'd say you are actually a shill yourself and are trying to make the idea that Culinaly gets shilled seem ludicrous.
Culinaly doesn't get much traffic though, like to the point that it's a literal waste of time to shill here.
>If I didn't know better, I'd say you are actually a shill yourself and are trying to make the idea that Culinaly gets shilled seem ludicrous
Take meds unless you're just fricking around. Theres no need to be this paranoid about someone trying to sell you something. Unless you're just that much of a fricking sheep it's a waste of energy.
Just seems like it really bothers you a lot for you to keep going on like this to discredit the very idea that anyone shills here.
I can't imagine anybody doing that except a real shill.
I asked why someone would shill here and was given a fricking dumbass reason and called that person a moron. How is that supposed to discredit the idea of shills here? It's just that reasoning that's moronic. I can't imagine someone being so fricking stupid and being able to work a keyboard.
But the reason you were given isn't dumb. It makes perfect sense and is in fact exactly what happens. Companies do free easy advertising to keep their products in the minds of morons who come to Culinaly while hungry and are vulnerable to impulse-buy advertising tactics.
That's all there is to it. It's really very simple.
Did Taco Bell give you a call and tell you to shut it down?
>Companies do free easy advertising to keep their products in the minds of morons who come to Culinaly while hungry and are vulnerable to impulse-buy advertising tactics.
I'm not arguing against this even though I doubt it. I'm calling the people that come here hungry just complain about shills moronic. That's literally all I've been saying but you're taking personal offense though because you yourself are moronic and your moronation is blinding you.
The “point” you explained is silly, given the audience you claim is being shilled to.
Look up some board metrics.
Culinaly averages like 4k total posts per day.
And as this thread demonstrates, the number of posters is typically 1/3 or so the number of posts.
So let’s be generous and say this board has 2000 unique posters daily.
And of course, most of them are the same each day. Because that’s how these boards work.
So think about it.
Even if literally 100% of Culinaly users went and bought Taco Bell once or twice per week, it wouldn’t be enough to cause a detectable increase in sales metrics. 100% of this board, combined, is statistically insignificant to a global fast food chain.
For perspective, there are currently 7,634 TB locations in the US alone. This entire board could buy TB every day and it wouldn’t even come close to amounting to one customer per location. This doesn’t even consider how many users are outside the US.
tl;dr - no, major fast food chains do not shill here. If you think otherwise, you are a zoomer, a schizo, have never worked an actual job for a major company in your life, or some combination of those.
You have no idea what you are talking about
Screech more, homosexuals. I’m sorry you aren’t holders of secret knowledge of corporate hegemony.
This entire board literally does not have enough users to be worth marketing to.
Especially since there’s literally zero way to track effectiveness of your supposed “shilling”.
I know you zoomers have some blundering comic book villain mental image of people who make decisions at large companies, and I hate to ruin your fantasy because I know a lot of it is based on you wanting to think you’ve outsmarted <them>, but it’s all data-driven these days.
You have no idea how laughable this mere idea is
>Work for large company
>Arrange meeting with marketing exec who holds the marketing purse strings
>”I’ve discovered an untapped market of several thousand! That’s thousand with a T! We need to allocate some time for our online marketing team to focus on this.”
>Several thousand, you say? Sounds promising! How will we track the result metrics?
>”Oh we can’t. Zero way to tie this market to actual sales. You just have to trust me when I say our company has increased daily sales by 0.000001% daily. Assuming everyone in that market buys tacos every day.”
>I’m on board. Request approved, get the ball rolling.
Is this really how zoomers think things work at large companies?
I doubt you've ever had a job longer than a month.
Fantastic counterpoint. Definitely addressed what I said.
I’m sorry they replaced basic math with pronoun vocabulary in your school 🙁
I’ll rephrase in a way you can understand:
>Billy (he/him/herero) has 10 apples
>Jane (she/her/poly-pan) has 5 apples
>Jane asks Billy “Can I have your 10 apples? I’ll trade all 5 of mine for them!”
