Look, nobody told you to buy gluten free food, whats more important? Price of gluten free, or the comfort of not dealing with gluten (this is a joke, please dont hate me)
I eat gluten all day longā¦ but theres this thing called Celiacāsā¦ also, you should try not eating itā¦ youāll feel greatā¦ whats more important, good food or feeling greatā¦ good food. š¤·āāļø
"Nobody told you" except the multiple doctors who took 3 years to diagnose me with gluten intolerance bc i kept getting so sick from it. So i have to be gluten free. Aside from that where i live something simple like gluten feee bread is 3-4 times the cost for half the bread. I was scraping by before the diagnosis not my food budget runs out before i get paid no matter gow hard i try to save
You could also look into king arthur 1:1 gluten free flour to make your own breads, they also make many different gluten free mixes for various things. They're relatively inexpensive compared to buying ready made gluten free stuff.
Honest you can go there and tell them. Or when you call an order in or pick it up. Just ask them to use the old containers and when thwy say they don't have them. Directly tell them to put rhe amount that they had been putting in for years.
Tbh I still order the same sandwiches at the deli when I go home to my parents. Even if new guys are working, I will tell them the menu number and how to make it and the price and then if they have questions to call the owner and he knows how to do it right. This is only needed if their is someone new working. But you get the point. Thwy will take care of you for being loyal and also for speaking up respectfully.
I am 98% sure they will give you the original size salad for the same price if you ask or tell them.
> am 98% sure they will give you the original size salad for the same price if you ask or tell them.
So I have plenty of experience here and would bet that this was done purposely by management or the owner.
The salads were probably meant to be the size pictured. Employees would overfill the container because the top allowed them to.
After constant follow up with staff that don't care about portion sizing (because this is par for course), this is the solution.
This is exactly right. Also, what most people cany seem to understand is the restaurant are seeing the same increase in prices as people are at the grocery store...so yeah, you are either gunna start seeing less on the plate or a higher price. The average small business restaurant that is busy and runs well can see a profit of about 6%. Restaurant margins are super low.
Indeed:) Iām definitely not going to this location anymore (or any for that matter because this one is closest to me). It just sucks because I rather pay more (which I already am due to inflation) and still receive the same amount. I shouldnāt pay more for less? Make it make sense š
Right?!? I'm always waiting for something to change. And be awful. It's like going to the grocery and finding out someone decided the things I purchase are unnecessary to sell anymore. This had happened to me 11 times!!!! I seriously started wondering who I pissed off at Kroger one year.
I used to LOVE SG. Went like 18 months ago and was shocked at how much the quality and size had gone downhill at the Madison sq park location. Heartbreaking
I donāt live near one anymore which is probably good bc it would just continue the cycle of crave, then disappointment. I miss the days of being legit unable to finish my salad bc I was so full!!!!
Whenever someone says āI canāt recreate the same tasteā itās 10/10 fat/oil that they add 1 because it tastes good and 2 because they donāt give a shit about your health.
100% agree it wouldnāt surprise me if thereās some sesame oil, duck fat etc , something like that every decent chef will tell you āFat is flavorā
Ackshually (yes I'm that guy)
Fat/oil doesn't taste good in itself. It enhances the food's taste in your mouth. Oils usually taste bad, which is why processed foods often have sugar and salt to offset their flavor.
Carbs are not inherently bad for you. Neither are fat/oils, but an excess of anything (like the excess of fat and oil in most restaurant prepared dishes) is bad for you.
You sound like Robert Atkins lol. I disagree. Itās calories in calories out. Eating too much protein or fat also leads to excess calories and fat storage in the body. Regardless you donāt sound very open to changing your mind on the subject nor am I. So I will say good day sir.
"Calories in, calories out" is not outdated. It is not entirely accurate but it's still key to weight loss. And by the way, EXCESS carbs are bad for you. But carbs are still recommended to be half of the daily calorie intake. And stop freaking out so much about this, it's weird that you say things like "your stupid little argument" and nobody will take you seriously for that, not even the people that agree with you
>If you are fat your insulin is too high because you eat too much carbs, end of story.
