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[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Most of the Taco bells by me have a $5.99 box. It's online only so you have to order it from your phone and pick it up at the counter. It comes with a drink, One of the heavier entrees, one of the generic entrees and one of the sides. I usually do a cheesy gordita crunch, five layer burrito, cheesy potatoes.

Seeing that the drink alone would be $2.45 that's one hell of a deal.

That's said, Taco bells are mostly independent and if you're in some location like LA you might be SOL.

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

drink alone would be $2.45

which is, itself, absolutely ridiculous.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Especially saying that Pepsi owns the brand.

I was buying 5 gallon syrup boxes from restaurant supply stores and making soda with my SodaStream. A good day I could approach the price of a sale 2 liter bottle. Assuming the cups lids and straws aren't free, The ice is nearly free, The carbonation is relatively cheap. They're probably making at least two full dollars profit per cup.

[–] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Add in the overhead:

  • Refrigeration (electricity or otherwise)
  • Labor ($7.25+; $15+ in some areas)
  • Insurance (In case you get sick from the soda, and you sue them)
  • Sanitation (outside contractor, with their materials, labor, and markups)
  • Maintenance (machine repairs, etc)

I wish I could agree they were making that much money. But when you include all the costs that they have to run just the soda machine, with all the varieties of soda that they have, they're not clearing that much profit per cup.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 week ago

When I worked at Roy Rogers in the '90s, our large cups cost us 25 cents with product. (On paper) They were $1.37 retail.

Accounting for inflation, $1.37 becomes $2.65.

That tracks squarely for a 48 cent cup If all of the things were equal.

I'm sure that number didn't include labor but at least we can see that things haven't really slid in fast food more than they were in the '90s. At least for this one item.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fast food restaurants pay less than a penny per ounce for soda.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Absolutely not true. Definitely not for Coke or Pepsi anyway. That wasn't even true in the '90s. Everybody's buying their crap from US foods and Sysco, and the bibs just aren't that cheap.

[–] Chozo@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It only seems like a deal because the in-store prices are artificially inflated to begin with.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

You know, yes I could probably make 20 of those meals for $30 at the grocery store. But in the realm of a McDonald's meal with a side and a dessert costing closer to 20 bucks, $7 isn't horrible in this economy.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Fast food, now with extra data theft, and push ads!

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's online only so you have to order it from your phone

Hard pass!

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, but I'm old enough to know that I don't want an app, extra spying, and push ads to buy a taco.

[–] shiroininja@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Oh I run domain blocking on a lot of that stuff. I don’t get push ads or anything.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Their anti-corp they shouldn't even be there in the first place :)