I hope you can see Billy shouldn’t agree to that. It’s effectively the same as wasting any marketing budget as the shills in your mind do.
didn't read
I guess I'm just an impatient zoomer :^)
>I guess I'm just an impatient zoomer :^)
Agreed. Have a good night. 🙂
>lol lmao roflmao tippytopkek
The ironic thing is that you’re lmaotopkeking at the idea of some “secret corporate” nonsense you invented in your head.
Literally anyone who has ever had a big-boy job at a company large enough to have internal marketing would know this. It isn’t a “secret” to anyone but underage zoomies who hate those evil corporations because bad feelings or they discontinued your Mexican pizza or whatever.
nobody cares moron
I care and I agree with him, not that I ever disagreed in the first place but it's nice to see an autistic amount of detail showing exactly why you're moronic.
>listen to me and show me respect for my secret corporate taco bell shilling knowledge you damn kids! I'm the smart one in this taco bell shitposting thread!
lol
lmao
This motherfricker's writing a book on why there's absolutely no chance that any company would ever shill here
What a shill
>no, major fast food chains do not shill here
I'm sure your manager is pleased with your emphatic and completely believable defense of Taco Bell. 5 cents have been deposited into your account.
fpbp
Do you even know what fpbp means? moron
fourth post breast protozoa
No the menu has gotten worse. I don't eat there anymore.
Good, i prefer to eat around less trannies if i can help it.
How much do you get paid
I don't think he's paid. He's like a Jannie, only for taco bell.
del taco actually uses fresh ingrediants and has the same prices
>del taco
this, del taco mogs taco bell so hard I only used to go there when I had one near me
No, Del Taco is much less expensive. You can't order shit from Taco Bell and get out of there without paying $7 or $8. You can get a full meal from Del Taco for like $4.
Del taco is cheaper and better than TB
It's neither better nor worse. TB is the only fast food that is always what you expect. It's garbage, but it's always the garbage that you expect.
5 goybucks have been deposited into your shekel purse
No. But they have some new things on the menu that are more expensive but worth the price, like the chicken tacos or any if the 2 dollar burritos.
>10pm
>craving some bell
>drive up
>"I'm sorry, we're closed"
at 10pm?
what the frick happened to this country
Covid
I live in a state where any semblance of lockdowns, early closures etc. has been gone for almost a year at this point
Hell even during Covid they were still open until midnight
Yeah but ever since then people refuse to go back to slavery and jobs are getting stretched thin.
I moved into a city with a lot of Black folk and shit like this happens all the time at FF restaurants.
>go in 1 hour after open
> are fryas aint ready yet
>wait 2.5 hours to get a chalupa
>another day
>1 hour before close
>sorry we closed
Yeah, I mean, I didn't see the person but they certainly sounded black
They probably weren't even closed
I’m assuming you’re both referring to the US?
Fast food was royally tucked by coof.
>“Only essential employees can work”
>”No dine-in”
So basically during any given shift, you had one manager, one person at the window, and one person in the kitchen.
Everyone else got laid off, and were happy for it because they made more on unemployment anyway with all the coof-bonuses.
Now they can’t get new hires, especially for late shift.
They literally can’t be open late because they don’t have anyone to work late for the amount they’re willing to pay, and don’t have enough customers at that hour to be willing to pay more.
>wait 2.5 hours to get a chalupa
I think you’re being less than honest, but that’s giving you the benefit of the doubt.
If you genuinely waited 2.5hrs for a chalupa, that is entirely on you. Any normal person would have simply asked for a refund. And any normal person scared of asking for a refund directly would have just left and called the corporate customer service.
I will start eating fast food again in 10-20 years when they finally get rid of the depressing industrial designs.
Shit makes me want to tie a rope around the exposed rafters and jump off a metal chair
those designs aren't going away, those old style buildings aren't nearly as easy to expand/remodel or flip to a different business if the location goes under
we're never going back
That's a shame. These absolute monstrosities make Bauhaus look cheerful by comparison.
Maybe once they improve robot technology, fast food restaurants will just be big vending machines.
