Taco Bell's menu hit by nationwide shortages of ingredients

[underpants]

The menu at Taco Bell may be a bit limited these days, with the quick-service restaurant chain warning customers that it might not be able to fulfill their current appetite hankerings.

"Taco Bell employee told me there was a 'national shortage of everything right now,' and I have decided to get my economic news exclusively from drive-thru employees from now on," tweeted one patron of the Mexican-food themed eatery.

More specifically, a multitude of complaints on social media pointed to a lack of beef, chicken, hot sauce and 10-inch tortillas at the Yum Brands division, which runs nearly 7,500 Taco Bells, most of them in the U.S.

"Taco Bell has a 'district-wide shortage of hot sauce...times are tough," tweeted one patron. "For anyone craving Taco Bell tonight, I'll save you the drive, they don't have chicken or beef, national shortage or something. I just ate black beans in a hard shell," complained another in a separate tweet.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taco-bell-menu-ingredients-shortage-chicken-beef-lettuce-tortillas/

[Funtatlaguy]

1. When they dropped their delicious caramel apple empanada, I was done.

[Tarc]

2. Well, at least the nation's septic systems will get a repreive

[Probatim]

3. "Mexican-food themed eatery". That's the most polite description of Taco Hell I've ever read.

[underpants]

5. " quick-service restaurant chain "

Not fast food now

[sir pball]

29. That's been the term of art for decades nt

[underpants]

40. I hadn't heard it but then I've been in a hurry

These last few decades.

[sir pball]

42. It's definitely a deep industry thing

I think Dave Thomas actually invented it; I saw my first copy of QSR Monthly in...98 if memory serves. It does encompass more than "fast food" now, the entire "fast casual" concept is absolutely QSR too.

[Buns_of_Fire]

4. First it was Chick-fil-A sauce shortages. Now it's Taco Bell.

When Twinkie shortages start, I'll know Western Civilization is on its last legs.

[underpants]

6. Um

Twinkies got vulture capitalismed

[Buns_of_Fire]

10. They're a little chewier now, but still tolerable with some hot sauce.

(Everything I know about cooking, I learned from Zippy.)

[Captain Zero]

34. Panda Express too. Sadly, we are becoming a Sauceless Society.

Panda handing out sad packets of Teriyaki sauce, instead of the cooked in the kitchen sauce.
Not even worth the trip now.

[catbyte]

7. I can't remember the last time I went to Taco Bell. I think it was about a decade ago

while my husband was still alive. He was a vegetarian and he liked their Mexican pizzas without the meat. I think I heard they discontinued them, though. It's the only thing I liked, but the cats did appreciate us getting them a hard shell taco with sour cream minus the lettuce. I'd break it up for them and they ate it all, lol.

[wnylib]

30. Mexicats?

[Apollo Zeus]

8. Got an ad for Taco Bell while viewing this thread

Gotta love artificial intelligence!

[NCDem47]

9. There is a bad joke in this somewhere.

Ripe for snark.

[edhopper]

11. Well at least there aren't shortages

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on actual food.

[Blue_true]

23. ..

[Ferrets are Cool]

12. This won't affect me, but WOW

This is very disturbing.

In hindsight, it may well affect me in the grocery store, so double wow.

[wnylib]

31. Yes, I hope this is not a harbinger

of greater shortages and supply chain breakdowns due to delta spread. We get a lot of foods and other items from countries that are hard hit. Not to mention the slaughterhouses and meat processing and packing plants in our own delta riddled red states. And the effects on farming (produce) in red states.

[Captain Zero]

35. harbinger? Let's hope it's not a hamberder.

nt

[wnylib]

36. I'd gladly take a hamberder over a harbinger

of supply shortages.

[AllaN01Bear]

13. i remember when they started to water down everything in their menu.

esp the beef and bean burrito. that was my fav. found some "real mexian" restraunts and their super burrito is huge . a fellow who is payed to take me shopping and drs apts we have their enchalada plates mmmm filling. as for taco bell . bleh.

[Blue_true]

24. When they screwed up the pretty decent soft tacos (I loved the chicken ones, with guacamole),

I was done with them.

[Sneederbunk]

15. Had no idea there was a sawdust shortage.

[Klaralven]

17. Frito Lay worker abuse yesterday; Taco Bell shortages today; PepsiCo is going to hell!

[Javaman]

18. we laugh and joke about it, but this is a little disturbing.

fast food resturants corporate HQ's source this stuff months in advance to make sure there is a constant supply of produce and meat.

We we maybe seeing now is the after effects of the weird winter weather in texas or the hot baking heat in the west.

food supply chains were/are seriously effected by both situations.

this is just a small preview of what is yet to come nation wide

south texas and california supply this nation with a gigantic amount of produce.

[underpants]

19. Very good points.

[former9thward]

21. This has nothing to do with the weather.

It is the shortage of truck drivers nationally. No drivers, no supplies.

[Javaman]

22. so you don't think the drought at lake mead which supplies irrigation water for farmers

isn't a problem for northern california?

gotcha.

[former9thward]

28. Not for Taco Bell

Their problem, along with other similar places, is delivery. The product is there. Learn distribution.

[Javaman]

37. Holy cow. Do you honestly believe that Taco Bell is above droughts.

Wow. Just, wow.

We are done. It’s clear to me you haven’t the slightest clue as to what is happening out west.

[former9thward]

43. And you don't have the slightest clue about this country's distribution system.

[Blue_true]

25. Not only the Western USA, Western Canada, Mexico and Central American

nations are being hammered. In some Central American countries, maize crops are dying from either droughts or floods, people are desperate there, wondering whether they can put food on their tables.

[Aristus]

20. Horseshit, cardboard, and colonic viruses?

I'd think they could find those anywhere...

[Renew Deal]

41. They can be sourced in your imagination

You should call them.

[MissB]

26. I do wonder about flour production

There were some significant shortages of chlorine in some regions recently- for very different reasons. Drinking water and waste water plants were prioritized for any potential shortages.

A local flour company suggested there would be shortages because they couldn’t get the chlorine needed for cleaning.

All that being said, I’m not sad about Taco Bell’s current shortages.

[miyazaki]

27. Fine with me. Del Taco greater than Taco Bell.

[hunter]

32. If I walk a few minutes in any direction...

... I'll pass authentic Mexican restaurants and Taco Trucks, the kind that will sell you a deep fried fish with eyeballs you can eat, or organ meats.

Nevertheless I still have occasional cravings for Taco Bell food.

In the very most wretched days of my youth, living in my car in a church parking lot, or later in the garden shed of a crazy Vietnam War Vet, Taco Bell sustained me.

[Beacool]

33. Who eats that crap anyway?

Almost every town has at least one decent Mexican restaurant or food truck.

[LiberatedUSA]

38. Toilets everywhere sighed with relief.

[dogknob]

39. I live in Tustin, CA

There's the abandoned, mission-style husk of an old Taco Bell a few blocks from my place.

Two top-notch Taquerias within walking distance. One of them makes all their tortillas to order.
A Mexican supermarket and a smaller carniceria, also within walking distance.

But hey... It's not like this is Santa Ana...

A superb family-owned Vietnamese place that's been there for 18 years.
An authentic Italian deli, a classy Italian place (think "Big Night&quot , and great pizza...
...yeah also within walking distance.
The only Kolache Factory in the state of California (google it). One block away.
A cloth-napkins type of Greek place. Not a gyros place. This one does the flaming cheese bit.

An Indian grocery store. 3 blocks away.

I know I'm forgetting something.

Who the fuck needs Taco Bell?