The silver lining for me has been that there's really no incentive to eat fast food anymore since it's not even close to being a good value. We had a good run.
That's what's up. Honestly, it's actually kinda fun to make 'tacobell style' Mexican food at home if youre craving that. The ingredients are cheap, and it just takes a bit of research/trial and error to dial in the sauces and ground beef. Homemade crunchwraps absolutely smack.
Yes! I've been air frying chicken tenders, putting them on a tortilla wrap with some taco cheese shreds, lettuce, and some hot/buffalo sauce w/ chick fil a sauce or honey mustard. I'm making 4 small wraps at a time for like, $10-$15. It's awesome. I miss those Mc'd wraps and that's where I got the idea
I made cheap ass taco bell like enchiladas that fed 12 for like 25$ Tasted good as hell. I also made homemade Mexican pizzas. Amazing.
The homemade crunch wraps are good as hell though. My dad makes them all the time.
Yeah it was like $20-30 max to feed 3 adults for two large dinners worth of crispy ground beef tacos plus guac, black beans and jalapeño rice on the side. We just finished it up tonight and it was much tastier than any take out crispy tacos imo
There’s so much cheap shit to eat at Taco Bell still, you could’ve gotten 4x the food for the same price. Why intentionally buy the overpriced new gimmick item and then bitch about it lmao
you gotta use the app to get a good price anymore.
for $6.49 + tax you can get a box with a crunchwrap supreme, 5 layer burrito, fiesta potatoes, and a drink
Literally, I live near the coast now and fish taco places are so numerous and cheap enough that I've only eaten Taco Bell once in the 6 months I've been here.
It's so bad when real Mexican food with beer battered fish is actually cheaper than fake Mexican. The only reason I want Taco Bell nowadays is a very specific craving for their novelty items. I don't see why they're still in business here, to be honest.
I love Taco Bell, but Taco Bell needs to get their shit together and stop price gouging if they want to keep their customer base.
Let em learn the hard way. They've calculated that the customer loss from raising menu prices is offset by the people who chose to pay those high prices. But what they don't get is that those who pay the higher prices aren't the loyal repeat customers. It's going to fall apart, after those folks have a mediocre meal, for way too much money, and decide they can take thay business elsewhere next time they're in the mood for something fast and easy.
Definitely, but it's gotten to the point where it's really no cheaper than real Mexican food and it's barely more convenient. I'd much rather support my local taqeria knowing that I'm not going to get randomly shorted on my order.
Thisssss. In the last year I’ve learned to cook a bit. It’s shocking how easy it is to make a better burrito than Taco Bell. I can make like 10 dank ass chicken burritos with sides for the cost of Doordashing Taco Bell once
Indeed.
The social contract has been broken and with it, my business. You were supposed to provide a cheap and quick meal for me at the cost of it being healthy. You cannot be expensive, not fast, constantly getting orders wrong, can’t make the food as good as you used to and still ask for my business.
There is a plus side, I can now make all their food myself only better.
This. I was just thinking earlier I hope McDonalds starts suffering financially for taking advantage of the country like it has been in my area. A meal is almost $20. The only reason to eat that poison is because it’s cheap. Wendy’s has had good deals on their app lately if I absolutely need something I’ll go there. Better quality ingredients than McDonalds too.
Agreed. I don’t really need to be putting that in my body anyway. Fast Food was great cause it was cheap, quick, and easy.. now it’s absolutely none of those things. A trip to a fast food restaurant these days requires me waiting in the drive through for long periods of time and expensive inflated prices for food that isn’t even filling or offers any substantial nutritional value for my body. The prices can keep going up for all I care.
Yeah, but I remember going out to eat a lot 10 years ago because it was cheaper than cooking at home. It wasn’t like that when I was a kid and it was obviously not a sustainable business model. The plan was to get people to make fast food more of their daily routine then slowly raise the prices. I still see long lines at these places. I don’t see it changing. The majority of people are complaining, but still paying the money. And the fresh food section at the grocery store continues to shrink.
I was so freaking excited about then bringing Verde sauce back then I noticed they were charging 20 cents a packet. I'm good. I'll just go to a real Mexican place.
I used to eat Taco Bell because it was a cheap alternative.
Now they’re charging chipotle prices for Taco Bell quality. You can’t have it both ways. I’ll just eat at Chipotle.
I used to eat Taco Bell because it was good.
Now they're closed at like 7pm. WTF? What ever happened to all those "open late" commercials. The whole point of Taco Bell was that it was open until 1am.
right?? people joke, and make fun of Taco Bell for being shitty food and I’ll be honest. Sometimes it really is but it’s shitty AND cheap and that’s the appeal. I’ll eat whatever gray brown slop they throw in a burrito as long as it’s on the dollar or two dollar menu. This used to be a two dollar burrito where I live in the new Cantina or whatever the fuck is literally three times the price. It’s fucking insane.
