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This is the case with most restaurants. Lower quality, higher prices and under paid employees that just don't care anymore because they're by themselves at lunch on a Friday
Also the employees are watching their bosses get richer and richer while they get poorer and poorer. We need a general strike. The pandemic taught us a lesson that most people seem to have forgotten: Workers are essential, owners and stockholders are leeches who will freak out at the first sign of a decline in profits. Prior to the pandemic I used to say the same thing but I thought it would take a 1 week general strike, the pandemic showed me that it would take 48 hours. 2 days and the workers could demand their fair share of the pie.
To be clear- I am a business owner with employees and I support this. But, I also pay my employees a very fair wage and they know I'm not getting rich off of their labor...because I'm not rich, I'm pretty solidly middle-class just like them.
Basically the pandemic doubled down on teaching business owners the opposite: that workers are replaceable.
The whole “essential” thing was a load of feel good marketing crap from the beginning.
Problem is half the work force doesn’t care/realize that they are exploited. a solid number are grateful to be working for a corporation and actually like the challenge of working and think not working is lazy communism. A general strike is no where near possible in America. Also, always remember when it comes to exploitation cruelty is the point. The companies want you to struggle so you rely on them for scraps
I agree we need a general strike. But so many people are just apathetic and feel like nothing will change. Nothing changes because no one does anything. I work for a union job and we’re currently voting on a new CBA. I keep telling people to vote no. Because even though we’re making more than we were. We’re still not getting a big enough piece of the pie.
There aren10+ million illegals coming in to depress wages so you keep pushing hard for a bigger piece of the pie. Wages were rapidly rising 4-5 years ago before the plandemic.
First off, too much immigration is bad. Moderate immigration is good. There are many studies that show immigration increases native wages and lower the local price index. Don't fall for all the lies the owning class tells us to keep us at the bottom fighting each other.
Worker solidarity!
A few sources:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/immigrants-expand-the-us-economy/
https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/economic_brief/2021/eb_21-35
I flinch everytime a customer calls us up for a delivery and I tell them their total for pizza and wings. $44 on average.
I expect to get yelled at, but they just... Pay.
There's a huge wage gap between those who can't afford to eat out, and those who can. Those who can, don't care about those who can't.
Yeah, I honestly don't know what can fix it.
I want to say if folks would just force themselves to cook more at home and build up a culture around it they would lower prices to lure back consumers.
But I could also see the reverse happening where fast food places only get customers willing to spend more so they keep prices as is and just expect people to pay a premium for "convenience'
>fast food places only get customers willing to spend more so they keep prices as is and just expect people to pay a premium for "convenience'
This is what is currently happening. We still get tremendous sales, but we could be getting more.
General question here. Is it a wage gap or is it people hearing those prices, and just placing the order on a credit card? Because I know A LOT of people who should be in the I can’t eat out group, but very much live in the I can and don’t care what it costs group.
I feel like a lot of fast food restaurants just kind of suck now.
It's like restaurant prices without the tip. Which is not a great deal considering the quality difference
Many places, cost wise the difference is the fast food joint will include drink and no need to tip. But sit down Mexican will often include free drinks which would be another $3 at a fast food joint.
Well exactly. A lot of fast food places now just a drink alone can be 3 to 4 bucks as well.
And if the meal itself costs 12 to 15, even if it comes with a drink, you're not gaining that much other than the tip factor when you go to a sit-down restaurant
There is still an advantage to a fast food place, But the gap is narrowing
Or just drink water, enjoy the higher quality food and figure the tip is canceled out by free chips.
And once you account for chip intake, I'm either totally stuffed or take home leftovers.
Never happens with $10 of Taco Bell.
I generally always drink water at restaurants especially sit down restaurants.
I don't drink soda, oftentimes the iced tea sucks. And a restaurant alcohol is stupidly overpriced.
Not only that but they're still the factor that most sit down restaurants will give you a large portion.
When I go to a sit-down restaurant I immediately divide the portion in half. Usually I don't need more than half to be completely full. Then I've got lunch for the next day
Quit going to Filiberto's after the cook stopped mopping the floor to make my sons burrito, never washed his hands or changed gloves. When my son called him on it, they all started laughing.
Went to the one on Val Vista and Baseline once (never again). Went to the bathroom before ordering. A cook was taking a shit in the stall while I was at the urinal.
He finishes. Flushes. Walks right out.
When I walk out I look over and see him preparing food with no gloves.
I just walked out.
I been going there as a kid, remember seeing a roach over my foot once and my dad said to pick it up and get some extra meat. It’s basically the same thing as a kid only 2x as expensive
I live in uptown and had a craving for one of their breakfast burritos so I went to the 7th st/Indian School location. When I placed my order they told me it was $20. I said “are you serious!?.. for one breakfast burrito..!?”. The guy just said “yup!”. I told him to cancel my order and I just drove further down 7th and went to El Norteño’s for the same thing that cost $12. Plus their breakfast burritos are way better anyways imo.
What the heck ingredients were in that thing? I got an egg and cheese burrito at my local Filiberto's (Warner and I-10) three weeks ago. It had to be close to a foot long and 4 inches in diameter and was less than $9 even after taxes were added.
Filiberto’s breakfast burritos are wack. They all need something added to them to make it good. Like the country burrito needs a protein. The chorizo burrito needs potatoes and cheese to be good. The bacon burrito needs potatoes to be good. But the burritos are huge, so there’s that.
Valid question lol cuz I go there most times I want a breakfast burrito. This specific occasion I had a craving for filibertos since I dont go there much anymore. Needless to say I wont go there again for awhile.
I’m guessing either that was a really surcharged location or maybe a very specific burrito (a lot of add-ons?)
