Worst experience I've ever had at any restaurant, by far. I've been coming to this Taco Bell for years, even before it moved from Rangeline to Carmel Dr. The employees that are currently there are terrible. They're extremely disrespectful to every single customer that steps foot in the door. Before I had both feet in the door, one of the employees was screaming at me to use the kiosk. We ordered on the kiosk like they asked, already a little annoyed that we had been yelled at. After we finally got someone's attention to give us our drinks, we sat down to wait for our food. A few people were ahead of us but it wasn't busy, and there wasn't a line when we got there. Drive thru wasn't busy either. We waited 45 MINUTES before I went up to ask them where our food was. When I got to the counter, everyone ignored me. Paced around slowly dragging their feet. I stood there about 10 more minutes to never have anyone acknowledge I was there. After that I had to call back to one of the employees in the back by the drive thru window. I said "Could I please get my money back? I've been here for an hour and we'd just like our money so we can leave." That employee rolled her eyes at me and walked the other way. So I repeated myself. Finally she goes to tell what I presume is the sorry excuse for a manage. A lady with short dark hair, covered in tattoos. I don't know her name, but she has a tattoo that says "Leslie" on her neck. After she's told about the issue, she storms out the back door in anger. Why? I don't know. Comes back in obviously agitated and annoyed with my request for a refund, but at this point, it's not even a refund. I never received what I paid for. She REFUSED to give me my money. Said she couldn't because it was made on the kiosk and the order never came "showed up on the screen." Which is an absolute lie, because that is not how customer service works. I got into a pretty heated argument over this. I'm not going to literally allow these people to STEAL my money. So I refused to leave, told her I'd call the police if she didn't give me my money. And she freaked out. Called somebody, who said she absolutely needed to give me my money back. She still refused. Finally, she agreed to give it to the person I was with, because she "just could not deal with him" referring to me. Just to be clear, after she refused to give us our money and told us to leave, I was fairly disrespectful. Up until that moment, I had been nothing but nice. I gave them time to get my food because I know things get backed up, I said please and thank you, but after that and being treated like an annoyance, I was done being nice. The rest of the customers got up and asked for their money back as well, because they saw just how unprofessional these people are. She proceeded to give everyone their money, and still refused to give me mine. That's when she gave it to the person I was with. After that, she claimed she called the police and we needed to stay until they got there. Which I responded, "You've got to be joking if you think I'm spending one more minute here after waiting an hour for food I never got." A friendly customer said she got the entire ordeal on video and would be happy to show the police so we could leave. After that, we left. We managed to contact the girl who talked to police, she said that they were annoyed with the lady who called, and that she had no reason for calling. That she should've just refunded the money.
This type of unprofessional and borderline ILLEGAL business practice is absolutely unwanted in our community. I now drive to Westfield if I want Taco Bell. It's actually faster to drive there, order, and get our food. That's ridiculous. I wouldn't be surprised if the employees were doing this on purpose and keeping the money for themselves at the end of the night.
I'll never step foot inside this place again. Those employees that evening should be terminated immediately for that behavior. Specifically the sorry excuse for a manager.
I encourage the rest of you to not support this type of business practice. You're better off going to the McDonald's down the street, or just driving to the Taco Bell in Fishers or Westfield.
TO THE OWNER,
You need to make sure your employees are being properly trained. Are you involved at all in this store? Have you ever owned a business? This is ridiculous and the absolute worst service I've ever had ANYWHERE. Pay attention to who you're hiring. Call their references. You're losing customers every single day, just look at the reviews on Google and Yelp. read more