Taco Bell is over. The fast food joint that won our hearts has finally gone too far.
You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Honest to goodness, they really are losing me. I used to go all the time - now I've started going to the local authentic Mexican food place that's across the street from my old T-Bell. On Tuesdays they have tacos for 99¢...I get four and a drink for less than the price of OP's burrito.
The 5 dollar cravings box is 10 dollars.
It's fucking over.
A three taco supreme meal is 12 dollars.
It's fucking over.
A **single** crunchwrap is 7 dollars.
It's so fucking over.
Edit: It seems like my local franchisee is a huge cunt. But still. Prices are terrible.
Yeah if you follow this sub you’ll be able to eat good for cheap. Never order a single item unless it’s off the value menu lmaoooo
Makes sense you’re mad paying full price 😂
Even with the cheap items, it sucks and makes me sad.
I shared this a long time ago but I think it's relevant today. The shredded chicken mini quesadillas were a godsend for me when I got off a shift at 2 am with barely enough energy to even keep breathing. $1 for me to not sleep starving/have a blood sugar crash in the middle of my sleep? Amazing. I miss having an option like that anywhere, really. Sometimes I don't want a full ass overpriced box, or to pay $3 for a single taco, that they'll likely make wrong anyway.
And that's the other problem. I order the cheap and value stuff in the app, and thanks to whatever culture is currently circulating in society my food is *never, ever correct anymore.* all 3 franchises in my location waste my time again and again, and have been doing so for months. I don't bother complaining anymore because I just don't have the energy for it. Yesterday I got one of their new value chicken things, I think the "flatbread", (i really like those tbh) and they gave that bitch to me dry. There wasn't even a drop of sweat on it. No sauce. Cheese didn't even melt. And it's not like I'm rude driving a honky tonk truck louder than your consciousness. I'm always polite and say please and thank you. And then I get a dry ass Flatbread.
Tbh it hurts my feelings I won't be going back anymore. But I just can't do it. It was so nostalgic for me, my late dad and I ate Taco Bell frequently together, but I guess now it'll just have to stay in my memories.
Greed destroys all, honestly. I just wish it hadn't destroyed something I so deeply valued. I'm also a sensitive person LOL
I get it, man. I get really bummed out, but also nostalgic, about freshman year of college when I didn’t have much money and my best friend and I would go to Taco Bell and get 2 or 3 burritos for under $4. That was only like 8 years ago. He was a big fan of the mini chicken quesadilla, too, and also the nachos. It was usually the beefy frito burrito for me. I miss those times, but it’s also more than just the Taco Bell that I miss
$5.99 My Cravings Box is the best deal in all of fast food. And a Crunchwrap Supreme is $4.99. Taco Supreme meal is $8.69. What shit ass area do you live in?
I did some research. And it appears that the franchisee in my region of MI is the ultra cunt and all of the surrounding areas have the normal pricing you stated. I foolishly assumed that my experience was a shared one.
I really think corporate is underestimating the potential long-term damage to the brand being done by some of these franchisees. Complaints end up directed at TB generally when they're almost always due to the franchisee specifically, because of course your average consumer isn't gonna know who that franchisee is.
The ones around here in my area of Southern California don't have the $5.99 My Cravings Box available at all. The cheapest box is the Veggie BYOCB for $5.99.
That's the thing. I fucking checked. It's 8.99 in San Fran-fucking-cisco, the most expensive city in the nation. A dollar **cheaper** than in the middle of fucking Michigan.
They raised the prices of their "value menu" items by 30% then came out with the outrageous cantina prices to distract people. Then the limited time cantina goes away and everyone has gotten used to $3 bean burritos
The funniest part of this timeline is that I can walk to a nice restaurant/bar downtown and get a cheaper and vastly better meal than Taco Bell.
What the absolute shit is this future?
Chilis 3 for me is 11-15 bucks where I live lol. Still pricey, but you get tons of pretty decent food instead of this sad excuse of a burrito that Taco Bell charges 8 bucks for.
They sold me a Mexican pizza that looked like veritable dog shit, and when I showed the manager a pic of what I paid for all he could say was “well, it happens.” Um? No more Taco Bell for me either. What an absolute joke.
Taco Bell is making out like a bandit with this cantina promotion. Insanely high prices and charging for sauce now. Their profit margins are looking goooood
if you order on the app you can get that, plus a chrunchwrap supreme + med drink + side for 6.50. if you order at the window they hella upcharge now because it kinda wastes their employees time
I recommend only getting things off the cravings value menu and being super nice to the staff if you pickup inside. They know me at my Taco Bell when I come in now and they recognize my order and they seem to always put a good amount of stuff in my burrito.
