like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.
Simple things are going backwards but in a few hundred years Starbucks is gonna start giving handjobs. So thats kinda nice
I don’t think we have time for lattes.
I’ll start worrying when we get a TV show about a guy that likes getting his balls kicked, I could totally go for a latte!
Well you know all those boomers retiring ? They not doing work anymore but that’s not the worst of it. Now they are spending that retirement money instead of stashing it.
So they’re selling their stocks and now the companies need cash or demonstrate profit growth or else their share prices will tank.
Fiduciary responsibility, number has to get bigger
Oh it’s even more complex.
Who sells those napkins?
(Answer; Sysco. If a place is short on napkins, Sysco is turning the screws on the franchise owner).
Because you won’t do anything to hurt their bottom line, basically.
Stop eating at Taco Bell and make your own damn tacos at home. Better yet, go buy some from a family-owned taco truck instead.
I have taco tortillas. What do I put inside? Any good recipes?
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Taco trucks are so good right now. They’re not wasting money on unused dining room space so lots of meat!
This individualist approach simply does not work in practice as has been demonstrated time and again. The problem is a systemic one created by the mechanics and incentives of the capitalist economy. The solution is to work towards an economic system that doesn’t create perverse incentives inherent in capitalism.
Yeah, I don’t eat at Taco Bell when I’m in the mood for tacos from a street truck. It’s like two entirely different types of food.
There is Mexican food, there’s Tex Mex, then there is Taco Bell. They’re not really all comparable 1:1:1. I love me an al pastor taco from a truck, but some days I’m not in the mood for a real taco but rather the ersatz tacos they have at Taco Bell.
See my stoned Canadian ass doesnt have any taco trucks nearby, but the bell is always there
(but I gotta agree its far from authentic, its like a good smoked burger vs bigmac)
That’s a shame. I live in an area where I have access to authentic food of so many different ethnicities, and it is wonderful.
I can’t imagine how boring life would be without multiculturalism.
Extra points for ersatz
It’s because of the napkin gnomes. Nobody can ever catch them.
- Collect napkin
- ???
- Profit
Are you sure they didn’t just conscript the napkins for TP? It is Taco Bell after all…
Because the corporations write the rules. Literally; laws are written by corps and presented to lawmakers along with “gifts” and “campaign donations” - and implicit quid pro quo. They then present them to be voted upon, sometimes without even bothering to read them.
Exactly that. We are run by corporations more so than our elected officials. A lot of people fail to fully understand this fact. Corporations and capitalism is the answer to why everything sucks.
Ask for napkins, if they won’t give you any, pour a soda out on the counter and steal some of the paper towels they use to clean it up. (Actually don’t, this method isn’t nice for the workers)
It’s going to be a fun next few years. Corpo dickheads keep trying to make another nickel next quarter, but more and more people have had enough. If food is too expensive, people will start stealing it, and the police can’t be everywhere. Better hope there isnt 't some global pandemic or something that would suddenly make it acceptable to wear a mask in public.
We’re going to through the “enshittification” as a society. There was the Great Recession, the DotCom Bust, the Great Inflation, etc.
What is going to matter, is can we use this “enshittification” to benefit society by increasing wages, encouraging social mobility, protecting and enshrining rights for marginalized communities, etc. Building a more inclusive society.
this is the ultimate result of shareholder theory. after a company hits their efficiency stride based on its resources and theres no more innovation to fuel profit, what else can it do but make shit smaller/less effective/worse. we just need an economic theory that includes broader society in the scope of fiduciary duties that businesses will actually take seriously.
We’re at the end stage of capitalism.
Because your rights have been eroded by decades of deregulation and lobbying. And because publicly traded companies are legally required to maximize profits at all costs.
I’m with you, OP: for some reason, it’s the little things I notice.
I’m in grocery stores a lot. It used to be, there was a nice little seating area there to sit, drink my coffee and work. But now, because homeless people dared to duck inside a public-facing area to briefly escape the elements, they removed many of the tables and chairs and they’re now a big, empty space. Heaven forbid they add more seating, actually staff enough people to enforce a time-limit, etc; no, instead we all are worse off for it. But corporate profits have bigger been higher, so worth it, right!?
Take a trip to PA, all the grocery and convenience stores have added seating areas so that they can legally sell beer and wine lmao.
It’s because the rate of profit has a tendency to fall.
in dodge v ford the supreme court ruled that publicly traded companies must put profits first above their workers and the the build quality of their products.
Interesting…
Workers rights is against capitalism to just give you everything needed to decide if this system is good or bad.
That’s a bad take. The case actually affirmed business judgement rule: the idea that the guy running the company knows how to run it better than the shareholders. It’s part of why post-war America is considered the golden age of American manufacturing: Publicly traded companies invested in their employees and wages exploded across the board. A 100 year old court decision isn’t the primary driver on a problem that’s really only developed in the last forty or fifty years.
What do you expect from a place like Taco Bell? You are enabling their behavior by giving them money.
They’re starting the transition to the three sea shells
Napkins seem like a pretty normal thing to expect at any eating establishment.
Particularly one with the grease content of Taco Bell.
