Sunday night, FOX cut to Taco Bell’s “There’s been a lot of ‘talk’ about our seasoned beef” ad… right as a cartoon health inspector unfurled a “Food May Contain Human Flesh” sign on a Bob’s Burgers re-run. This association can’t be helping Taco Bell with their mystery meat problem. A San Francisco street artist took it one step further to rub it in.
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Although simply illustrated and painstakingly generic, this Taco Bell customer training comic strip and ‘Cheesy Beefy Melt‘ combo decal is hugely insightful into how shitty it must be to work for the burrito mill. Especially with all the rules and regulations that definitely don’t encourage staff to “Think Outside the Bun.” Besides actually specifying how much time you have to wait to initially greet customers—5 seconds—and how long you must then linger if they don’t answer—another 5 seconds—there’s all sorts of goodies in here, like their corporately constructed model for dealing with mistakes L.A.S.T: Listen, Apologize, Satisfy, Thank.
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