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| - First, this review isn't about this Bob Evans (BE) location I'm posting under, as the service and management there have been quite good. This review is about BE Corporate, as I believe the problem I am reporting is their doing, not the local restaurant's.
So here's my complaint: BE has 3 new "hash" items on their menu. I chose the vegetable version. In the menu, the photo of each version is decked out in a wrought iron skillet with 2 eggs on top. Given the $9 price I expected the portion would at least approach dinner-size.
Wrong. The portion was the size of a small side salad. It came in a saucer-size bowl about 1" thick, with a bottom diameter that was about 80% of the diameter @ the bowl's top edge. (My thinking here is that BE Corporate offices purchased these bowls as optical illusions. Kind of a dumb decision, as it's insulting to customers.)
I estimate the total serving size to be 1.3 cups or maybe 1.5. In the mix of 4 or 5 types of stir fried veggies--probably 1/16th a cup of each type--are the still-tasty-and-reliable (if salty) BE home fries. But the serving size was about 12 individual potato cubes. 1/4, or at best 1/3, of a regular portion if I had chosen a breakfast menu item.
The taste of the "hash" was fine (it wasn't really hash...it was diced veggies). But the TINY portion ruined the meal for me.
I suspect these portions are strictly defined by the BE Corporate offices, as this is not the first time I've seen these SKIMPY portions @ BE. But I think it will be the last. Things like this, and some degradation in the tastiness of the non-breakfast items in recent years, are pushing me away from BE.
Maybe the new owners will get BE back to its former glory days.
Bon appetite!
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