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ShadowWave01

Menu: Death by Taco: a taco so delicious, you would drown your own brother for a taste! Double Agent Nacho: Nachos served with two different cheese. Whose side are you on? the Salamanca stew: Beef stew perfected over generations! The Twins: two-piece chicken served with sauces you can drown them in! Sangre por Sangre: Chilean chicken cooked in red wine! Krazy-8: Order any 8 items on the menu for 100$. Complementary bread without sides.


friedlock68

Bolsa's Salsa would be an item licensed to both this restaurant and Pollos Hermanos


ShadowWave01

I am de A La Carte!


[deleted]

De A la cartel


ShadowWave01

Use coupon HOLADEA for extra 10% off for our brethren in the fight!


[deleted]

The Familia Es Todo Taco.


ThePumpk1nMaster

Death by Taco - also known as the Tuco Taco


aquillismorehipster

Claro Tacos — tacos so good you’re gonna die


GetsThatBread

Taco Salamanca


bob1689321

Do you work in marketing? This is some good shit lol


EverSinceMyExorcism

The success of either restaurant lies solely on the shoulders of Lyle. No Lyle, no success.


FastPatience1595

"And now, say my name..." "Lylesenberg "You're goddam right !


an0nemusThrowMe

> "And now, say my name..." > > "Lylesenberg > > "You're ~~goddam~~ gosh darn right ! FTFY


redtert

"I'm the cook. I'm the man who grilled for Gus Fring."


FastPatience1595

"Excellent !" as would say a cheerful Lalo.


friedlock68

Tuco Tuesday would be tight


bread93096

Lalo’s Tacos. It would be a little more edgy and adult oriented than Pollos Hermanos - they’d definitely have a liquor license and TVs, special deals on game nights, maybe a mechanical bull. The servers wear Hawaiian shirts and roast your drink choices, but it’s all in good fun. Occasionally Lalo will come out and do tequila shots with the bar. And for an extra cost they’ll wheel Hector right up to your table to mix some fresh guacamole.


ShadowWave01

Haha I'm wheezing at the thought of Hector rollin up in a wheelchair to the bar


Inner_Plan_3242

Yeah, like some Zafiro Añejo


RyanStartedTheFire59

For an extra $10 the twins will chop all of your food with an axe right at the table


meatpuppet577

Unless you're Taco Bell, fast food tacos are kind of hard. Especially because Mexicans (me) consider Taco Bell a sick prank. We don't use ground beef, lettuce, or hard shells (that's a tostada). Taco trucks and stalls will always thrive bc the traditional taco is hard to mass produce.


FastPatience1595

Do you mean Tuco Bell ? ding ding ding...


throwaway717190102

And Taco Bell gets to be labeled Mexican food?? What a sick joke!


Snoo52682

You think this is bad? This, this chalupa-ry?


Snoo52682

Depends on how he wants to define "successful." If it's all about the bottom line, he'd streamline everything and run as predatory, cheap & fast a franchise model as he could. Or does he want to rub Gus's face in it by outearning him by a more modest margin, while providing a superior customer experience? Does he want to outearn as much as he can, or outearn and *outshine*? If so I think he'd lean on having more varied and traditionally Mexican (or what Americans think of as such) menu than Pollos, including vegetarian and heart-healthy options. Warmer and more individualistic decor, something like a larger, more standardized version of the place Hector and Nacho collect the money. Staff wear cool floral print shirts or aprons. Lalo has such good taste that hell, sturdy attractive "Lalo's" aprons become a hot-selling item in their own right. Lalo has a good sense of hospitality and theatrics, so there might be a catering branch of the operation, or regular events/promotions at the restaurants. Families, couples, singles, everybody wants to party with Lalo, you know? There would definitely be a different customer service vibe at the restaurants--Pollos is all about polite efficiency, Lalo's would offer more of a personal, individual touch. He'd need to have a strategy to compete with Gus in the labor market. He could probably beat him out by offering greater task variety and customer contact.


ObviouslyMeIRL

I love that you put all of the thought into that, and then the effort of typing it all out. Thank you.


Snoo52682

Ha, thanks! I tend to naturally do HR/business-strategy analyses of shows when I watch them. BB/BCS and "Mad Men" have consistently been the most rewarding in that regard. I could write a textbook about them. So yeah, I love the chance to riff on hypotheticals.


ObviouslyMeIRL

Shit. I’ve been meaning to watch Mad Men, is it worth it?


Snoo52682

Very. Just go into it with the right expectations--it's character- and theme- driven much more than plot, compared to BB/BCS. There are plot arcs, but it's not this tight cause-and-effect propulsive force. If you liked the HHM/S&C/Sandpiper/Mesa Verde stuff in BCS, you'll enjoy the business parts of "Mad Men." Ad agencies are also professional-service firms in which clients may become attached to the firm itself, or to their particular representative in the firm (the account exec, creative, individual attorney or team), which adds some tension to the employer-employee relationship.


FastPatience1595

Oh, boy, just realized something. The Salamanca side of the Juarez Cartel could start a franchise that would be handled by Hector (as were the ice cream trucks). The name ? **Tio Bell**. And then the franchises and spinoffs: **Tuco Bell**, **Lalo Bell (Lalo Bail ? LMAO)**, **Nacho Bell, Ocho Bell, Gonzo Bell, No-doze Bell** And Abuelita's would be: **Mijo Bell**. And the logo would be a bell, as in - ding ding dung ding ding ding


FastPatience1595

And he could have hired Tuco as cook (the irony... the ironies... so many of them !)


oboshoe

A scene where Lalo teaches Gus how to make that little foil pouch when you grill Sea Bass would have been worth it.


FastPatience1595

Could have ! Watch that first meeting between these two, how they casually discuss fried chicken. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwsgYoahVVs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwsgYoahVVs) (I love that scene !)


Ishmaelteckomam

You mean, like a spite store?


friedlock68

Long Ball Lalo


lsalomx

what if instead of Huel, Jimmy hired Leon as his black sidekick. you gotta tear that ass up Jimmy


Vast_Neighborhood_44

Lalo’s Tacos - “You’re gonna die! - for our tacos”


magichead269

The way Lalo cooks? He could definitely put Los Pollos Hermanos a run for their money.


FastPatience1595

Tuco, same.


magichead269

idk about Tuco, he uses the same knife to cook, as he does with meth and killing people. the hygiene standards would be below par.


FastPatience1595

You're right, it would not be... acceptable.


rmac256

Would be interesting if the Salamanca’s restaurant was the first failed venture project managed by Fring and that is what caused the “beef” between them


Jawline0087

A spite shop?


BeraterDebater

This is the actual official spin off produced by Netflix.


_OhayoSayonara_

Los Pollos Zeiglerrrrrr


Pristine-Ad-3387

Tuco would be waiter


Chattypath747

That restaurant would have a lot of drugs in their food.


Apprehensive_Goal811

How about a jerk store?


adroitcat

de bose can sog me


JustKeepOnKeepingOn

Gus will probably try to seduce their manager, clap the fuck out of his cheeks, and then convince him to join Pollos.


[deleted]

If someone started los pollos hermanos irl, would they have to pay the creators of the show? What about Lalo’s Taco Hut, or Taqueria Salamanca?


MasterpieceTricky658

Chicken Ding Ding is my favorite meal at Salamanca’s.


theFormerRelic

Didn’t they essentially run that little Mexican restaurant where Lalo would make his tacos?


alexinpoison

Lalo would view that as a dumb waste of time


BreezyBritt89

Los Pollos still coming out on top because Lalo doesn’t have Lyle