Aaaah. This particular customer missed an gold opportunity!! Since the customer did not find the food good without the sauce they could have made the manager eat it.

Taco Bell has a slogan -- "If you don't like it we will eat it."

Now I would pay to see that. Especially if the tacos were day olds :)

When I worked at a liqour store, I had experiences like this all the time. Hell I even had threats made on my life! Not that this doesn't suck, but there's certain kinds of businesses whose clientèle is, well... shall we say, less than savory.

Reminds me of the time that a University of Kansas football player didn't get his Chalupa so he crawled into the drive-thru window, got stuck, and had to be pried out by the police.

@lpranal: I take offense to that. I am a frequent client of Taco Bell, and I am certainly quite savory, thank you very much.

Man, turning off a Dell computer really makes a guy hungry. I guess the "How to turn off a Dell Computer" dude went for some Taco Bell after finally shutting his computer off!

@lpranal:

The only thing less than savory is the Taco Bell food.

I know that Taco Bell! I drive by that every day.

LOL sarcasm is over.

Yes, they do have the "We'll eat it", but that just means they'll do it right or give you your money back. We're not going to eat someone's burrito. It's going in the trash, plain and simple. Everything that's returned goes straight to the trash.

Scuba Steve,

[plaintiff] Your honor Taco Bell has a sign that says they will eat it if I don't like it. (handing judge copy of sign...)
[TB lawyer] Your honor I object!!
[Judge] Over what? The fact that he has a copy of the sign or the fact you have to eat it if I rule in his favor?
[plaintiff] Your honor I have the bag of tacos right here....

I sense a slow newsday.....

A good acquaintance of mine worked at a Meijer customer service desk when we were in high school. One evening, a guy came in the store wanting them to cash his paycheck. For whatever reason, they couldn't. The guy left, came back a few minutes later, pointed a gun at the clerk's head and pulled the trigger. The gun was loaded, but it failed to fire.

People are crazy. Going apeshit and throwing food at the building is pretty harmless in the grand scheme of things, but the same type of person beats up bartenders who won't over-serve them, or tries to kill a cashier who can't cash a paycheck.

Makes me glad I don't work in retail or food service anymore.

Hey! I've been through that Taco Hell. Love it when local news hits my daily internet haunts.

@Mike_: And sometimes the guy who beats up the bartender is a cop. And then quietly gets charged with a misdemeanor until the public finds out and the superintendent of police has to step down. People are great.

Just so I understand this diner's logic:

1. I didn't get all the food I ordered;
2. I will remedy the incomplete order by taking the food I did recieve and throwing it at the side of the restaurant;
3. I'm hungry.

it may be ineffectual and childish for that matter, but it sure makes you feel better.

Back in high school when I worked at a movie theater, I had a guy throw his drink at me because he didn't like our straws (they weren't long enough for him). So he lost his money for an expensive theater drink, and the soda. I'm still not sure what he was trying to accomplish.

At least The Consumerist rated this douchebag as a bad consumer. I do like nequam's comment though. Taco Bell got the guy's money, but that doesn't justify the customer throwing the food back.

If I were the manager I'd like for them to try and come back at them, so I can throw their food at their car.

Yo tiro Taco Bell!

@afran303:

Dude i was drinking milk when reading your comment, it almost pours out of my nose.

Good one, lol.

What gets me is, why in this day and age does any one run out of stock. This is just pure bad management. This goes to all of them. I've been to stores like Home Depot for an end cap on a water line & their out of stock. There on order I'm told. Well, a good manager would have them on order before they run out, unless there was a National shortage, so then it's understandable. This manager should be demoted...

THe news was abuzz last month in VIrginia/DC when a woman was put in jail for one year after throwing her cup of soda at another driver while stopped at a stoplight. She was convicted of "launching a missile." (No lie). Oh, her husbad was in Iraq fighting the war, they had three kids, and she was on welfare. So somehow her sentence was commuted out of sympathy, but beware: don't launch food missiles in VA.

You don't get good managers at Taco Bell. You get people who can work late and work a lot on salary.

I'm one of those "unsavory" types who happens to love Taco Bell (it's somewhat of a guilty pleasure), frequenting both the one near my home, and the one near my work. In the last year, no fewer than five times (between the two stores) have I been told that they ran out of ground beef (or whatever it is that passes for ground beef). I've seen them run out of french fries at a Burger King, creamer at a Starbucks, and cups at a Dunkin Donuts.

In the context of supply and demand, shouldn't Taco Bell have charged, like, $50 for that last taco that used the "beef," or $75 for that last cup of coffee at DD? I know the answer (I'm just being a dick), but, why can't the oil companies follow the same business model as Burger King? "Sure, a gallon of gas is always $1.50, and when we're out, we're out. Sorry 'bout that, come back tomorrow."