/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.14108940]

I am seriously sad that I'll never eat at this restaurant ever again. I loved everything about it

[Anonymous No.14108946]

>>14108940
Age of the buffet is over

[Anonymous No.14108948]

>>14108946
so is the age of the jew

[Anonymous No.14108958]

>>14108940
Same. Haven't been able to go in three years bc I moved and now I never will. Used to go every other week with the boys. Never seen a man put away so much spinach in one sitting before Soupie

[Anonymous No.14108968]

I worked there for 4 years AMA

[Anonymous No.14108979]

>>14108940
Same. Haven't been since like 2010, since I moved, but it was pretty fucking good back in the day.
Heard they stopped making soup in house at some point, and switched to the panera style pre-packaged shit at some point though, instead of making them in house, and using some of the leftover / unused salad ingredients though. Might have been a sign shit was going down-hill.

[Anonymous No.14108987]

>>14108968
Yo you got any recipes.

[Anonymous No.14109006]

>>14108987
Nah, most of the stuff was pretty general recipes. Most of the food was made by Central Kitchen. I worked at a store that had Central Kitchen running out of it to distribute food to surrounding stores. All of the good recipes like bakery and soup were in binders locked in the CK office

[Anonymous No.14109026]

>>14109006
Figured as much. They treat you good there?

[Anonymous No.14109043]

>>14109026
Definitely better over the years. The company was struggling for a while (bankruptcy, multiple CEOs, being bought by a company that had never run a restaurant) so you really had to fight to get decent pay. The atmosphere was great. I'm sure people usually say this but we really were a big family. Had a decently high turnover rate but by the end we were all really close, definitely gonna miss everyone.

[Anonymous No.14109073]

>>14108979
What was made on-site?
Was there always central kitchens, or was it brought in at some point to cut costs or something?

[Anonymous No.14109107]

>>14109073
For as long as I worked there, there was CK, I assumed that was always the case. All the soups were made there, we had multiple giant kettles and a bagging station in the back just for the soups. Everything in the bakery was also made on site. Focaccia/pizza, muffins, hot deserts. All the salad ingredients (excluding canned olives and beets) and fruit bar things were chopped and portioned every morning for the salad staff to toss during the day

[Anonymous No.14109121]

the one thing at souplantation that was actually unusually good was the caesar salad
they made the dressing from scratch with anchovies and tossed it in a big wooden bowl rubbed with garlic cloves
nice stuff

[Anonymous No.14109131]

salad bars are gross

[Anonymous No.14109150]

I will always fondly remember going to souplantation high as fuck and eating a big plate of raw grated butternut squash with roasted garlic dressing or wolfing down bowl after bowl of cubed tofu and scallions with miso broth poured over it
thanks for the mammaries

[Anonymous No.14109186]

It was alright. I got the idea to put rotini pasta on salads from them. Now I just make all my own at home. But I still don't feel safe eating store bought lettuce yet. So far just been going for the pre-bagged spinach.

[Anonymous No.14109240]

>>14108968
How clean was the kitchen?

[Anonymous No.14109280]

>>14108940
I'll miss their Sriracha Carrot soup

[Anonymous No.14109355]

>>14108940
No joke, I put my own spunk in one of the salad dressings. I wonder how many old ladies I've impregnated as a result.

[Anonymous No.14109376]

>>14109121
Fax famalam, not the "only" good thing but the dressing was no joke

[Anonymous No.14109384]

I never got to go to one. Looked up some videos on jootube. It was just a big salad bar? Looked like shit LMAO.