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| - We've been going to Chompies for a very long time, and I can honestly say we have seen our last visit.
If you haven't been in a while, be prepared for a huge menu change, and the choices that once existed are gone. It seems like 50% of the menu is gone, and all my old favorites are certainly gone.
I can't really say whats going on, but our last two visits I can say started out fair, then slipped directly in to unacceptable. I can say i never thought it was great, but I always thought Chompies did mediocre perfectly.
So I'll lay it out like this.
Burger, ordered medium, came out raw. I'm not saying undercooked, I am saying the ground meat was RAW. the cheese was melted, so I know someone put it on the grill to cook it. Now talk about uncomfortable, we showed our server, who brought the manager (which we didn't ask for I assure you) who brought out a line cook... What are you thinking, show him this health hazard somewhere else. I did jokingly say I felt somewhat lucky we had Scottsdale Healthcare right next door after this one.
In the same meal, we had two deli sandwiches. All I can say was the meat was rubbery and wet. Yes, wet. To me it was almost like it came out of the freezer or something, sliced and put on the sandwich. YUCK.
Now about the service which on my latest visit was ridiculously bad. The waiter forgot items, didn't return to the table, and all, given the restaurant had 10 customers all together was horrendous. (BTW, it wasn't our waiter who brought over the manager it was someone else, he was nowhere to be found)
Now my other recent visit, the service was stellar (at the PV Mall restaurant). Our server was more than on, he was outstanding. In fact, for that visit, the service was a solid 5/5... food was 1.5/5 on that one.
Anyway, for us, we have seen our last visits to Chompies. I should throw in our out of town Guests, stopped going back last year except for one hold out, who has finally said its over as well.... Everything changes, and if you can't even do mediocre, then there isn't much left...
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