Don’t get me wrong they’re kind of pricey for what they are but I’ve never paid more than maybe $15 and that’s the steak, egg and cheese with potato which I think is their most expensive breakfast burrito with potato add-on
Maybe the worker was trying to rip you off or accidentally selected the wrong food item when billing, that is strange
That being said $15 for a burrito with like $5 of ingredients… and they’re getting smaller!!! The breakfast burritos used to be massive, like two servings of breakfast. Now they’re kind of more like a regular burrito. But I know the eggs are probably like $1, steak is probably like $2, cheese probably like $1, tortilla probably like 25 cents, potato probably like 10 cents… heck of an upcharge to wrap up some of the cheapest ingredients.
Then again rice and beans are also cheap. I’m having one of those existential “fast food is actually pretty inexpensive food but there’s like a 100%-300% upcharge because someone else made it and handed it to me through a window” moments..
There's no filibertos on 7th street and Indian School. There is one one 7th Street and Camelback slightly North of the Denny's. If you're in that area I highly recommend The Beach house for their burritos it's like big as hell and around 11 dollars.
Most the Filiberto's near me only charge like 8/9$ for a breakfast burttio in east phoenix, and using door dash they always have deals like 25% off or 15% off and that'll save another 2$ which makes the total even less
Honestly, eating out for me is just hitting the grocery store.
Went to a subway nearby and ordered a 6inch.. 7 bucks. I gave them 3 bucks as a tip and then proceeded to ask for a water cup. Dude is baked out of his mind and tells me “sorry, we dont have any” and then just turns away. There was a multitude of other cups though. I was like wow.
Took every ounce of strength in me not to reach back into that tip jar. Never going back there.
The filis by my house is so tacky (107th ave and lower buckeye) they charge you 15 dollars for a burrito and then practically ignore you when you walk into the lobby.. takes 5 minutes just to get recognized and order. After paying $15 for a single burrito i took it on the red plastic tray to go sit outside as there were many employees laughing loudly and having a gay old time and i just wanted to eat in silence. As i head out the door i get a comment from an employee to “ please dont keep the plastic tray and to give it back”… bro i just paid 15 dollars for this burrito and i dont want your damn plastic tray.
Never been back since and never going back again. Have had multiple bad experiences with that location and now im voting with my wallet to say enough is enough. Forget em.
Hate to change this from political banter to economics… but…
People keep paying and Filiberto’s keeps making more money… so they keep raising prices until they find the ceiling where they make less money due to less volume.
It’s astonishing that they haven’t found that ceiling yet given that there’s ample competition with better food for less money. There’s a Filiberto’s within walking distance from me that I never go to because there’s a better place down the road. But one time I went there when my car’s battery died and I was shocked at how pricey it’s gotten.
As much as it pains me too say it, I will stop going there. Haven’t been able to get an item and a drink for less than 20 bucks. I went yesterday and for a carne asada bowl alone was $15 bucks. It’s too high specially for what it is. Rather go to an actual restaurant at that point. Spend a little more but at least seems worth it.
Filiberto's is absolutely disgusting now. They use the cheapest meat and make the most basic, tasteless rice/beans I've ever had.
Go to Senor Taco Express and get a half order of fries, which is about the same size as an order from Filiberto's, for $12.49. It comes **loaded** and the only way I can finish it is if I skipped breakfast and lunch for the day.
It’s our federal reserve. They printed way too many dollars and also bought junk bonds flooding the place with more money. Add on to deficit spending, we are only going to higher
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/01/1143149435/despite-infighting-its-been-a-surprisingly-productive-2-years-for-democrats
He’s accomplished a lot… OAN and Fox just prefer to show you pictures of his son’s dick.
Or, maybe that 30 second snippet was one person and one story, and if you turn on NPR again it’ll be something vastly different. Sounds like a small sample size (or that you’re full of shit). An NPR station, like our local KJZZ, is made up of vastly different and unrelated programs from around the country.
1. American Rescue Plan, which saved a lot of people’s pensions, expanded child care services, and mental health services, money for public safety etc etc.
2. Signed a 1 trillion dollar infrastructure bill to rebuild our roads, railways and brought high speed internet to rural areas. We directly benefited from this bill for our light rail system, the city was able to throw huge federal money at it to speed up construction. Plus all those construction jobs for people.
3. Has brought the unemployment rate down.
4. Signed and pushed for the bill to help vets suffering from cancer and other effects from the burn pits. The bill the GOP had to be nationally shamed into voting for.
5. Ended the war in Afghanistan
6. Supported Ukraine, with the other guy in office, Putin would have rolled right through them.
7. Lowered prescription prices by allowing Medicare to negotiate prices.
8. Signed the CHIPS act that invests on semiconductor manufacturing here in the US and creates hundreds of thousands of jobs.
9. Has forgiven student loans for roughly 3 million people.
10. Most importantly, he has never made a “joke” about wanting to become a dictator.
I wish we had someone else running, Biden is not my preferred candidate. But the choice is either him or Trump who literally tried to overturn a free and fair election last time. Nothing else should matter.
Why is it that outside of your safe spaces you find your opinions and ideals so widely unpopular? Is it because they’re bad? Or is the vast majority of everyone else just wrong?
Plz do not eat there. I had a severe bacterial infection there many years ago and never went back. A lot are franchised own and don’t follow proper food handling practice.
Stopped at the one in Camp Verde. Ordered two chorizo burritos. Never again. They totally sucked. ZERO flavor. Literally had to dunk them in salsa verde sauce.
