Taco Bell / KFC — Restaurant in Seattle

In this Orwellian merry-go-round of a marketplace, we find ourselves, we can look to the Colonel's original recipe of rent-creep slowly souring in the gentrification of Queen Anne.

There on the border of Uptown sits an antipode of KFC and Taco Bell, a hellish alliance of ancient Confederate spices and sodium-laden Mexi-meats. It stands as a monolith, somehow enduring the trials of late-stage capitalism.

Against our better judgment - or perhaps because of a car full of hungry children teetering on the edge of a meltdown - we stopped. We thought that at least if we did, we'd know the cause of the impending explosion was simple fatigue. Oh, how wrong we were...

Screams erupted from the backseat as we quickly realized that the hapless employee had delivered fire sauce into the children's bags, instead of the ketchup we'd requested.

In retrospect, we should have known.

"We'd like two kids' meals with chicken nuggets, fruit punch, and fries with ketchup. Also, a number 4 with sour cream and fire sauce."

Having paid an astonishing $38 at the window, they handed us our order and a couple of milk cartons.

"Milk?" We asked, bewildered. "Sorry, we asked for fruit punch."

Had dementors just passed through here? Why were they staring at us vacantly?

"Um, sorry, yes... fruit punch, please."

She swapped them out and we pulled away, our gaze falling on the receipt. For about $40, we got two small kids' meals - with no toy - and a single adult meal.

Resigned to our fate but maintaining silence, the kids happily dug into their bags.

"Why are these so small?" A tiny voice inquired, holding up the smallest chicken nugget we had ever seen.

"Um, that's popcorn chicken," my wife answered.

"I don't have sour cream on mine," I noticed aloud.

And then came the scream.

As our daughter's fiery experience was doused with a generous swig of her baby brother's milk, she screamed, "Why would anyone ever eat that? How is that even food?!"

In that moment, the wisdom of her words dawned upon us. We should probably never go back.

For $40, we could dine on healthier, better, correctly prepared food. Instead, we'd subjected ourselves to this dystopian drive-thru and inadvertently robbed our daughter of her innocence regarding the existence of fire...

Such bad service! This is the I dunno how long time we come here very often because of the convenience that it's closeby and it has both kentuchy and taco bell but at taco bell they always miss a lot of things. Today it was a burrito, it is not much but there's ALWAYS something missing both at the taco bell and the KENTUCHY AS WELL!!! Please fix your staff and stop stealing money from customers without giving us what we order! We are getting very sick of it ! I'd like to add that we normally order Kentuchy and have had more than a few times where food was missing and my husband doesn't check the order after he receives it because we don't eat there but I'm getting very tired of it by now and also this time where we rarely order taco bell we get stuff missing AGAIN? What is wrong with the staff here? Not only do they always have food missing but they usually have a bad attitude as well, the one time we complained because we actually ate there and they gave us something missing (again) I remember the woman was very upset and even treated us badly as if we didn't speak English. She seemed bothered that she cannot speak proper English, yet at the same time did not apologize for missing food!...

11/26/24: Still expensive but I keep getting it cause it's near by. Staff is great but the prices are insane! Lower the prices a bit and you'll get enough customers to not have to rob us. Also update the bathroom was finally open but they have to let you in. Assuming the owner is just rolling in dough and completely disconnected from reality..

Update 5/31/2024 Guy working the counter was sweet and the other employees too!! But it took over 20 minutes to get our order (waiting). We came cause the KFC is not too crazy for prices but after trying again I think we're going to call it quits... Avoid this location!!! Never ever come here. The staff seems fine but not going to pay fancy restaurant prices to wait in a lobby with both bathrooms permanently out of order. The owners of this establishment should be ashamed of themselves.

The prices are ridiculous!! I'm pretty sure they are charging combo prices for every single item. I just payed $40 for 2 chalupas 2 gorditas and a taco. The lady who took our order seemed nice enough. Oh I almost forgot a chicken melt which is usually a dollar... Here's a photo of $40 of taco bell. Still...