Taco Bell incoming

zell12

Dunshaughlin opening September - M&S Food shop-in-shop, a new Braeburn Coffee Café, a Burger King, and Crafted, Applegreen’s new deli offering

https://www.irishexaminer.com/business/companies/arid-41685954.html

murpho999

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123715543#Comment_123715543

Thnaks, I l know where not to go. I hate how Irish motorway services have been handed over to fast food franchises. I hope Taco Bell crashes and burns. Awful food.

Potential-Monke

I'll try it once at least, and will give a verdict then, but not driving to Meath for it... will wait until a few places open closer.

The food may be shyte, but if its cheap it'll do well. People have proven they'd rather cheap over quality, seeing as Supermacs is still popular even though the quality has decreased and price increased, but still cheaper than other places, even at €6.25 for the MightyMac, a 3 bread burger with stale lettuce, lumps of onion, "ketchup" and plastic cheese with 2 of the thinnest frozen burgers ever invented. And only 80c more to add bacon flavoured plastic that replaced actual rashers but went up in price... in case ye can't tell, I'm not a fan of Smacs mainly due to the ignorance and tightness of the owner.

Generations have been brought up on takeaways. But even cooking at home is gone so expensive that its sometimes not worth the effort. Its only cheaper if you eat mainly salad, but even at €6 a salad bowl thats crazy money for food that my food eats...

Most Mexican places I've gone to are also too expensive for what you get. The joy of eating out is gone due to greedflation. I'm all for more competition because these companies are cashing it in, laughing the whole way to the bank while selling shyte at high prices. So even if Taco Bell is crap, if they can do lots of food for not a lot of money, they'll win. Then again, I know people who would spend more in Smacs to get an inferior version of what these independent "smash burger" places that have popped up all over the place in recent years offer.

Flinty997

I've only had it once about a billion years ago in the states. My memory was it was ok. Not terrible, not amazing.

What's a good place for a taco today?

JupiterKid

Taco Bell's fare is absolute muck.

I tried it a couple of times from when I lived in the States in the late 90s for a year and unless it has improved markedly, I will be giving it a very wide berth. I've heard that the first Taco Bell will open in the new M3 motorway services near Dunshaughlin in County Meath - I wish them well but I'm not sure that Irish people will take to it.