I've never been in a taco bell line that hasn't had less that 10 cars in front of me tibstart out with. I've had almost 15 at one time. Taco bells anywhere where I've been have always been jammed pact. This is such a cool idea.
I was about to comment almost the same thing, except nearly the whole time they're open they have at least five cars in the Drive-Thru, and at either peak times, or almost any time after 4, the line extends onto the road outside the parking lot.
“I’ve personally never been to a Taco Bell with more than 2 cars in line” MatPat has clearly never been waiting in line at 12am for 30 minutes to get a Baja blast freeze
@@damonmoles8306 Yes, but not because of fast food.... My mother raised me on home cooked meals, and now processed food makes me sick... Imagine being allergic to McDonald's lol. Although I must say that chicken restaurants and subway are totally fine... Weird...
I have a McDonald’s and a Burger King near my house with both of them having records for being some of the worst restaurants that the brands can offer.
Kinda want to try that cool-looking Taco Bell. On the other hand, I've had a lot of bad experiences with drive-through. As in, give your order, get told to drive to the window, then get asked what you ordered. Not to mention driving away to find out later that it still isn't what you asked for.
I went to a Taco Bell recently, where they only had one or two staff, and it took forever to get my meal - and when I got it home, it was the wrong one! OTOH, they didn't charge me for the meal, because it took so long to get, so it would be churlish to complain…
@@drdarkenygive em a break, fast food places are always understaffed bc the managers would rather keep the extra money for themselves and let the same three or four ppl struggle thru all the rushes
@@yyby_ give em a break? As someone with an eating disorder who has worked a minimum wage fast food job, I will not be giving em a break. If I get the wrong food, I may be unable to eat it (Arfid)
You know what this “fast food court” with like 5 or 6 different restaurants reminds me of? One of those soda machines with like 100 different kinds of soda.
Yeah I agree they were just fitting in with the Covid style restaurant better Matt Pat is thinking outside the earth about this restaurant re-designing
My thought: tocobell would have to team up with multiple company's to make this work, most will probly not want to team up with tocobell becues tocobell would get most of the money. How ever if most to all other company's pitched in thair products thair would be a fe for having to go through tocobell to distribute, meaning everything that the company produces would go up in price, becues it's going up in price with multiple brands and company's everything else would go up to , to keep the economy working properly, other wise if they don't alot of people won't be able to get everyday necessities. And if they do put alot of money into nesisties and have a lower paying job they could go homeless meaning if this really did happen, we would see middle class and lower class families and people become homeless or struggle alot more , and we already struggle with it, it would be high class stays high class low class stays low class no more middle class, economy would take a hit, considering the low class wouldnt be able to pay into this so only the rich would keep the economy working , so basicly looking at becomeing a somewhat Korea if this happends and becomes wide spread. Or tocobell can be nice and just never make brands and other company's pay a fea to go through them.😁👏💛❤
@@savannahpetrovic5495 Well they've already got KFC and Pizza Hut covered. Plus those fees you mention are probably a fraction of the cost of a full separate location.
I love a lot of things about this concept. Have you ever had a family get together where everyone wants food from a different restaurant? Yeah, me too. What I really dislike about this is the lack of options for pedestrians and bicycles. Maybe if one of those lanes were a walk up lane? My local Starbucks has a long driveway, a window and a small, outdoor eating area. I would prefer to see more of that and less car only options.
Yeah, but sadly I doubt this will happen, since there just isn't good enough infrastructure for those modes of transport for them to make it posiible to order without a killing machine.
ngl when he started talking about how fast food restaurants didn't need to worry about extra expenses for dine in customers, i thought he was gonna go off about how fast food restaurants planned the pandemic to get us to stop coming in person
How you talk and keep the attention of people is what I love about this channel more then the food subjects. You deliver a topic like a boss and easy to keep up with
Honestly, it's such a good idea. I just hope that they'll have a similar alternative for walking/biking, if this idea expands. I wouldn't wanna risk getting run over just to get a big mac, if I decide to exercise and then unexercise.
This theory actually reminds me of the movie Demolition Man in which Sylvester Stallone's character of John Spartan is told that Taco Bell is the only restaurant in existence.
“You do not realize that Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the franchise wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell.” Lenina Huxley (to John Spartan) In the movie Demolition Man
Like cyberpunk but the corps are fast food chains. That would actually be kind of dope, I'd love to join the kfc or taco bell private military. Imagine the uniforms 🥵
As someone who lives in Minnesota, there's rarely a time, especially during covid, where there isn't at least 4 cars in a taco bell drive-thru. There have been times where there's a line out into the parking lot
That's only like a third of the answer. The truth is that they're just not. The expectations on fast food workers are pretty much unachievable unless the customer only orders a combo or a couple items. Most places trick the timing system by asking the customer to back up or park. So the order isn't actually finished quicker, the systems for tracking the speed of service are being tampered with.
The other part of the answer is that they’re making more of the items in such a way that there are less parts to put together. For instance if they make all the ground beef the same no matter which thing you order all they gotta do is pop some meat in the microwave for a few seconds and voila... taco or burrito, or nachos. They’ve also eliminated ingredients so there’s less to put together in that respect as well. If they don’t sell it then you can’t ask for extra of it. I’m sure some restaurants even have some items premade knowing the average of people daily who ask for each thing and only make more when they’re running low. It’s not like people really expect healthy, fresh food at a fast food joint.
When I worked at Wendy's 15 seconds per order was the goal. Anything more than 20 seconds per order (from the customer finishing their order to you handing them their food) and you were in trouble with corporate. We could meet that 15 second time during rush hours.
@@MissLilyputt I'm going to assume you have never been inside of a Taco Bell, 'cause their kitchens are wide open to the dining area. The meat is cooked off site, it comes refrigerated or frozen (not sure, I've never worked at one, but when they are moving them around they are not frozen) which they then warm in a hot water bath. They then put the warm meat on the line and scoop as necessary. The need to use a microwave to heat meat would only slow things down. Taco Bell has always been efficient in regard to the process of making the food, everything is right there ready to scoop/grab (and already warm if necessary) or in a gun. The biggest slow down has always seemed to be the employees, trying to remember the way you make all the items in the massive menu. Which is likely where any time save has come from, trimming down the menu as a lot of fast food places seem to be doing right now, though it has been like a year since I have been at a Taco Bell so I'm not sure there. It is also possible they have added more grills (if that is what they call those) or have less items on the menu that need them because of the focus on drive thru, that is the other slow point to the process. And as the other person said, you can always play with the numbers.
