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| - Have you ever had a dream in which you are doing something simple but you are moving as if you are underwater? At tacorrito you can witness what that looks like in real life. When I came in there were two female patrons waiting in front of the counter while a couple of guys were talking to the cashier. As I took my place in line a quickly realized that the guys at the front were complaining about the service before walking out with nothing in their hands. The guy they were scolding walked into the kitchen and out of sight while his colleague milled about, ignoring the three people in line. I then notices that there were four empty slots where ingredient buckets would obviously go, and there isn't a lot of option to begin with. Now this is a situation where I would expect the taco artists to be in full apologetic mode and rushing around to correct the situation, yet the most animated they got was when the spoke to each other casually in Hindi. Finally the guy fills the buckets one by agonizing one and they work on the two girls quesadillas lackadaisically. I'm up, oh wait, no so fast, more puttering to do. When they get down to making my large burrito she asks me if I want to add guacamole for an extra charge. I remind her that vegetarian burritos get free guacamole as the sign she stands under every day would suggest. She dips a tablespoon into pureed avocado slop and drops it unceremoniously into the exact centre of a large burrito. When I get to the cash, he says it's 10.16$.I hand the guy a twenty. He asks me if I have change. Weird but whatever, I pass him a quarter. He says "actually, all we have is twenties in the drawer, do you mind paying with debit"? I dont see that I have much of a choice, do I? I pay with my card and stifle a laugh when it asks me how much I want to tip. I the do the most uncanadian thing we know how to do: when he passes me the bag, I don't say thank you..
Total time of what I thought would be a 5 minute transaction: 25 minutes.
I would give this place one star had the burrito not been satisfactory.
If the employees' uncle or whoever got them the job is reading this, crack the whip.
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