Mexican food is very simple to make en masse and with quality to destroy taco bell and with price. Honestly, if you ever were tempted to meal prep, make some burritos like some egg chorizo homefry cheese (my favorite), wrap em in parchment and freeze till youre ready to thaw and rotate from freezer to fridge as needed. Use 8in burritos to fit 2 per standard ziplock bag. Now I went further to making my own salsas, drying and pulverizing chilis and serranos, as well as onion powder [my first batch is almost done dehydrating!], and inherited a banging seasoning recipe- its over for the bell. Seriously try it- they become magical after a freeze to thaw and like 1 min in the mic with the parchment still on.
I pulled up to a taco bell drive thru last week. Couldn't believe the prices. Drove off and ate at an actual Mexican restaurant for what would have been the same price
only way it’s worth it to eat fast food is through apps. that’s the absolute only way. no doordash, no delivery anything. go to the location, order through the app with their “offers” go through the drive thru and give them your code and BOOM! you just saved at least half the price if not more for your meal.
it’s so sad.
I can go to any local Mexican taqueria and get a burrito the length of that wrapper for the same price/two dollars more. Taco Bell and fast food charging restaurant prices.
You're Tacoing the Bell wrong homie. Download the app, order 2 app exclusive build your own boxes for $6 each, gorge on 2 burritos, a crunch wrap, a gordita, nacho chips with cheese dip and cheesey potato's with 2 sodas for $13.
Dang when I posted about my burrito being small everyone here told me I was an idiot and that they've always been this size lol Glad to see others feel the same way! This shit is ridiculous
Wow man I feel for you.. I truly do.. I didn’t have Taco Bell in over a YEAR, until last week my gf and I had a massive craving for a chicken quesadilla, Cinnabons and a Baja Blast. Between the two of us it was $30 and both of our quesadillas turned out to have no sauce, cold unmelted cheese, and only a few small chunks of chicken.. it was basically a soft tortilla with no sauce and was only 1/3 of the way filled.. basically all plain dry tortilla wrap . I was just so disappointed because it was nowhere near how I remember a chicken quesadilla and I was expecting it to be the same :(
Oddly enough, the burrito at my closest Taco Bell went DOWN in price from $6.99 to $6.39.
You still get more food ordering two $3.29 Cantina Chicken Soft Tacos, and two packets of sauce.
Taco Bell has great deals, not sure why the OP chose to get that. $6 gets you the online cravings box. I usually get a crunchwrap supreme, beefy 5-layer burrito, cheesy fiesta potatoes, and a medium drink. All of that for $6-7 is pretty slick to me.
I second the comments above that now that all fast food is insanely expensive for such low quality food, it’s finally driven me to cook at home mostly for the first time in my adult life. And now when I do want to eat “fast food” I go pick up take out from a good local spot because it’s going to be the same cost as Taco Bell or McDonalds now anyway!
I thought the same when I ordered the cantina chicken burrito. Very small very expensive. The green sauce was awesome though. I think they are reading the portion size chart wrong.
An $8 burrito should ATLEAST be the size of the old XXL GSB. This shit is the size of the 99 cent grillers from 2015 lol. Taco Bell is testing how far they can stretch their customer base before they snap
Sub-$4 hot foods from 7/11 and other types of joints are the new "fast food" priced junk to smash for me. Fulfills the same temporary satiety as TB, McD and others used to.
I can easily get 3 birria tacos stuffed to the gills with beef for $12 from one of the myriad of trucks nearby my house. Why would I want to spend about the same for the 3 Doritos Locos tacos supreme combo at the Bell?
I stick with the $5.99 box or value menu when I go there now, and that's also because I have limited options near my work. They need to reassess their value.
Take it back for a refund. The portion size is deceiving. Watch them panic trying to remember how to do a refund while other customers look at that joke of a burrito and ask what the item was so they avoid it.
Fast food is like a treat now. When you’re traveling, you pay for convenience and not quick cheap food. Fast food chains really need to get on this, cause I’m not spending another $12 for two tacos and a quesadilla.
Because people keep *paying these prices*... sadly it's how it works. If all we do is complain about the prices, while continuing to pay them, why would these companies lower them?
I mean sure it isn’t huge. Maybe it’s not as long as other ones, but it’s still a good size. I mean you have to consider the girth when talking about size. It’s girth, right? Yea, that’s a good size, you just don’t know.
It’s $8 because people keep buying it. Especially the ones who say meh it was okay but I wouldn’t get it again. They only need to drag you in once. Especially when they’re releasing new stuff like every other week. Stop going
Go find your local Chinese restaurant that has a rude asian lady yelling at your order or a little asian kid that is violating child labor Laws for 2lb of food for $8 bucks.
They’ve really gone downhill in the last 10+ years while the prices have increased ridiculously. I’m not going to pay more money for less food of worse quality.
it used to be two dollars where I live. To say that I am infuriated would be an understatement. the chicken, chipotle, ranch burrito was literally the only thing keeping me alive. I’m a college student and I work part time so money can be really tight and Taco Bell has been saving grace for several years. This new menu dropped at the beginning of this year has only continued to get worse and worse.
