Employees of Taco Bell, what do you recommend or hate making?
I just got a location near me and I’m curious about your thoughts. I currently get the bean burrito and fiesta veggie burrito as they’re cheap and vegetarian. What items do you like making or hate making? Any recommendations?
Not a taco bell employee but a fellow vegetarian who loves tb. My favorite is a crunchwrap with refried beans instead of meat and their spicy potato soft tacos! Also a chalupa with black beans instead of meat.
You can sub anything with meat for beans! I've never been given a hard time but for all I know they completely hate me lol.
You can ask for "fresco style" and they'll sub any dairy for diced tomatoes to make it vegan.
This...all of it! I love the spicy potatoes, crunchwrap, so many choices.
I do the crunch wrap with beans instead of meat and I'm not a vegetarian by any stretch, is just so much better that way IMO. The spicy potato taco is also one of my favorites.
I'm convinced the spicy potato taco is the best thing on their menu honestly. I never hear anyone talking about it.
Yeah, I had a vegan friend who would go there a bunch. She said it was the one place she felt comfortable going when she didn't make it herself.
By far one of the best fast food places for a filling vegetarian meal!
When I worked there, I absolutely hated when people would come in and order hard tacos and sub the beef for beans. The little trowel we had to use for the beans wasn't designed with the hard shells in mind. We would either break the shell trying to get the beans in, or burn our hands when the hot beans inevitably fell out.
Wow, people do that? I feel as if beans would either soften the shell to breaking point or otherwise just tumble everywhere with their roundish shape
Taco Bell's refried beans are a paste. I do not think they would soften the shell any more than the meat.
True, I guess I was being too zealous with my usage of the term "beans"
Refried beans are beans.
I'm convinced that, around where I live, they give up on putting beans in whatever I order and just feed me the "we're out of beans" excuse. Maybe they really are out, but I have received beef in items I ordered with beans so often and at so many different locations and times that I think they just don't care to do it.
I would write to them if they keep being "out of stock" of the beans! They should totally have beans as I think those are even in some meat items.
Used to be a manager, and thankfully left right before they brought back the Mexican Pizza...
That thing was / is torture to make, and always breaks or is put in the bag sideways (because it literally does not fit in the largest bag if you try and just place it in straight down).
The Nacho Fries comes in a close second though, but mostly because frying it essentially halved our capacity to fry literally anything else throughout the day.
The Mexican pizza is my favorite and I’ve never gotten one that was broken or sideways in the bag except maybe once in twenty years. And there’s probably over a hundred Taco Bell’s where I live. It also fits in the bag just fine.
What makes it “torture” to make?
I'm feeling guilty because that's one of the few things I like from Taco bell.
Was a former employee. I remembered having a little difficulty making crunchwrap supremes due to the inner shell occasionally ripping the outer tortilla and the occasional fuckup when wrapping it and the fillings just fall out of it before placing it on the griddle. We collectively groaned when repeat customers in the drive thru order 2+ taco party packs.
Sorry, y'all.
That's all I ever get when I go to Taco Bell since they ditched the original grilled stuft burrito. 🤷🏻♂️
My friend who used to work there told me her least favorite thing to make was the Mexican pizza because of all of the layers.
That's kinda what I figured. Something that has fewer steps would be easy. I was curious about some thoughts on ingredients if they hated working with certain ingredients, etc.
Haven't worked there myself, but had friends who did and they showed me how to order a lot of shit they don't actually have on the menu anymore because they do still have all the necessary ingredients. Like the enchirito. They even still have green onions for it, which afaik is the only thing that ever used them.
Tell me your secrets of the enchirito, this will make my SO's day when I tell them.
Order a Burrito Supreme with extra beef and cheese. Ask for a side of red sauce, sour cream, and nacho cheese sauce. Then get two sides of the three-cheese blend and a side of green onions (onions may vary from location to location). Assemble yourself.
You're the best, thank you!
Never worked there but the Taco Bell subreddits were daily reads for me. I think the most consistently hated were basically any of the gimmick options, like the $1 Crunchwrap Sliders were my favorite food ever when they were around, but I was mortified to learn the employees HATED making them. A lot of the grilled stuff seems to be difficult. Nacho fries, though I don't remember why. I know ordering a bean burrito grilled was considered a douchebag move, but I think they removed the option to do that.
Damn. That's too far. Grilled stuff burrito was my favorite thing.
Veg options I loved:
Cheesy gordita crunch with beans, sub nacho cheese doritos locos taco and creamy jalapeño sauce (quesadilla sauce)
7 later burrito with nacho cheese added
Cheesy fiesta potatoes, add creamy jalapeño sauce and mexican blend cheese
Cheese quesadilla with extra sauce
Nachos and cheese with an additional side of creamy jalapeño sauce
Crunchwrap supreme with beans/bla ck beans
My buddies son works there and hates to make the Cheesy Gordita Crunch because of the layers...
The layers is what makes it so good though
I'm not vegetarian, so not sure if you can modify to make it work for your dietary tastes. But my go to order is 2x 5 layer burrito, 1 nacho bell grande with extra cheese and guac, and cinna-twists.
I’m not a fan of Taco Bell meat so I’ll be watching this thread for when I’m drunk and hungry.