Noodles & Company

For a big chain this is one of my favorites. I always get the penne roso of the mac and cheese. Sooo good.

I love Noodles and Company, but they should stop advertising that they deliver. I live 0.5 miles away from this location and they told me I was outside of their  zone. Their  zone is as far north as Grace and as far south as Wellington but only as far east as Seminary. That means they will deliver north and south but not east and west? Idiotic. STOP ADVERTISING THAT YOU DELIVER IF YOU'RE ONLY GOING TO DELIVER TO PEOPLE ON YOUR STREET.

What makes Noodles & Company awesome is that it's got a great menu for people with allergies (gluten free, dairy, vegan).  What makes it just "ok" is that the staff can't seem to execute on these special allergy-specific ways to cook their food.  I got one of the Italian noodles dishes and just asked for it without the cream, which is one of the ways to get the meal nondairy.  And yet the dish came out with cream all over it.  It took another 5 minutes to get another dairy-free version of the meal, and it came out slightly underdone because I think they got flustered.  It's super annoying to have expectations high with these awesome menus and then unable to execute it in a streamlined manner.  Once they get that figured out, this would be an awesome, high-value place to eat.