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| - Let's start with the outstanding. Cafe Zupas soups are REALLY, really good - Wisconsin Cauliflower, Mushroom Bisque, Chicken Tortilla, Garden Chowder - they will keep you coming back. Craving a quick soup in the hot Vegas desert? - This is where you go, way better than Whole Foods, etc..
But - whatever you do, never, ever order anything else..
The prepared 'salads' are an embarrassment to seeds and soil. Your 'tropical salad' will be canned pineapple, canned corn and tinny-tasting mandarin sections over papery shredded romaine. The dressings taste like cleaning products. The avocado 'protein substitute' (for salad chicken) is a marble-sized dollop of tasteless green mush. The sandwiches are even worse. Imagine the nastiest, solution-injected fast-food chicken cutlet you've ever seen. Well you'll beg for one when you taste the spongy pulp they're serving at Zupas. The bread is awful too, how can bread be an afterthought at a soup restaurant? Has anyone here ever actually eaten any of this 'food'?
But again, the soups are divine. Inner turmoil!
A note on service - walking into a Zupas is like getting subbed into a high school girls' indoor volleyball game. You're screeched at from the moment you enter, by well meaning but irritating girls who look at you from behind Stockholm Syndrome eyes that cry out - 'sorry but they're making me do this'...
"Hello welcome to Zupas is this your first time with us! Can I help you to understand our menu today! Well then what can I get for ya! So no salad, just soup then! Would you like to add bacon, cheddar or fried onions to that! No other add-ons then! And just the one soup! Would you like to add dessert or any beverages! (slide down the line, new girls...) OK, so what did you order! Which soup was yours! And was that all for you today! Would you like to try any of our desserts!!
Somewhere the corporate bloodticks who are drilling these poor girls on upselling is probably pleased with the environment they've created. Me? I'm buying noise-canceling headphones and a neck sign for my next visit that reads:
'Lost my hearing in a Cafe Zupas takeout line last month. Please prepare for me a large cauliflower soup to go. No, nothing else. Yes, I'm quite sure. Thank you'.
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