Just going to clarify something here. Krispy Kreme is never going to use ghost kitchens. Aside from cake doughnuts which they have trade secret recipes for anyways, they use air pressure to force dough out through a mold that causes either a ring or shell shape. This is how their ring doughnuts always come out in such a perfect shape (the shells will too, if the mold is in good shape, which they never were when I worked there). Krispy Kreme uses highly specialized equipment that only they produce, so copying their design is nigh impossible, making them very secure in their methods.
This. I don't have a car and live in a very walkable area, but I had to order everything delivery during peak quarantine time and pay fees and tips for things I could otherwise walk to in five minutes or bike to in less than three because none of those places allowed anything but cars in their drive throughs. It was ridiculous.
@@tony_5156 I was born and raised here in NYC and as I grew older, I started longing to live somewhere else, preferably down South. It’s just too expensive here and our moronic politicians are making it worse. You pretty much need a six-figure salary to live here at this point.
My McDonald’s drive through takes forever, we have a single lane line still, and oftentimes the restaurants closes their drive through for mobile orders only! You’ll wait in like for 10 minutes, get to the menu and they’ll notify that unless you have an online order they won’t serve you! I’m not liking this change in service.
Lol I would love if a Taco bell exec watched this and was all: "Yeah that was totally what I was thinking... from the start... that was my plan all along... glad you figured out my plan... that I had from the start."
Guys, you remember the plan I told you about? Well I didn't told you everything and I definitely didn't found what I will tell you next somewhere on the Internet...
4:00 In North Carolina, taco bell is way more popular than other places. Everyone seems to like something from the menu, and at 1 am it's packed and takes forever to get your order.
Grandchild: "grandpa. Why do we go to tacobell to pick up lightbulbs?" Me: "its a long story that starts all the way back in 2016 with a gorilla at Cincinnati zoo"
A single driver delivering multiple orders simultaneously is an impossible task when it’s next to impossible to deliver a single order without the food cooling down.
Which in it's self is funny cuz it hardly makes it fast if you need to go to your car to to the store get out of the car walk in wait to order wait to get the order walk to the table then eat then go back to your car then go home.
8:18 while $376 is extremely low I'm wondering why they paid $231 in promotions and $131 in "7 order adjustment" - seems like they're doing something wrong Regardless, it sure feels like 3rd party delivery companies are gouging both the consumer and the business the consumer orders from
Those lockers are very multipurpose. • Last mile • Little to no utility costs • Safe keeping of customer goods • Advertising to many different kinds of customers! The elderly - it's a real reason to use online shopping. People in high density housing. People in high crime areas. It solves problems for many groups while only inconveniencing one group - the building owner. Even then, it may mean extra foot traffic in your building.
The lockers make almost zero difference for them. They still have to make multiple stops to the lockers. It DOES help but with gas prices the way they are going it's almost pointless. Having customers drive to distro stops themselves would probably boost their profits by astronomical margins. This would also drive down the cost of shipping as people will opt for the other option and drive down demand. Hopefully even having an impact to gas prices.
You have no idea how much more labor intensive filling up lockers are than a door stop, it's ridiculous, dsp drivers go thru the rough. I hated amazon lockers more than delivering to hospitals or vets
Not one of those restaurants can get your order right, can you imagine all of them all together in one kitchen trying to get an order right from multiple different restaurants? I want a big Mac super-sized, with 3 Gordita crunches, a moca latte and an 8 piece family meal with extra biscuits.
Can't wait till in 2040 when I'm telling my kids that I had to go inside a building to get materials from home depot instead of pulling up a truck and the items get dropped I'm via drive through pickup
As a Minnesotan in the Twin Cities, I can confirm that Taco Bell is insanely popular. During peak meal times at the one on a busy road near my house, the drive thru lane often goes through the parking lot, and at the busiest times can even extend into the street.
I will say, the biggest issue I have with drive-throughs is the lack of time I can comfortably browse the menu for non-pictured items and their prices, which I'm sure is by design. It's probably just my social anxiety, but I know the workers get blamed for slow d-t orders and I get so annoyed when someone takes more than 30 seconds to finish ordering, so I don't want to do that to the ppl behind me.
I always wondered why the menu boards are AFTER the talk box, not before it. Like, do they assume I am such a devotee of their establishment that I've memorized the menu? For this reason I'd usually go inside, just so I could browse the menu in peace.
You got that right!!!! We probably have much of those antibodies. Hmm, I wonder if that’s helped us against COVID, because our parents and grandparents didn’t get that and the younger gen isn’t getting that either.
I feel life Food Theory's titles are like the weirdest thing ever, like soon its gonna be, *Food Theory: Harvey's is Poisoning the Residents of Apollo 13!*
Honestly, I would rather buy things at a store in person than wait a week or two for it to arrive generally speaking. Only reason I do order things online is because I can't find it locally.
Clothes shopping still isn't feasible online. You need to be able to see the product to know the size and fit and actual coloration. But food shopping is tedious and stupid, having to rove an entire store for the products you want and stand in lines and get lip from or be exposed to the crushing apathy of cashiers. No thanks. Groceries to my door, please.
@@QuesoCookies Depends on the clothes and the site. A lot of things are probably better purchased online, especially clothes you can try on in store (like underwear and socks), things like shoes don't vary too much to where it's a huge hassle, and outerwear, especially mono-colored jackets, tend to work quite well online. It especially helps with sites that do custom tailoring when you know your size. It's the more specific stuff, ESPECIALLY woman's clothes like dresses, skirts, or a few men's things like dress shirts and scarves that you really need to see in person and try on.