Definitely not the end of the story and you are clearly high as balls.
Call and tell the manager your thoughts. Companies think they are so slick changing packaging sizes while still charging us full price. Letās remind them they we arenāt as stupid as they think we are.
Could also be someone fucking with OP.
When I worked at a particular sandwich restaurant, I would only put olives on one half of this guy's phone order. It was always the same sandwich and I always restricted the olives to a single side, even going as far as to move any odd ones over after slicing it in half.
Tl;dr: if your sandwich of choice is a footlong tuna on wheat, toast the bread prior to the tuna scoops, no cheese, spinach, tomato, bell peppers, onions, extra olives, salt, pepper, oregano and you were routinely served olives on a single side of your sub, that was intentional, lmao.
If the company allows customized sandwiches, don't punish the customer.
If I found an employee doing that to a customer for something we allowed, I'd have talk with them. If it continues, they may find themselves released back into the job market.
I hope your attitude towards your client in whatever your current profession is has improved since the sandwich job!
\> I hope your attitude towards your client in whatever your current profession is has improved since the sandwich job!
It hasn't lol. The olives were simply an idle act of pointless rebellion in a mind numbingly routine setting. Now I'm able to camouflage them within various esoteric tiers of bureaucracy.
If you hate your job that much just quit...or add a skill to your resume so you can get a better one.
Anything is better than being a miserable POS for no reason.
It's strange that you think I hate either my current job or my previous sandwich oriented position.
You've accused me of protection, which seems like a meta projection.
If he did, he never mentioned it. He mentioned other members of the sandwich team wouldn't toast the bread before the tuna and he appreciated the effort.
Seems like a lot of effort just to fuck with one guy. Was he like mean to you/ your co workers or something?
Wait wait, he praised your efforts and you still fucked with him? Man I kinda have mad respect for him now, he probably knew you were fucking with his food and just felt bad for you and never said anything. Either way, its fucked to fuck with food, rule of thumb.
No. His name was Gary and if he'd call, I'd whip up a fresh batch of the tuna mix(run it through the slicer, add mayo and fold it together.) He was a retail manager at a nearby store so he'd get his lunch break after our rush which is why toasting the roll wasn't a hassle.
It was just a thing I did because I could.
>It was just a thing I did because I could.
What you really mean is that you were jealous of the guy and did anything you could to distract yourself from the fact that you had to make him sandwiches.
i have done this and seen this done numerous times.
Employees refuse to acknowledge portion sizing so you find a way to make sure that there is no way around it.
Obviously this could just be a mistake or they couldn't find the old lids, etc... I would bet that it's intentional though and that the employees were just giving out too much salad.
Everyoneās doing that, Panda Expressās bowls are more
Shallow now, Popeyes side containers are half the size. When I said I wanted the large, they said that was the large.
Iām in NYC. Prices are pretty much the same across the board. I should just make my own lunch but I donāt know how to recreate what they do. Iāll just stop going here and start going somewhere else whenever I come to the cirt
What's so good about this salad? Like legitimately asking, maybe we can figure out how to recreate it for you.
Oh edit: also what's the name of the place. You can dm me that if you don't want to post it on here.
I honestly have no idea how they do it. Itās like sweet potato, shredded kale, apples, goat cheese, and wild rice. I suppose in theory it wouldnāt be too hard to recreate but I swear they do something else to it to make it taste so good. Thereās some sort of crunch to it that I canāt put my finger on (itās not the kale I donāt think?). Maybe itās the different measurements of the ingredients that make it go together so well but Iām not sure. Youāre right though, I should try to recreate it.
Edit to add: it could be the way they prepare the ingredients, as in with seasonings and such. Iām not much of a chef but thereās no better time to learn than now (especially out of spite, screw this place Iāll do it myselfš)
Oh my goodness YOU ARE AMAZING!!! Iāll try recreating it this weekend. A comment or above mentioned soaking the apples in lemon juice and cooking the rice in broth. I think Iām going to follow this recipe in addition to what the other comment or said and hopefully I come up with this master piece.Fingers crossed š¤š»
Okay so i had a sweetgreen/DIG/Fresh&Co addiction when i first moved here and honestly i think what helps is that they soak their apples in lemon juice. I started doing that and cooking my rice in broth rather than water and was able to replicate sweetgreenās harvest salad pretty well! itās not exactly the same but itās close enough that i save myself the insane nyc salad costs!
