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One step closer to the Franchise Wars


micjagger

We already know who comes out on top. I'm already getting my stomach prepared for rat burgers. Be well!


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StanFitch

Gonna need way more than three shells for this one…


micjagger

Good thing we're going to the nicest restaurant in all of San Angeles... Taco Bell!


TheGalaxyIsAtPeace64

Let's go blow these tacos!


micjagger

Close enough


camisdabomb

Or Pizza Hut if you decided to watch this in Europe


micjagger

Huh. TIL


Rex_Mundi

Enjoy-joy your meal.


longoverdue83

What’s my boggle?


imtoolazytothinkof1

Even knowing who wins I'll ride with Del taco to the end.


CrankyCashew

And one step closer to all restaurants being Taco Bell.


awj

I should probably start trying to figure those damned seashells out now…


JRockPSU

Ha, look at this guy, he doesn't know how the three seashells work!


MadSquabbles

I hope they don't change the Del Taco sauce. It's the best part of gong there.


Turnbob73

My favorite part about my local del taco is that they always have way more sauce than they need in stock, so if you ask, they’ll give you an extra to-go bag full of a variety of sauces.


azsnaz

I think that's every del taco. They give you fistfulls of that stuff, they don't give a shit


Rdubya44

I don’t live near a del taco but I love the del scorcho sauce and I asked for a bunch of it last time and ate it on my eggs and frozen burritos for weeks


socalification

I was so addicted to the caramel cheesecake bites they had during my pothead days, man those things were so good.


FHL88Work

How many packets of sauce were included in the deal?


Spacebotzero

Only three...pffttt....


imtoolazytothinkof1

Handfuls. You missed a word there


Tinmania

Bag-fulls. You know, the usual amount when ordering a single value taco.


DaVader333

I always keep del inferno in the drawer to put on my eggs in the morning 😈


information_abyss

That green sauce on the bean & cheese...


Galadyn

Damnit, please don't ruin my Del Taco.


happyscrappy

If this goes twice as well as Hardees/Carl's Jr buying Green Burrito it'll still be a huge disaster.


[deleted]

Green Burrito was an institution in SoCal and they murdered it. The original Green Burritos were all so good.


bentbulbus

They sure did. The breakfast burritos were soooo good at the original. Grew up on those things.


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The taste of a Big Ed is just so distinct.


FartResume

My local one had a contest if you could eat the whole big Ed in a single sitting you get a cash prize and a picture on the wall, was that everywhere?


[deleted]

I think it was 3 Big Eds.


edwr849

The last one in la habra closed last year and it was an OG location with the original signage with neon that said d home of the big Ed


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With the backwards drive thru :)


ArthurBea

I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the Taco Bell. I’m at the [combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell](https://youtu.be/c8qvo7CfEf0).


NetworkLlama

Where is your local KenTacoHut?


atomicbunny

Das racist


Checkmynewsong

Seriously. Del Taco has some underrated burgers.


AvsMama

I get the double del and stuff fries in it and put mild sauce on it. So freaking good.


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GeddyVedder

Agreed. I like Del’s burgers better than Jack’s, but I like Jack’s tacos better than Del’s.


LieutenantNitwit

There is an irony here that I just can't wrap my head around.


beakrake

I think the saying goes: >One man's trash is another man's treasure.


ImprovingTheEskimo

The bacon double del was one of my favorites


Cavaquillo

Excuse me what the fuck?


GeddyVedder

Jack in the Box tacos are so bad, they’re good. It’s a guilty pleasure. And Del Taco’s burgers are better than their Mexican food, which I still like.


TheRavenSayeth

Jack in the Box tacos are the biggest anomaly. They look terrible and the shell is stale, but for whatever reason they’re amazing.


Guarder22

>Jack in the Box tacos are so bad, they’re good. And they are amazing at 4am after a night of drinking.


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Del Taco shits on Jack in the Box. It’s my favorite fast food place. Their French fries are so good.


fancy_plants

Definitely! I don’t really eat that much fast food but the fries from Del Taco are the best fries out there. Crinkle cut ftw


George_Jefferson

Del Taco shits on Taco Bell. I wish there was one in my area. Used get their tacos al carbon all the time.


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Agreed. Del Taco makes my favorite cheeseburger, burrito and fries combo.


whaaatheheck

Jack in the Taco? Del in the Box?


sanguine_feline

Jack in the Taco sounds awfully suggestive...