As a Minnesota resident, I was first excited about this news of the Brooklyn Park Taco Bell (hadn't heard about it before this), but was then sad at the fact that Mat thinks we have Krispy Kreme up here. Thanks for reminding me we don't... 😔😔😔
Matpat you underestimate the Midwest. Every single taco bell in west Michigan almost always gets a WAVE as soon as work let's out, or people get late night munchies. It's a phenomenon to be reckoned with
Mat: “Ive never seen more then 2 cars in a Taco Bell drive through” Me, Taco Bell worker that has to deal with lines down and around the roads cuz of how busy it is: “ahahahahaha yeaaaa totally”
Here in Los Angeles, there use to be a market chain that had a Drive Through Window system. Sadly the chain and the grocery drive through went away in the 90s. There is a couple of the smaller ones still, but the chain is more or less gone. ((Altadena market drive thru))
I can also say as a fast food employee during Covid, having the lobby closed and only doing Drive Thru is a *huge* ease on the work load, making all our lives better. 6:00
Yeah, the only time I kind of understood the value of a dinning area in the 21st century was when I was in college and their was a crowd of stranded students who enjoyed hanging out. Even back then they could have made things so much more efficient though.
I have an office job but I wouldn’t mind doing a few hours on the weekends at a taco bell restaurant like this one just to get some more side money to put in my emergency fund. Too bad there’s no taco bell like this where I am
We need more places like Sonic, in my opinion. Pull up to the place, stay in your car, order from intercom or app, get it delivered via rollerskating people w/ masks, get awesome food, everybody wins.
@@davidtitanium22 nah my hope died in the December seeing that it was a whole year and nothing happened and these karens and dumb people refuse to wear masks so more and more are getting killed
It’s more like they have the potential. With the new design, it has the potential to accommodate more business in one building, and if they put them combine you around like fast food restaurants already are, they could easily outsell Amazon because they don’t have to pay for delivery if you are going to the “distributor”
This would be awesome if they had convenient places like this with lots of options. Hopefully they would still implement delivery for anyone who needs it, like if you are disabled and cannot drive a car or if you just want the convenience of having it delivered.
Can we Just talk about how Sonic has been getting us ready this whole time-? Like am I The only That since they were four, ordered from their car, outside, and got their food as other cars ordered next to them?
I've seen Taco Bell drive throughs with a line that stretches the block, and the inside is filled with customers too. I say bigger drive thrus, and smaller dining rooms, but still having a dining in option for the few who, say, can't use drive thrus because they don't have cars. Because SOME drive thrus won't allow you to order without being in a car, hence *drive* thru
@@justmads7055 yeah, in general there seems to be an aversion to spicy food in this state, but that could be another reason taco bell does well here: most of their food lacks hot spicy ingredients, you have to go out of your way to get the hot stuff. Compare that to taco John's, where the basic taco meat has a little bit of a spice component, but not enough to be offensive to the minnesota palate.
I love how he shows Home Depot as an option because even though they do have small items, I can just see someone going to a drive-thru Home Depot for their 8 ft. deck planks.
Doesn't home depot have the large yard you drive into in order to receive/pick up large items? Still pretty much a drive thru. I may be thinking of menards, though, which i think also have that same sort of thing. I don't believe fleet farm does
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Company: "We didn't think that far we just wanted to make more money"
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"I've never been to a Taco Bell and seen more than two cars in line."
Clearly you've never been to a Taco Bell next to a college after 6 pm.
Or one when the bars closed.
Or in a rural town where its only competition is McDonalds and Vons
I never seen a Taco bell in my country
I've never been in a taco bell line that hasn't had less that 10 cars in front of me tibstart out with. I've had almost 15 at one time. Taco bells anywhere where I've been have always been jammed pact. This is such a cool idea.
I was about to comment almost the same thing, except nearly the whole time they're open they have at least five cars in the Drive-Thru, and at either peak times, or almost any time after 4, the line extends onto the road outside the parking lot.
“I’ve personally never been to a Taco Bell with more than 2 cars in line” MatPat has clearly never been waiting in line at 12am for 30 minutes to get a Baja blast freeze
Yep. Between 10pm and 1am on Friday and Saturday, I could wait up to 40 minutes for my taco bell.
I’ve waited for an hour at 6pm but that’s probably because I’m lazy and don’t wanna drive to Taco Bell and use grubhub
@Alaura Glasco haha I live by a popular campus in Louisiana and it all closes late but the lines are still traffic hazards
The Taco Bell by me is pretty much always busy too lol. People love to hate on it, but it's just good.
Oh yeah. My town has one taco bell and if you try to go through the drive thru after dark you'll be waiting at least half an hour
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I'm so shocked that fast food places are planning on uniting so they can collectively negotiate against grub hub
Taco Bell: has a concept for newer drive through eating
Matpat: Stonks
Im not gonna ruin my comment with Edit: ThAnKs FoR ThE LiKeS
Yes
@@JuliansTorture fair enough
In a small town like mine we dont have very many options so every drive thru is wrapped around the building. I love the bank style taco bell
Same. And after 10PM it’s just Tacobell and McDonald’s, so they have INSANE rushes from 11:30-2:00AM.
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Ahha, see MY small town is on a trucker rout off a major highway. We have like 8 fast food restaurants in like 3 square miles
@@damonmoles8306 Yes, but not because of fast food.... My mother raised me on home cooked meals, and now processed food makes me sick...
Imagine being allergic to McDonald's lol.
Although I must say that chicken restaurants and subway are totally fine... Weird...
I have a McDonald’s and a Burger King near my house with both of them having records for being some of the worst restaurants that the brands can offer.
Taco Bell will reach next level cost cutting if they can figure out a way to teach mindless ghosts how to cook a burrito.
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Very Hot why?
Very Hot Rick roll me or something man
@@bigbongtheory4222 Don't worry ill check to see if its a Rick roll
@@bigbongtheory4222 Alright I checked its good not a Rick roll just a weird tutorial I'm what its for I just went in and out super fast
Kinda want to try that cool-looking Taco Bell. On the other hand, I've had a lot of bad experiences with drive-through. As in, give your order, get told to drive to the window, then get asked what you ordered. Not to mention driving away to find out later that it still isn't what you asked for.
issue of having minimum wage dropout workers to run a complex system
I went to a Taco Bell recently, where they only had one or two staff, and it took forever to get my meal - and when I got it home, it was the wrong one!
OTOH, they didn't charge me for the meal, because it took so long to get, so it would be churlish to complain…
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@@drdarkenygive em a break, fast food places are always understaffed bc the managers would rather keep the extra money for themselves and let the same three or four ppl struggle thru all the rushes
@@yyby_ give em a break? As someone with an eating disorder who has worked a minimum wage fast food job, I will not be giving em a break. If I get the wrong food, I may be unable to eat it (Arfid)
Taco Bell would triple their revenue if they had drive through toilets
Don't give them any idea's, they may just do it!