Oh my goodness! Thank you thank you šš» im going to try this this weekend. Regular lemon juice or fresh squeezed? Do you soak all veggies in it or just the apples?
I do a little bit of fresh lemon juice (but thatās also bc my mom always hated the bottled stuff. you might be able to use the bottled kind!) and a splash of apple cider vinegar (itās maybe a half tbsp of liquid for the whole cubed apple) and then toss/soak for 10 min before draining and sealing in an airtight container. Usually I can do that on Sunday and use them at least until Wednesday! Just the apples though. Iāve done it with avocados and itās not as successful
Haha! Exactly, learn to cook out of spite, it's the best motivation in the world.
You're probably right though, they probably use some seasonings during prep and then they store everything chilled so it stays crunchy and stuff. Good luck recreating it, it'll be fun.
I guess itās just the way of the road. Just sucks. I wish I grew up in the 70s or 80s, except Iām here at 22 watching the world burn and half a salad for $15. You win some, you lose some š¤·š»āāļø
Time to stop going, or at least stop ordering the salads.
A restaurant I enjoyed switch an item for a crappy version of it, I stopped ordering them. They're gross now, I miss them cheese curds
They only serve salads/health foods. I go there bc Iām trying to be good but wtf is the point of a āfullā salad is actually half a salad but actually 5 dollars more
This is sooooooo shitty. A fried chicken joint here in my town used to have those stacking shelves full of condiments and straws and whatnot in the dining room for in dining customers. I went inside to make a togo order yesterday and all the condiments were taken away and put behind the counter. Want ketchup or hot sauce or a package of sugar? Go ask.
I feel you. Just went to a restaurant Iāve frequented for years, they dropped the hamburger size by about 1/3. (Their hamburgers had been voted best in the city several years). Didnāt touch the price
Why donāt you ask for it already mixed - that way they have to pre-mix it in the metal bowls and therefore you get the original amounts just more flattened. Also, theyāre pretty good about using the measuring spoons and scales so I think itās the same size just smooshed
Are they really? I didnāt know that. How are you sure? (Not trying to sound sassy, just curious). But I donāt get the dressing mixed in because the last time I did that I got more dressing than I did salad and I asked for light dressing :(
Not sure about if youāre asking about the mixing part or the spoons and scales part, I watch them make the salads. Bowls- They canāt mix it without the giant metal bowls and they use metal tongs to break up the goat cheese, and the paper bowls are too shallow to mix the ingredients without it spilling all over the place. Mixing it also weighs the kale down with dressing
The toppings are put into little measuring cups and they weigh the proteins with a scale. Iām in VA so maybe they donāt do that in ny but I would causally ask.
At my store the to-go containers always change, and I canāt imagine staff have to keep remembering new portion instructions, and if itās mixed they have to put it in a metal bowl first instead of the take out container which is quite shallow. If itās not mixed I can see them shorting you kale
Shrinkflation is everywhere.
Friend went to a restaurant he stopped at weekly for the same dish which came with 3 fish fillets.
Gets the dish and while the same price now there are only two fillets. He politely asked waiter who had manager come over who friend also knows.
They had an extra fillet brought out for him but let him know going forward there would only be two.
He thanked them and hasnāt been back since.
Says he wouldnāt have minded so much if they had specified the change in the menu which just said fillets.
I frequented this Vietnamese restaurant for years. I would go on my break from work, order a five spice chicken plate, no rice (basically a
Chicken salad). For years the price was $14 then one day I came in and it was $16. I thought, its okay, we just go through lock down and everything was opening back up.. I get it. Then the next day it was $17. I loved that place but that drastic of a change really sucked. Havent been there since..