Yeah, I mean it's also the average person's fault too, because they absolutely did focus groups and studies about the aesthetics of these designs too
So on top of being cheaper, easier to modify, and more convenient to flip, they also got to justify it by saying corporate non-speak like
>We discovered that our customers wanted a more sophisticated, modern space
which basically translates to homies was embarassed to go into a building with a colorful roof to eat their chicken nuggets
>homies was embarassed to go into a building with a colorful roof
Black folk don't care.
Guaranteed the focus groups was 90% millennial liberal arts graduates who got stopped coming out of a starbucks.
Delivery van where it makes the pizza on the way then has a drone deliver it to your door would be pretty kino
>Delivery van where it makes the pizza on the way
you put wheels on it and it's getting stolen on day 1
>flip to a different business if the location goes under
Why does this meme get repeated so often?
You aren’t going to flip a fast food joint into much other than another fast food joint.
And that’s not going to happen.
Try contacting McDonald’s, Burger King, Taco Bell, Wendy’s, etc. for franchising info, and tell them you want to locate your franchise in a (freestanding) repurposed building that was part of a different chain. You’ll be laughed at.
Except for subway. Subway would let you open a franchise in a rusty shipping container as long as you paid the fee.
The newer designs exist because they’re cheaper and faster to construct by a huge margin.
>Shit makes me want to tie a rope around the exposed rafters and jump off a metal chair
kek
I like how they're upfront about how you're eating manufactured food at a corporation rather than trying to capture some homey feeling.
>manufactured food at a corporation
So, you mean eating at a restaurant?
Yes, I’d say they’re upfront about being restaurants
not all restaurants are corporations
>not all businesses are businesses
Anon..
Correct, not all businesses are corporations.
>not all businesses are corporations.
Correct. Only the legal ones.
>Only
nope
>nope
Nice explanation.
Anon, literally nobody with a brain runs a business while leaving their personal assets exposed to liability.
No need for an explanation, not all businesses are corporations and illegal ones aren't the only exceptions.
>no need for an explanation
Because you have none.
You likely looked up the general definition of “corporation” and realized you couldn’t talk your way out of it, having initially thought it meant “big company” or “publicly traded company” or similar.
Nah I googled are all businesses corporations and it said no. Checkmate moron.
Well to be fair, that’s right.
Some of them are “non profit corporations”
And some are “limited liability corporations”
And there are a few other types that don’t have the word “corporation” in the name, but still, quite literally, make your business “incorporated”.
Many—but not all—businesses are corporations, and vice versa. A business or any other enterprise may seek to incorporate. As a corporation, the enterprise exists as a legal entity separate from its owners. Most importantly, this means that the owners cannot be held responsible for the debts of the corporation.
That’s a nice copy/paste.
And it’s true, but buttfrickingly moronic, particularly for a restaurant. Often impossible; not for legal reasons, but because companies will refuse to insure you or your business when the two aren’t separate legal entities.
Since your original point was “eating food at a corporation”, I’m interested to know what restaurants you enjoy which are not incorporated.
You're right, I should change it to "eating food at a major corporation".
Yeah I rather it look like the office building the food was designed in. It's sleek and efficient. Way better than trying to manipulate me into thinking it's homey at all.
>we don't want you to feel comfortable eating at our establishment
well if that's what they were going for, they nailed it
Why don't you feel comfortable accepting reality anon? These chain fast food places shouldn't feel like your home, and if they ever did then you were being manipulated. Sorry.
>Shit makes me want to tie a rope around the exposed rafters and jump off a metal chair
that's exactly what ~~*their*~~ plan is, it's a demoralizing tactic and you fell for it
Taco Bell is one of the few fast food restaurants where I will consistently get the shits from eating off their regular menu. All of the cream sauces they put on every fricking burrito and taco gross me out.
what's the matter, you don't enjoy biting into a burrito and getting a mouthful of cold tortilla and sour cream?
Damn dude. It's the most inoffensive fast food there is. If that's true, you should see a doctor, A good doctor.
>It's the most inoffensive fast food there is.
That's a fricking lie. They put weird, putrid sauces on everything.
I really don't know what you mean. They only have a few sauces and they're all pretty basic hot sauce stuff.
have you tried ordering the items that don't come with those sauces?
