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| - Tough review to write.
First, I will say that I am here almost every single day for lunch. I previously would pick up salads at the Rabba on Simcoe, but they started being mostly just spinach and almost no toppings, so I was excited when something new opened up equally close by.
My first issue that I have is the cleanliness of the "salad bar". The tongs are always scattered all over the place, so handles are actually ending up in the food containers, which means everyone's germy, winterty hands are going all over the food. There are no food labels and cross contamination is all over the place, so if you have an allergy, stay away. They used to have a lot more selection and now it's just the same toppings again and again. Sometimes, especially by Friday, they don't look so fresh or new anymore.
The prepackaged beet/goat cheese salad is pretty good, and so is the weird "chia yogurt" concoction they have.
I've only ever had soup one time (usually the flavours don't appeal to me at ), it was a tomato soup, the small size looks REALLY SMALL but it was a good amount, very very salty, and came with a slice of olive bread (wasn't given a choice of bread).
The line is confusing (you are supposed to line up to order sandwiches but if you have something just to pay for, like pre-packaged or salad bar, you can skip the line - there should be signage for this). The girl who does the checkout is friendly and often helps me close my salad container (SO HARD TO CLOSE!), but the dude who owns the restaurant/the manager is not friendly - to me. He's very friendly to everyone else. He literally has never said "hi" to me or smiled at me or acknowledged me, often looking right past me and saying hi to someone else in line, even though I'm there every day. This has irked me since the beginning. I tried some varied approaches - smiling at him first, looking him in the eyes, etc - but nada. I am not sure what that's about although I have theories.
Today he gave the woman ahead of me who was buying LESS than me a plastic bag with handles, and when I asked for a bag, they gave me a paper bag (it was pouring rain out).
So....that's not great.
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