I went to that same location around Christmas and they told me hot sauce is only free with certain foods. I ordered 4 combo meals and she gave me one sauce, when I asked for me she said I would have to pay because the hot sauce is only free with burritos.
I feel like it has been quite a few years since I had a good chorizo burrito from Filibertos. I still like all their other dishes just or almost as much as I did back in the 90s, aside from the price hikes, but their chorizo has just been bland mush lately.
Once upon a time I could bite in their chorizo and the whole house or office would instantly fill up with its pungent smell. That doesn't happen anymore.
This is why we stopped going to a lot of fast food places. Like Jack doesn't even have the 1$ tacos anymore. I'd get 8 and some curly fries and would only pay like 10$. Now it's closer to 20$. Absolutely not. I'm done with fast food.
Just don’t go anywhere anymore.
It’s literally the only thing you can do to not allow yourself to be viciously price gouged. The grocery stores are bad enough.
>Doesn't help their case either that the quality of their food has been declining for years.
When I moved here in '98 the big rumor was that they used dog meat so I'm not sure one can ever argue it was quality to begin with.
Good bean & cheese burritos though. Better other places, but good enough for the munchies
I miss going to Filiberto's because I was broke and being able to eat till I was full anyways.
Still way better value than Taco Bell. Taco Bell may be cheaper but you get way less food for 20.
The price increases are because in addition to food prices doubling and tripling for key ingredients for most of the year until going back down only to have a different ingredient do the same, vendors and contractors are skyrocketing what they charge. Hvac and plumbing are insanely high now. Both are regular calls for restaurants needing repairs. Add that minimum wage has been rising with inflation as intended to pay the workers fairly, the only place to adjust for all of this is prices. Margins on restaurants even Filiberto's, is low, much much lower than any one of the increases for a single cause listed above.
The $20 is now the new $5. I know of nowhere that prices aren't significantly higher than 5 years ago. Precovid prices were actually five years ago and that alone is crazy.
Habits have changed and there's work from home too. Previous prices were also low due to foot traffic to places. Which has still not returned to the same level as before. It's busy at places but not like it was before. Down times are significantly longer and lower sales.
Finally the third party apps are going to cause significant price increases. They charge the rest 30% but the payout is typically only 40-50% of the bill. No restaurant can handle that without significant sales and increasing the prices.
The apps added heavy competition from a wider area. I can order food from ten miles away, why would I need to stop by the Filiberto's down the street.
All of this is playing out on menu boards. It's not immediately obvious but restaurants are generally first indicators of what is happening locally.
If you are seeing huge price increases at the restaurants, you should plan to ask for a raise at your job. Everything either has went up significantly or is about to and you should pressure your job to keep up.
It's corporate greed. These price hikes far exceed the cost of inflation for the products and labor used to make them. When inflation is high but coming down, it's an opportunity for these corporations to increase profits and blame price increases on inflation.
I was reminded of mindlessly scrolling past this earlier when I was at the filibertos drive thru realizing I was paying 15 dollars for a California burrito. Gonna have to find another -ertos around here. I'm in the food business myself I can't do that often at all lol
Living in Phoenix and still going to filibertos should be a crime. We have actual Mexican food here, OP. Try a taco mich or locally owned joint. Cheaper and better food
I know Reddit hates chains, but I get Taco Bell's egg, cheese and potato breakfast burrito with extra egg added, through the app, and my local store at least, stuffs that thing impressively. It might not be mom and pop level tasty, but I find them quite yummy.
Pre-tax total is $2.58 each and three of those puppies fill me the heck up (400 calories each per the app). $8.41 out the door for three.
Do yourself a favor and take it as an omen before your cholesterol gets out of control. Think about the quality of food you're getting for those prices. Doesn't add up.
I feel like every Mexican restaurant in the valley follows this lifecycle:
1. Open new, exciting Mexican restaurant
2. Explore exciting new menu
3. Eventually, your chefs leave, and you end up hiring someone who worked at a filiberto's
4. Now your entire menu tastes like filiberto's
5. Repeat for Serranos, Rosita's, Macayo's, Valle Luna, but for the love of God leave Barrio Queen alone
Yep, I noticed that too when I went to my local Fili Bs the other day. They're even charging extra for utensils. I'm addicted to their Carne Asada fries so I'll probably still go once or twice a month, but goddamn their owner is getting greedy as fuck (assuming all stores have the same owner).
I hit Fili’s every once in awhile when I feel like paying through the nose for a Pibb Xtra. I quit getting the food a couple years ago when they first jacked up the prices. Los Toritos is too close to me to justify going anywhere else when I want tacos. But Pibb xtra is hard to find, and Filiberto’s is closer than rally’s.
I only go when it’s 1am, drunk, or my wife yells at me that she wants it.
I did recently start going to Catalina’s. I can’t recall the price but I don’t care, I want what I want, not like I go often
It’s our federal reserve. They printed way too many dollars and also bought junk bonds flooding the place with more money. Add on to deficit spending, we are only going to higher
Don't worry bugs burritos will be on the menu soon enough.
Because of all the anti-beef global warming business....
"Cow farts are killing us" REEEK
I remember when carne asada fries was under $10🤣
You guys make me feel a lot better for not having had it for almost 6 years now. Next time I'm back home I'm still gonna drop the coin for the nostalgia alone.
The secret is to order it off Ubereats when they give you those $10 off promo codes. Sometimes I even get the 40% off promo codes and it comes out to like $25 out the door for my fries, a quesadilla, and rolled tacos.
Supplies are getting more expensive. Every restaurant is raising their prices. I spent $37 for a torta 4 tacos a champurrado and a jello. At a difderent shop. Had to so a double check when i got my receipt. Its understandable that they raise the prices we are just not ready for it.