They don't really have hot sauce. Even the "hot" and "fire" are just a pureed mild salsa with slightly different flavors.
Honestly, this thread makes me want the Bell. If that was the goal, mission accomplished.
Yes, friend. As a matter of fact I just visited a local Taco Bell and placed an order for a Cheesy Gordita Crunch and I placed an order for a Quesarito through the online app since it is an online exclusive item. With my two specialty items, I chose to purchase a Baja Blast freeze drink.
All I can say is: Wow. There are no words. The beef was sizzling hot and has that signature Taco Bell flavor that everyone longs for. The shredded cheese just melts on your tongue. The lettuce is crisp and delicious. The Cheesy Gordita Crunch comes with a custom Spicy Ranch sauce that really gives the item a unique tang flavor that will leave you satisfied.
Then the Quesarito was just an abundance of wealth and satisfaction. It was worth using the app to acquire it(as well as all of the other perks that the app provides). You'll feel nothing but warm comfort and a sense of contentment as you complete. The only thing to make it better? To wash it all down with a cool, refreshing Baja Blast freeze.
I might be overstating it a little to call Taco Bell's new level of quality as literal Nirvana, but you know what? I'm just not. What a slice of heaven my visit to Taco Bell was.
Honestly anon I've realized that for fast food places and Taco Bell especially, quality is entirely location based. There is three Taco bells within 10 minutes of my location, and they all have vastly different skillsets. I'll get a cruncwrap at one and eat 90% tortilla. I go to one of the other ones and it's one of the best fricking crunchwraps I have ever had. But the kicker is that their bean burritos fricking suck ass. It's honestly rly weird just how location based the quality is for shit when I assume they all have the same suppliers.
Pretty much. The Taco Bell that opened here like 8 years past had insanely high quality when they first opened. Everything was extremely fresh and well made. Now they halfass it. It's the exact same store just not the same personnel and it makes all the difference.
every popeyes ive ever been to has had the worst service, but otherwise you are correct
i think my local taco bell shitcanned a bunch of people, the quality has jumped up and they actaully load you up with sauce these days, i ask for 3 on the app and get like 12
What have y'all been ordering at da bell lately?
for me its the value menu burrito
22 and I've never eaten at taco bell, ever
That guy in your pic is funny but I also hate him. He talks shit about any food that isn't a plain fricking Roti
Taco bell is eh. The only stuff I like from it is the chalupah tortillas and the fact that their beef is super finely chopped. The only way I can get close to that is if I food-processor my ground beef after cooking it and until I got a new one mine were too small to do it meaningfully.
Fast food in general has plummeted in quality or worth when the price outpaces the suitability of it. Mcdonalds fries are not worth almost 4 dollars. A hamburger isn't worth 5 dollars when you can make 4-6 of them for the same price at home. The only stuff I see meaingful for fast food is something you can't easily make at home
>Pizza
>Fried chicken (You can do it but it doesn't feel cost efficient)
Highly particular ethnic food or some dish that requires a lot of work/time.
I always get the bean burrito and they've been only half filled tbh senpai.
imagine writing all these long ass posts to argue about taco bell lmao
it isn't good to lie OP
Back in 2020 I could get 2 shredded chicken quesadilla melts and 2 Fritos beef burritos for $4.
Now neither of those items exist and their value menu sucks ass, BRING BACK THAT FRICKING QUESADILLA IT WAS SO FRICKING GOOD
I'm really curious how taco Bell's algorithm works. It's clearly not based on keeping the most popular items around.
it's based off the fact that our economy is contracting and they can hardly sustain themselves, let alone innovate and expand.
these things were fricking awesome, getting rid of shredded chicken was such a bad move
This is the only good value they have left.
only box i ever craved
Had a breakfast crunchwrap yesterday, was pretty good.
Taco Bell has been going downhill in quality and that's saying something.
At least TB used to be dirt fricking cheap, now it's as expensive as a taco truck but way worse.
I'll go back and check it out when the volcano menu comes around again, until then I'll be enjoying Del Taco like an actual human
bring back the enchirito or frick off
>my local taco bell is training a new crew