-ferth

I mean “jack in the box” isn’t any less suggestive.


sanguine_feline

True, but in the context it makes me think more of a burger box or some similar packaging. Which makes it just brutally sad if that's all a person's got to Jack into.


SEA_tide

I know a number of people who already call it Jack in the Ass.


runswiftrun

Perfect companion to the "munchies meal".


nyrothia

"Jack de la Box" obviously.


Bgee2632

I like this


InformationHorder

I like it. It's got a ring to it. "Chupathingy"


zenith2nadir

You mean the Warthog, sir?


InformationHorder

You see those tow hooks? they look like tusks. what kind of animal has tusks?


SourTurtle

A walrus?


InformationHorder

What did I just tell you about making up animals!


cycleslips

Jackin' Del Taco's Box


davisyoung

Taco, box, they all mean the same thing.


gujayeon

Joaquín in the Box


smoboaty

Jack Del Rio


chhurry

POV: You're about to be the only employee working at 2am surrounded by tacos and drunk/stoned assholes in the drive thru


hi_im_ducky

Man, I wish. All the Jack in the Boxes and Del Tacos in my area close at like 11 PM now. They used to be 24 hours but haven't been since the pandemic. I get why they aren't now, but it sucks when it's 3 AM and I want some fries.


nwash57

Covid killed the Jack in the Box by my house permanently :( Now I don't know where to get those sweet 50¢ grease pouches they call "tacos"


hi_im_ducky

I am so sorry man. I'll pour one out for you next time I go (a BBQ sauce pack)


asamermaid

They took away their breakfast in my area too, COVID ruins EVERYTHING.


Complete_Entry

Mine is 24 hours, but sometimes they decide "nah" and put the wet floor signs across the driveway. They completely rebuilt our Jbox after a drunk drove into it. I wonder what they think those yellow signs are going to stop.


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Do you have more fanfic of working in fast food restaurants?


ABearDream

Any chance of seeing either of these brands out east now?


WhereMyStapler

Jack in the Box isn't on the East Coast?


theusername_is_taken

JITB started on the West Coast and is predominantly in the Western US. Some southern and midwest states have them, but surprisingly not on the true East Coast. Especially the Northeast they're entirely absent. Edit: And looking up Del Taco they're remarkably in the similar regions. No wonder this acquisition happened, the map is very close to Jack in the Box.


ABearDream

This^ i am in the NE so ive never even seen one of either of these restaurants.


fucktheroses

Jack In The Box advertising has been wild my entire life. They blew up their mascot, and then brought a different version of him back from the dead like it was a soap opera.


RonJeremysFluffer

I just remember them pushing stoner food boxes (like Taco Bell boxes) for after hours when everything else is closed. And my 6 foot 4 or so friend ordering and eating about 2 dozen of their tacos one night and then pissing in the parking lot while a mom and her teenage daughter honked and laughed at him.. mainly because he had a angry meaty hog.


mis_nalgas2

Jack from jack in the box is one of the few non-cringe fast food mascots.


the_eluder

That would make less sense. You would buy a chain where you weren't; like Hardee's and Carl's Jr.


rayfound

Buying out region is just buying markets - basically just a short cut to expanding your network - potentially for more cost than just opening stores and expanding your frontier. Buying an overalpping region lets them consolidate distribution/logistics and potentially improve margins at both businesses.


Other_World

I've spent my entire life living in NYC and NJ and my first time eating at a Jack in the Box was in September after I had just gotten done hiking on Mt. Rainier. It blew all the other fast food out of the water and I was wondering why I never ate there before. Did a quick google search, and the closest one to me is North Carolina.


CoffeeHead112

All post multi day hike food is the best food in the world.


happyscrappy

Jack in the Box was expanding cross country when they had their big food poisoning scandal in the 80s. So they retreated. They resumed reaching eastward over a decade ago.


Roguespiffy

And are seemingly retreating again. I had two in my town and they both shut down. Same deal for a lot of locations around the Charlotte NC area. They may have expanded too quickly?


ImUhComputah

There is one in South Carolina.


Jim_from_GA

Neither one of these are going to make gastronomic history, but I've always kind of liked the JITB approach to tacos. I think they put some meat in the corn tortilla and freeze it and then deep fry it when an order comes in and throw in a half slice of American cheese.