Here before this blows up lol
orangepeanut wants you to sub-scra-IBE
What happened to your memes
@@whetherlyheavenamerica so that he can maaake more money
You know what this “fast food court” with like 5 or 6 different restaurants reminds me of? One of those soda machines with like 100 different kinds of soda.
Ooh, now I want one of those but for all the different kinds of French fries, I would instantly gain like, 600 lbs just from potatoes
Wait what
@@bobthegamingtaco6073 the only fries I want are those fries from PopEyes and curly fries lmao
Oh those freestyle machines?
Like the Coca Cola machines with a touchscreen?
Taco Bell “Wasn’t thinking like that, but good idea”
Yeah I agree they were just fitting in with the Covid style restaurant better Matt Pat is thinking outside the earth about this restaurant re-designing
There goes Matpat overthinking again. Atleast there is something to entertain us. Imagine if it was actually real though.
Matpat slowly make food company dead
taco bell should hire matpat at this point
@@patc694 lets be honest, everyone wants to hire him
I would actually love to be able to pick everything up in one trip like this.
I love being called a “loyal theorist.” It’s almost like food theory is actually a cult... Wait a minute!
You must be new here...
Please...
Come with me to the back room...
Lol, I’ve actually been here a while. You would think that I’d have come to that conclusion sooner though. 🤷♂️
Unlike pizza time pizza
Hey would you like a cookie...
Here have this digital cookie......... 🍪
there is a can of food on my doorstep... should i open and eat it????
Imagine if Taco bell never thought of any of this and just got like 100 ideas from watching this 😂
Stonks
@@disasterboi3039 yes STONKS
My thought: tocobell would have to team up with multiple company's to make this work, most will probly not want to team up with tocobell becues tocobell would get most of the money. How ever if most to all other company's pitched in thair products thair would be a fe for having to go through tocobell to distribute, meaning everything that the company produces would go up in price, becues it's going up in price with multiple brands and company's everything else would go up to , to keep the economy working properly, other wise if they don't alot of people won't be able to get everyday necessities. And if they do put alot of money into nesisties and have a lower paying job they could go homeless meaning if this really did happen, we would see middle class and lower class families and people become homeless or struggle alot more , and we already struggle with it, it would be high class stays high class low class stays low class no more middle class, economy would take a hit, considering the low class wouldnt be able to pay into this so only the rich would keep the economy working , so basicly looking at becomeing a somewhat Korea if this happends and becomes wide spread. Or tocobell can be nice and just never make brands and other company's pay a fea to go through them.😁👏💛❤
Wow that would be funny
@@savannahpetrovic5495 Well they've already got KFC and Pizza Hut covered.
Plus those fees you mention are probably a fraction of the cost of a full separate location.
Taco bell can be positioned anywhere, on any road, at anytime. Their food can only be killed by The Sword of a Thousand Truths.
a verified user with practically no likes? impossible!
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That was a really solid comment.
@@JacksonHollo its cuz he is "underated"
@CHEFPK fun fact taco bell failed in Mexico
( my Hispanic parents also hate taco bell because it doesn't taste like good tacos)
I love a lot of things about this concept. Have you ever had a family get together where everyone wants food from a different restaurant? Yeah, me too. What I really dislike about this is the lack of options for pedestrians and bicycles. Maybe if one of those lanes were a walk up lane? My local Starbucks has a long driveway, a window and a small, outdoor eating area. I would prefer to see more of that and less car only options.
Yeah, but sadly I doubt this will happen, since there just isn't good enough infrastructure for those modes of transport for them to make it posiible to order without a killing machine.
ngl when he started talking about how fast food restaurants didn't need to worry about extra expenses for dine in customers, i thought he was gonna go off about how fast food restaurants planned the pandemic to get us to stop coming in person
*spits out tea*
BUT THAT'S JUST A THEORY
A CONSPIRACY THEORY
@@techtor6928 next channel
Real life conspiracy theories
Im convinced
Can we admire how Taco bells make full on movie trailers for their products
NACHO FRIES ARE BACK
@@ballsack8505 wait really
@@Mickey-mv1xp ye
@@kinggamer1214 yay
Ok
How you talk and keep the attention of people is what I love about this channel more then the food subjects. You deliver a topic like a boss and easy to keep up with
“Back in my day we did this thing called eating inside the restaurant”
same here XD
Lol
I can't wait to be able to say that
yep
YEP YEP i agree
I think Taco Bell opened that building because of “experimental” purposes but matpat give them a better idea
Yaeh
Honestly, it's such a good idea. I just hope that they'll have a similar alternative for walking/biking, if this idea expands. I wouldn't wanna risk getting run over just to get a big mac, if I decide to exercise and then unexercise.
No the Actual reason is because they cant afford getting sued for Diarrhoea
@@TheseUseless True, what if you don't want to waste gas. Or you just want to get some exercise.
Sorry replied to wrong person.
Taco Bell: wasn't thinking like this
Taco bell employee: let me pitch this to the boss
WRITE THAT DOWN!
WRITE THAT DOWN!
This theory actually reminds me of the movie Demolition Man in which Sylvester Stallone's character of John Spartan is told that Taco Bell is the only restaurant in existence.
It’s coming true that’s scary
“You do not realize that Taco Bell was the only restaurant to survive the franchise wars. Now all restaurants are Taco Bell.” Lenina Huxley (to John Spartan) In the movie Demolition Man
I was wondering if i should comment this myself. Good on you good sir.
@@rogerogue7226 Same here
This was my first thought. Taco Bell is the winner.
My first thought.
Just wait: one day you'll go into a Taco Bell bathroom and find three shells next to the toilet.
mattpat is slowly convincing us that in a few years we're going to be living in a dystopian future where fast-food chains control the world
Does he need to convince us tho? I believe it
Is it dystopian? I feel that would be a delicious fate.
Is it going to happen in few years, or few years ago?
Like cyberpunk but the corps are fast food chains. That would actually be kind of dope, I'd love to join the kfc or taco bell private military. Imagine the uniforms 🥵
Snowcrash...
