If you have any severe allergies or are vegan or can't eat a kind of meat, do not go here. If you care to read any of my other reasons to not go here, please take a seat and get cozy, as I have a whole lot to say.
Let's start with their lack of preparation. I came in at 1:05pm and was going to originally order the grilled shrimp salad, but they were out of shrimp. My initial thought was "oh, ok, a lot of people must like the shrimp. Cool, whatever." So I ordered the grilled salmon salad with avocado (+$1) and paid $11.12 after checking in for 5% off. I was told there would be a 15-minute wait for my order and so I went outside and sat on the bus stop in front, as it was stuffy inside and there were no seats anywhere to wait. While waiting, I saw one of the three people working run outside to go into the supermarket across the street. She came back with bags of eggs, packages of vegetables, and a bag of shrimp. Cool.
After I waited 15 minutes, I went back in to see if my order was ready. It was not. I decided to wait by the glass casing, in front of where all the salads are prepared. I really enjoy watching people slice vegetables, so I did this purely for entertainment. I stopped being entertained rather quickly, and instead was really, really disgusted.
Everything came straight out of the packaging without being washed. The one person actually making the salads used the same knife to cut EVERYTHING!!! Chicken, bacon, apples, tomatoes, salmon...whatever! All cut by the same knife on the same area of the cutting board. (Side note: As disgusted as I was, I was still super impressed with the man's knife skills. Amazing.)
All the protein is cooked on tiny panini press/George Foreman-kinda grills. I understand that not everything can be done with gloves. I don't really care about the whole wearing gloves thing, if your hands are washed and all you're touching is the food. But that was not the case. While wearing gloves, one girl was going on and touching everything. From money to opening up packages of things to whatever else she was doing, this girl was touching everrrryyyythhiiinnnnggg.
Ok, so after all this, I finally get my salad. After waiting a total of 45 minutes. I hopped on a bus, and hoped that after all this, my salad would at least taste good. It was not. I just finished eating it and while they give a plentiful amount of salmon, it tasted gross. It was """seasoned""" with nothing but a whole lot of black pepper and the tiniest bit of salt. The ponzu sesame sauce just tasted like an asian vinaigrette.
I hate posting bad reviews of small businesses and I really really really wanted to enjoy my salad, but as a broke ass college student that just shelled out $11 for this dumb salad... I think this place barely deserves 1 measly star. Thanks for reading, y'all. Get your salad elsewhere. read more