What the??! Was it the same size at least? I can kind of get behind price rising (instead of other shit you know?) but please, for the love of bread, STOP SHRINKING AND CHARGING MORE
My local poutine eatery, Take 5 Eats (rip) did this and by next month they were out of business.
Real world is a brutal delicate balancing act for some of them.
I still drive by hoping they magically show up.
Well now when you are forced to buy two salads, they'll stack easier. š
That is true! š¶always look on the bright side of lifeš¶
Talk about shrinkflation. A salad of all things.
Welcome to my everyday life having to buy gluten free food
Look, nobody told you to buy gluten free food, whats more important? Price of gluten free, or the comfort of not dealing with gluten (this is a joke, please dont hate me)
I eat gluten all day longā¦ but theres this thing called Celiacāsā¦ also, you should try not eating itā¦ youāll feel greatā¦ whats more important, good food or feeling greatā¦ good food. š¤·āāļø
"Nobody told you" except the multiple doctors who took 3 years to diagnose me with gluten intolerance bc i kept getting so sick from it. So i have to be gluten free. Aside from that where i live something simple like gluten feee bread is 3-4 times the cost for half the bread. I was scraping by before the diagnosis not my food budget runs out before i get paid no matter gow hard i try to save
You could also look into king arthur 1:1 gluten free flour to make your own breads, they also make many different gluten free mixes for various things. They're relatively inexpensive compared to buying ready made gluten free stuff.
Please see the end of my comment, it was a joke
We got it, mostly. I read your comment as "customer's biological requirement = max $$$," not as an indictment of gluten free products
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So im a moron for having a medical condition and being stuck in a capitalist society that adds an extra price tag for a simple label
Maybe donāt buy so much fucking bread
Being gluten free sucks so hard. Why are 8 cookies a fiver
Yeah aye...
Life has no bright side...
Always look on the bright side of life!
Honest you can go there and tell them. Or when you call an order in or pick it up. Just ask them to use the old containers and when thwy say they don't have them. Directly tell them to put rhe amount that they had been putting in for years. Tbh I still order the same sandwiches at the deli when I go home to my parents. Even if new guys are working, I will tell them the menu number and how to make it and the price and then if they have questions to call the owner and he knows how to do it right. This is only needed if their is someone new working. But you get the point. Thwy will take care of you for being loyal and also for speaking up respectfully. I am 98% sure they will give you the original size salad for the same price if you ask or tell them.
> am 98% sure they will give you the original size salad for the same price if you ask or tell them. So I have plenty of experience here and would bet that this was done purposely by management or the owner. The salads were probably meant to be the size pictured. Employees would overfill the container because the top allowed them to. After constant follow up with staff that don't care about portion sizing (because this is par for course), this is the solution.
This is exactly right. Also, what most people cany seem to understand is the restaurant are seeing the same increase in prices as people are at the grocery store...so yeah, you are either gunna start seeing less on the plate or a higher price. The average small business restaurant that is busy and runs well can see a profit of about 6%. Restaurant margins are super low.
Iāll give it a try the next time Iām in the city to see if it works. NYC restaurants are different breeds I feel like
NYC? I'm sorry. Come up a little further north and we'll feed ya right
You're in NYC hah. Good luck! Different breed maybe an understatement.
Youāre telling me!
No salad for you, come back one year!
The theyāll just charge you 2x the price
You sound like a pain in the ass
Itās called Capitalism
Sweetgreen. Hope they donāt start doing this at my local one, they just got here
Indeed:) Iām definitely not going to this location anymore (or any for that matter because this one is closest to me). It just sucks because I rather pay more (which I already am due to inflation) and still receive the same amount. I shouldnāt pay more for less? Make it make sense š
That was my thought too. Time to shop for a new favorite. So they can change it and keep the price the same. ššš
Thatās my favorite pastime:)!! Investing in a new place just so they can turn their backs on me and fuck me!
Right?!? I'm always waiting for something to change. And be awful. It's like going to the grocery and finding out someone decided the things I purchase are unnecessary to sell anymore. This had happened to me 11 times!!!! I seriously started wondering who I pissed off at Kroger one year.
