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| - I ate at Olly Fresco's regularly when I worked at Southport, from the opening day of the restaurant, off and on until last June when I departed for another location. Needless to say the restaurant did not suffer in comparison to the Alberta Health Services on-site cafeteria which it replaced. But that is not compliment enough. The entire concept of the establishment was a turn-around from what had been present in the building before. What Olly Fresco's offers is sensible, healthy food for the business class/office worker. Breakfast service starts early, and there are fresh pastries offered up along with grilled sandwiches, eggs, toast etc. made to order. Lunch is either buffet style, with different menu items of fresh selections daily, or a soup and sandwich bar, salad bar, daily special, and grill selections. And as I understand it, there is no deep fryer. You can find fresh fruit in the cooler, varieties of cold drinks, hot drinks, snacks for when you're bad or need extra energy during a long meeting, etc. I can't say I was fan of everything they prepared, but I did like the pricing (you paid per weight, so if you only wanted a handful of spareribs and some salad for lunch, you paid less than if you loaded up your plate with rice and roasted potatoes and green beans on the side to boot). The place was clean and service for the most part friendly. Only exception was the thoroughly nasty specimen working at the grill station/sandwich bar. I stopped going to the Olly Fresco's because of his thoroughly rude deameanour, and in my last year at Southport, I know from talking to others in the office towers there that they lost a lot of business because of him; certainly I would have spent several hundred dollars more were he not so offensive to have to deal with on a daily basis. It was easier just to leave and head over to Southcentre, or even walk to one of the other restaurants nearby than have to put up with his moodiness. That inability to treat customers with respect put a real damper on the whole experience. If not for him, this would be a four-star rating.
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