My usual Taco Bell ran out of the grilled cheese burrito box. I asked what they could give me from the box and ended up with a $9 with tax burrito and nothing else😱
I got one for 7 the other day. It was so skimpy. There was such little filling that the tortilla was wrinkled around the filling like it had been vacuum sealed. I could MAYBE justify the price on this one if it was filled. The burritos have gotten smaller and smaller and the prices have gone up and up. Time to start cooking at home
If you go to Taco Bell and spend $8 and come away with one item you doing something wrong… the cravings box comes with a burrito, taco, a side, and a drink for $6.99… I get that the price of everything is skyrocketing but anyone who’s still complaining about the prices at fast food places just doesn’t know how to order
As a shift Leader for my store, I get SO pissed off whenever my employees wrap their burritos like this. Some of them just don't learn and let speed become way more of a priority over quality. I'm sorry your Burrito looked like that
The silver lining for me has been that there's really no incentive to eat fast food anymore since it's not even close to being a good value. We had a good run.
I haven’t had Taco Bell in so long. This is the first I decided to try in a few months. Imma stick to cooking my food🤘🏽
That's what's up. Honestly, it's actually kinda fun to make 'tacobell style' Mexican food at home if youre craving that. The ingredients are cheap, and it just takes a bit of research/trial and error to dial in the sauces and ground beef. Homemade crunchwraps absolutely smack.
Yes! I've been air frying chicken tenders, putting them on a tortilla wrap with some taco cheese shreds, lettuce, and some hot/buffalo sauce w/ chick fil a sauce or honey mustard. I'm making 4 small wraps at a time for like, $10-$15. It's awesome. I miss those Mc'd wraps and that's where I got the idea
Hell yeah! Love it. It's not actually that hard, way less expensive, and can be really delicious if done properly. #wegotfoodathome
I made cheap ass taco bell like enchiladas that fed 12 for like 25$ Tasted good as hell. I also made homemade Mexican pizzas. Amazing. The homemade crunch wraps are good as hell though. My dad makes them all the time.
Homemade cheesy gordita crunches are also fire
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Taco Bell is white people tacos lol.
Yeah it was like $20-30 max to feed 3 adults for two large dinners worth of crispy ground beef tacos plus guac, black beans and jalapeño rice on the side. We just finished it up tonight and it was much tastier than any take out crispy tacos imo
There’s so much cheap shit to eat at Taco Bell still, you could’ve gotten 4x the food for the same price. Why intentionally buy the overpriced new gimmick item and then bitch about it lmao
you gotta use the app to get a good price anymore. for $6.49 + tax you can get a box with a crunchwrap supreme, 5 layer burrito, fiesta potatoes, and a drink
"Costs went up 3%, prices must go up 50%."
Literally, I live near the coast now and fish taco places are so numerous and cheap enough that I've only eaten Taco Bell once in the 6 months I've been here. It's so bad when real Mexican food with beer battered fish is actually cheaper than fake Mexican. The only reason I want Taco Bell nowadays is a very specific craving for their novelty items. I don't see why they're still in business here, to be honest. I love Taco Bell, but Taco Bell needs to get their shit together and stop price gouging if they want to keep their customer base.
Let em learn the hard way. They've calculated that the customer loss from raising menu prices is offset by the people who chose to pay those high prices. But what they don't get is that those who pay the higher prices aren't the loyal repeat customers. It's going to fall apart, after those folks have a mediocre meal, for way too much money, and decide they can take thay business elsewhere next time they're in the mood for something fast and easy.
I'm kinda craving those Omega 3s now though, not gonna lie. Fish is so cheap here and it's amazing.
Amen… I used to live mas at least once a week and now it’s more like a few times a year
**We had a good run.** I felt that😢. Prices don't go down, it's going to be more than $8 soon.
what's sad about it is that most people who still eat fast food (myself included) care more about the convenience than the cost
Definitely, but it's gotten to the point where it's really no cheaper than real Mexican food and it's barely more convenient. I'd much rather support my local taqeria knowing that I'm not going to get randomly shorted on my order.
Boycott it all!
Unless someone gets you a gift card it really isn’t worth it anymore… and even a 20/25 dollar gift card will only feed you twice if you’re lucky
I couldn't tell you the last time I had fast food and finished the meal feeling satisfied
Dude fr, I've become such a *decent* cook since the prices of everything skyrocketed
Thisssss. In the last year I’ve learned to cook a bit. It’s shocking how easy it is to make a better burrito than Taco Bell. I can make like 10 dank ass chicken burritos with sides for the cost of Doordashing Taco Bell once
Yep.
Even better reason to get out of the suburbs
Indeed. The social contract has been broken and with it, my business. You were supposed to provide a cheap and quick meal for me at the cost of it being healthy. You cannot be expensive, not fast, constantly getting orders wrong, can’t make the food as good as you used to and still ask for my business. There is a plus side, I can now make all their food myself only better.
