Taco Bell

Food: ⁵⁄₅
Service: ⁰⁄₅
Cleanliness: ³⁄₅
Décor & Style: ³⁄₅
Why are all Tacobell’s drive-​through so slow? Waited 25 minutes. Happened twice, not coming back, ever. Once shame on me, twice shame on all Taco-Bell’s.
The Meridian Location’s service is worse!

It’s a Taco Bell. So amazing, right? Well for some reason I couldn’t find it listed as being on this site, and could only find the address on Taco Bell’s official store locator if I searched Bethany, OK instead of OKC. It’s only a year or so old so I guess that’s why?
Well the food is typical of a Taco Bell. The location is pretty terrible because it’s right off the highway where I have to see it almost daily. This is bad because I end up wanting to eat their burritos and tacos on a daily basis. Luckily I remember that their parking lot is less than amazing, and that I need to not eat fast food all the time.
Problems with the parking lot: The entrance/​exit is not left-​turn friendly during busy hours. Of course if you’re smart you can just turn right and turn into one of the many shopping centers around the area to turn around if need be. Also, the exit is kind of a mini zig-​zag so sometimes maneuvering is troublesome. (mostly this is an issue if some jerk doesn’t arc their exit to allow proper entry by a fellow taco muncher, resulting in their vehicle blocking off most of the solo entry/​exit spot. Or maybe you are that jerk, who knows right?)
As with just about every Taco Bell I’ve been to (and that’s probably a zillion or two) they are prone to botching your order. I don’t really get it, I suppose it’s because everything is the same 7 ingredients in a different order so it gets confusing? I’m always as happy as I can be explaining my order to the cashier «blah blah blah, no lettuce, please make sure my Taco SUPREME is minus lettuce ONLY. I still want everything else, including the sour cream and tomatoes.»
Now I wouldn’t normally be that forward, but I’d say about 50% of the time I eat at a taco bell and get a supreme taco, I get yes lettuce, no tomatoes, or no veggies, or no sour cream… It’s a delicate process I suppose to slather some «meat stuff» into a shell, toss in some cheese, a squirt of sour cream from their industrial caulking guns, sprinkle some tomatoes on it, and wrap it up. So here is my latest adventure in Taco Belling (at this location even:
Order the new Fiery Taco Box, plus some items for my wife. I want:
No lettuce on the Fiery Doritos Locos taco Supreme.
No lettuce or onions on the burrito.
and the extra taco (not supreme) to come AS IS, but made soft. (this is for my 2 yr old daughter, who isn’t a crunchy fan)
The cashier is LITERALLY on her first day. She was really sweet, and verified everything with me like 8 times, and to her credit: She made sure with another employee that she did it correctly, and SHE ENTERED IT PERFECTLY. (I checked.)
So my wife’s food is fine, but my Fiery Taco Box. Well first thing I notice: There’s 4 items. Everything I ordered, plus a regular crunchy taco nobody ordered/​wanted. (not listed on the receipt, but whatever.)
Second thing I notice: Lettuce on my Fiery Taco Supreme. FML. I take it back, assure the cashier she rang it in correctly, she goes to the kitchen and tells them she needs a new one made: «Fiery Doritos Locos Taco Supreme without the lettuce.» I receive apologies from like 3 employees, and they hand me a new taco, and ask me if I’d like to keep the «bad» one as well. I accept, as my wife wants to try it, and likes lettuce.
I get to the table and open my taco: FML. No lettuce. No Tomato. No Sour Cream.
I return to the counter, and the employees look at me like «oh god, what now?» I laugh and explain «there’s no tomatoes or sour cream on my taco now.»
The (I’m assuming, I didn’t catch his name tag) manager, a kind well spoken gentleman approaches, allows me to keep THAT taco, and announces «third time’s the charm, so I’m going to make you THREE of these tacos ON THE HOUSE.» And he did. I explained it was a simple mistake that happens all the time at taco bells, and he snapped back «Yeah, but it shouldn’t happen because it’s so simple. Please accept my apologies.»
I did. I also ended up with FIVE DAMN FIERY DORITOS LOCOS TACOS. Man, I didn’t know what to do. My wife and I couldn’t eat everything, so we ended up with a crunchy taco, 2 fiery supremes (made the way I like them) and a gordita crunchwrap or something my wife ordered in a togo box. Made a wonderful 4^th meal.
What’s awesome, is almost this exact thing happened with the original Doritos Locos Nacho Cheese tacos, except I only ended up with 2 extra free tacos.
TL;DR version: Prone to screwing up your orders (just about every Taco Bell is) but amazing customer service, friendly, and willing to stuff you full of so much free food you might just lose your belt.