"0"^^ . "3"^^ . "2"^^ . . . "Okay, I've never been to the Sandwich Box, but now that I see that people are calling Fash Fresh Foods a rip off of it, I totally have to check it out.\n\nI was working late on Bay Street tonight and as usual, I found myself hungry and stressed because I had alot of work to do and it always frustrates me when I have to find food to eat while working late because there's never anything closeby to eat on Bay Street after 5PM -all the food courts close and the restaurants are too far away from the towers. When working OT, the key is to grab something quick and get back to the desk up in the office tower and work work work until the job is done done done. \n\nSince the Path is completely useless at 7PM, I took my 15 minute food adventure to the surface, outdoors, with the falling snow. As I ran towards the Hero Burger near the corner of Yonge and King, I saw the sign for Fast Fresh Food, so I opted for that instead. Hero Burger is great, but it would take them forever to make me a veggie burger, a salad would just take seconds. \n\nIt was my first time here but the chalkboard menu was really easy to understand: you either build your own salad (regular or large sizes to choose from) or you order one of their salad designs or you order one of their sandwiches. Having virtually no time to scan through the list of ingredients of each of their salad designs, I went ahead to build a regular salad. My salad consisted of:\n\n-mixed greens\n-capers (what was I thinking? it was a sans salmon salad!)\n-chickpeas (gotta have some sort of protein if I don't want my hair falling out)\n-olives (kalamata olives, full, non-pitted -i hate spitting the pitts out of any fruit/ veggie, but I love olives and couldn't resist)\n-roasted eggplant (love marinated veggies!)\n-cherry tomatoes (i wanted chopped ones, but they didn't have any)\n-balsamic vinegar\n-salt and pepper to taste\n\nIt was a good salad, but nothing too special. The only thing special about it is that I built it. There are some things I wish they had considered: \n\n1. Have chopped up options for tomatoes and olives. I really believe that veggies should be diced up in a salad, not thrown in whole like the cherry tomatoes and kalamata olives. \n\n2. Have more veg protein alternatives: Tofu and avocadoes don't cut it.\nAnd they should do something with the Tofu, I'm not paying $1 extra for plain tofu!\n\n3. Consider not charging $1 more for veg protein, it costs way less than meat protein. Stop trying to rip off vegetarians/ vegans! Life is hard enough in this meat-eater's world already! There's no need to further punish us for our healthy life-style choices!\n\nAll in all, despite some minor setbacks, it was a good salad and kept me satisfied until OT was done. If I'm working OT next, I think I'll pack an extra lunch so I won't have to go through the stress of figuring out what and where to eat after all the foodcourts close along the Path. But if I forget to pack an extra lunch, I might just come back here. The service was meh, but it was quick, and speed is very important when working after hours."^^ . "0"^^ . "2010-12-14T00:00:00"^^ . .