I can see why some love red oak, but I can also understand the disliking of it. Some plusses are local, organic food. It's very vegan & vegetarian friendly. The food is average. I'm going to have to try their pancakes next time.
Some downsides would be the seating. There really isn't too much of it (from Oakland standard with hundreds of college students in walking distance) It really seems larger from the outside.
So for newcomers (because we were totally lost & confused), you order at the front then they give you a number & serve your food. You grab you own salt packets, (I couldn't find pepper) ketchup & hot sauce bottles as well as your own water. I can see how that's a good thing rather than having bottles on each table.
So again the food was ok.. bobby was feeling under the weather and asked for a suggestion on juices. She suggested the "ginger" one & said it has orange juice in it. Sounds refreshing right? She forgot to mention the carrots, which is fine but overpowered the flavor especially when you weren't expecting it. Bobby asked for a side of ice because the juice was warm..
What bothered me the most was bussing your own table (atleast I'm assuming that's what you do since the bussing bins are labelled. I wouldn't think the labels would be for the workers.. again I was totally lost) you dump your leftover food in the trash then plates have their own bin, silverware then cups in the 3rd. I ended up getting ketchup all over my hand which brought back terrible memories of being a server lol.
I'll be back to try the pancakes but I'm sure ill be solo dolo. My s/o wasn't very fascinated