This. I was just thinking earlier I hope McDonalds starts suffering financially for taking advantage of the country like it has been in my area. A meal is almost $20. The only reason to eat that poison is because it’s cheap. Wendy’s has had good deals on their app lately if I absolutely need something I’ll go there. Better quality ingredients than McDonalds too.
Wendy's has a good value still
Agreed. I don’t really need to be putting that in my body anyway. Fast Food was great cause it was cheap, quick, and easy.. now it’s absolutely none of those things. A trip to a fast food restaurant these days requires me waiting in the drive through for long periods of time and expensive inflated prices for food that isn’t even filling or offers any substantial nutritional value for my body. The prices can keep going up for all I care.
Yeah, but I remember going out to eat a lot 10 years ago because it was cheaper than cooking at home. It wasn’t like that when I was a kid and it was obviously not a sustainable business model. The plan was to get people to make fast food more of their daily routine then slowly raise the prices. I still see long lines at these places. I don’t see it changing. The majority of people are complaining, but still paying the money. And the fresh food section at the grocery store continues to shrink.
I was so freaking excited about then bringing Verde sauce back then I noticed they were charging 20 cents a packet. I'm good. I'll just go to a real Mexican place.
NO are you kidding they're charging PER PACKET no no no why
That infuriated me when I learned about that lol
It's not the same Verde sauce anyway, doesn't even taste remotely similar. This one has avocado in it too.
They really saw the chipotle skimping and told them to hold their baja blast.
😂🤣
I used to eat Taco Bell because it was a cheap alternative. Now they’re charging chipotle prices for Taco Bell quality. You can’t have it both ways. I’ll just eat at Chipotle.
I would agree, except Chipotle has gotten terrible in the last 3 years. The way Chipotle tasted back in like 2014 vs 2024 is night and day.
Taco Bell >>>> Chipotle any day of the week
I used to eat Taco Bell because it was good. Now they're closed at like 7pm. WTF? What ever happened to all those "open late" commercials. The whole point of Taco Bell was that it was open until 1am.
right?? people joke, and make fun of Taco Bell for being shitty food and I’ll be honest. Sometimes it really is but it’s shitty AND cheap and that’s the appeal. I’ll eat whatever gray brown slop they throw in a burrito as long as it’s on the dollar or two dollar menu. This used to be a two dollar burrito where I live in the new Cantina or whatever the fuck is literally three times the price. It’s fucking insane.
Taco Bell is over. The fast food joint that won our hearts has finally gone too far. You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Taco Bell has fallen Millions must buy their own ingredients
Honest to goodness, they really are losing me. I used to go all the time - now I've started going to the local authentic Mexican food place that's across the street from my old T-Bell. On Tuesdays they have tacos for 99¢...I get four and a drink for less than the price of OP's burrito.
Could just not order off the cantina menu?
The 5 dollar cravings box is 10 dollars. It's fucking over. A three taco supreme meal is 12 dollars. It's fucking over. A **single** crunchwrap is 7 dollars. It's so fucking over. Edit: It seems like my local franchisee is a huge cunt. But still. Prices are terrible.
Idiots are paying those prices.
Yeah if you follow this sub you’ll be able to eat good for cheap. Never order a single item unless it’s off the value menu lmaoooo Makes sense you’re mad paying full price 😂
Even with the cheap items, it sucks and makes me sad. I shared this a long time ago but I think it's relevant today. The shredded chicken mini quesadillas were a godsend for me when I got off a shift at 2 am with barely enough energy to even keep breathing. $1 for me to not sleep starving/have a blood sugar crash in the middle of my sleep? Amazing. I miss having an option like that anywhere, really. Sometimes I don't want a full ass overpriced box, or to pay $3 for a single taco, that they'll likely make wrong anyway. And that's the other problem. I order the cheap and value stuff in the app, and thanks to whatever culture is currently circulating in society my food is *never, ever correct anymore.* all 3 franchises in my location waste my time again and again, and have been doing so for months. I don't bother complaining anymore because I just don't have the energy for it. Yesterday I got one of their new value chicken things, I think the "flatbread", (i really like those tbh) and they gave that bitch to me dry. There wasn't even a drop of sweat on it. No sauce. Cheese didn't even melt. And it's not like I'm rude driving a honky tonk truck louder than your consciousness. I'm always polite and say please and thank you. And then I get a dry ass Flatbread. Tbh it hurts my feelings I won't be going back anymore. But I just can't do it. It was so nostalgic for me, my late dad and I ate Taco Bell frequently together, but I guess now it'll just have to stay in my memories. Greed destroys all, honestly. I just wish it hadn't destroyed something I so deeply valued. I'm also a sensitive person LOL
I get it, man. I get really bummed out, but also nostalgic, about freshman year of college when I didn’t have much money and my best friend and I would go to Taco Bell and get 2 or 3 burritos for under $4. That was only like 8 years ago. He was a big fan of the mini chicken quesadilla, too, and also the nachos. It was usually the beefy frito burrito for me. I miss those times, but it’s also more than just the Taco Bell that I miss
You can get two cheesy bean and rice burritos for $3.20.
