One thing (and quite possibly the only thing) I miss about my old job was being close enough to walk to the Protein Bar. The Protein Bar was tasty, clean fast food that gave me tons of energy. There has to be another place like the Protein Bar in the Gold Coast, right???
I set out to Water Tower Place to try Freshii. Freshii is a chain that you might be familiar with. The bar was set high for Freshii after enjoying the Protein Bar a couple times a week for the last 6 months.
I first scoped them out on-line. I love their nutritional content page as it allows you customize your order to get nutritional specifics.
My first trip, I tried one of their menu items, vs. a custom order. I had the Buffalo Chicken Wrap. Quite bland in my opinion, nothing spicy about it. The size of it is equivalent to the Protein Bar's Barrito, but it was lacking in flavor and, well, protein. The serving of protein was small in comparision to the veggies. You do have the option to order double protein, which I decided to do on my next trip.
The cost was fair, a little over $6.00, similar to the Protein Bar again, but, when you are getting mostly veggies, I am sure their profit was much more substantial.
My second trip, I customized a rice noodle bowl with the following:
Rice Bowl base ($5.99)
Double natural chicken ($4.00)
carrots, cucumbers, cilantro & broccoli (all free)
Spicy Peanut sauce
According to the website, I should have received over 34 grams of protein for this dish. Sadly, when I got back to my office, I had to dig and dig around the rice noodles to find the chicken. I am ASSUMING that they got my order wrong and only put in one order of chicken. Otherwise, this was pretty pathetic. For over $11.00 I got a bowl of rice noodles and a very flavorless sauce over tons of cucumbers, carrots, cilantro, and about 9 chunks of chicken the size of my thumbnail.
Freshii fails miserably.
To all of my healthy friends in the Chi....where or where can a girl get some good, clean, healthy, and tasty takeout???
And to Matt, the owner of the Protein Bar, we need you in the Gold Coast. Badly.
Halp!
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Million times better to go to Protein Bar than Freshii, because they still messing up with my orders those cheap (m...........ers!) all the time charging correctly the extra portion and making a good business profit without giving those extra paid porting to the customers WTF!!! Monroe loc. is the worst the tiny manager there she prefers to be so loud and annoying than fix an incorrect order. Hated it!!!!
ReplyDeleteMonroe Loc. really suck, what's happening with all of you guys, you really need to be focus on the management it's not like anymore since the opening of that location...... Every time I complained with a manager for a mistake in my burrito (no salmon) they don't do nothing because this still happening in the present..... such a inexpert people working there. But the Director of Operations "the biggest idiot ever", How dare you treat those workers like "shit" they're humans!!!!!
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