Brain: "You read the title right didn't you???"
Me: " Yep apparently taco bell is ruining amazon."
XD
Dude I didn't get it because I read it that way 😭
I honestly thought he meant the rainforest
4:02 There is not a second in my town where there is not at least 3 people in that Drive Thru
MatPat: “Taco Bell is killing Amazon”
1.6k people per minute: “Interesting. Please elaborate.”
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@@willsmith3988 Very funny.
97k now
Make that 12.1k/per minute
As someone who lives in Minnesota, there's rarely a time, especially during covid, where there isn't at least 4 cars in a taco bell drive-thru. There have been times where there's a line out into the parking lot
As a fellow Minnesotan, I can say its true
Also that taco bell is literally in my city wtf
@@JemsXiong low key wish I lived there just to go through that restaurant
This is true.
Honestly, as a person from Minnesota I just assumed everyone liked taco bell as much as we do...
"Taco bell can get you your order in 15 seconds!"
"Can't tell you how!"
Me: You deleted 40% of your menu items.
That's only like a third of the answer. The truth is that they're just not. The expectations on fast food workers are pretty much unachievable unless the customer only orders a combo or a couple items. Most places trick the timing system by asking the customer to back up or park. So the order isn't actually finished quicker, the systems for tracking the speed of service are being tampered with.
The other part of the answer is that they’re making more of the items in such a way that there are less parts to put together. For instance if they make all the ground beef the same no matter which thing you order all they gotta do is pop some meat in the microwave for a few seconds and voila... taco or burrito, or nachos. They’ve also eliminated ingredients so there’s less to put together in that respect as well. If they don’t sell it then you can’t ask for extra of it. I’m sure some restaurants even have some items premade knowing the average of people daily who ask for each thing and only make more when they’re running low. It’s not like people really expect healthy, fresh food at a fast food joint.
When I worked at Wendy's 15 seconds per order was the goal. Anything more than 20 seconds per order (from the customer finishing their order to you handing them their food) and you were in trouble with corporate. We could meet that 15 second time during rush hours.
@@MissLilyputt I'm going to assume you have never been inside of a Taco Bell, 'cause their kitchens are wide open to the dining area. The meat is cooked off site, it comes refrigerated or frozen (not sure, I've never worked at one, but when they are moving them around they are not frozen) which they then warm in a hot water bath. They then put the warm meat on the line and scoop as necessary. The need to use a microwave to heat meat would only slow things down.
Taco Bell has always been efficient in regard to the process of making the food, everything is right there ready to scoop/grab (and already warm if necessary) or in a gun. The biggest slow down has always seemed to be the employees, trying to remember the way you make all the items in the massive menu. Which is likely where any time save has come from, trimming down the menu as a lot of fast food places seem to be doing right now, though it has been like a year since I have been at a Taco Bell so I'm not sure there.
It is also possible they have added more grills (if that is what they call those) or have less items on the menu that need them because of the focus on drive thru, that is the other slow point to the process.
And as the other person said, you can always play with the numbers.
@@michaelb1761 dang! Which Wendy's did you work at?!
Here in 2023 letting y’all know, it’s not a concept anymore, the Brooklyn location is up and running all 4 massive lanes of it
Demolition Man is coming true. "Taco Bell won the franchise wars."
Copied but ok...
Never speak of this movie again
Taco Bell already won years ago.haha
@@TheVerySneakyCriminal No one owns the sentence so it fine.
They have < 11 since the film took place in 2032 to pull it off. I'll be rooting for them for easier access to Bajablast.
“ive never been to a taco bell and seen more than 2 cars in line”
clearly he’s never been to a tacobell in the midwest at peak stoner time
As a person from Nebraska, I can confirm this
Omaha, will also corroborate.
I am from Ohio and I can confirm this. Either stoner hours or during the time bars let out.
Kansas City can confirm
Big facts.
Random fact: Airplane food isn't very tasty since our sense of smell and taste decreases a lot during flights because of low pressure and dryness.
Oh it is?
That explains a lot
Interesting
So, if I eat after the flight.
it tastes good
I want more likes than you
Just going to clarify something here.
Krispy Kreme is never going to use ghost kitchens. Aside from cake doughnuts which they have trade secret recipes for anyways, they use air pressure to force dough out through a mold that causes either a ring or shell shape. This is how their ring doughnuts always come out in such a perfect shape (the shells will too, if the mold is in good shape, which they never were when I worked there). Krispy Kreme uses highly specialized equipment that only they produce, so copying their design is nigh impossible, making them very secure in their methods.
They shaved 15 seconds off the drive thru time because they destoryed their menu and now they dont have the same amount if traffic. geniuses.
..... You actually have to get creative just to get what you want. ;-; the assholes trying to get all the stores shut down.
Wha?
At this point I’ve realized that the new Food Theory is more like Business Theory
I like it I feel like I learn quite a bit from it
Im using this for my informative essay
People without a vehicle: *cries in the back
Right! I live in nyc and cant afford a car lmao. Good for the ppl who live here and can tho.
It looks like there were bike racks so maybe they'll have a window where you can walk through?
@@alicemichaelis9468 simple just love anywhere else but LA and NY lol
Nobody can survive there
This. I don't have a car and live in a very walkable area, but I had to order everything delivery during peak quarantine time and pay fees and tips for things I could otherwise walk to in five minutes or bike to in less than three because none of those places allowed anything but cars in their drive throughs. It was ridiculous.
@@tony_5156 I was born and raised here in NYC and as I grew older, I started longing to live somewhere else, preferably down South. It’s just too expensive here and our moronic politicians are making it worse. You pretty much need a six-figure salary to live here at this point.
My McDonald’s drive through takes forever, we have a single lane line still, and oftentimes the restaurants closes their drive through for mobile orders only! You’ll wait in like for 10 minutes, get to the menu and they’ll notify that unless you have an online order they won’t serve you! I’m not liking this change in service.
Me reading the headline: "Taco Bell is Killing..." Me: "You know, the next word could literally be any one or any thing and I would believe it"
Same
"Taco Bell is killing Mickey Mouse."
"Taco bell is killing more lesbians then gays some people ask is taco bell sexist??"