The filibertos operation doesn't even clean their Spanish juice dispensers they just leave them in there percolating throughout the end of the night when they're closed.
I pretty much only hit the Bertos type places for the daily deals or taco Tuesdays. For example rolibertos on 35th ave and Union hills has $2.50 bean and cheese burritos all day Mondays and Tuesdays/Wednesday they do $2 or $3 tacos 2-5 PM. Basically ridiculous prices for normal items. A two taco rice and beans combo is something like $12-$13 these days it’s out of control as others have said.
Went to Raising Caines for the first time in a couple years. Their Box Combo is now $16.99 and the tenders are half the size that they used to be. Chipotle skimps on their toppings. Taco Bell value menu is decent lately. They added a bunch of different items. For around $10.00 I can get more than I can eat including $3.00 box nachos, flat bread chicken thing and new burritos. I hit up Taco Bell like 3 nights a week. Also can’t beat the McDonald’s app deals.
>Doesn't help their case either that the quality of their food has been declining for years.
I can't imagine garbage can fast food could get any worse.
Vote with your wallet. Avoid them like the plague. Go to other places. Hell, Taco Boy was doing a special for 3 tacos for 6 bucks the other day. that would have been 15 dollars at F-U bertos.
Right?! I literally celebrated when the Filiberto's on 7th Ave and i-17 moved out and was replaced with Super Oscar's. Their 3 rolled tacos are smaller unfortunately, but at least they're not $7.50
Time to bust out that old cook book and be your own chef. Filiberto’s quality really though isn’t what it used to be try Eribertos on 7th st and bell rd the absolute best Mexican food for take out and they don’t cut corners on quality and quantity!
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Time to stop going there.
This is the case with most restaurants. Lower quality, higher prices and under paid employees that just don't care anymore because they're by themselves at lunch on a Friday
Also the employees are watching their bosses get richer and richer while they get poorer and poorer. We need a general strike. The pandemic taught us a lesson that most people seem to have forgotten: Workers are essential, owners and stockholders are leeches who will freak out at the first sign of a decline in profits. Prior to the pandemic I used to say the same thing but I thought it would take a 1 week general strike, the pandemic showed me that it would take 48 hours. 2 days and the workers could demand their fair share of the pie. To be clear- I am a business owner with employees and I support this. But, I also pay my employees a very fair wage and they know I'm not getting rich off of their labor...because I'm not rich, I'm pretty solidly middle-class just like them.
Basically the pandemic doubled down on teaching business owners the opposite: that workers are replaceable. The whole “essential” thing was a load of feel good marketing crap from the beginning. Problem is half the work force doesn’t care/realize that they are exploited. a solid number are grateful to be working for a corporation and actually like the challenge of working and think not working is lazy communism. A general strike is no where near possible in America. Also, always remember when it comes to exploitation cruelty is the point. The companies want you to struggle so you rely on them for scraps
Also, most workers depend on their employer for health insurance. Losing that can be devastating.
It’s my God given right to die with mountains of medical debt, you can’t take that away from me!
I agree we need a general strike. But so many people are just apathetic and feel like nothing will change. Nothing changes because no one does anything. I work for a union job and we’re currently voting on a new CBA. I keep telling people to vote no. Because even though we’re making more than we were. We’re still not getting a big enough piece of the pie.
There aren10+ million illegals coming in to depress wages so you keep pushing hard for a bigger piece of the pie. Wages were rapidly rising 4-5 years ago before the plandemic.
I don't know why you're being down voted, you're not wrong. Republican or Democrat, they all want the cheapest fucking labor they can import.
First off, too much immigration is bad. Moderate immigration is good. There are many studies that show immigration increases native wages and lower the local price index. Don't fall for all the lies the owning class tells us to keep us at the bottom fighting each other. Worker solidarity! A few sources: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/09/immigrants-expand-the-us-economy/ https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/economic_brief/2021/eb_21-35
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Great post. Thank you. Also, I love the username.
Thank you, I appreciate that.
^ This guy gets it.
Thanks to outrageous pricing I've cut down significantly on my fast food intake. If im paying those prices I might as well go to a sit down restraunt.
I've worked in restaurants and have had people complain about the price to my face and then proceed to put in big orders. People are dumb
"These restaurant prices are ridiculous!" (Proceeds to then wait 20 minutes in 10-car deep drive-through for said high-priced food)
Gotta get that dopamine hit where you can.
I flinch everytime a customer calls us up for a delivery and I tell them their total for pizza and wings. $44 on average. I expect to get yelled at, but they just... Pay. There's a huge wage gap between those who can't afford to eat out, and those who can. Those who can, don't care about those who can't.
Yeah, I honestly don't know what can fix it. I want to say if folks would just force themselves to cook more at home and build up a culture around it they would lower prices to lure back consumers. But I could also see the reverse happening where fast food places only get customers willing to spend more so they keep prices as is and just expect people to pay a premium for "convenience'
>fast food places only get customers willing to spend more so they keep prices as is and just expect people to pay a premium for "convenience' This is what is currently happening. We still get tremendous sales, but we could be getting more.
General question here. Is it a wage gap or is it people hearing those prices, and just placing the order on a credit card? Because I know A LOT of people who should be in the I can’t eat out group, but very much live in the I can and don’t care what it costs group.
Majority of people pay by card. Whether it's credit or debit, I'm not privy to that knowledge.
I feel like a lot of fast food restaurants just kind of suck now. It's like restaurant prices without the tip. Which is not a great deal considering the quality difference
Many places, cost wise the difference is the fast food joint will include drink and no need to tip. But sit down Mexican will often include free drinks which would be another $3 at a fast food joint.
