In response to a report out of New York about snarly, out-of-control leaf munchers at that benighted city's salad places, Bostonian salad eaters report that, yes, the lines are longer here as well, but we're better mannered and so are not running amok or cursing out co-workers who made us join them.
Meg McClaff reports:
t took me 12 mins at 1:15 pm yesterday at Sweetgreen in the Pru. A coworker preordered his at noon, for pick up at 1, and he finally got it at 1:30.
Melissa Birch responded:
The financial district sweetgreen was 100% filled with people at 1:30ish yesterday
Cara confirmed:
The sweetgreen on franklin was mobbed yesterday at lunch too. Looked as bad for pickup as for ordering there!
Kaz added:
The line at Pita Thyme in the Financial District was about 50% longer later into the lunch hour than usual.
Baxter Vegas sighs about the state of salads at the Boylston Sweet Sweetgreen:
Some of the workers don’t even care to mix your salad fully either. Sad!
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Just wait a month or so
By mg
Fri, 01/04/2019 - 1:48pm
Once people give up on their New Year's resolutions, the lines will get shorter.
yup
By cybah
Fri, 01/04/2019 - 6:23pm
This is why I won't even bother with a gym until Mid-February. Its currently over run with people who have no idea what they are doing, using the machines incorrectly, or it just being overly busy in general. Too many people.
Happens every year tho.. by March its back to normal.
America: where gyms are busy
By Kinopio
Fri, 01/04/2019 - 10:48pm
America: where gyms are busy for one month per year. I wonder why we are the fattest on earth? Doesn't help that the current president is a lard boy who is so dumb that he thinks exercising is bad for you.
Resolutionaries
By anon
Fri, 01/04/2019 - 1:50pm
That's what my son called them. They are also going to the gym in droves.
I HAVE ZERO SYMPATHY FOR
By Peter Steele
Fri, 01/04/2019 - 3:42pm
I HAVE ZERO SYMPATHY FOR DOWNTOWN SNOW FLAKES WHO WAIT FOR SALADS. BRING YOUR OWN TOO WORK AND EAT IT IN SHITTER LIKE THE REST OF US. Makes me mad
Roche Bros
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 01/04/2019 - 7:50pm
Go to Roche Bros. They have their salad mixes on sale, plus kale and tomatoes. I bought a pack of 50/50 spinach and lettuce mix - enough for 3-4 salads - and some other veg to add in. Gorgeous Maine hothouse grown cocktail tomatoes, and a jar of salad dressing. A can of chickpeas or what have you ... good to go! I throw sliced chicken into it, sometimes some almonds. All together, it cost about as much as a SweetColi salad, but will make about 4 lunches with the other stuff tossed in.
right?
By cybah
Fri, 01/04/2019 - 8:08pm
I mean its S A L A D
PLus the price.. its like. Um it's S A L A D. Why is it 12 bucks for a S A L A D?
Do what Swirls says about Roche.. so much cheaper (and I think roche is expe$ive)
I wish TJ's opened at 8
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 01/05/2019 - 8:31am
Trader Joe's also has salad stuff - and fixings like sesame seeds, cranberries, almonds, avocados, etc. a lot cheaper than Roche.
Possible to buy those things any time and haul them in whenever, though.
TJ's is easier to get to than Roche, for me.
By jmeltzer
Sat, 01/05/2019 - 9:06am
But if I have a reason to be in Waltham or Watertown - Roche Roche baby!
Roche downtown
By SwirlyGrrl
Sat, 01/05/2019 - 9:45am
Roche actually has a downtown location - in the old Filene's basement! Not cheap, but really convenient and totally filled in a food desert. I worked in the area for much of a decade before it opened and it really is a game changer.
Speak up, I can't hear you...
By P.T. McPhubble
Sat, 01/05/2019 - 1:01pm
And I have no sympathy for loudmouths who think that shouting online makes their (usually garbled) thoughts have more impact.
I call all these places Slow
By anon
Fri, 01/04/2019 - 4:24pm
I call all these places Slow Grown.
Gyms, too..
By Grant Young
Fri, 01/04/2019 - 5:30pm
Get crowded about this time of year. Gets easier in February for the regulars.
You don't win friends with
By Homer Simpson
Fri, 01/04/2019 - 5:44pm
You don't win friends with salad!
Are these customers patiently standing in line
By anon
Sat, 01/05/2019 - 3:33pm
the same savages who would trample you in a stampede to catch their subway or commuter rail train at the end of the day?
Nope, two different groups of
By anon
Mon, 01/07/2019 - 4:23pm
Nope, two different groups of people.
Personally
By be
Sat, 01/05/2019 - 8:51pm
I prefer a good, warm, homemade, easily microwaveable at work veggie soup this time of year.
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