They did her a favor.
Eric Cartman: Necesito burrito.
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.
Paging Tom Homan.
Glenn Bell served me my first Taco Bell meal in 1962, at the first location in Downey, CA. He’d be rolling in his grave if he saw what Taco Bell has turned into.
On of the unknown impacts of migration and the failure to assimilate is that in Tampa and all areas south you can’t get a job without being bilingual. There’s an unexpected barrier to entry level jobs. Meanwhile it doesn’t seem to be an issue if the employee does not speak English. I’ve several times run across that issue. It’s fine if you can just point at an item, but if it’s a service issue, forget about communicating.
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.
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”.
That makes both of them.
If she has a phone she can translate.
Oakland, CA ‘s ballots are printed in 48 languages ...
This isn’t new at all. I lived in Miami for many years. You have to accept the fact that Miami is not really the United States its Cuba 2.0. If you don’t speak Spanish there are places that just won’t serve you.
My friends and I had it happen to us. After sitting being ignored for 10 minutes I finally broke down and called to the waitress in Spanish and had to order for 6 people.
I guess this balances out the times I hung up on belligerent entitled Hispanics demanding, “Espanol! Espanol”!
No. Eff you. Learn the language or go home.
A few years prior, I had a favorite stop for dinner after skating 20 miles around Miramar Lake. The La Salsa restaurant had wonderful tacos and a great salsa bar. I had been going for dinner for almost 18 months. This evening, the staff decided they would only speak Spanish. I knew they spoke English. I returned the favor by placing my order in Welsh. They looked perplexed. I suggested we conduct the transaction in English because we both speak that language. Order placed, dinner consumed. Play stupid games and expect to get played back.
A few days ahead of Christmas, my father asked me to pick up some salad greens and tomatoes. I went to Von's grocery. As I approached the produce area, a couple women abruptly switched to speaking German. I gathered my greens and tomatoes and said, "Froeliche Weinachten"...Merry Christmas in German. Never assume those around you are unable to understand your conversation if you choose a different language as a method of exclusion.
I enjoy being a polyglot. Lots of time on Duolingo. I'm toying with trying MakesYouFluent in German. Grok3 rates Duolingo high on grammar and structure, but a bit weak on interactive speech.MakesYouFluent gets a better rating than JumpSpeak for German. I haven't spent the time or money on the new AI immersion tools because I'm frankly still putting in long hours for my employer.
“We have worked quickly to resolve with the customer to ensure this doesn’t happen again,” Taco Bell wrote to NBC 6. Taco Bell added, “We put up signs saying, “No Spanish, no service.”
I’m old enough to remember when Taco Bell’s menu included a pronunciation guide so customers would know how to say such foreign words as “taco” and “burrito”...
A more civilized age...
They just did not want to serve her, for whatever reason. But trust me they understood her perfectly. Didn’t really matter, they would have gotten her order wrong anyway, English or Spanish.
What was that old Taco Bell slogan?
Oh yeah, it was “run for the bathroom”.