The Truth About Working At Taco Bell, According To Employees

Working fast food is a pretty thankless job, but many of us have had to do it at some point in our lives. If nothing else, it makes us more patient with employees when we’re ordering fast food ourselves, because we know how stressful it can get. You may have heard rumors about some managers at Taco Bell making $100,000 a year, and while there is some truth in this, it is far from the starting rate for management. Plenty of employees have weighed in about what it’s really like to work at Taco Bell, so let’s take a look at what they had to say.

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Serving time | 1:01
Average pay | 2:06
Six-figure salary? | 3:07
Pretty cool perks | 4:03
Under the influence | 4:44
Dorito demands | 5:56
Training videos | 6:42
Employee cooking | 7:35
Good coworkers | 8:38

[TheDollarKing]

YouTube is getting real comfortable with the double unskippable ads

[sapphire]

I worked at a Taco Bell many years ago. I was very young and my manager was 17. One day, I accidentally knocked over a 4 lb tub of shredded cheese. I expected to have to pay for the cheese. The manager took a broom, swept up the cheese from the floor and put it back into the tub. Then he added more cheese on top of it. I quit immediately because I wasn't about to serve anyone 'floor cheese'.

[laurengonzalez]

my first job was Taco Bell and I regret it.. The general manager used to call me even when I had the days off to go to work, I’m a minor and I worked 7 hours straight without getting the mandatory 30 minutes break because they were “running out of personal”. They expect you to do all the work by yourself. Horrible experience working for this company.

[PB-]

No matter how hard you work and even give them great results. Its still not good enough. They want more outta ya. And days off? Forget it. If your good at the position you work. Then you can expect them to ask you to stay later and call you in on days off constantly. The managers seem to think thier job is to sit in office and yell at employees. I have 10 years tb experience. And about 3 years of that is MIC experience. I never just sat in the office. Always out on the battlefield with my platoon. Lol

[yellwberry]

Taco Bell’s was one of my first jobs back in 1989. The meat did come in tubes, but all we did was simply put two in a pot and boiled it for a few minutes then drain the water and cut the plastic tubes open to dump the meat in it, the meat back then was way better than it is now. The environment was also quite different. Since our location was one of the only Taco Bell’s in the entire area, there would often be lines going out the door with customers. Sometimes they were fights, sometimes kids basically stayed in the dining room from the time school was over all the way until we were ready to close. If people worked out well, we would often get a $.25 raise every three months. As for a general manager making $100, 000 a year, that is definitely news to me.

[ivanhernandez]

I work at taco bell everything in this video was dead on specially the drunk and high customers making up most of the base also the coworkers u work with will determine how fast you can go

[Keepitsavage]

I was in a lawsuit because they wouldn’t pay us when we worked over time and they would beg us to please stay either because of constant call outs or they didn’t want to do all the work themselves

[terminallyonline]

if anyone is planning to work here-
shortest, easiest interview ever. just asked me why I wanted to work here.
lunch rush was crazy and would end with food all over our floor and apron
free meals and drinks every day
hard tacos especially dorito locos are very fragile especially when you're trying to go fast

[the_real_phresh]

Also the pay depends on the company that owns taco bell because I didn't get a big raise even though I was the only person that stayed after people quit even managers

[danim]

My first job, and I’ll NEVER be able to go back. Management sucks, customers are either a laugh or a pain in the ass, and the atmosphere was akin to high school. My coworkers I liked and I joked we were at “TB High”. Pay was SHIT, and raises were IMPOSSIBLE no matter HOW good you are.

[queenfufu]

The truth is their food is overrated, overpriced for mostly lettuce and tomato with no meat in their tacos. Go to a local Mexican restaurant it’s cheaper and tastes better.

[oklkllk]

I'm 16. And I started working at my taco bell a couple of months ago all the employees are lazy. Only my GM is the best Gm ever. Chill and understanding. I'm not trying to sound like an asshole or a cocky person. Ever since I started working there, we have passed every inspection ( while I was there ), we get good reviews. I am the fastest worker, and I can do 2-4 peoples jobs at once. I am only 16 and I am the best employee they have, yet the other managers treat me like garbage. I take orders, I cash people out, I make the drinks, I get the sauces, and food, and help in the kitchen all at once. Yes it may seem crazy, but I have a very strong work ethic. Ever since I was young, I go all out. Since I am very good at what I do, they give me the latest and most difficult shifts . During the day and morning when It's not busy there are like 7-9 employees working at once. When it starts to get late at night, there are usually only me and 2 other employees. And the other 2 employees are the cooks.. I take orders, cash people out, and all that . I even go inside the kitchen to help while doing these other things at once because of all the constant orders/uber eats. They change my schedule to fit their needs because I am good at what I do. When I call off for a day, I get bashed for missing one day. Yet the other employees who have been working there for years, and are way older than me miss up to 2 weeks, and return as if nothing ever happened. I know it's probably they expect more of me because I am the top employee. But that doesn't mean just come after me. Even all the managers hate to admit that I am the hardest worker, but my GM tells me. He said he will never fire me, and if I ever decide to leave, he will have to hire 3-5 people to replace me. It's not the taco bell that makes it hard. It's the customers. I live in a very ghetto area which means every second of the day I have customers who are completely rude. In any fast food place in general you will be treated and overworked like an animal. Yet they fail to realize I am a minor. It's the employees and customers that make it a living hell. Not taco bell itself.

[johnervin]

Local store has 5 employees left out of 22 from 12 months ago...3 are managers...2 are non promotable employees, 2 are non promotable shift managers..none have had a raise in 12 months...4 assistant managers have walked out in 30 days

[Xilent]

Who in the hell is cutting flips in a Taco Bell establishment in REAL life? I am glad they're good with us stoners. Taco Bell has saved me PLENTY of nights since they stay open here to 2am. I miss the chives they use to put on the Nacho Supreme back in the 90s

[nujacordep]

I got hired on March 1st and now I fry and work on the line during opening shift. I honestly do not really enjoy it and plan to leave soon.

[Poustork]

Taco Bell was my first job; it was a terrible experience. My crew mocked customers behind their backs, and my manager treated new employees like scum. The training videos didn’t prepare me for the stress I would endure.
I faced angry confrontations for things that weren’t explained in the first place (e.g., I got yelled at because I didn’t know where the contact list was— things like that), and I didn’t have time to ask questions. I felt useless and unwelcome.

I quit after three weeks.

[mikethemechanic]

As a teen in the early 90s. I worked at a grocery store and all of my friends in fast food. I never had to pay for lunch all through out HS. We always had a hookup. Got me fired my senior year of HS giving away free sandwiches 🥪

[JIBLUJ]

I can see how they confused it with a kfc. Here in so cal there’s Taco Bell’s with kfc also. 2 restaurants in one

[stevio]

When I worked for Taco Bell both 21 and 19 years ago, the meat was all in bags you cooked in a water bath to reheat and our beans were freeze dried and you just added 212 degree water to it. The way this video explains that it sounds like the beans are not premise, but they are

[MKGRFXSProductions]

I was there for over 3 years as a "food champion" and our grill and frig was not working on one side on the line. They had us make all of the orders on one side. Drive-thru, dine-in, along with pick up orders (like Door Dash and Uber Eats) with only 2-3 people on the line. And they expected the same speed in production. This went on for over a month. It was complete hell. Never will I work there again after that.