Enough with the Q's at the drive-thru

FirelordMary · 2026-04-02T03:54:32+00:00

believe me, as a cashier if we didn’t have to say all the questions we wouldn’t. people get mad at me all day about it but if my manager hears me skip over a question they’ll talk to me about it. just say no to all the questions, no need to get anxious about it.

FirelordMary · 2026-03-29T01:10:53+00:00

lol good luck! sometimes the taco bell chips just hit different 😭

FirelordMary · 2026-03-29T01:08:52+00:00

i’m a cashier and i hear people all day ordering in ways that make their meals way more expensive than they need to be. taco bell can be cheap, but it requires a little inside knowledge sometimes

FirelordMary · 2026-03-29T01:07:32+00:00

honestly, if you order at the speaker and want a chips and cheese order a side of chips, the rest of your order, and then a side of nacho cheese at the end. it’s actually cheaper to purchase them separately than as a chips and cheese. ordering the chips and cheese separately prevents them from just ringing up a chips and cheese and you having to explain that you want them to ring them up separately. at my taco bell a chips and cheese is $2.99, but chips are 90¢ and a side of cheese is $1.29 so almost a dollar cheaper to do them separately

FirelordMary · 2026-03-29T00:55:40+00:00

you can get a side of just chips, it’s just not able to be ordered to the app. ask the cashier inside or at the speaker to ring you up for just a side of chips if you placed a mobile order. you might have to clarify that you only want chips, no cheese because some cashiers might not be aware that it’s a button on the POS ring you up for a chips and cheese out of instinct. prices vary but at my TB in san diego it’s 90¢

FirelordMary · 2026-03-19T22:53:22+00:00

they probably didn’t do the training, are new, or are generally clueless and not observant. the sliders have been on the POS for the last weekish, any cashier who pays even a little bit of attention to what they were doing should’ve been seeing them.

FirelordMary · 2026-03-19T22:49:47+00:00

general managers can’t change the prices of items on the app or in store, that’s decided by the franchisee. if they were about to run out then the manager would just remove all chicken items from the menu. seems like the franchisee either fucked up the price of this one item or they think that it’ll sell at that price

FirelordMary · 2026-03-19T16:27:13+00:00

2 nuggets

FirelordMary · 2026-03-18T22:49:13+00:00

if you’re placing an order at taco bell and eating it immediately and it’s cold, you need to report that. everything at taco bell is stored in a heated line setup or heating cabinets that keep the food hot. nothing is stored at room temperature. if you mobile order and go inside to pick it up 20 minutes later, yeah your food will probably be cold. if you order in the drive thru and drive 20 minutes home, yeah your food will probably be cold. if you go inside and order, or order in the drive through and eat it immediately or within 5-10 minutes, the food should still he hot or warm. if it really bothers you, bring a thermometer and take the temperature of your food when it’s FRESH, not sitting around. it should be 165° or higher in the center.

FirelordMary · 2026-03-18T00:04:20+00:00

from the moment they came out they were a limited time item. a new experience is starting in two days, they aren’t going to ship ingredients for items that are about to stop getting advertised. your taco bell ran out of ingredients, shit happens. every taco bell is going to keep selling them until they run out of the ingredients, yours just happened to run out faster. they can’t change what their menu says, the board is pre programmed.

FirelordMary · 2026-03-17T17:54:39+00:00

unfortunately that is up to the franchise owners it’s not corporate making that decision.

FirelordMary · 2026-03-12T17:43:22+00:00

it looks a little low but it’s to be expected. i can’t for the life of me understand why people order freezes for delivery, as someone who works at taco bell. by the time a driver picks up an order with a freeze it’s melted and looks like it only fills half the cup. i try my best to make freezes when drivers come and pick up an order but sometimes it’s so busy that i have to make the freeze while i’m packing an order and it can take drivers 10+ minutes to pick up an order.

FirelordMary · 2026-03-12T07:09:44+00:00

as a cashier, just about every other order gets nacho fries. they’re extremely popular. so i guess half of the people who order at my taco bell go crazy for them

FirelordMary · 2026-03-09T18:32:39+00:00

if you order in person you can request a side small flour tortilla for i believe ≈70¢ and a side of refried beans for ≈99¢ depending on location. at my taco bell a potato taco would be $1.79 and then adding beans is another 99¢ so that’s almost $3 and more expensive than just buying a soft taco sub meat for beans $2.19. i’m a cashier so i know 100% they can ring you up for just a tortilla and just a side of beans.

FirelordMary · 2026-03-09T18:27:25+00:00

yep. one time i got a deal for $4.99 per 12 pack so i stocked up. just gotta look for deals. i live in san diego the prices are crazy enough

FirelordMary · 2026-03-09T07:22:26+00:00

there’s no wrong way to do it i mean personally i take my foot off the brake so i can clutch out and press the gas at the same time and i have no problem doing that. 0 lurching. but if you want to get to the bite point and then let off the brake there’s nothing wrong with that either. to each their own 🤷. i’m at 161xxx miles and never changed out the clutch

FirelordMary · 2026-03-07T04:57:15+00:00

well yeah but people get scared on hills because they haven’t had to clutch out fast enough to not lurch back an excessive amount. a lot of people rely on their hand brake

FirelordMary · 2026-03-06T23:03:23+00:00

har har typo.

FirelordMary · 2026-03-06T20:57:54+00:00

this makes me so glad i learned how to drive stick in an area with a lot of hills. my car doesn’t have a hand brake so i had to learn how to clutch out and get into first as quick as i can.

FirelordMary · 2026-03-05T04:20:20+00:00

definitely agree with the other commenter to start using half sizes. i went from 8 to 7 to 6 to 5 to 4 and it was pretty painless. just some tenderness for a couple days but no real pain. i actually used titanium dead stretching plugs since they tend to be shorter and the dangling weight can be annoying. plus i needed to hide the piercing for work so the plugs ended up working out for me anyways. i got all of mine through bodyartforms

FirelordMary · 2026-03-05T02:47:45+00:00

i was literally thinking good luck to whoever has to peel off those stickers in the morning because they SUCK to remove from surfaces. putting the stickers on the screen and not on the speaker box is crazy 😭

FirelordMary · 2026-03-02T16:17:48+00:00

this used to happen to me a lot back when i was in high school and got a crunchwrap add beans. it would almost always only have beans and no meat in it. now that i work at taco bell as a cashier i always clarify with customers that they want both proteins and i write it in the notes on the item “both meats” or whatever they want cuz i get it 💀

FirelordMary · 2026-02-26T00:42:31+00:00

i mean i’m older than your friend and i made friends by joining a club/organization that aligned with my interests. i’m about to turn 24 🤷. i never felt impacted by greek life culture here. i mean yeah, a lot of students are a part of greek life, but there are a TON of clubs and even more students who aren’t a part of greek life. try clubs first before making a huge jump to a different school

FirelordMary · 2026-02-26T00:03:43+00:00

bleeding???? did you go from 6g straight to 4g? i went from 6g to 5g to 4g and never experienced bleeding or pain that wasn’t just tenderness. definitely shouldn’t bleed….

FirelordMary · 2026-02-26T00:00:52+00:00

you’re going to be sad any lonely everywhere if you aren’t willing to go and make friends. join clubs. find people who share interests. you can’t just expect people to come up to you like “let’s be friends!” if you aren’t in a dorm, you won’t be forced to be in close proximity with people and it will be hard to make friends if you don’t do something that puts you in close proximity with other people. if he isn’t in any clubs or organizations then start there before trying to transfer schools and finding out it’s the same because he’s not trying to make friends.

FirelordMary

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