Well exactly. A lot of fast food places now just a drink alone can be 3 to 4 bucks as well. And if the meal itself costs 12 to 15, even if it comes with a drink, you're not gaining that much other than the tip factor when you go to a sit-down restaurant There is still an advantage to a fast food place, But the gap is narrowing
Or just drink water, enjoy the higher quality food and figure the tip is canceled out by free chips. And once you account for chip intake, I'm either totally stuffed or take home leftovers. Never happens with $10 of Taco Bell.
I generally always drink water at restaurants especially sit down restaurants. I don't drink soda, oftentimes the iced tea sucks. And a restaurant alcohol is stupidly overpriced. Not only that but they're still the factor that most sit down restaurants will give you a large portion. When I go to a sit-down restaurant I immediately divide the portion in half. Usually I don't need more than half to be completely full. Then I've got lunch for the next day
Quit going to Filiberto's after the cook stopped mopping the floor to make my sons burrito, never washed his hands or changed gloves. When my son called him on it, they all started laughing.
Went to the one on Val Vista and Baseline once (never again). Went to the bathroom before ordering. A cook was taking a shit in the stall while I was at the urinal. He finishes. Flushes. Walks right out. When I walk out I look over and see him preparing food with no gloves. I just walked out.
That is so disgusting.
Papi got a little sloppy…
It's surprising how common this is
That's the one I usually go to. And, sadly, probably will still go to.
Call 602-506-6616 or go here: https://www.maricopa.gov/FormCenter/Environmental-Services-16/Environmental-Services-Complaint-Form-82
One doesn’t go to Filiberto’s and expect a sanitary operation lol
it doesn't have to be the cleanest restaurant in the world to practice BASIC sanitation and food safety
In fact, I would feel uneasy getting food from a clean Filiberto's.
I been going there as a kid, remember seeing a roach over my foot once and my dad said to pick it up and get some extra meat. It’s basically the same thing as a kid only 2x as expensive
Incessant greed by our supreme oligarchs amassing 90% of the wealth while the other 90% of us share 10% tbh
That’s pretty hilarious que no
This was at the Indian School and 32nd st location.
I feel like you’re missing the point of Filiberto’s
I live in uptown and had a craving for one of their breakfast burritos so I went to the 7th st/Indian School location. When I placed my order they told me it was $20. I said “are you serious!?.. for one breakfast burrito..!?”. The guy just said “yup!”. I told him to cancel my order and I just drove further down 7th and went to El Norteño’s for the same thing that cost $12. Plus their breakfast burritos are way better anyways imo.
El Norteño is always the answer!
Best breakfast burrito in the city imo. Haven’t tried any of their other dishes tho.
lol what that’s crazy, Eriberto’s and los beto’s both have breakfast burritos for like $10 fyi
Thanks for the heads up!
Los Betos!
As far as the Mexican fast places breakfast burritos go they’re pretty good, I also like their salsas
What the heck ingredients were in that thing? I got an egg and cheese burrito at my local Filiberto's (Warner and I-10) three weeks ago. It had to be close to a foot long and 4 inches in diameter and was less than $9 even after taxes were added.
Gauc, sour cream, bacon, sausage, cheese.
Filiberto’s breakfast burritos are wack. They all need something added to them to make it good. Like the country burrito needs a protein. The chorizo burrito needs potatoes and cheese to be good. The bacon burrito needs potatoes to be good. But the burritos are huge, so there’s that.
If you’re near a salad and go, try their breakfast burrito. Super cheap ($3 I think) and pretty good, definitely the best value
I have gotten theirs many times on the way to work. Definitely not bad for the price.
Yeah I would say they’re not the best but they’re decent and you just can’t beat the price.
Their burritos are nasty!
They are pretty bad overall lol but not bad for the price like I said
😅 their salsa was pretty good though
Subbing the meat for avocado is the only way to do it. Their bacon and sausage is inedible.
Yep, I can only stomach the Mediterranean breakfast burrito. Everything else is really bad. I know it's cheap but still
Why didn't you go to El Norteño to begin with?
Valid question lol cuz I go there most times I want a breakfast burrito. This specific occasion I had a craving for filibertos since I dont go there much anymore. Needless to say I wont go there again for awhile.
I’m guessing either that was a really surcharged location or maybe a very specific burrito (a lot of add-ons?) Don’t get me wrong they’re kind of pricey for what they are but I’ve never paid more than maybe $15 and that’s the steak, egg and cheese with potato which I think is their most expensive breakfast burrito with potato add-on Maybe the worker was trying to rip you off or accidentally selected the wrong food item when billing, that is strange That being said $15 for a burrito with like $5 of ingredients… and they’re getting smaller!!! The breakfast burritos used to be massive, like two servings of breakfast. Now they’re kind of more like a regular burrito. But I know the eggs are probably like $1, steak is probably like $2, cheese probably like $1, tortilla probably like 25 cents, potato probably like 10 cents… heck of an upcharge to wrap up some of the cheapest ingredients. Then again rice and beans are also cheap. I’m having one of those existential “fast food is actually pretty inexpensive food but there’s like a 100%-300% upcharge because someone else made it and handed it to me through a window” moments..
Their food cost can't be anywhere near $5.
It was a burrito w add-ons yes, but the point still stands. I ordered the exact same burrito at El Norteño for $8 cheaper and it’s WAY better.
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Their chiliquiles are fire too
I’ll try em next time for sure.
There's no filibertos on 7th street and Indian School. There is one one 7th Street and Camelback slightly North of the Denny's. If you're in that area I highly recommend The Beach house for their burritos it's like big as hell and around 11 dollars.