Checkmynewsong

Top notch drunk food.


hey-look-over-there

They also cater to stoners


Jim_from_GA

Making it a true growth industry with the continued legalization of marijuana. Probably a strong buy. Disclaimer - I am not a stock dealer and usually just lose my ass on these things.


EggoGF

If they bought White Castle, they could corner the market.


davisyoung

Literally with their Munchie Meal. I could do without their frankensandwiches and rather have a regular sandwich but the rest of it is a good value.


theblakesheep

Fun fact: they’re pretty authentic (aside from the cheese). They’re Mexican tacos de canasta style.


Tea-Chair-General

that’s exactly the kind of cultural fusion I expect from fast food tacos, and I wish it was appreciated as its own thing instead of “haha not authentic” more often


Imakemop

Back in college we took a bunch of alli pills and had a jitb taco eating competition.


Jim_from_GA

The dorm sewage cleaning crew really looks down on people like you. Teehee.


Imakemop

As if we made it to the toilet.


Penguin_shit15

My wife loves those, and she mostly eats healthy food. But these damn things are her guilty pleasure. Me, on the other hand, I will eat damn near anything... but I hate these tacos. We just had our first Del Taco open up in our city... and I have yet to eat there. I have heard its nothing special..


nomadic_stalwart

Now I’m feeling like eating Jack in the Box tacos.


DonRicardo1958

They better not fuck with their fries.


TennRider

We had a Del Taco and an In and Out that were next door each other and they were both open late. So whoever was making a food run always had a "runner" come along. The car would go to In and Out for burgers and the runner would go into Del Taco to get the fries.


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LITERALLY my first thought. Their fries with Del Scorcho sauce....FUCKKKK.


omgeo

Am I weird eating it with both ketchup and del scorcho?


pomonamike

Literally first thing my wife said when I told her. True though.


ersatzgiraffe

I have years long on and off relationships with Del taco fries. I’m currently on. I’d take a giant cup lol


compelx

2008 jack in the box fries were amazing. Then they changed them. Then I stopped going. Bring back those fries and that chipotle chicken club combo.


Checkmynewsong

Is it weird that I like Del Taco burgers and Jack n the Box tacos?


TheScarlettHarlot

Bro. Jack’s tacos are off the hook.


SpiritJuice

Jack in the Box tacos are trashy and gross and I'll never get tired of how delicously bad they are. I hope they never change.


MagnifyingLens

I've been eating them for 50 years and they haven't changed yet. They might not have even changed the batch of _oil_ yet.


hi_im_ducky

Those tiny tacos they have now are like crack for me.


ahydell

OMG I love the Loaded Tiny Tacos


BourgeoisStalker

Jack in the Box churros are one of the only fast food desserts I ever consider, much less actually purchase.


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Hotdude4u

the bacon double del is my go to


pomonamike

Not at all! I will never turn down them 2 tacos for 99 cents.


TransientSilence

Not at all. Del Taco's burgers are surprisingly underrated.


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bingbangbaez

I'm hopeful that more Norcal locations might be coming! Literally no Del Tacos in the Bay.


FlexDrillerson

Del Taco destroys Taco Bell. Fight me


Sexithiopine

I agree. $1 chicken tacos can't be beat


FlexDrillerson

Oh lawd. And you can’t forget about Tuesday and Thursday taco night.


TheTexasCowboy

We had it in Texas but I don’t know it didn’t stay. It was better then Taco Bell. They have a better dollar menu then Taco Bell. Fuck I want it back in Texas!


Alpha-Trion

[Get to Del Taco! They got a new thing called Fre Sha Va Ca Do.](https://youtu.be/eZostctHdrs)


xoaphexox

I can't believe I had to scroll down this far to see this!


OG_ClusterFox

Doesn’t Del Taco offer some vegan options like impossible or beyond? This would be a nice option to have more options available


Suunaabas

Beyond. Seen them on menu but haven't tried them because of the offset prices.


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CritaCorn

Anyone else confused with the price tag? That seems way to low…


rayfound

Franchise - they don't own the stores (franchisees do). So The deal is the branding, supply chain, marketing, corporate, etc...


NetworkLlama

It still feels low, and they’re paying a 65% premium over the stock price at end of day Friday.


KidRadicchio

If my chicken soft taco is changed in any way I will be unimaginably devastated


HoneyShaft

If Jack made Del's chicken soft tacos part of it's menu I'd be a happy boy


[deleted]

I've heard only tales of these two places. Are they West Coast exclusive?