@@Marinanor Well Thats Seems Like A Normal Tuesday
@@Marinanor oh no
So the world is turning into Demolition Man where every restaurant becomes Taco Bell
th-cam.com/video/lmLZwE10Cu0/w-d-xo.html.....
Worse there will be no dining in restaurants
*Demo-man
Dammit, you beat me to it.
It was pizza hut when the film was released in foreign markets, so no.
Lol I would love if a Taco bell exec watched this and was all: "Yeah that was totally what I was thinking... from the start... that was my plan all along... glad you figured out my plan... that I had from the start."
Guys, you remember the plan I told you about? Well I didn't told you everything and I definitely didn't found what I will tell you next somewhere on the Internet...
4:00 In North Carolina, taco bell is way more popular than other places. Everyone seems to like something from the menu, and at 1 am it's packed and takes forever to get your order.
"never been to taco bell with more than 2 cars in line". MattPatt has clearly never been to the midwest
I feel this on SO MANY levels.
Or, for some randomly odd reason, in the middle of nowhere in Canada (really weird day)
I’ve never been to a Taco Bell with less than 2 cars in line
ive never been to taco bell with out the line wrapping through the parking lot and into the road no joke
I'm in Chicagoland and two cars at the two TBs in my area would be extraordinarily busy. I stopped going to them because the service is HORRIBLE.
Grandchild: "grandpa. Why do we go to tacobell to pick up lightbulbs?"
Me: "its a long story that starts all the way back in 2016 with a gorilla at Cincinnati zoo"
Forgive but never forget.
Change the world by final message
Forgive my ignorant self, but I don't get it
@@SamanthaLaurier one word. Harambe
@@heisen-bones what does harambe have to do with this
I feel like someday MatPat's going to be sued by all of these companies, or hired, one of the two
Hired, makes theories about what's ~really~ going on in the resteraunt and sued.
He’ll probably make a theory on which one will come first
Why not both?
A single driver delivering multiple orders simultaneously is an impossible task when it’s next to impossible to deliver a single order without the food cooling down.
everyone: "I'll never leave me house again, cuz I shop online only!"
introverts: "THE WORLD'S MY OYSTER!"
@@mylifeaszachh XD
o i s t e r
It's oyster
@@frostbitlion1727 yes, smarties... I got it, ok? I'm not a native english speaker, so... but thanks for pointing out.
@@phoneguy4637 you were close! :)
Weird to think that one day we all might tell our kids, "Back in my day we actually ate at fast food restaurants."
I read that as "we ate fast food restaurants"
Yes we eat in front of strangers and watch them eat
Everything is weird when looking from an angle.
Ikr
Which in it's self is funny cuz it hardly makes it fast if you need to go to your car to to the store get out of the car walk in wait to order wait to get the order walk to the table then eat then go back to your car then go home.
Oh, god. It feels good
When you find out that vending machines have been ahead of the game for decades
Bruh, you big brainin
Big brain
Automat.
At university: carousel automat vending machine. Microwave nearby.
8:18 while $376 is extremely low I'm wondering why they paid $231 in promotions and $131 in "7 order adjustment" - seems like they're doing something wrong
Regardless, it sure feels like 3rd party delivery companies are gouging both the consumer and the business the consumer orders from
I just realized Amazon has been trying to solve that last mile thing with those locker things that have been popping up all over recently
Was just about to bring this up.
Those lockers are very multipurpose.
• Last mile
• Little to no utility costs
• Safe keeping of customer goods
• Advertising to many different kinds of customers! The elderly - it's a real reason to use online shopping. People in high density housing. People in high crime areas.
It solves problems for many groups while only inconveniencing one group - the building owner. Even then, it may mean extra foot traffic in your building.
The lockers make almost zero difference for them. They still have to make multiple stops to the lockers. It DOES help but with gas prices the way they are going it's almost pointless. Having customers drive to distro stops themselves would probably boost their profits by astronomical margins. This would also drive down the cost of shipping as people will opt for the other option and drive down demand. Hopefully even having an impact to gas prices.
You have no idea how much more labor intensive filling up lockers are than a door stop, it's ridiculous, dsp drivers go thru the rough. I hated amazon lockers more than delivering to hospitals or vets
Imagine getting a shoe in your happy meal and the cashier says:”oops we got your order mixed up with someone else’s”
Not one of those restaurants can get your order right, can you imagine all of them all together in one kitchen trying to get an order right from multiple different restaurants? I want a big Mac super-sized, with 3 Gordita crunches, a moca latte and an 8 piece family meal with extra biscuits.
Me: Sees Taco bell is going to be the future
Also me: Epic, can't wait to see demolition man
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Here just to comment the same. Taco Bell is indeed going to win the Franchise Wars
@@WetSaucySlommy 3 shells and Taco Bell wining the war is what I remembered most Lol
Can't wait till in 2040 when I'm telling my kids that I had to go inside a building to get materials from home depot instead of pulling up a truck and the items get dropped I'm via drive through pickup
As a Minnesotan in the Twin Cities, I can confirm that Taco Bell is insanely popular. During peak meal times at the one on a busy road near my house, the drive thru lane often goes through the parking lot, and at the busiest times can even extend into the street.
so true
dude i was just ab to say that, i live in the same place and it is so busy at night too
I'm in Iowa and our Taco Bell is busy too
Can confirm, I am also a Minnesotan in the twin cities
I live right next to BP and the TacoBell next to my house gets basically no business
I will say, the biggest issue I have with drive-throughs is the lack of time I can comfortably browse the menu for non-pictured items and their prices, which I'm sure is by design. It's probably just my social anxiety, but I know the workers get blamed for slow d-t orders and I get so annoyed when someone takes more than 30 seconds to finish ordering, so I don't want to do that to the ppl behind me.
I always wondered why the menu boards are AFTER the talk box, not before it. Like, do they assume I am such a devotee of their establishment that I've memorized the menu? For this reason I'd usually go inside, just so I could browse the menu in peace.
I wish there was a separate drive thru for people to browse the menu, and then order.
The ball pit was the Millennial’s way of building antibodies
And the BLM movement was ours 😈
Before that it was mud, bugs n cuts and sharing gum.
You got that right!!!! We probably have much of those antibodies. Hmm, I wonder if that’s helped us against COVID, because our parents and grandparents didn’t get that and the younger gen isn’t getting that either.