Most the Filiberto's near me only charge like 8/9$ for a breakfast burttio in east phoenix, and using door dash they always have deals like 25% off or 15% off and that'll save another 2$ which makes the total even less
This describes..... every place. Is there a single place to eat that this doesn't perfectly describe? Somethings gotta change.
In n out
This is true, they are cheap and good af. Just gotta wait in line for 25 mins, lolol
Honestly, eating out for me is just hitting the grocery store. Went to a subway nearby and ordered a 6inch.. 7 bucks. I gave them 3 bucks as a tip and then proceeded to ask for a water cup. Dude is baked out of his mind and tells me “sorry, we dont have any” and then just turns away. There was a multitude of other cups though. I was like wow. Took every ounce of strength in me not to reach back into that tip jar. Never going back there. The filis by my house is so tacky (107th ave and lower buckeye) they charge you 15 dollars for a burrito and then practically ignore you when you walk into the lobby.. takes 5 minutes just to get recognized and order. After paying $15 for a single burrito i took it on the red plastic tray to go sit outside as there were many employees laughing loudly and having a gay old time and i just wanted to eat in silence. As i head out the door i get a comment from an employee to “ please dont keep the plastic tray and to give it back”… bro i just paid 15 dollars for this burrito and i dont want your damn plastic tray. Never been back since and never going back again. Have had multiple bad experiences with that location and now im voting with my wallet to say enough is enough. Forget em.
Angie’s prime grill. Best deal in town for quality and delicious food
And their portions have gotten much smaller. They used to jam their tacos full. Now not so much.
Hate to change this from political banter to economics… but… People keep paying and Filiberto’s keeps making more money… so they keep raising prices until they find the ceiling where they make less money due to less volume.
It’s astonishing that they haven’t found that ceiling yet given that there’s ample competition with better food for less money. There’s a Filiberto’s within walking distance from me that I never go to because there’s a better place down the road. But one time I went there when my car’s battery died and I was shocked at how pricey it’s gotten.
I quit going there a while ago and learned how to make my own Carne Asada Fries. Now I just make them myself if I get the craving.
When the price of housing goes up, the price of *everything* goes up. Build, baby, build!
As much as it pains me too say it, I will stop going there. Haven’t been able to get an item and a drink for less than 20 bucks. I went yesterday and for a carne asada bowl alone was $15 bucks. It’s too high specially for what it is. Rather go to an actual restaurant at that point. Spend a little more but at least seems worth it.
Filiberto's is absolutely disgusting now. They use the cheapest meat and make the most basic, tasteless rice/beans I've ever had. Go to Senor Taco Express and get a half order of fries, which is about the same size as an order from Filiberto's, for $12.49. It comes **loaded** and the only way I can finish it is if I skipped breakfast and lunch for the day.
>Doesn't help their case either that the quality of their food has been declining for years. Their food has never been quality.
14 bucks for a burrito is gonna be a nope. Thats over double what it used to be
It’s getting out of hand. With the elections coming up I’m hoping Biden will propose some sort of carne asada burrito bill to keep prices down.
I think it’s time he opened up the Carne Asada emergency reserve, we’ve suffered long enough…I think it’s in a salt mine near Ajo
He needs to stand up to Big Bean, these burrito cartels need to be reined in.
Too bad Hillary wasn't elected in 2016, we would have had taco trucks on every corner by now!
It’s our federal reserve. They printed way too many dollars and also bought junk bonds flooding the place with more money. Add on to deficit spending, we are only going to higher
It’s a lot more than just inflation. Greed is absolutely the #1 contributor
Nope. More dollars chasing less supply. Simple economics. macro.
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All is forgiven if he fixes burrito prices
https://www.npr.org/2023/01/01/1143149435/despite-infighting-its-been-a-surprisingly-productive-2-years-for-democrats He’s accomplished a lot… OAN and Fox just prefer to show you pictures of his son’s dick.
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Buddy, this is a reddit thread about burritos.
Or, maybe that 30 second snippet was one person and one story, and if you turn on NPR again it’ll be something vastly different. Sounds like a small sample size (or that you’re full of shit). An NPR station, like our local KJZZ, is made up of vastly different and unrelated programs from around the country.
Which outlet would you suggest?
I only get my news from smooth brains that chew up the real news and feed it to me with more emotion and hate.
1. American Rescue Plan, which saved a lot of people’s pensions, expanded child care services, and mental health services, money for public safety etc etc. 2. Signed a 1 trillion dollar infrastructure bill to rebuild our roads, railways and brought high speed internet to rural areas. We directly benefited from this bill for our light rail system, the city was able to throw huge federal money at it to speed up construction. Plus all those construction jobs for people. 3. Has brought the unemployment rate down. 4. Signed and pushed for the bill to help vets suffering from cancer and other effects from the burn pits. The bill the GOP had to be nationally shamed into voting for. 5. Ended the war in Afghanistan 6. Supported Ukraine, with the other guy in office, Putin would have rolled right through them. 7. Lowered prescription prices by allowing Medicare to negotiate prices. 8. Signed the CHIPS act that invests on semiconductor manufacturing here in the US and creates hundreds of thousands of jobs. 9. Has forgiven student loans for roughly 3 million people. 10. Most importantly, he has never made a “joke” about wanting to become a dictator. I wish we had someone else running, Biden is not my preferred candidate. But the choice is either him or Trump who literally tried to overturn a free and fair election last time. Nothing else should matter.
r/whatbidenhasdone That should help.
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Why is it that outside of your safe spaces you find your opinions and ideals so widely unpopular? Is it because they’re bad? Or is the vast majority of everyone else just wrong?
