I used to eat fast food a lot, with a previous job and before covid. Generally not healthy, no, but when it's lunchtime and you're in the field with little time, food options can be few.
So - believe it or not - I hadn't had Taco Bell in about three years. Stopped in at one yesterday ... though in an upscale area, place was filthy. Tables, floors covered with napkins, sauce packets, receipts etc. Undeterred, I ordered an old fave, No1 combo with crunchy tacos supreme. Hand the order taker a $10 and she repeats herself.
"$10.74."
"Oh. I thought you said $7.74."
"Prices just keep going up," she shrugged. Forked out another buck. $11 for Taco Bell? Never in my life! Even if a person was starving, $10 at the Bell would've done it...
Sweeping a table clean enough to eat, I sat down and people-watched, but that's another story. This morning I checked. TB has raised prices 10% this year, and 14.5% the year before. So, my old fave is up about 25%.
Incrementalism. A frog leaps out of boiling water, but if it slowly simmers ... it's just a warm bath.
I guess if you went all the time you might not notice ... but at $11, I could have gone to a better (real) restaurant.
At what point does fast food become a non-option for you? It's real close here.
AA
So - believe it or not - I hadn't had Taco Bell in about three years. Stopped in at one yesterday ... though in an upscale area, place was filthy. Tables, floors covered with napkins, sauce packets, receipts etc. Undeterred, I ordered an old fave, No1 combo with crunchy tacos supreme. Hand the order taker a $10 and she repeats herself.
"$10.74."
"Oh. I thought you said $7.74."
"Prices just keep going up," she shrugged. Forked out another buck. $11 for Taco Bell? Never in my life! Even if a person was starving, $10 at the Bell would've done it...
Sweeping a table clean enough to eat, I sat down and people-watched, but that's another story. This morning I checked. TB has raised prices 10% this year, and 14.5% the year before. So, my old fave is up about 25%.
Incrementalism. A frog leaps out of boiling water, but if it slowly simmers ... it's just a warm bath.
I guess if you went all the time you might not notice ... but at $11, I could have gone to a better (real) restaurant.
At what point does fast food become a non-option for you? It's real close here.
AA