I hate to write negative reviews, but something has to be said, especially about this incident & the complete rudeness of one of the general managers.
We ordered Taco Bell through Uber Eats & the Waipahu Taco Bell location is where our order came from. We usually don't order Uber Eats from a drive-thru restaurant, but in this case we did for the first time.
When our food was dropped off, we were missing two whole Toasted Cheddar Chalupa box meals along with the two drinks.
We are not ones to assume, so the first thing we did was contact the Waipahu Taco Bell to see if they knew what had happened. I told the worker on the phone that we had just gotten our order from Uber Eats & that we were missing the items. He asked me my name & pulled up our order, literally repeating everything we ordered & confirming what we were missing. He also confirmed with me that his fellow co-workers just relayed to him that they saw the Uber driver who picked up our food leave with only half of our order after they relayed that they are still making the other half. So I asked him if there's anything we can do about it. He told me that we can come through the drive-thru, let them know our name & that we had just had the Uber Eats order mix-up & that they would replace it for us.
When we got to the drive-thru, we told them our name & the whole Uber Eats mix up so they had us pull-up to the window. When at the window, the only thing they replaced was our drinks! We told the worker that we were missing the taco boxes too, the ones we told them about over the phone & the ones they SAW the driver NOT take. So he yelled out the order to make two boxes(we literally heard him!). But then a lady worker, who turned out to be the general manager on duty, comes up to the window asking us what happened & relayed to us that because we ordered through Uber Eats that it is not Taco Bells fault what the drivers leave with & that the only thing that we can do is contact Uber Eats for a refund on what we didn't receive. So that part we took in, gained some knowledge & accepted it. Like a "Okay, now we know" kinna thing. We then contacted Uber Eats & they were very quick to apologize.
At that point we weren't upset & never was upset at Taco Bell. If the driver left without our food after being notified it's not all ready, that is no fault on Taco Bell.
But after asking for more of an explanation to help us understand why it's like that, she got VERY, VERY rude & it could not be because they were busy, there were no cars behind us. This is what got me peeved:
After being very patient through this woman's attitude I asked why they told us we could drive there & that they'll replace our order if that was not the case at all! I explained to her in a nice manner that because they told us that they would replace it, we drove aaaall the way over here(when the point of Uber Eats is so that you don't have to do that!), wasted our time & gas when we had already paid a delivery fee to get it delivered.
In her VERY rude mannerism & attitude, she told me that it was my fault because I didn't mention I ordered through Uber Eats(when she wouldn't have known that because I didn't talk to her!). I told her that I did & she told me two more times that I didn't. I told her I obviously had to because that's how they pulled up my order. Then after she realized she was wrong about that, she continued to tell me that "well, the person who answered the phone was a manager-in-training." So now I was getting a tiny bit more peeved because that is still not our fault. She was not understanding whatsoever where we were coming from. If you told us you were going to replace it, that's what we drove there to get. It seemed like she thought we were just trying to get free food, which obviously we weren't because your employees literally confirmed what happened & why we were there.
We appreciate the fast-food industry & all the employees that still go into work to provide us with food, but I felt her attitude & take on everything was not handled very well. At the end of the day we could care less about getting the tacos that we paid for, it was the way we were treated. Times are hard, even harder during these times, but that doesn't give you the right or the excuse to treat another person that way over a miscommunication. I am one to give people the benefit of the doubt, maybe they just have a bad day, maybe they have alot going on, but who doesn't. Treat people how you would like to treated in a situation that shouldn't have been a situation anyways. read more