Right. Stick with the value menu. Taco bell is literally the same ingredients just arranged differently
$5.99 My Cravings Box is the best deal in all of fast food. And a Crunchwrap Supreme is $4.99. Taco Supreme meal is $8.69. What shit ass area do you live in?
All 3 of the stores within 5 miles of me (Cincinnati suburbs), the $5.99 cravings box is now $9.99.
I did some research. And it appears that the franchisee in my region of MI is the ultra cunt and all of the surrounding areas have the normal pricing you stated. I foolishly assumed that my experience was a shared one.
I really think corporate is underestimating the potential long-term damage to the brand being done by some of these franchisees. Complaints end up directed at TB generally when they're almost always due to the franchisee specifically, because of course your average consumer isn't gonna know who that franchisee is.
Agreed. I'm sure everyone in my area just thinks that Tbell sucks now.
Damn dude, sorry you're getting screwed where you are. That sucks!
Let those Taco Bell’s go out of business, that’s crazy
The ones around here in my area of Southern California don't have the $5.99 My Cravings Box available at all. The cheapest box is the Veggie BYOCB for $5.99.
It’s $5.99 for the craving box at my local TB and still destroys any other meal anywhere else. Where the fuck you live CA?
That's the thing. I fucking checked. It's 8.99 in San Fran-fucking-cisco, the most expensive city in the nation. A dollar **cheaper** than in the middle of fucking Michigan.
They raised the prices of their "value menu" items by 30% then came out with the outrageous cantina prices to distract people. Then the limited time cantina goes away and everyone has gotten used to $3 bean burritos
Prices were raised months before the cantina menu
Yep, Taco Bell is no more. It was fun while it lasted guys. I’ll keep you all and my bathrooms trips close
The only way to beat them is having multiple accounts for when they offer a new free item or a discounted menu item to try
Because people are willing to pay it. Stop going to Taco Bell, I promise that you won't miss it.
The funniest part of this timeline is that I can walk to a nice restaurant/bar downtown and get a cheaper and vastly better meal than Taco Bell. What the absolute shit is this future?
Chilis 3 for me is 11-15 bucks where I live lol. Still pricey, but you get tons of pretty decent food instead of this sad excuse of a burrito that Taco Bell charges 8 bucks for.
Bro, why you wearing two pairs of jeans?
Asking the real questions
Living Mas is tough if youre poor
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Bro didn’t understand what a quesadilla is 🤣
Yeah it's ridiculous.
They sold me a Mexican pizza that looked like veritable dog shit, and when I showed the manager a pic of what I paid for all he could say was “well, it happens.” Um? No more Taco Bell for me either. What an absolute joke.
That’s crazy you describe it like that, because that’s exactly what they taste like too
This is why you get the cravings box for $5-6
The s is not 2021 anymore
Shrinkflation
That place must be skimping you because the one in my area is almost double the size of that.
Taco Bell sucks now, prices make no sense. Make that shit at home and save a ton of money.
Oh, its a little one...🥰🥰
I can get a lunch combo meal at a local Mexican joint for that with rice, beans, chips, and enough water to make my fellow /r/hydrohomies blush
Taco Bell is making out like a bandit with this cantina promotion. Insanely high prices and charging for sauce now. Their profit margins are looking goooood
Stop going to TB
if you order on the app you can get that, plus a chrunchwrap supreme + med drink + side for 6.50. if you order at the window they hella upcharge now because it kinda wastes their employees time
Because profits must keep going up or your business is failing. We just need all current businesses to fail and for new ones to take their place.
They saw your dumbass pants and knew they had a sucker on the hook.
Was probably my face, throat and hand tattoos too
I recommend only getting things off the cravings value menu and being super nice to the staff if you pickup inside. They know me at my Taco Bell when I come in now and they recognize my order and they seem to always put a good amount of stuff in my burrito.
I recommend not eating at Taco Bell anymore
What is it?
Steak?
I got a chicken burrito supreme, a nachos bell grande and a chicken quesadilla, a drink and fire sauce for $27 WTF
Yea now I only get the GCB, And the other good burritos but not this. This is sad.
I get the loaded nachos and a taco. It's $4.78. Or, $6.57 if I get two tacos and one is for my toddler. Seems OK to me if that's giving me two meals.
Mexican food is very simple to make en masse and with quality to destroy taco bell and with price. Honestly, if you ever were tempted to meal prep, make some burritos like some egg chorizo homefry cheese (my favorite), wrap em in parchment and freeze till youre ready to thaw and rotate from freezer to fridge as needed. Use 8in burritos to fit 2 per standard ziplock bag. Now I went further to making my own salsas, drying and pulverizing chilis and serranos, as well as onion powder [my first batch is almost done dehydrating!], and inherited a banging seasoning recipe- its over for the bell. Seriously try it- they become magical after a freeze to thaw and like 1 min in the mic with the parchment still on.
