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| - I simply do not even know how to start this review. Perhaps some back history first. I'm a local Charlottean. I have been a vegetarian for 3 almost 4 years now. I have heard stellar things about Bean. It has been on my list of places to try. Now let me take you to where I went yesterday. It was my Mothers Birthday. She knew I had been wanting to go and suggested we try it out for her birthday meal. What a disappointment! We went at lunch time yesterday. We walk in and the hostess/maybe manager on duty tells us to pick a seat. We grab a table. The server walks to the table and begins to apologize for the lack of light in the restaurant, "because we don't know how to turn on the lights and usually they have a veteran here, but not today." So we had our meal in the dark. Then another server comes to grab our orders. I ask, "What is GREAT here?" well the words that came out of her mouth after that was jaw dropping. She said, "well if you like Big Macs, you should get the Good Burger, and if you like the old Rodeo burger at Burger King, you should get the Cowboy Burger." Ok wait a min... wth? I cannot believe the words coming out of her mouth. She, working at a Vegan Restaurant is really going to come at me with fast food substitutes? I was horrified. Especially with how vegans really want to get rid of McDonalds and thier horrible methods of food production. We decided to go with none of her options as suggested. We opted for the Rueben with mega bean salad on the side, and the pulled pork BBQ sandwich with the tater tot casserole. The sandwiches were ok. The sides were simply tasteless and gross. We even got a dessert (being my moms birthday) and we ordered the KitKat Cake. That was ok as well, extremely small. But man, what a BUST! Nothing special. I should have saved my $31 dollars and gone somewhere else, maybe even perhaps the dreaded McDonalds or Burger King because that was a waste of money and time. Simply put, this place needs some work. Maybe I need to go back when a "veteran is working". Nah, forget about it, I just won't go back.
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