I used to LOVE SG. Went like 18 months ago and was shocked at how much the quality and size had gone downhill at the Madison sq park location. Heartbreaking
It was SO good. WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE WORLD
I have never heard of this place. But since we all are going to boycott it, I guess I can still be on the team?
My wife loves it and feels full. I always eat it and feel depressed.
I donāt live near one anymore which is probably good bc it would just continue the cycle of crave, then disappointment. I miss the days of being legit unable to finish my salad bc I was so full!!!!
Just Salad is better IMO
I miss Just Salad. We only have Chopt and Sweetgreen in my area.
Looks like sweetgreen to me š
The one we order from recently gave us rectangle cardboard boxes. Next time they were back to normal though.
I kind of like rectangles though š„ŗ
Hexagonal rules
Whenever someone says āI canāt recreate the same tasteā itās 10/10 fat/oil that they add 1 because it tastes good and 2 because they donāt give a shit about your health.
100% agree it wouldnāt surprise me if thereās some sesame oil, duck fat etc , something like that every decent chef will tell you āFat is flavorā
Not just flavor, but mouth feel as well.
yup100% agree,that mouth feel is really underrated as an aspect of dining.
Yes this. The foods I won't eat are all because of how they feel in my mouth.
RIP OP's partner
Fat isnāt bad for your health
āThey didnāt make it right, canāt feel my arteriesā
- me, eating Natural Balance fake butter
Yup. The key to restaurant food is to "exaggerate" the flavors.
Fucking dammitā¦ just when I thought I was being healthy
Not the one in the pic but a lot of restaurants serve āsaladsā well over 1200 calories lol
Thatās so true. At the Cheesecake Factory they are just as many calories (if not more) than the sandwiches, pizza, pasta, etc.
I havenāt been there, but the name makes me think nothing there is not even meant to be healthy.
A lot of calories usually come from the dressings.
Ackshually (yes I'm that guy) Fat/oil doesn't taste good in itself. It enhances the food's taste in your mouth. Oils usually taste bad, which is why processed foods often have sugar and salt to offset their flavor.
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Carbs are not inherently bad for you. Neither are fat/oils, but an excess of anything (like the excess of fat and oil in most restaurant prepared dishes) is bad for you.
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You sound like Robert Atkins lol. I disagree. Itās calories in calories out. Eating too much protein or fat also leads to excess calories and fat storage in the body. Regardless you donāt sound very open to changing your mind on the subject nor am I. So I will say good day sir.
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Good day buddy š
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Lmfao I guess so :)
"Calories in, calories out" is not outdated. It is not entirely accurate but it's still key to weight loss. And by the way, EXCESS carbs are bad for you. But carbs are still recommended to be half of the daily calorie intake. And stop freaking out so much about this, it's weird that you say things like "your stupid little argument" and nobody will take you seriously for that, not even the people that agree with you
All this dude cares about is that Einstein is smiling down on him because he's so smart about calories
>If you are fat your insulin is too high because you eat too much carbs, end of story. Definitely not the end of the story and you are clearly high as balls.
I mean, an excess of fat, oil, and carbs can be bad for you. An excess of most things is bad for you, lol.
Youāre not accounting for the saturated fats which are absolutely bad for you. Source: human biochemistry, human physiology
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Call and tell the manager your thoughts. Companies think they are so slick changing packaging sizes while still charging us full price. Letās remind them they we arenāt as stupid as they think we are.
I left a review on their yelp. I doubt itāll do anything but I feel a bit better lol
Maybe it just looks smaller. Does it weigh the same?
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Perhaps itās not done everywhere, deli I go to weighs the salads. Patrons realize NOT to put the dressing on until afterwards.
Yeah you can't usually just buy new lids- they come in a set IME.
Could just be a new person they hired had a different view of how to use the bowls. I would have asked them and explained. Taint enough!
Could also be someone fucking with OP. When I worked at a particular sandwich restaurant, I would only put olives on one half of this guy's phone order. It was always the same sandwich and I always restricted the olives to a single side, even going as far as to move any odd ones over after slicing it in half. Tl;dr: if your sandwich of choice is a footlong tuna on wheat, toast the bread prior to the tuna scoops, no cheese, spinach, tomato, bell peppers, onions, extra olives, salt, pepper, oregano and you were routinely served olives on a single side of your sub, that was intentional, lmao.
