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| - Before you eat here I've got something to tell ya; Zoup! is a fast food chain. Go in with this expectation and you'll be fine.
It's a simple concept, offer a dozen different soups at any given time and about half as many salads and sandwiches then paint them with a "low calorie" brush and serve them fast casual style. It's the Chipotle/Panera model for the soup/sandwich crowd. They tout their product as "fresh" but, given how large this chain is and the level of culinary education that their average employee probably has acquired in his lifetime I have a hard time believing this. Are the soups made from scratch on-site every day? Ummm, no. Is the bread baked in ovens in the back room? Don't think so.
Like others have said before me, it's not terrible. It's just not that good. Their prices are in line with the other fast casual businesses ($5.65 for a cup of soup/$6.95 for an Asian chicken salad) and their layout is basically booths around the perimeter tables in the middle. It's a get 'em in get 'em out joint from beginning to end. To their credit, they do offer free wi-fi (shouldn't everyone?). Our meal consisted of the following:
Mac 'n Cheese Soup: Tastes like canned broccoli cheese soup without the broccoli. The elbow macaroni noodles where a tad gummy.
Turkey Club Sandwich: Not a bad sandwich. Very simple. It's turkey, tomato, swiss cheese, mayo and bacon served warm on toasted ciabatta. Kinda hard to mess this one up.
Asian chicken salad: I tried to find something relatively non-combative to the system so I went with this. Like all fast food chicken it had that fake, rubbery texture with painted on grill marks. Like I was actually hoping it didn't come out of a bag. Silly me. The sesame dressing was sugary but the romaine was fresh and crispy. Nice textural elements from the crispy noodles and almond slivers.
Chicken chili: Holy salt mines. What the hell is it with places and cramming tons of salt into their food. I thought Panera was bad. Once I was able to get past the insane salinity the tomato-based soup (definitely not a chili) wasn't bad. Very little chicken, though, with some low-level heat.
Overall, Zoup! was a bit disappointing. The food is processed, packed with sodium and marketed with misleading nutritional information (numbers shown are for the smallest size of soup, half salads w/o dressing and sodium numbers are conspicuously absent). We stopped in thinking it would be something more than it was. Live and learn.
One more thing, on our visit the guy that took our order was quite pleasant.
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