Forty percent of respondents in the survey said they don’t believe food truck workers should be asking for tips, even though it’s common to see a digital tipping screen when you pay for your food. Default tipping suggestions can be customized. Sometimes you’ll see options like $1, $2 and $5. Sometimes it’s more like 18%, 20% and 22%.
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When I was in California, I ate off taco trucks at least 4-5 times a week, and they were always a cash only proposition, no cards, pay up front.
Not that I'd have used a card even if they did accept them - there's no way in hell I'm willingly giving my card info to a bunch of illegals.
I don't hit many taco trucks around here only because we don't have any real Mexican food taco trucks here. The only taco stand we have here in town is basically a glorified Taco Bell and all the ones I've checked out in Portland and Gallatin cater to the White folks, and Tennessee people don't do anything spicy. Basically you're getting fried meat that was cooked with no flavorings at all on a tortilla with some onion, tomato and cilantro to give it a little taste and make it look authentic. Myself, I need to feel my Mexican food as well as tasting it - by the time I finish eating, I should be sweating and refusing offers of medical assistance from concerned onlookers.
Hell, the carne asada or chicken tacos I make at home are better than anything I've bought from a taco truck here.
I miss Roberto’s.
ReplyDeleteGoing to need your carne asada and chicken taco recipes, sir.
ReplyDeleteI'm Cheap Charlie so I eat at home and make-a thees sanwich myself.
ReplyDeleteI do tip when I get my hair cut at Great Clips, but I refuse to do it on my card. I check no-tip on the payment screen and press my tip (in real metal, I've still got a stash of cartwheels) into the palm of my barber, telling her I think tips should be personal, and "off books". Every Veterans Day G.C. gives free cuts for Veterans, but then I still give her the standard tip anyway.
Dad was from East Texas, and we lived there off & on when I was little. In the early '70s, I was one of the few kids in Robertson County who even knew what a taco was. Times change.
ReplyDeleteBTW, I used to grow habaneros. My Texican food was spicy (I used other spices, too, not just heat & no flavor).
--Tennessee Budd
I run a hot dog cart for 10 years now, and I've been using a Square card reader since day 1. In fact, I had resisted and refused to get a smartphone until needing to run cards forced me to.
ReplyDeleteSame food problem here in Michigan, however, the meijers stores here carry a decent choice of chilis, and I can make my own. (I could use some recipes though, hint hint)
ReplyDeleteDennis the librarian shusher
I feel ya on the no spices in Tennessee: just got back from a trip to Knoxville and while there ate at a meat and three. The potatoes had butter on them (the spiciest thing there), the green beans had no flavor of any kind and the meatloaf was bland with ketchup on top.
ReplyDeleteThe lady friend said, " they just don't know no better".
Thank you for visiting! I hope you had a great time (and spent a lot of money!)
DeleteNext time try Market Square, theres a few good restaurants there, the hole-in-the-wall burger joint is actually pretty good (waitresses are always hawt!)
For authentic greasy spoon lookup "Vol Market #3". Don't mind the 1911 the cooks wear, retired marines, safest spot on the block!
wypipo don' season dey food.
ReplyDeleteI grew up in West Texas and immigrated to Australia 40 years ago not really knowing how to cook. The day I arrived here, I could make better Mexican food than you can still find in Australia.
ReplyDeleteI don't like hot or spicy food anyway,, but the area i live in has a high density of Amish and their cooking is quite bland. Their new thing is these mobile chicken bbq's. you just keep a bottle of bbq sauce with you if care to purchase.
ReplyDelete** although, this one place has amazing green beans cooked in vinegar with spices
also they are making small batches of cheeses with raw milk that are good. (the cheese making process itself IS pasteurization, but this is the marketing ploy they sell it to the stupids)
When I moved from AZ to NC my biggest fear was finding authentic Mexican food. The first place was abysmal. The second place was perfect, of the 10 people working there, only one spoke English. We were the only whites there. Phenomenal flavor. Right at the edge of my heat tolerance. No one else in the party could eat it. Found a taco truck run by a great family. Love talking politics with Salvador. He would fit in here perfectly.
ReplyDeleteHow does a Mexican know when he's hungry?
ReplyDeleteWhen his ass stops burning.
Exactly.
ReplyDeleteI moved to the Ozarks this year and......holy white people Batman! Yes, actually I do make better food.
Go eat in Smithville at a Mex resturent called Chelas Taquiza. Ask for a Gordita.
ReplyDeleteThere was a Tex-Mex food truck in the NE Atlanta called Beto's that had highly spiced food. They opened a store front and toned down the spices.
ReplyDeleteDude you sold me a fucking Taco. You didn't seat me and get me a glass of water you did not do anything a real service that waitress would do, why do they expect a tip?
ReplyDeleteWhenever I hear someone complaining about the great state of TN, or the South in general, I’m compelled to encourage them to use one of the many roads to get out of here and back to wherever they came from. Especially when the complainant is from California. We didn’t ask you to come here and your presence is unnecessary. Don’t California My Tennessee.
ReplyDeleteIf you've been a reader of this blog for more than say, 15 minutes, you'd know how much I love my State of Tennessee and how much I hate California, yet because I note one thing about the State that you took as disparaging, and you're telling me to GTFO?
DeleteI've got a better idea: How about you kiss my lily white ass?
Kenney, Clay County resident here. We met in the gun shop a couple months ago. I'm proud to call you a neighbor even though you do like spicy food.
DeleteI must admit this is the first time I've ever ran across somebody so shallow they would look down on another man because of his food preferences.
DeleteHe's probably upset with your post because he owns a taco bell franchise.
DeleteKenny, even in the Great State of Tennessee, there are whiny little bitches. Ignore 'em, brother. The rest of us are glad to have you here.
Delete--Tennessee Budd
Thankee, thankee. Believe it or not, that's the first time I've caught that kind of bullshit. Everybody else I have ever met here as been as kind as you.
DeleteThe best Mexican food I've ever tried was from a food truck at a Love's truck stop in S.Carolina. When the guy heard I was from Maine and told him we don't have real Mex food there, he went out of his way to make me some special taco's and a burrito that was the best ever. He got a big tip.
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