You want to feel a little bit better about people?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Read the reviews for this Taco Bell: http://www.yelp.com/biz/taco-bell-chicago-5

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[zen_magick]

Those reviews are amazing!

For a Taco Bell?   

[Cain]

I want to feel good about this.  It sounds like a really amazing place to go get a meal.

However, I read this story yesterday about how Pret A Manger gets its own staff to give the customer a great experience - by running a totalitarian workplace regime where happiness is enforced and people get docked pay for not being smiley and cheerful and energetic enough.

I hope that's not the case here, but I can't help but think of it...

[Richter]

(OK, yes, could be troll.  That said...)

This obviously mus be stopped.  Poor service can be dismissed or improved, but exemplary service sets standards that a low-budget, grade C taco outfit is going to be impossible to keep up at any other location.  The employees will be farmed out to other locales to see if they are "Fixer" material, and the manager will get an influx of fuckups from the rest of the district.  Spread the wealth, or at least normalize the experience again...

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

(OK, yes, could be troll.  That said...)

This obviously mus be stopped.  Poor service can be dismissed or improved, but exemplary service sets standards that a low-budget, grade C taco outfit is going to be impossible to keep up at any other location.  The employees will be farmed out to other locales to see if they are "Fixer" material, and the manager will get an influx of fuckups from the rest of the district.  Spread the wealth, or at least normalize the experience again...

Fortunately, I think some Taco Bells are franchise stores.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

taco bell

[P3nT4gR4m]

Question: Isn't Taco bell, like a fast food joint? Doesn't that mean they serve up disgusting processed shit as a default? Pretty sure I couldn't give a fuck if the staff in BK or Macdonalds were friendly and courteous or the normal, drugged to hell, borderline suicidal fucks who shovel garbage across the counter cos I'm desperate for enough calories to get me to somewhere there's food.

[LMNO]

Says the guy who's national food is the "King Rib", whatever the fuck that is.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Our national food is haggis. It's a cultural thing. I wouldn't expect you to understand. Or survive one.

[P3nT4gR4m]

And anyway, what's your national food, yankee scum? Raw cholesterol with cheese and carcinogens?

[LMNO]

THICK-CUT BACON, BITCH.

[P3nT4gR4m]

That's not a national food that's a global one. Aliens arrive ... "We come in peace, take me to your larder" ... BACON!!!! ... "OMG!! WE HAVE A HOLIDAY ON ALPHA CENTAURI DEDICATED TO BACON!" ... Finest food in the galaxy!

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Question: Isn't Taco bell, like a fast food joint? Doesn't that mean they serve up disgusting processed shit as a default? Pretty sure I couldn't give a fuck if the staff in BK or Macdonalds were friendly and courteous or the normal, drugged to hell, borderline suicidal fucks who shovel garbage across the counter cos I'm desperate for enough calories to get me to somewhere there's food.

Yes.

And sometimes, I NEED IT.

[Richter]

(OK, yes, could be troll.  That said...)

This obviously mus be stopped.  Poor service can be dismissed or improved, but exemplary service sets standards that a low-budget, grade C taco outfit is going to be impossible to keep up at any other location.  The employees will be farmed out to other locales to see if they are "Fixer" material, and the manager will get an influx of fuckups from the rest of the district.  Spread the wealth, or at least normalize the experience again...

Fortunately, I think some Taco Bells are franchise stores.

I hope so, and hope he doesn't get any crap from corporate.  In fact, whoever is running this has the luck to at least have a good crew on hand, if not personal leadership skill.  If they can keep that vibe and that service going they could hock better product as a local fixture, not just an exceptional branch.