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Taco Bell Refuses to Serve English-Speaking Woman
www.toddstarnes.com ^ | April 24, 2025 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 04/24/2025 7:00:39 AM PDT by Red Badger

A Florida woman was denied service at a Taco Bell because none of the workers spoke English. Apparently the Chalupa Supreme Combo doesn’t translate South-of-the-border.

Alexandria Montgomery posted a video of the entire incident as it unfolded in the drive-thru of the Taco Bell in Hialeah.

“Nobody here speaks English? Nobody in the back speaks English? So you can’t take my order,” Montgomery said.

At one point another staffer intervened, but that individual claimed not to speak English, too.

“She doesn’t want to help me because she don’t speak English. But you know the menu. You work here, so you would know what I’m talking about if I say I want number six on the menu. You understand what I’m saying? Like, you just don’t completely shut me out cuz you don’t speak English, that’s not fair,” Montgomery said.

Montgomery said Taco Bell later reached out to apologize and offer her a gift card. But perhaps they should be enrolling their staff in an ESL class?

“I understand everyone in Miami doesn’t speak English, and that’s fine, but if she was willing to work with me, I think the outcome would’ve been different,” Montgomery told NBC 6.

In a statement, Taco Bell said that the incident “does not meet our customer experience expectations.”

“We have worked quickly to resolve with the customer to ensure this doesn’t happen again,” Taco Bell wrote to NBC 6.

It seems to me that anyone who moves to America and refuses to learn our language should be deported. Without a common language we can’t have a sovereign nation nor can we order the delicious Cheesy Gordita Crunch.

Watch the video of what happened below ....

VIDEO AT LINK...................


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Health/Medicine; Society
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To: woweeitsme

RE: #6. My immediate thought also...


21 posted on 04/24/2025 7:15:10 AM PDT by jeffc (Resident of the free State of Florida)
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To: Gen.Blather

Irony is, in a lot of Europe, in the non-English speaking countries, you pretty much have to know English to get a decent job.

English more and more is becoming the Universal Language. This is actually the only country that pretty much discourages people from learning English.


22 posted on 04/24/2025 7:15:50 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

“English more and more is becoming the Universal Language. This is actually the only country that pretty much discourages people from learning English.”

I think that’s part of the Democrat “screw America” mindset. I’m hoping Trump gets around to addressing that. But he’s busy at the moment.


23 posted on 04/24/2025 7:17:51 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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To: woweeitsme
Something just doesn’t seem right about this whole thing. I’m guessing this woman is a known pain in the rear end and they probably have had enough of her.

And then I saw her pic in the article. Suspicions confirmed.

24 posted on 04/24/2025 7:18:06 AM PDT by Drew68 (I haven’t seen the Democrats this mad since yesterday. Save some tears for tomorrow.)
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To: chrisinoc

Wow cool 😎


25 posted on 04/24/2025 7:18:18 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Red Badger

I’m starting to see television commercials in Orlando that are in Spanish but not on Spanish TV channels.

I will say that as far back as the first grade we were being taught Spanish. This was mid 1960s. The teachers frequently told us all through grade school that we needed to learn Spanish because eventually Florida would be a Spanish speaking state. How did teachers know this in 1964?

I took 2 years of Spanish in high school and I still don’t even have a rudimentary understanding of that language. Don’t care to.


26 posted on 04/24/2025 7:18:59 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: dfwgator

If only I had the laptop 💻 fired up to post the pictures...


27 posted on 04/24/2025 7:19:22 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: dfwgator

RFK Jr. would have approved of the original Taco Bell’s food quality. It was much better in the 1960s and 1970s, when Taco Bell was unheard of outside of the southern CA area.


28 posted on 04/24/2025 7:19:46 AM PDT by chrisinoc
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To: chrisinoc

29 posted on 04/24/2025 7:21:02 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

The left doesn’t want newcomers to learn English. It promotes the idea of giving newcomers services in THEIR LANGUAGE, not English, so as to separate people into warring groups and eventually to replace the English speakers/”Whites”.


30 posted on 04/24/2025 7:25:07 AM PDT by I want the USA back (America is once again GREAT!)
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To: I want the USA back

It’s just the opposite in Europe, where refugees usually do know English but not the native language, so it forces those countries to provide more services in English to accomodate the refugees.


31 posted on 04/24/2025 7:26:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger
“She doesn’t want to help me because she don’t speak English..."

That makes both of them.

32 posted on 04/24/2025 7:26:29 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: SaveFerris

My family had a grocery store about a block on Firestone Blvd., so my siblings and cousins frequented Taco Bell, complete with concrete tables, plastic pennants, and lava fire pit. Glenn Bell often took our orders because this was the only Taco Bell at the time.

The original Taco Bell still stands as a gift shop in Irvine, CA.


33 posted on 04/24/2025 7:27:01 AM PDT by chrisinoc
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To: Sirius Lee

They don’t speak Ghetto-bonics and she doesn’t speak Barrio................


34 posted on 04/24/2025 7:29:59 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: posterchild

taco bell is resolving the situation by paying for Spanish lessons for said customer.


35 posted on 04/24/2025 7:30:05 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("The left will rue the day they cheated Trump out of the 2020 election forever" L.Star )
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To: chrisinoc

(concrete tables)

I remember those in the 1970s


36 posted on 04/24/2025 7:32:01 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Red Badger

If she has a phone she can translate.


37 posted on 04/24/2025 7:33:21 AM PDT by Husker24 (Pp)
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To: Drew68

Suspicions of what exactly? Are you suspicious of the TB workers being in the country illegally? Or because it’s a black lady you’ve determined without saying why, that she is the problem? Come on. Spit it out. What do you base your decision on?

Is it possible the woman lives nearby and would like to get something to eat and is tired of the immigration invasion too?


38 posted on 04/24/2025 7:33:28 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: Red Badger

“Por Favor, Taco, Burrito and Soda.” It isn’t very hard to do. I’ve done that in Spanish speaking countries because I can’t speak or understand it. YMMV. IMHO.


39 posted on 04/24/2025 7:35:01 AM PDT by Pol-92064
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To: Pol-92064

Numero dos, por favor....................


40 posted on 04/24/2025 7:35:56 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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