QDOBA Mexican Eats — Restaurant in Alexandria

I have been a Qdoba fan for a long time. I have probably been to 20+ of them in various states and airports. Qdoba offers excellent Mexican style food with consistency across all I've visited, EXCEPT this one in my newest home, Alexandria. Mexican food should be an exciting, flavorful mix of spices, richly marinated meats, and often various veggies. On the three visits I've made here over the year I've lived here, the food each time was bland, and the meat in the burritos was sparse and replaced by more rice.

I wrote corporate asking them to send a brand consistency evaluator out. They kindly gave me two free entrées to try this branch again risk free. I used one, was disappointed again, and found it not worth it to me to use the 2nd free entrée and let it expire unused. I really feel my fellow Alekites don't seem to know they're losing out on great flavor. This restaurant is busy!

After the 2nd visit, I believed management might be skimping on meats and spices to show high food efficiencies while maybe allowing more free food for employees & friends and/or higher bonuses for efficiencies. This restaurant remains busy, so are my assumptions wrong? Is this bland food what the locals demand? Has this store's management simply bend "blandward" to maximize local demand? Or, is this just how this shop started out, set expectations, so locals have no way of knowing better unless the travel and visit Qdobas and local good taquarias elsewhere. I don't know, but I cannot enjoy the food here, even when it's free.

I encourage everyone to make it a point to visit Qdobas everywhere they find them to compare that food with what they find here. See if you find food from other Qdobas with better all-around flavor, more mouth-watering blend of peppers in the salsas, and more protein standard in the entrées. Reply here with your recon reports. I truly want to know what others think who read this. I won't eat here anymore to know if anything changes here. I'll satisfy my Mexican palate at Minneapolis Lake Street street restaurants, and El Lorro branches like the one across town.

There is a plus here like all Qdobas, it's the only restaurant I know where I can get my favorite Orange-Vanilla Coke. The last time I went, though, the machine was out of this option. This Coka-Cola option is probably why I'm pushing everyone hard to try other Qdobas to see the flavorful differences between this shop...

I have been coming to this same Qdoba a lot since they opened here. I have almost always had pleasant experiences. Today was drastically different. Girl working the first station had a terrible attitude. Carelessly tossed my tortilla on the dirty counter instead of the foil it is supposed to go on. Next proceeds to give the smallest scoops of food. Carelessly flinging half my chicken on the floor instead of my burrito.. burrito gets passed to next station.. man wipes nose with hand, pulls phone out of pocket, then proceeds to slowly put on gloves without washing hands at all. Carelessly wraps burrito and tears it. Wasn’t even a burrito. This is also coming from someone who has worked at Qdoba and knows the cleanliness standards that are taught, and the portion sizes that are to be scooped. Absolutely careless attitudes. Would not recommend eating here until they get some...

Ok Qdoba, me and the family have gone here for years! Yesterday's experience was very disappointing 😕 My question here is, "Where's the meat?". I asked for extra pulled pork, and maybe got 2 tablespoons of meat? This is absolutely no exaggeration. I counted maybe 4 or 5 strands from the tongs asked for at least a tong full? I watched this young man struggle to spread the 5 strands across the mound of rice. I also got charged for extra meat? That's ridiculous for a $20 bowel. Everything else was pretty good, but I think you should lower the price if you lower the standards? I understand the rise in price due to inflation, but man! Please do better? Also my husband's taco meat tastes like turkey, and was so burnt it was as he said tasted like crisps. Did you change your taco meat to...