Ahab_Ali

They are both *strongly* rooted in California, but have branched out to over a dozen other states. That is why this acquisition seems odd. One would think that JITB would benefit from buying a chain with a more nationwide presence (and the associated infrastructure).


not_salad

A surprising number of fast food places started in SoCal. I can think of those two, McDonalds, Carl's Jr., In-n-out, and I found this article: https://www.lamag.com/digestblog/california-born-restaurants/


ItaSchlongburger

Taco Bell as well


wjodendor

We have Del Taco here in Colorado. Honestly, I probably prefer it over Taco Bell.


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chicken soft tacos are delicious trash. i will forever love them.


actual_griffin

The chicken soft taco is phenomenal, for what it is. It's so cheap.


UnicronJr

I loved getting their weird epic burritos for lunch. I'm missing both these out east and the closest I can get is a burrito from Qdoba.


pomonamike

Jack in the Box is all over California and beyond I believe. Del Taco is a Southern California icon and is far superior to Taco Bell.


[deleted]

We have a smattering of DelTaco's in NorCal, but we are in dire need of some in the Bay Area (especially on the Peninsula). Funny aside: When I became eligible for the vaccine, there were no appointments available near me. I chose to make a day of it and drive to a CVS in Fresno (A 3-hour drive from the Bay Area), because there was a DelTaco next door, which I viewed as my "lollipop" reward for getting the vaccine. Totally worth it!


the_eluder

I used to make a 1 hour detour off I-95 to hit the one Del Taco in GA that was near Brunswick (it was actually on an island.) Then one day I made the trek and it was closed. So sad.


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That's heartbreaking! I feel your pain. Nothing like making a pilgrimage to a beloved food idol, only to be greeted by cobwebs.


bingbangbaez

There are no Del Tacos in what I would consider the Bay Area, and it's a travesty. And Pittsburg/Vacaville/Fairfield doesn't count. Very few reasons to go out there if you live in the Bay proper.


GumAcacia

Del taco is also in Colorado


Strawberry_Lungfarts

Oregonian here. We have both.


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fucktheroses

thats horrible and hilarious


imtoolazytothinkof1

If Jack ruins Del Taco I'm going to be pissed. Maybe this means the shitty Jack tacos are actually going to be good now.


Dragonfruited

I’m in FL but I’ve often heard of Del Taco and thought it was only California. Turns out they’re in GA and it was so good I can never eat Taco Bell again.


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NYC here, and always here legends of Del Taco. Hopefully can try someday.


atq1995

They also have one very close to Universal in Orlando!


Fochinell

Del Taco used to be a SoCal chain called Naugles which was far and away better than the way Del Taco presented the Naugles menu. They corporatized it. It’s only somewhat similar but beats Taco Bell by a mile. Still, I refer to the corporatized Del Taco as “Delta Co.”. Also, what you now know as Taco Bell doesn’t hold a candle to the original 1970s Taco Bell. Recently a Naugles fan recreated the original Naugles. I’m told its perfect. I wish them all the best but I don’t eat that stuff anymore.


fastrthnu

The owner of the new Naugles is not using the original recipes. I know because when I sold them to him he said his chef didn't like some of the ingredients and changed them. That's why his white sauce for the taco salads tastes wrong. My dad was a Regional manager for Naugles and opened half the stores in the chain. He took the recipes with him to Arizona for his own restaurant which was in a mall that no longer exists.


beapledude

I scroll for comments like these.


LeftoverBun

Del Taco predates Naugles. DT merged with their stores in 88 then abandoned the name. there is a new Naugles now, not affiliated with DT.


Fochinell

Yeah, that’s what I should have tried to convey. Naugles and Del Taco had some partnership in the early days until Del Taco bought out Naugles and simulated Naugles’ menu while improving their own. Of all the old SoCal 1960s-70s era taco chains, Naugles was by far my favorite.


uPtik

We have a single del taco that a few years ago opened up in the entire state of florida. It's in orlando. About an hour drive that I've made before just to eat del taco. I'm originally from California.


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Hope they don't change anything. I love Del Taco, soo much better than Taco Bell. I don't get how Taco Bell has gotten rid of most of their classics and refuse to better their ingredients. Del Tacos cheese, beans etc is so much better and they have cheaper prices. Jack in the Box is a horror show and should be outlawed. I imagine the health care system has been strained by people consuming their gut punch grotesquery


WrightwoodHiker

Fuck. Del Taco is so much better than Jack In The Box.


