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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
