There’s a reason Taco Bell corporate doesn’t put their number on the receipts anymore and it’s horribly managed stores like this. Last week I went in on Monday for lunch. It was around 130pm. I ordered two seven layers with no dairy and a regular bean burrito with no cheese. While he was waiting for my order I heard someone on the line say “that order doesn’t have sour cream” and the person on the line shrugged and put it in the bag. Turns out it was my order. The funny part is that the sour cream wasn’t on the seven layers that typically come with it, that I would at least understand. No, this lady got creative and added it to the bean burrito, where that isn’t even an option unless you customize, so I have to assume they did it on purpose, because I can’t imagine a human adult making that mistake, being told by a coworker it’s wrong, and throwing it in the bag anyway. And speaking of bags, we pay tax to eat in, give us a tray. Do your job?
That’s not even the best part. Silly me, because I was with others that ended up wanting to go there, I went back the next day! I know, I must have a humiliation kink. I never complained about the mistake or lack of integrity that had occurred the day before, but luckily this Taco Bell always has a way to ruin your lunch…
So if you walk into this store they will not acknowledge you. You have to use the kiosk. It’s corporates move and a changing world, look I get it. Not the workers fault. However, when the kiosks don’t work? You might have to work, which is foreign to most of the people at this store.
On this day, Tuesday the 30th of September, the kiosks were in fact not working. It told me my payment didn’t go through and to see a cashier to pay. In doing that, two other customers had issues and had to get help. When the tech doesn’t work, take the order… the manager, if you can call it that, was hateful and rude. They didn’t say the words I’m sorry once to anyone that had an issue, which was every single customer in the lobby for the half hour I was there. When your leadership fails at customer service 101, it’s no wonder the burrito artists back there can’t figure out how to put beans in a tortilla.
After my mediocre lunch with a crappy experience due to hateful management and mediocre customer service, I realized that my initial payment HAD gone through, and I was charged twice for the privilege of eating stale rice and getting barked at by a bad manager. Not great.
After the payment was taken twice I called the store several times. No one answers the phone. Not once in a week did a human being answer the phone at a restaurant. Incredible, but consistent.
I lodged a complaint online, and it was acknowledged, but never answered despite providing the details.
You can keep the 8 bucks and use it train a new manager. In the meantime I want to thank you for breaking my of my Taco Bell habit. As a vegetarian it’s a great option on the road or in a pinch but it’s not with the sadness I have for the future of humanity. I know you don’t care, corporate doesn’t care, I get it, society is kinda crumbling. That being said, why not take a little pride in your job? A simple “good afternoon “ or “I’m sorry” goes a long way, and if you can’t figure that out or how to put three things in a tortilla and roll it, I feel terrible for you.
I’d say do better, but from kiosk to corporate you’ve proven you’re incapable of, so if I ever want a corporate burrito of disappointment, I guess I’ll be getting it at chipotle from now on.