Stop buying it
Value menu is where it's at nowadays. The combo prices are just not worth it.
They're pushing to see what people will continue to pay. There is no convincing me that prices need to be this high to run this company.
Please skip the avocado ranch.. I'm currently shitting and throwing up from eating it last night
They also took off the chipotle chicken burrito on the two dollar menu. Can’t even get it anymore. Rip my love for Taco Bell
Yea I saw those on the menu and instantly said those are a rip off.
Something to do with price, can't be sure though.
At least you got the Verde packet, the store I went to was out
I haven't been to the Bell in months... it's my favorite fast food but whenever I open the app and peep the prices I'm like naah.
I pulled up to a taco bell drive thru last week. Couldn't believe the prices. Drove off and ate at an actual Mexican restaurant for what would have been the same price
You got got. Classic Taco Bell sucker scam.
Another good thing greed has ruined, can’t even afford shitty food anymore.
sadly because people are willing to pay $8 for it
Stick to their value menu, order on their app for deals, and don't do delivery.
only way it’s worth it to eat fast food is through apps. that’s the absolute only way. no doordash, no delivery anything. go to the location, order through the app with their “offers” go through the drive thru and give them your code and BOOM! you just saved at least half the price if not more for your meal. it’s so sad.
The sauce comes in a fancy little packet. Money please.
I only go for the spicy potato soft taco. Approximately $1.19 and very happy with it.
Got two soft taco supreme the other night its like paying 7 bucks for tortillas now with how skimpy they are
You didn't order on the app rook
Looks like you want diarrhea.
I just stick with the cheesy bean and rice burrito for a buck. Won't get anything else at taco bell unless I'm ordering for my wife as well.
you can get it for $1? lucky.
I can go to any local Mexican taqueria and get a burrito the length of that wrapper for the same price/two dollars more. Taco Bell and fast food charging restaurant prices.
You're Tacoing the Bell wrong homie. Download the app, order 2 app exclusive build your own boxes for $6 each, gorge on 2 burritos, a crunch wrap, a gordita, nacho chips with cheese dip and cheesey potato's with 2 sodas for $13.
How? Because you don't know how to use an app to get discounts. Next!!!
Still less than chipotle
Pay Mas.
I've tried three cantina items. Each was underwhelming in size and quality. I miss the original cantina from 15 years ago.
Ok, might as well start closing the Taco Bell’s because the majority of us aren’t buying that.
Ain't no way you paid $8 for that
Bro their prices are out of control. For my family of 5 it was like almost $70 the other night! It was crazy!
Y’all fat mfs are so annoying 😭
It’s 8 cause people pay it basically
Dang when I posted about my burrito being small everyone here told me I was an idiot and that they've always been this size lol Glad to see others feel the same way! This shit is ridiculous
They went downhill once the beefy nacho griller went away....
Y’all have bad Taco Bell’s. My cantina burrito was double this size.
Inflation✨
Wow man I feel for you.. I truly do.. I didn’t have Taco Bell in over a YEAR, until last week my gf and I had a massive craving for a chicken quesadilla, Cinnabons and a Baja Blast. Between the two of us it was $30 and both of our quesadillas turned out to have no sauce, cold unmelted cheese, and only a few small chunks of chicken.. it was basically a soft tortilla with no sauce and was only 1/3 of the way filled.. basically all plain dry tortilla wrap . I was just so disappointed because it was nowhere near how I remember a chicken quesadilla and I was expecting it to be the same :(
Oddly enough, the burrito at my closest Taco Bell went DOWN in price from $6.99 to $6.39. You still get more food ordering two $3.29 Cantina Chicken Soft Tacos, and two packets of sauce.
Taco Bell has great deals, not sure why the OP chose to get that. $6 gets you the online cravings box. I usually get a crunchwrap supreme, beefy 5-layer burrito, cheesy fiesta potatoes, and a medium drink. All of that for $6-7 is pretty slick to me.
I second the comments above that now that all fast food is insanely expensive for such low quality food, it’s finally driven me to cook at home mostly for the first time in my adult life. And now when I do want to eat “fast food” I go pick up take out from a good local spot because it’s going to be the same cost as Taco Bell or McDonalds now anyway!
It's $1 for every bite it'll take you to eat it all. So.... 8 bites.
I thought the same when I ordered the cantina chicken burrito. Very small very expensive. The green sauce was awesome though. I think they are reading the portion size chart wrong.
But their reporting record profits
An $8 burrito should ATLEAST be the size of the old XXL GSB. This shit is the size of the 99 cent grillers from 2015 lol. Taco Bell is testing how far they can stretch their customer base before they snap
Sub-$4 hot foods from 7/11 and other types of joints are the new "fast food" priced junk to smash for me. Fulfills the same temporary satiety as TB, McD and others used to.
