Taco Time NW

This place was good! Staff were friendly and accommodating. Food was good. Didn't know their food was locally sourced.

ok but seems like consistancy is not valued at all locations

Whenever I'm hungry, and in hurry, I'll eat at Taco Time. It's a fast food restaurant that I can always depend on----for the quality of food, the cleanliness, and the friendliness of the staff. In this day and age of everything changing so fast you can't keep up with it, being able to depend on the quality of your meal is a big deal. I may visit other fast food restaurants and sometimes they're good and other times, they're not; but Taco Time is always there for me and the food always satisfies. In short, it always tastes the way I remember it from my last visit. And that's not something I take for granted! Thanks Taco Time--- keep up the good work!

This is a sad example of government destroying business. This review has little to do with this specific business and I know how important these reviews can be for a business. However, our experience at this specific business is very indicative of the sad state of our government. For the record, I was so frustrated by our experience that I wanted to give 1 star, but realized that the Franchisee of this location was the victim. I increased my rating to 3 stars to reflect my empathy for a business owner who is trying to make a living and to provide employment opportunities for workers. We used to live in the area and visited other Taco Time locations, but haven't been to one in a few years. It was our favorite fast food Mexican chain. They used to have large burritos that cost about $5 or so and had cheap simple smaller basic burritos for a few dollars. It was great. Fast forward a few years and the county government has adopted a living wage minimum wage, which is about $13 this year and $15 next year. These government people who probably have no concept of reality don't understand that a business has to pay taxes and benefits that actually means the business is paying $3-5 more per hour than the actual required living wage. Plus if they actually want good employees they have to pay more to attract and keep them. These government economists insist that this incredible cost of labor doesn't drive up prices or isn't inflationary. However, with every business having to raise prices to the customer to afford these insane policies, then it is inflation and the very people that are supposed to benefit from a "living wage" gets all the increased pay taken up by higher prices everywhere. Unfortunately, our first business, and really only one, we visited back in the area was this Taco Time and we were excited to get what we were used to getting a few years ago before this living wage idea was anything. However, the small basic burrito that used to be a few dollars now cost $8 and the larger burrito that used to cost $5 was no longer even on the menu. To get a value sides added increased the price upwards of $11. It was my 4 young boys and me and I simply could not justify paying these prices. Now there are some really dumb people that will claim that the business owner is profiteering and is making a killing off of these prices. Any sane person just feels bad for both the employees and the owner because no one is making money. We left very hungry after getting 5 basic burritos for $38. If I was the business owner I'd sell the business and invest in a community that is not run by socialists who have no sense of reality. I know, I'm going to get a lot of flack for this review. I apologize to the Franchisee and employees of this location because they don't deserve this review. For the record, the service was as good as expected and the food, despite being very small, tasted as good as expected. Needless to say, on the rest of our visit to Seattle, we didn't go to any other restaurants or businesses and just cooked our own food at our rental place. No one other than the grocery store got any money from us. Everyone loses including us who like to go out.

This is one of the few fast food establishments that always gets our order right. And the food is always hot and fresh. Produce never tastes wilted. And the burritos are well constructed. Which sounds like an odd compliment, but I just got the Coconut Shrimp Burrito and I had shrimp in literally every bite. It was yummy. Been coming to this location since probably like 1998 or something and it's always good!

Lastly, shout out to Randal at the drive thru. He sounds like a radio or sports announcer. He's also a super friendly!