Del Taco

personally.

I've gotten the Del Taco nachos before, but never, I don't know if I've gotten the Taco Bell ones.

Did they change the recipe? Why are people mad? They have switched the box.

Yes?

Right?

Absolutely.

I'm more of a chili cheese fries from Del Taco sort of guy.

I'm much more inclined.

That's right.

Are you going to stop at Del Taco on the way down?

Yeah, I always do.

That's my thing.

this is life.

And then everyone piles, you know, you got six guys in a, in a, in a hatchback, I'll pile in and then go drive to Del Taco and everybody, you know, you spend, you know, 90 cents and get a taco and a soda and everyone just eats that.

Everyone just takes turns

filling up a soda.

I'm sure

everything's, everything's like 15 bucks now, right? Just starting.

Taco Bell, we'll put together, you know, I'm trying to teach the kids, you know, the, the, the Del Taco and Taco Bell, you know, under 10 bucks, you can get dinner still could pull it off.

It's not necessarily great quality, but it's, but it's possible.

Yeah.

I love when they all have a chance to be together outside of work, whether it's like the bar scene where they have that bar fight, right? And they have Del Taco at 2.30 a.m.

It's Del Taco, okay? It's L.A.

It has to be Del Taco.

It had to be Del.

Yeah, I was thinking it had to be Del Taco.

Yeah,

it's Del

I don't remember what we ate.

We ate Del Taco.

We had Del Taco for dinner.

Okay, that is one mistake I made because I hadn't had the Mormon soda thing and they had it on the thing.

I tried it.

Yeah, I agree.

But the tacos for a fast food taco, so different to Taco Bell.

I know they've both got taco in their name, but I'm not going to say this is more authentic, but I think when you're not like super drunk or super high, I think Del Taco is a tastier option than

On one of my favorite podcasts, Pop Apologist, the co-hosts and real life sisters, Lauren and Chandler, interviewed their dad, who is a longtime divorce attorney, who seems to really enjoy his life's work.

And he said something that impacted me so much that I remember I was in a parking lot eating Del Taco, listening to the podcast, and I paused the show and wrote down every word he said.

Here's the quote.

He said, work at the time I was miserable truly miserable in my work I was working a typical Monday through Friday position every day was a struggle to wake up and do good work I was living for the weekend and Even worse than that, I was sick to my stomach even as early as Friday night thinking about returning to work on Monday.

And about, well, almost two years ago, after the private equity transaction in the new private equity firm, a new CEO joined the organization, John Capasola.

Folks might know him from Nothing But Cakes or years and years at Del Taco.

And, you know, it's fast growing organization, lots of stuff going on, lots of things that lots of functions that needed leadership.

And at the time, john came on board we had a conversation about it we really didn't have a strong capability in it um we had a nascent digital marketing capability uh great people on the in the organization but

Andrew came and we were helping you with your paperwork and stuff.

And then I said, oh my God, we should go to Del Taco after this.

And you were like, what? I sat there and I was like,

I'm so sorry.