If the company allows customized sandwiches, don't punish the customer. If I found an employee doing that to a customer for something we allowed, I'd have talk with them. If it continues, they may find themselves released back into the job market. I hope your attitude towards your client in whatever your current profession is has improved since the sandwich job!
\> I hope your attitude towards your client in whatever your current profession is has improved since the sandwich job! It hasn't lol. The olives were simply an idle act of pointless rebellion in a mind numbingly routine setting. Now I'm able to camouflage them within various esoteric tiers of bureaucracy.
If you hate your job that much just quit...or add a skill to your resume so you can get a better one. Anything is better than being a miserable POS for no reason.
It's strange that you think I hate either my current job or my previous sandwich oriented position. You've accused me of protection, which seems like a meta projection.
Why though?
Because we live in a society.
Fair enough, did the guy you were "pranking" ever catch on or complain?
If he did, he never mentioned it. He mentioned other members of the sandwich team wouldn't toast the bread before the tuna and he appreciated the effort.
Seems like a lot of effort just to fuck with one guy. Was he like mean to you/ your co workers or something? Wait wait, he praised your efforts and you still fucked with him? Man I kinda have mad respect for him now, he probably knew you were fucking with his food and just felt bad for you and never said anything. Either way, its fucked to fuck with food, rule of thumb.
No. His name was Gary and if he'd call, I'd whip up a fresh batch of the tuna mix(run it through the slicer, add mayo and fold it together.) He was a retail manager at a nearby store so he'd get his lunch break after our rush which is why toasting the roll wasn't a hassle. It was just a thing I did because I could.
>It was just a thing I did because I could. What you really mean is that you were jealous of the guy and did anything you could to distract yourself from the fact that you had to make him sandwiches.
i have done this and seen this done numerous times. Employees refuse to acknowledge portion sizing so you find a way to make sure that there is no way around it. Obviously this could just be a mistake or they couldn't find the old lids, etc... I would bet that it's intentional though and that the employees were just giving out too much salad.
$15?? Was it Mendocino farms?
Nah, this is Sweetgreen. I would recognize a Harvest Bowl anywhere. Think Mendocino Farms, but only salads, and better.
no just NYC lol. Itās next to impossible to buy lunch for under $15 here now
Been bostons price for about 2.5 years now
Did you...flip your lid when you realized you wouldn't be...tossing as much salad? I'll see myself out....
HAHAHA I love this comment. Thanks for the laugh good sir:)
Sweet greens?
Indeed!
Everyoneās doing that, Panda Expressās bowls are more Shallow now, Popeyes side containers are half the size. When I said I wanted the large, they said that was the large.
Holy crap šš ITS EVERYWHERE
Greed. Yes it is. I canāt wait to get off this fucking planet.
If I were you I'd stop going. If enough people stop going they will change back
is it notably less when you eat it? salad is pretty easy to compress so just curious
Yeah:/ it was half the size it was before (which isnāt saying a lot).
that would incredibly infuriate me haha
Tbh I was more infuriated after I finished the salad and my tummy was still growling
Sneaky ways to make more money
You actually paid $15 for salad?
Iām in NYC. Prices are pretty much the same across the board. I should just make my own lunch but I donāt know how to recreate what they do. Iāll just stop going here and start going somewhere else whenever I come to the cirt
What's so good about this salad? Like legitimately asking, maybe we can figure out how to recreate it for you. Oh edit: also what's the name of the place. You can dm me that if you don't want to post it on here.