@@Beyondthe5thPanel probably not because antibodies for the flu would do nothing against covid cause its a different virus
@@inksans6728 in the words of ricedouche (ricegum)
“IRRELEVANT!”
I feel life Food Theory's titles are like the weirdest thing ever, like soon its gonna be, *Food Theory: Harvey's is Poisoning the Residents of Apollo 13!*
*I ATE MY CHRISTMAS TREE!!!!1!!*
Don't give him Ideas... he is gonna use it now
@@rakeboi21masterofrakes63 I almost forgot about that video lol, I guess it was so traumatic for me, my mind suppressed it...
i feel life food theory???
That would be a good theory though.
So I can guarantee you that the 10,000 bicycle spaces you mentioned are to keep the homeless from sleeping or hanging out underneath the restaurant.
Yeah, it’s stupid
I'm having flashbacks to "demolition man" where we learn that Taco Bell won the restaurant wars
Love that movie and that part is pretty funny. Fine dining Taco Bell. 👨🏻🍳
Yoooo I was just thinking about that haha
Lmao
YESSSSS!!!!
Thank you for validating the seemingly random thoughts in my brain mind
3:35 same thought. I wanna see tubes of burritos.
Matpat: until drones are made to solve this problem
1 hour later: Hacksmith post "I Invent a Drone That Tracks You"
i knew i wasn't the only one too watch both channels intently, can't wait for last powerloader
@@vectorentertainment1733 Not even close to the only one.
@@vectorentertainment1733 I've been watching them since they started the power loader project
Lol
Me: Imma gon to do to the SCP Foundation again cya'
Honestly, I would rather buy things at a store in person than wait a week or two for it to arrive generally speaking. Only reason I do order things online is because I can't find it locally.
I like to go shopping just to get out for a while. Often without ever buying anything or even intending to.
Clothes shopping still isn't feasible online. You need to be able to see the product to know the size and fit and actual coloration. But food shopping is tedious and stupid, having to rove an entire store for the products you want and stand in lines and get lip from or be exposed to the crushing apathy of cashiers. No thanks. Groceries to my door, please.
Most things take a day to arrive for me. I don't buy much online, but it's usually preety convenient if I don't need it in the exact day.
@@QuesoCookies
Depends on the clothes and the site. A lot of things are probably better purchased online, especially clothes you can try on in store (like underwear and socks), things like shoes don't vary too much to where it's a huge hassle, and outerwear, especially mono-colored jackets, tend to work quite well online. It especially helps with sites that do custom tailoring when you know your size.
It's the more specific stuff, ESPECIALLY woman's clothes like dresses, skirts, or a few men's things like dress shirts and scarves that you really need to see in person and try on.
Taco Bell has always been leading food innovation
Taco Bell has big brain
“Sir, this is a Wendy’s”
Underrated comment
Um sir why did you call a McDonald's
“Sir, this is Walmart”
No it's Patrick.
No it isnt, I want to talk to the manager.
As a Minnesota resident, I was first excited about this news of the Brooklyn Park Taco Bell (hadn't heard about it before this), but was then sad at the fact that Mat thinks we have Krispy Kreme up here. Thanks for reminding me we don't... 😔😔😔
You're not really missing out, local donut places are much more tastier tbh.
@@kotarodesu_23 we used to have them that’s the sad part
taco bell? kfc? Krispy Kreme? i dont any of that in Brazil
@@verdantgem *[no way]*
@@smae98 sadly we dont have
Matpat you underestimate the Midwest. Every single taco bell in west Michigan almost always gets a WAVE as soon as work let's out, or people get late night munchies. It's a phenomenon to be reckoned with
Nobody:
Taco Bell: "i'm 4 parallel universe ahead of you, literally"
4 parallel lanes more like
But what about Sonic then?
Mat: “Ive never seen more then 2 cars in a Taco Bell drive through”
Me, Taco Bell worker that has to deal with lines down and around the roads cuz of how busy it is: “ahahahahaha yeaaaa totally”
Yeah I have literally had to wait in a line for like over an hour before. They are ALWAYS busy here. Even before Covid.
Also bring back the fucking cherry limeades!
Same here buddy... we have them out to ten main roadssss
Wait.......is this how Taco Bell wins the fast food wars in demolition man?
TheLEGENDofTydo well I can’t say anything about cherry limeades, but we are getting a strawberry lemonade freeze on March 11th so there’s that
Next: Wendy's is taking over the Government
Sounds plausible
Are you telling me that they're not?!?
All hail
It's those square parties
Isn't the craziest thing I've heard this year.
pov it's 2022 7:57
pov it's 2023 7:57
pov it's 2024 7:57
Any restaurant: exists
Mat pat: I'm bout to end this man's whole career
in this case its more like expand or improve
th-cam.com/video/lmLZwE10Cu0/w-d-xo.html.....
“Amazon makes company’s run out of business”
Taco Bell: “how the turn have tables”
Genius comment
@@_wizardy ok
@@_wizardy “how the tables have turned”
Sponge I’m pretty sure they meant it as a joke
@@chase-warwick Wackwards Briting
i was just typing out a whole "it's just a bank" comment, and was almost done when you said it looks like a bank.
That’s why I wait till the end of the video
@@cosmonautriot7295 yup
It looks like a bank
@@cosmonautriot7295 I never learn ;-;
“Food Bank”
Here in Los Angeles, there use to be a market chain that had a Drive Through Window system. Sadly the chain and the grocery drive through went away in the 90s. There is a couple of the smaller ones still, but the chain is more or less gone. ((Altadena market drive thru))
I can also say as a fast food employee during Covid, having the lobby closed and only doing Drive Thru is a *huge* ease on the work load, making all our lives better. 6:00
Yeah, the only time I kind of understood the value of a dinning area in the 21st century was when I was in college and their was a crowd of stranded students who enjoyed hanging out. Even back then they could have made things so much more efficient though.
What about people without a car
You mean, like in NYC? :D
People will walk if food is nearby. Or take a subway or taxi.
Yes. Retail is so much better without customer interaction!
(It’s why I quit Bookselling and became a librarian.)
I have an office job but I wouldn’t mind doing a few hours on the weekends at a taco bell restaurant like this one just to get some more side money to put in my emergency fund.