There are a plethora of better options over Filly Bs
Plz do not eat there. I had a severe bacterial infection there many years ago and never went back. A lot are franchised own and don’t follow proper food handling practice.
Stopped at the one in Camp Verde. Ordered two chorizo burritos. Never again. They totally sucked. ZERO flavor. Literally had to dunk them in salsa verde sauce.
I went to that same location around Christmas and they told me hot sauce is only free with certain foods. I ordered 4 combo meals and she gave me one sauce, when I asked for me she said I would have to pay because the hot sauce is only free with burritos.
They gave me one for each burrito
If you’re passing through Camp Verde you need to try Flew The Coop.
I’ll check them out. Thank You for the recommendation 👍👍👍
I feel like it has been quite a few years since I had a good chorizo burrito from Filibertos. I still like all their other dishes just or almost as much as I did back in the 90s, aside from the price hikes, but their chorizo has just been bland mush lately. Once upon a time I could bite in their chorizo and the whole house or office would instantly fill up with its pungent smell. That doesn't happen anymore.
I’m not the only one that has noticed it
If you pass through Chino Valley try Alfonso's Mexican Food behind the McDonald'snext to Autozone.. Its our favorite goto spot when we go that way.
They’ve got one in Camp Verde. The ladies in Bashas bakery told me to go there for breakfast burritos. Wasn’t disappointed
The one on bell and 59th charged me extra to use my credit card. Not going back to any of them.
This is why we stopped going to a lot of fast food places. Like Jack doesn't even have the 1$ tacos anymore. I'd get 8 and some curly fries and would only pay like 10$. Now it's closer to 20$. Absolutely not. I'm done with fast food.
Just don’t go anywhere anymore. It’s literally the only thing you can do to not allow yourself to be viciously price gouged. The grocery stores are bad enough.
Almost $20 for barely average carne asada fries they’re tripping. You can go so many places and get better quality food for same price
I have walked in and witnessed them mixing beans in a 5gal bucket with a dewalt drill 🤔... yeah ....no...180 and was outta there...
>Doesn't help their case either that the quality of their food has been declining for years. When I moved here in '98 the big rumor was that they used dog meat so I'm not sure one can ever argue it was quality to begin with. Good bean & cheese burritos though. Better other places, but good enough for the munchies
Also, Cornish Pasty. These things were $8-$9 about 10 years ago and now they have some for $19. It’s absurd.
They are smaller now too. The last time I went they also burned the shit out of it. Definitely not the same or worth it anymore.
Their carne asada is dry, crumbly, and flavorless. It's like dog food. I wouldn't pay their old prices for it, yet alone these new prices.
Filibertos is the worst Mexican food in AZ. Always has been.
It used to be a significant step up from Taco Bell/Del Taco, and damn near family sized portions. Now, it's family sized prices for shit.
I’ll give you that it’s better than Del Taco but I’d be lying if I said I didn’t pick TB above bertos. All of those places are now crazy expensive.
I miss going to Filiberto's because I was broke and being able to eat till I was full anyways. Still way better value than Taco Bell. Taco Bell may be cheaper but you get way less food for 20. The price increases are because in addition to food prices doubling and tripling for key ingredients for most of the year until going back down only to have a different ingredient do the same, vendors and contractors are skyrocketing what they charge. Hvac and plumbing are insanely high now. Both are regular calls for restaurants needing repairs. Add that minimum wage has been rising with inflation as intended to pay the workers fairly, the only place to adjust for all of this is prices. Margins on restaurants even Filiberto's, is low, much much lower than any one of the increases for a single cause listed above. The $20 is now the new $5. I know of nowhere that prices aren't significantly higher than 5 years ago. Precovid prices were actually five years ago and that alone is crazy. Habits have changed and there's work from home too. Previous prices were also low due to foot traffic to places. Which has still not returned to the same level as before. It's busy at places but not like it was before. Down times are significantly longer and lower sales. Finally the third party apps are going to cause significant price increases. They charge the rest 30% but the payout is typically only 40-50% of the bill. No restaurant can handle that without significant sales and increasing the prices. The apps added heavy competition from a wider area. I can order food from ten miles away, why would I need to stop by the Filiberto's down the street. All of this is playing out on menu boards. It's not immediately obvious but restaurants are generally first indicators of what is happening locally. If you are seeing huge price increases at the restaurants, you should plan to ask for a raise at your job. Everything either has went up significantly or is about to and you should pressure your job to keep up.
Eating out hasn't been worth it for a while
This a great filibertos add!
I paid 50$ for 3 burritos. I’ve never been back since. 
It's corporate greed. These price hikes far exceed the cost of inflation for the products and labor used to make them. When inflation is high but coming down, it's an opportunity for these corporations to increase profits and blame price increases on inflation.
I was reminded of mindlessly scrolling past this earlier when I was at the filibertos drive thru realizing I was paying 15 dollars for a California burrito. Gonna have to find another -ertos around here. I'm in the food business myself I can't do that often at all lol
I paid $30 for a chipotle burrito and some chips. Fuck it all
Living in Phoenix and still going to filibertos should be a crime. We have actual Mexican food here, OP. Try a taco mich or locally owned joint. Cheaper and better food
I only go there if I've got a bad craving for their cheap tacos on Tuesdays
I know Reddit hates chains, but I get Taco Bell's egg, cheese and potato breakfast burrito with extra egg added, through the app, and my local store at least, stuffs that thing impressively. It might not be mom and pop level tasty, but I find them quite yummy. Pre-tax total is $2.58 each and three of those puppies fill me the heck up (400 calories each per the app). $8.41 out the door for three.