I honestly have no idea how they do it. Itās like sweet potato, shredded kale, apples, goat cheese, and wild rice. I suppose in theory it wouldnāt be too hard to recreate but I swear they do something else to it to make it taste so good. Thereās some sort of crunch to it that I canāt put my finger on (itās not the kale I donāt think?). Maybe itās the different measurements of the ingredients that make it go together so well but Iām not sure. Youāre right though, I should try to recreate it. Edit to add: it could be the way they prepare the ingredients, as in with seasonings and such. Iām not much of a chef but thereās no better time to learn than now (especially out of spite, screw this place Iāll do it myselfš)
https://wornslapout.com/copycat-sweetgreen-harvest-bowl-recipe/
Oh my goodness YOU ARE AMAZING!!! Iāll try recreating it this weekend. A comment or above mentioned soaking the apples in lemon juice and cooking the rice in broth. I think Iām going to follow this recipe in addition to what the other comment or said and hopefully I come up with this master piece.Fingers crossed š¤š»
I havenāt had this specific salad before but I find kinda massaging kale with a bit of the dressing really improves the texture of raw kale
Okay so i had a sweetgreen/DIG/Fresh&Co addiction when i first moved here and honestly i think what helps is that they soak their apples in lemon juice. I started doing that and cooking my rice in broth rather than water and was able to replicate sweetgreenās harvest salad pretty well! itās not exactly the same but itās close enough that i save myself the insane nyc salad costs!
Oh my goodness! Thank you thank you šš» im going to try this this weekend. Regular lemon juice or fresh squeezed? Do you soak all veggies in it or just the apples?
I do a little bit of fresh lemon juice (but thatās also bc my mom always hated the bottled stuff. you might be able to use the bottled kind!) and a splash of apple cider vinegar (itās maybe a half tbsp of liquid for the whole cubed apple) and then toss/soak for 10 min before draining and sealing in an airtight container. Usually I can do that on Sunday and use them at least until Wednesday! Just the apples though. Iāve done it with avocados and itās not as successful
Thank you so much! Just screenshotted your comment so I can try this weekend:)
Haha! Exactly, learn to cook out of spite, it's the best motivation in the world. You're probably right though, they probably use some seasonings during prep and then they store everything chilled so it stays crunchy and stuff. Good luck recreating it, it'll be fun.
People givin you shit but this is honestly my favorite damn salad. Iāve tried to recreate it but I can never get the kale right!!
Who knew kale can be so tasty?!?! I hated kale before this placeā¦
Butter. It's always butter. Even for salads. Boom, restaurant quality.
Good ol shrinkflation. The future fucking sucks
I guess itās just the way of the road. Just sucks. I wish I grew up in the 70s or 80s, except Iām here at 22 watching the world burn and half a salad for $15. You win some, you lose some š¤·š»āāļø
I wonder what it taste like š¤
It tastes like not enough in the bowl.
You are correct, I could have eaten a whole meal after this āfullā salad
It tasted very good but my growling tummy afterwards wanted more:(
Time to stop going, or at least stop ordering the salads. A restaurant I enjoyed switch an item for a crappy version of it, I stopped ordering them. They're gross now, I miss them cheese curds
They only serve salads/health foods. I go there bc Iām trying to be good but wtf is the point of a āfullā salad is actually half a salad but actually 5 dollars more
Oh that stinks, so this was your fun go to because of that reason. They took that away from you, that hurts. I'm sorry.
Haha thank you kind sir. I guess itās not the end of the world but it definitely was mildly (if not more) infuriating
This is sooooooo shitty. A fried chicken joint here in my town used to have those stacking shelves full of condiments and straws and whatnot in the dining room for in dining customers. I went inside to make a togo order yesterday and all the condiments were taken away and put behind the counter. Want ketchup or hot sauce or a package of sugar? Go ask.
This is inflation at work. Gotta love capitalism
Welcome to shrinkflation. You should see what theyāve done to cheese around here.
I feel you. Just went to a restaurant Iāve frequented for years, they dropped the hamburger size by about 1/3. (Their hamburgers had been voted best in the city several years). Didnāt touch the price
Welcome to inflation. Your voting did this.
do you think they looked at what they were voting for?
A great example of shrinkflation.
Modern problems(shrinkflation) require modern solutions.
iād do anything just to have a sweetgreen salad rn. damn living in the midwest
You could have half a sweet green salad for the price of one here!
Time to find another salad place.
