Taco Bell — Restaurant in Hawaii

The Taco Bell restaurants here also serve a limited menu of personal pan pizzas and breadsticks from Pizza Hut (another subsidiary of Yum! Brands). Service is relatively quick, the restaurant is well kept, and the menu items are fairly priced for what you get. It has been many years since the restaurant was last overhauled, and it shows with how the chair legs have developed patina and the tables are kept from wobbling with bunched up napkins, but the tables, seats and countertops are always kept pretty clean.

At the time of this review, this taco bell just brought back its heavily marketed "nacho fries" with the tagline "Season two, seasoned too". Unfortunately they were unavailable on the day of this review.

Here on Maui, the Taco Bells have a specially made, limited offer "kalua pork" menu which incorporates the local delicacy into their dishes. It's not for me though as I personally go to Taco Bell for their namesake. The tacos are flavorful and lack the extra fruits and vegetables that I do not enjoy on my tacos (though I would have appreciated black olives as an option). Their nachos are pricy and the amount of cheese sauce they give is on the lesser side. "Two pumps" was the response I was given one day when inquiring about the cheese amount. Decades ago, they once offered cold cheese which would effectively give you more cheese since the cheese would expand as it warmed rather than contract as it cooled given the same initial volume. Nowadays, you're stuck with hot cheese at two pumps which quickly cools leaving you with about half a container's worth of cheese at room temperature. I order it nonetheless since there is really no competition when it comes to quick, affordable cheese sauce which I absolutely love.

All in all, this Taco Bell is a great place to eat. Under normal circumstances, I would have given them 5 stars since I have very often considered going to Taco Bell for lunch or dinner, but they get a 4 simply because of their limited payment options. The only credit cards they accept are Visa and Mastercard so people who use Discover or Amex (who in my experience, are many in regards to tourists) as their primary card will be disappointed. I can't even begin to count the number of times I've opted to dine at the Jack in the Box across the street for the simple fact that I didn't want to make the purchase on my Visa.

UPDATE 7/27/18: I was just informed that Taco Bell now accepts Discover and Amex eliminating my primary gripe with the restaurant. I can now give Taco Bell my full 5 stars thanks...

Customer service was great. We went thru drive thru at about 6 on a weekday night so there were a few cars ahead.They got us thru quickly. Our order was correct and the person taking the order was even able to help us decide on a few items. Our order was correct. The disappointing part was the food portions and I'm not just being a stickler because I was a taco bell manager a long long long. Did I say long time ago. The portions were a joke as we unwrapped our tacos they were maybe halfway filled if even that with meat lettuce and cheese. And my burrito supreme seemed to be a bean burrito with sour cream. By the way we did order a few bean burritos and those turned out to be almost the best part of the meal. Oh and the Doritos tacos. Only order those of you are someone that really loves Doritos for one and likes licking the bottom of the bag. If not stay away from the...

Waited at drive thru order module for almost 10 mins with no one coming on to ask for order, cars piling up behind me, finally drove up to the window to place my order where i was met by employees who looked puzzled and looked at me as though i did something wrong by not continuing to wait at the module to place my order. Then, magically, they decided to start taking orders again. Mind you, this happened at 1pm in the afternoon. Zero work ethic in this place!! Not to mention how poorly the food is constructed. The employees seem to use the bare minimum of ingredients to fulfill orders. A taco that costs almost $3 should be made to suit the price!!! No consistency whatsoever. Bad management is the first problem that should...