Too bad there’s no taco bell like this where I am
We need more places like Sonic, in my opinion. Pull up to the place, stay in your car, order from intercom or app, get it delivered via rollerskating people w/ masks, get awesome food, everybody wins.
Twice in my life I’ve had violent almost in the hospital food poisoning
Both were sonic. Two different decades two different states.
the problem is that you take up parking space and that's space that another customer could be in
@@tsimmons7230 I have never had sonic food poisoning
Awesome food and Sonic do not combine
@@tims6966 their food is meh but they do have a lot of good drinks and shakes.
"once this pandemic ends" I haven't heard that line in a while
The window in-between this pandemic and the next is sadly how it may well be.
the Spanish flu took 2 years to settle down so I think we can do something this year
well, the number of active cases has been dropping, so keep the hope alive, I guess
unless the new strain causes a second wave
@@davidtitanium22 yeah, thank god. It's a lot better compared to last year. hopefully nothing causes a second wave..
@@davidtitanium22 nah my hope died in the December seeing that it was a whole year and nothing happened and these karens and dumb people refuse to wear masks so more and more are getting killed
Taco Bell designer who hasn't thought of any of this and just wanted a funky looking building: 👁️👁️
Me: has watched 12 minutes
Also me: soooo how is Taco Bell killing Amazon
I mean most of the amazon is being destroyed for livestock so technically anything that uses meat is killing the amazon.
It’s more like they have the potential. With the new design, it has the potential to accommodate more business in one building, and if they put them combine you around like fast food restaurants already are, they could easily outsell Amazon because they don’t have to pay for delivery if you are going to the “distributor”
@@goldenscream7917 I think the point is that both of us thought he meant "amazon" an is the rainforest not the company.
Taco Bell aims to win the Franchise Wars. this was foreseen decades ago, re: Demolition Man
Knew it was coming when the cashier at walgreens told me to "be well" last year!
3 Sea Shells...after TBell gonna need more like a dozen.
I could go for a rat burger.
Wait a minute.. this is the future? Where are all the guns?
You beat me to it i thought the exact same thing lol
The bike racks aren't for bikers. It's so homeless people won't sleep there. That stuff happens a ton.
Gotta love hostile architecture
Can't we just build a place for the homeless people to be comfortable, if we don't want them sleeping in other places?
@@Seth9809 that’s called a homeless shelter.... And most of them are slam full of people already.
@@Seth9809 bike racks is less expensive
@@levikirk7684 i think they mean like a resting spot, not a long term thing
This would be awesome if they had convenient places like this with lots of options. Hopefully they would still implement delivery for anyone who needs it, like if you are disabled and cannot drive a car or if you just want the convenience of having it delivered.
Can we Just talk about how Sonic has been getting us ready this whole time-? Like am I The only That since they were four, ordered from their car, outside, and got their food as other cars ordered next to them?
MatPat: "It's final destination-"
Me, instinctively: "no items"
Fox only
"...never seen more than 2 cars!" When I go to Taco Bell there's usually at least 7 where I live.
Where I live the line wraps around the store itself 😂
Ah I see a fellow mega overkill fan
Like around 15 for me
@@LucarnAnderson uh what?
@@colephillips9866 if you don’t recognize their pfp then you won’t get it lol
I've seen Taco Bell drive throughs with a line that stretches the block, and the inside is filled with customers too. I say bigger drive thrus, and smaller dining rooms, but still having a dining in option for the few who, say, can't use drive thrus because they don't have cars. Because SOME drive thrus won't allow you to order without being in a car, hence *drive* thru
Am minnesotan, can confirm: Taco bell is popular here, 'specially due to them staying open later than other fast food joints for years.
The real customers like to shop at 4:20
aw yea, hello fellow snow penguin idk if you think so but its a bit weird that taco bells are becuase we don't really like spice at least i think so.
@@justmads7055 yeah, in general there seems to be an aversion to spicy food in this state, but that could be another reason taco bell does well here: most of their food lacks hot spicy ingredients, you have to go out of your way to get the hot stuff. Compare that to taco John's, where the basic taco meat has a little bit of a spice component, but not enough to be offensive to the minnesota palate.
“This video is sponsored by skillshare”
*sam o’nella flashbacks
We miss him
@@deebz2626 very much so
@@deebz2626 come back from school my mans
Who?
Wait what happened to him??
bank but make it taco bell
Taco Bank
Banko bell.
Hello, i'd like to make a deposit of 5 tacos and 2 burritos
yea , call it 'Taco Bank" !
instructions unclear, made taco with money shell
Who’s back after seeing the new Taco Bell’s look EXACTLY like the pre production model
"Taco Bell is on the cutting edge"
Sonic: Doing basically the same thing with 20 drive in spots + a drive thru and a few pairs of roller skates
What does a blue hedgehog have to do with fast food? I mean... He *does* like Chili Dogs...
@@dbone3356 sonic is a restaurant i don't know if you were joking but look up sonic restaurant
@@fireandice1228 I am aware of the restaurant that is only available in the U.S.
fr i just commented that its
Then what was with the comment
"Never seen more than 2 cars at a Taco Bell..."
As an UberEats driver, I'm regularly sitting in line a block away from the Taco Bell.
this is the most american thing I've ever seen
I love how he shows Home Depot as an option because even though they do have small items, I can just see someone going to a drive-thru Home Depot for their 8 ft. deck planks.
Doesn't home depot have the large yard you drive into in order to receive/pick up large items? Still pretty much a drive thru.
I may be thinking of menards, though, which i think also have that same sort of thing. I don't believe fleet farm does
@@catelynh1020 Yeah that's fair.
Matpat: "I've never seen more than 2 cars at a taco bell drivethru."
Me: *waiting in a line streching out into traffic for taco bell.*
You must live in a place without quality Mexican food
@@solitaryadventures9273
No we have good mexican as well, but good food isn't cheap. Taco Bell is cheap.
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Unfortunately we don't have anything like that here. Most good mexican closes around 9 and a good meal will run around 15 to 20 dollars.
Me: trying to do my work and not procrastinate
TH-cam: *_watch videos_*
this is more important
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@@Azeroth_Lysphixious very very
@@Ashanley Extremely
People in 2090: bro drive thrus are so old nobody uses it anymore we only use drones and teleportation 😎