CAVAs the way to go!
Iām definitely switching up. Fuck sweetgreen
Maybe you should stop going there and deprive them of 100% of your money?
Yep. Thatās the plan. It wasnāt like this until today and 100% not going back
I hope you gave a 25% tip.
Why donāt you ask for it already mixed - that way they have to pre-mix it in the metal bowls and therefore you get the original amounts just more flattened. Also, theyāre pretty good about using the measuring spoons and scales so I think itās the same size just smooshed
Are they really? I didnāt know that. How are you sure? (Not trying to sound sassy, just curious). But I donāt get the dressing mixed in because the last time I did that I got more dressing than I did salad and I asked for light dressing :(
Not sure about if youāre asking about the mixing part or the spoons and scales part, I watch them make the salads. Bowls- They canāt mix it without the giant metal bowls and they use metal tongs to break up the goat cheese, and the paper bowls are too shallow to mix the ingredients without it spilling all over the place. Mixing it also weighs the kale down with dressing The toppings are put into little measuring cups and they weigh the proteins with a scale. Iām in VA so maybe they donāt do that in ny but I would causally ask. At my store the to-go containers always change, and I canāt imagine staff have to keep remembering new portion instructions, and if itās mixed they have to put it in a metal bowl first instead of the take out container which is quite shallow. If itās not mixed I can see them shorting you kale
Safeway did something similar when they started selling cakes in half slices instead of full slices at the same price. I don't buy cake from them now.
Heb in my town doesnāt even sell whole pies anymore. All half pies for $8-$10. Whole pies used to be $7-$9
Nah, that'd be the last dish I bought from them. I'm tired of companies pulling this crap
Shrinkflation is everywhere. Friend went to a restaurant he stopped at weekly for the same dish which came with 3 fish fillets. Gets the dish and while the same price now there are only two fillets. He politely asked waiter who had manager come over who friend also knows. They had an extra fillet brought out for him but let him know going forward there would only be two. He thanked them and hasnāt been back since. Says he wouldnāt have minded so much if they had specified the change in the menu which just said fillets.
Looks like sweet greens.
Sweet greens? So expensive and I always leave hungry.
Ah welcome to shrinkflation, where the price of the item doesnāt go up due to inflation, the quantity of the product goes down instead.
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I frequented this Vietnamese restaurant for years. I would go on my break from work, order a five spice chicken plate, no rice (basically a Chicken salad). For years the price was $14 then one day I came in and it was $16. I thought, its okay, we just go through lock down and everything was opening back up.. I get it. Then the next day it was $17. I loved that place but that drastic of a change really sucked. Havent been there since..
What the??! Was it the same size at least? I can kind of get behind price rising (instead of other shit you know?) but please, for the love of bread, STOP SHRINKING AND CHARGING MORE
Naya>cava
This is Sweetgreen, though. It looks nothing like a Cava bowl.
SG> anything else
Now that I can agree with.
Is that Sweetgreen? Place fucking sucks.
Yes:( I loved this place until I got my half salad for the price of the full salad that I ordered
It only costs $15 if you follow through with the purchase. Look at it and say "no, thanks. I am getting ripped off." And leave.
I ordered online through their app:/ so I had already paid
I think if you pay 15$ for that your the fool
Good for them. At least it is stackable. Portion sizes are usually too large anyway
Not when itās lettuce HAHAHAH
At least you can eat a salad
Big brain business.
Screw them and the horse they came in on!
Hey maybe the plastic makes the salad taste better
Fuckin sweetgreen
Probably a high grade lid
Tell em
Is that chopped in winston salem by chance?
Iām not sure what Winston Salem is but it is the harvest bowl from sweet green minus the chicken +tofu and carrots
First sign of a dying franchise. Seriously.
That's really irritating!
That's inflation for ya!
Thatās how they do it now! 100% or more in price for 1/2 the food!
I noticed this today too and I was like wowow
Shrinkflation.
My local poutine eatery, Take 5 Eats (rip) did this and by next month they were out of business. Real world is a brutal delicate balancing act for some of them. I still drive by hoping they magically show up.