Had a really quick connection and the choices were this, McDonald's, or some salad place. This looked like the best choice. On its face, it looks innocent: some pizza slices, calzones, a slicer to slice up meat for sandwiches.
Upon closer examination, the cheese on the $4.99 Cheese Pizza Slices just didn't look right; it looked runny, and the pizzas looked dry and tired. Bad cheese? That rules out the pizza and the calzone.
But the menu also had pretzels. There were quite a few topping options but again most were cheese, so no deal. But they just had "plain." Now, normally when you order a pretzel it has some butter flavor, salt, or something on top. So that is what I expected here.
I paid the $3.63 for my pretzel and almost immediately, the clerk sets this chip-like bag down on the counter with a few napkins on top and says here you go. I asked her what that was and she said the pretzel. Oh. I took it and walked away. I noticed the bag was warm to the touch and upon closer examination it was one of those individually wrapped frozen pretzels and they just took and microwaved it to serve. Seriously? The bag was still sealed shut on the top and bottom. Like a bag of chips.
I opened the thing up. It tasted plastic-ey. There was no salt. No butter flavor. It was just like a tasteless bread, at least a little chewy, but just not good at all. For the price, this was a complete scam. They could at least TRY to make it look fresh. Remove it from the bag... put it into some paper like those mall pretzel places do... seriously... to serve it in the low effort manner of the sealed bag straight from the freezer... I could have gotten this sort of thing out of a vending machine...
Pathetic, complete ripoff, and scam of a food operation. Avoid. At all costs. Avoid.
Satisfied? No.
Will I ever eat at a "Manny's" again? Hell no. In big bold letters.
Manny's: I don't know what you are, but having your name on this sort of thing isn't going to be good for your reputation if you care about what tourists think of you. I will not forget this scam of a food service operation. I've eaten lots of marginal food in airports. I am in airports about 30 weeks a year... this is the WORST food experience I have EVER had in an airport.
BE WARNED - This place has the most disrespectful workers and supervision. They sold my son a slice of cheese pizza but didn't have any to give him. When we asked for a refund they got upset and tried to make it our fault. Then we confronted the supervisor and only got the shoulder shrug. If this is what the rest of Chicago is like, keep it. I'm never going back.
Review Source:This place is a fucking train wreck. I generally do not cuss in my reviews. So that might tell you something. The service was terrible... and not playful terrible like Gino's in Philly but Soup Nazi terrible like on Seinfeld. There was no organization and a bunch of people doing nothing or doing things sloppily.
The corned beef was dry and had no fat at all... it needed some.
They called Challah "Texas Toast." I am not Jewish but that even offended me. lol
They only palletable thing were the potato pancakes... which SHOULD have been called Latkes. I am surprised they didn't call them Idaho Flapjacks or something. Still... they were too cold.
Skip this place.
Charging $4.47 for a 16.9 oz "Honest Tea" in a plastic bottle, then being only willing to furnish a 6 oz plastic juice cup for ice seems like some sort of cruel joke! Even the cashier warned me that I was about to get hosed before she rang my purchase up, then apologized for the ridiculous cup she was allowed to provide... As a frequent traveler, I understand the economics of airport space rental and am accustomed to getting hosed, but Manny's is a little extreme in their fleecing of travelers even for this hardened road warrior!
Review Source:... and we're back to 'B.' I knew my time in Concourse A was not to last. Back to my 'B' basics, I thought I would try my hand at replicating the grandeur of Manny's in A. I ordered the same thing (breakfast sandwich) and waited for the magic.
Not so much.
I didn't get sick nor did I have to use the facilities on the airplane so, you know, points for that. Seriously. The alternative could have been traumatic. But, the service was more eye-rolling than 'how do you do.' The breakfast sandwich was more Betty Maltese than Harold Washington. The experience was more Lunchlady Doris than 'Oh, I see why Manny's is a Chicago institution.'
But, again, I didn't get sick. When you're up in the air in cramped quarters, that counts for a lot. In any event, I think I am back to a Kate Moss diet in Concourse B.
In B concourse at Midway, next to McD.
I should have known something was up; 25 people in line at McD and none at Manny's. Â Like a numnut I went to Manny's. Â Had a dog with fries. Â The dog was lukewarm, bun soggy, and fries cold. Â The girl at the register was less than pleasant; her shift was not going her way; but then with her attitude does it ever. Â Go to McD.
Calling it disgusting is actually being nice here.
Food took about 10-15 mins to get. We were the only ones in line when we got there. We ordered two hot dogs.
The cashier told us the girl will call us when our order was ready. Since standing around 10 mins a group of people lined up.
The girl comes out plops an order on the counter and walks away. We figured it was ours since we where there first. Walked up inspected the order figured out it was ours, took it and went to our gate.
My BF's hot dog was in a stale bun. And I mean stale. Hard. The hot dog itself was room temperature.
My hot dog was cold, like they took it out of the fridge, let it sit on the counter for those 10 mins we were waiting for a HOT DOG, and then put it in the bun and served it.
I'm sure there's a few health code violations going on somewhere there.
If I thought we had time to take the food back, and if I thought the workers there might have actually cared, I would have gone back and complained. But, it probably would have taken 20 mins to get a COOKED hot dog and I didn't feel like missing my flight for a hot dog.
If your hungry and you value your digestive system, go elsewhere.
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