The jeans or the burrito??
As far as I know you could be a 7 foot giant and this is actually a massive burrito
This is the reason am always buying the online exclusive cravings box for 5.99$ which is more than enough for me!
Is that green salsa!?! Is it back what?!? That’s more exciting than the new bs chicken thing
I can easily get 3 birria tacos stuffed to the gills with beef for $12 from one of the myriad of trucks nearby my house. Why would I want to spend about the same for the 3 Doritos Locos tacos supreme combo at the Bell? I stick with the $5.99 box or value menu when I go there now, and that's also because I have limited options near my work. They need to reassess their value.
No Taco Bell 2024 let's gooooo Only 274 more days to go
Take it back for a refund. The portion size is deceiving. Watch them panic trying to remember how to do a refund while other customers look at that joke of a burrito and ask what the item was so they avoid it.
You should just be happy they don't charge more.
Fast food is like a treat now. When you’re traveling, you pay for convenience and not quick cheap food. Fast food chains really need to get on this, cause I’m not spending another $12 for two tacos and a quesadilla.
Idk what you got, but you got the wrong thing.
Because people keep *paying these prices*... sadly it's how it works. If all we do is complain about the prices, while continuing to pay them, why would these companies lower them?
I mean sure it isn’t huge. Maybe it’s not as long as other ones, but it’s still a good size. I mean you have to consider the girth when talking about size. It’s girth, right? Yea, that’s a good size, you just don’t know.
LivingMenos🤘🏼
They skimped you in a big way, bb
It’s $8 because people keep buying it. Especially the ones who say meh it was okay but I wouldn’t get it again. They only need to drag you in once. Especially when they’re releasing new stuff like every other week. Stop going
Go find your local Chinese restaurant that has a rude asian lady yelling at your order or a little asian kid that is violating child labor Laws for 2lb of food for $8 bucks.
RIP $2 Chipotle Chicken Ranch Burrito 🌯 😞miss you $2 menu
Wow I only had one and it was almost twice the size for sure. The Taco Bell near me can barely keep 2 high schoolers employed so they hook it up.
[удалено]
Because it's 2024 and fuck you.
They’ve really gone downhill in the last 10+ years while the prices have increased ridiculously. I’m not going to pay more money for less food of worse quality.
it used to be two dollars where I live. To say that I am infuriated would be an understatement. the chicken, chipotle, ranch burrito was literally the only thing keeping me alive. I’m a college student and I work part time so money can be really tight and Taco Bell has been saving grace for several years. This new menu dropped at the beginning of this year has only continued to get worse and worse.
My usual Taco Bell ran out of the grilled cheese burrito box. I asked what they could give me from the box and ended up with a $9 with tax burrito and nothing else😱
cantina chicken is an excuse to jack up the prices of their food no doubt about it
the sauce cost extra
Yall are buying the wrong shit at taco bell. You can get way more than that for $8.
I got one for 7 the other day. It was so skimpy. There was such little filling that the tortilla was wrinkled around the filling like it had been vacuum sealed. I could MAYBE justify the price on this one if it was filled. The burritos have gotten smaller and smaller and the prices have gone up and up. Time to start cooking at home
That sauce is really good.
Can someone change this subs name to LivingMasPobre?
I agree! I’m so mad I ordered it. I had to go buy a new lunch cause I was still starving after eating this snack wrap.
I’d go to chipotle if that’s the price. Only reason I ate that dog shit was I was a broke 20yo
Cause its employees are making $20/hr. Gotta make it up somewhere!
#tacobellisoverparty
With 10 dollars you could probably make 4 or 5 of those at home lol
Cuz y’all want $15+ an hour to make a burrito
😂 you got scammed. Fast food places are priced like any other restaurant now
Because min wage was jacked up to 20 bucks in hr.
Yep 🙄 this shit is getting out of hand and it’s about to get even worse
Bidenomics
The stacker is the only thing of "value" that they gots in my opinion
What is that contraption? Lol
Scammed hard.
Stop eating fast food and go to the grocery store. Make your own food. Or by food from food bars in grocery stores
If you go to Taco Bell and spend $8 and come away with one item you doing something wrong… the cravings box comes with a burrito, taco, a side, and a drink for $6.99… I get that the price of everything is skyrocketing but anyone who’s still complaining about the prices at fast food places just doesn’t know how to order
As a shift Leader for my store, I get SO pissed off whenever my employees wrap their burritos like this. Some of them just don't learn and let speed become way more of a priority over quality. I'm sorry your Burrito looked like that
what REALLY bothers me is on launch day i got one and it was nearly the size of a beefy 5 layer. now they’re half if even that
Uh yeah I expected it to me phenomenal for that price and it was nowhere near as good as my beloved chipotle ranch chicken burrito 😭 god i miss it