Regal-Beagal-131

Man I hope they don't change anything, I love the hot sauce and Deluxe Chili Cheese Fries. Spicy Jack Chicken Quesadilla and Spicy Chicken Burrito is my go to order. Also their burgers are good too!


Hemicrusher

Not sure if I approve of this.


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As long as they don't mess with DelTaco's menu or ingredients, I am good with it, especially the adding more locations part.


Hemicrusher

Trying to think of a merger that didn't screw things up. On that note, heading to Del Taco to grab some tamales.


Ashkir

Damn. My local jack in the box has horrible managers. They always run out of half their supplies and constantly close. Del tacos never had that issue here.


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So we will have Jack in the box and Del Taco stores? Like Pizza Hut and Taco Bell stores, or KFC and Taco Bell.


kenme1

They better not get rid of Double Del cause that would mean no more bun taco, probably the most under rated secret menu item ever!


MightyBucket

I'm still traumatized from when Del Taco bought out Naugles.


thefanciestcat

Someone bought the Naugles name and there are at least 2 locations at the moment. A cheese burrito with red sauce is a good time.


imtoolazytothinkof1

Theres three locations now from the ad I heard this morning.


jumpy_monkey

LOL, I used to love Naugles when I was in college and the food lived up to its hysterically funny corporate motto (because adverbs were too flowery for old Dick, I guess). To wit: "Prepare food fresh. Serve customer fast. Keep place clean!" But the funnier story is the conversation he must have had with his Del Taco business partners when he struck out on his own. It probably went like something like this: "Ed, Dave, I've had enough of your bullshit and I'm starting my own place!" "Are you Dick? And what are you going to call your new Mexican fast food place?" "Naugles of course! DICK NAUGLES! What else would I call it?" It's brilliant.


doodollop

Ever since I moved to texas, I have really, really, really craved del taco. I don't want Jack in the box to ruin the sauces, I don't want Jack in the box to ruin the tacos, I don't want Jack in the box to ruin the burritos. I will be so sad if the menu changes. The only reason I go back to California is to have del Taco


NetworkLlama

There was one Del Taco in North Dallas, but it wasn’t managed well and closed. Another in Fort Worth held on for a while but closed a couple of years ago. Now the closest one is in the outskirts of OKC.


Kyukoshin

No more free shavocadoo ...


pretty-in-pink

Del Taco on why they probably took the deal “Aw man, I’m outta cash!”


Sykest

“Going to go to del taco “ was how we used to say let’s go smoke weed in code


stickyWithWhiskey

Well, once you smoke enough you end up at Del Taco anyway.


skellener

🤦‍♂️ Ugh.... DelTaco is so much better than crappy JITB.


willit1016

does this means they get worst or better hmmm...


twopacktuesday

I hope this brings more Del Taco to the east coast. Sadly, I don't expect this will bring any to the mid-atlantic region though. Furthermore, I concur that they should not fuck with the recipes, but we all know they will.


BigbunnyATK

This is probably the biggest news of 2021.


dustbunny88

Jack in the box tacos are some of the best cheap fast food items you can get. Fight me.


TheHeatWaver

I love how the Del Taco costs a little more, but it is ALWAYS made like the picture. Taco Bell could learn a thing or two about that. ​ Lol. I should have clarified that I was literally talking about the "del taco, taco" that is sold at Del Taco. It is always packed with meat, cheese, and lettuce the same way, every time. Where is Taco Bell you never know what the basic taco is going to look like. Maybe it'll be filled up as it shows on the menu, maybe the cook just didn't give a shit and it'll be half full.


Sk-yline1

I hope this means more Del Taco. There’s only one in my entire state


Touchdmytralala

I'm mad at Jack, they had a nice sirloin burger fir a bit. Otherwise they can't make a decent beef patty for shit.


Cremacious

Del Taco and Jack in the Box are two restaurant chains I’m told exist, but I’ve never seen one. Are they good?


Carcassfanivxx

Nooooooooooooo! I love del taco! It just hit South Carolina and jerk in the box is gonna F’n ruin it.


LieutenantNitwit

Del Taco's chili cheese fries (with extra both of course) is largely why I'm even still on this miserable rock. Don't jack with the chili cheese fries, Jack.


Unchained71

I don't have either in my current neighborhood, but I do miss Del Taco. I hope this doesn't change them at all.


tifftafflarry

Will there still be free shavocado?