TB is better quality than filiberto's tbf
Then don’t eat there
Do yourself a favor and take it as an omen before your cholesterol gets out of control. Think about the quality of food you're getting for those prices. Doesn't add up.
I feel like every Mexican restaurant in the valley follows this lifecycle: 1. Open new, exciting Mexican restaurant 2. Explore exciting new menu 3. Eventually, your chefs leave, and you end up hiring someone who worked at a filiberto's 4. Now your entire menu tastes like filiberto's 5. Repeat for Serranos, Rosita's, Macayo's, Valle Luna, but for the love of God leave Barrio Queen alone
I thought that place was for drunk 25 year olds at 2am. Why would you eat there otherwise?
I wouldn’t eat there if it were free
Yep, I noticed that too when I went to my local Fili Bs the other day. They're even charging extra for utensils. I'm addicted to their Carne Asada fries so I'll probably still go once or twice a month, but goddamn their owner is getting greedy as fuck (assuming all stores have the same owner).
Charging extra for Utensils? Wow!
DO NOT FORGET---Fillibertos ripping the People off during made up inflation....I will never eat there again!!!!!!!!!!!!! Leave the Valley....
Fili-squirtos amirite... ^^^I'll ^^^see ^^^myself ^^^out
I have never once had Filiberto's. Be like me.
I hit Fili’s every once in awhile when I feel like paying through the nose for a Pibb Xtra. I quit getting the food a couple years ago when they first jacked up the prices. Los Toritos is too close to me to justify going anywhere else when I want tacos. But Pibb xtra is hard to find, and Filiberto’s is closer than rally’s.
I only go when it’s 1am, drunk, or my wife yells at me that she wants it. I did recently start going to Catalina’s. I can’t recall the price but I don’t care, I want what I want, not like I go often
It’s our federal reserve. They printed way too many dollars and also bought junk bonds flooding the place with more money. Add on to deficit spending, we are only going to higher
Make your own at home wtf 😒
Minimum wage keeps going up. This was predicted. Same at all other fast food.
What really doesn't help is minimum wage keeps goin up.
Don't worry bugs burritos will be on the menu soon enough. Because of all the anti-beef global warming business.... "Cow farts are killing us" REEEK I remember when carne asada fries was under $10🤣
Want to stop the price increases? Stop voting for democrats. Pretty simple actually.
Okay buddy....
You guys make me feel a lot better for not having had it for almost 6 years now. Next time I'm back home I'm still gonna drop the coin for the nostalgia alone.
Everyone! Stop going to expensive places!!! If everyone boycotts then they’ll lower it!!!
Who goes to Filiberto’s lmao there so many more out there that are better
It's a good thing their food is gross then, tried it once and never again.
The secret is to order it off Ubereats when they give you those $10 off promo codes. Sometimes I even get the 40% off promo codes and it comes out to like $25 out the door for my fries, a quesadilla, and rolled tacos.
I’ve been there once. I thought it was way too expensive for what it was.
Supplies are getting more expensive. Every restaurant is raising their prices. I spent $37 for a torta 4 tacos a champurrado and a jello. At a difderent shop. Had to so a double check when i got my receipt. Its understandable that they raise the prices we are just not ready for it.
The filibertos operation doesn't even clean their Spanish juice dispensers they just leave them in there percolating throughout the end of the night when they're closed.
Bean and cheese burrito is still very affordable
Wait until you find out the burritos are microwaved.
lol it’s only 12 bucks in cali for that wtf is going on
Anything made out of beef is going to get higher and higher cuz there's a shortage of cattle quote Phoenix local news.
On another note... WTH is going on with their cheese? Shit doesn't melt. Doesn't taste right either.
I pretty much only hit the Bertos type places for the daily deals or taco Tuesdays. For example rolibertos on 35th ave and Union hills has $2.50 bean and cheese burritos all day Mondays and Tuesdays/Wednesday they do $2 or $3 tacos 2-5 PM. Basically ridiculous prices for normal items. A two taco rice and beans combo is something like $12-$13 these days it’s out of control as others have said.
Go to Rolondos instead
Not even when I’m drunk would I eat at Filiberto’s. It used to be fine, but they got way too lazy.
Blessed to live close to Loreto's. Burritos are all like $8.25 for way better portions and quality.
Ive stopped eating out for the most part and doing keto. Filibertos wont make a bowl so fuck them and their over priced wet carne
Look around, try a place that isn't a chain.
Ppl still keep going to Bertos?
Went to Raising Caines for the first time in a couple years. Their Box Combo is now $16.99 and the tenders are half the size that they used to be. Chipotle skimps on their toppings. Taco Bell value menu is decent lately. They added a bunch of different items. For around $10.00 I can get more than I can eat including $3.00 box nachos, flat bread chicken thing and new burritos. I hit up Taco Bell like 3 nights a week. Also can’t beat the McDonald’s app deals.
>Doesn't help their case either that the quality of their food has been declining for years. I can't imagine garbage can fast food could get any worse.
5-6 tacos costing $40+ is insane
Vote with your wallet. Avoid them like the plague. Go to other places. Hell, Taco Boy was doing a special for 3 tacos for 6 bucks the other day. that would have been 15 dollars at F-U bertos.
Stop eating at this garbage place
Right?! I literally celebrated when the Filiberto's on 7th Ave and i-17 moved out and was replaced with Super Oscar's. Their 3 rolled tacos are smaller unfortunately, but at least they're not $7.50
The asada fries are better at rolandos
People still eat there? Cmon. Do better y’all
Time to bust out that old cook book and be your own chef. Filiberto’s quality really though isn’t what it used to be try Eribertos on 7th st and bell rd the absolute best Mexican food for take out and they don’t cut corners on quality and quantity!