 Taco Bell #2702
I drove through this Taco Bell on a particularly miserable-hot day when I was stuck in horrible traffic and dying of hunger like those yucky people overseas. I can see no reason to make a return visit. Perhaps it is simply the memory of a drive home that took nearly two hours, or of sitting in a car with no A/C and getting more cranky with each passing minute from lack of food, but even with those factors falling outside the bounds of its control, this Taco Bell was outlandishly bad. The wait in the drive-through was hideous (about 15 minutes from the time I entered the line of cars to the time I got my order – and the line was not all that long). When I ordered my usual (bean burrito, no cheese; 7-Layer burrito, no cheese or sour cream), there was much undue confusion from the voice in the distorted menu speaker, so I knew from the get-go that my order would arrive to me incorrectly prepared. And of course, it did. The bean burrito, skimpily presented, was fortunately cheese-free (or else I may have had to go on that shooting spree I'm always talking about doing ever since I was voted "most likely to go on a shooting spree" at the year-end awards for my rage management support group), but the 7-Layer, confusingly, had cheese and sour cream, but no lettuce. There is NOTHING worse than being STARVED and getting a useless burrito! Even the Crusades seem extremely unimportant by comparison.
Perhaps even worse, given the heat of the day, was that they were out of extra-large cups, so I had to settle for a merely large Slice. Bad service, mediocre food prepared wrong, and a huge frustrating wait … that's what I look for in a restaurant experience. Fortunately, since this experience I have stopped going outside altogether, so I'm sure it will not happen again.
Review by La Fée, June 1999 |
