Yumbii @ Toco Hills — Restaurant in Georgia

Update on Feb 16 25 If you’re a frequent customer, you can most definitely tell that there has been a change in the cooking staff & overall restaurant staff. We dine here at least once a week and can tell a huge difference. Some of the new staff are nice but I can tell my food isn’t made with love like it used to. And sometimes, ranch is missing in my wing box. :( Most definitely the quality of taste with the food from here has gone downhill compared to what it used to be a few years ago.

My only concern is my favorite honey sriracha wings are no longer a favorite. They do not put enough of the honey sriracha sauce on them like they used to. I don’t understand why you wouldn’t treat them and dress them the same as the buffalo sesame wings. They used to be magnificent but now the wings are bland (close to naked) with hardly any taste. Not the Yumbii that I’m used to - the one that usually takes pride in the most tastiest flavors.

Also it used to be when you ordered a wing combo that came with a drink, you could chose Jarritos and not have to pay $1.50 (?) extra. Not too happy about that change.

Update as of JUN 27 24 I haven’t had crunchy rice from there in a while. So I’m changing my rating. Mainly because those honey sriracha wings & elote … blow my mind every time! And I’m hooked. 😍

They give you crunchy uncooked rice in your bowls if you order an hour to 30 min before they close. Not sure if it’s intentional or not but I do notice a pattern.

Yumbii is usually really good. Probably some of the best food I’ve had in ATL. of course, there are more times that it’s good than when it’s bad. But there are alot of times - when there is crunchy uncooked rice. We use to eat here at least once a week but when they started feeding us that horrible rice, we have cut back on it alot! I’m kinda tired of it. My husband couldn’t even finish his bowl tonight b/c of the rice.

If this doesn’t get better, I’ll save my money and go elsewhere. Because it’s not worth my stomach being tore up from uncooked rice. It is literally making goblin sounds as I type this. Everything else from here is pretty decent! Including the...

Yumbi was be one of my favorite places in North Dekalb to eat at for a quick service type of meal when I lived in the area, but since I moved away it’s less convent… if in the area I do try to seek out.

Food is pretty good, I really like the vinaigrette and pork they use in the bowls, and the wings are a sleeper in the Atlanta wing market. Unfortunately this latest visit really turned me off from going out of my way to revisit: I walked in and went toward the bathrooms in the back:

“Are you here for pickup?” “No, I am just going to the bathroom” “Sorry, the bathroom is out of order” “Ok, where is the nearest open restroom? Where do y’all go when you need the restroom?”

I was sent to a coffee shop that was closed. I did find a bathroom 1/4 mile away but when I returned to order my food, the staff member who had told me the restroom was out of order then confided in me that “management told us non customers cannot use the restroom because once we let some people in and they tore up the bathroom” - while I appreciate honesty after the fact, I then walked out. I don’t want to patronize a business that outright lies to their customers about basic things.

Was the prior restroom incident bad? Based on the distraught voice in the man’s explanation, probably. But this situation could have been a lot better in one of two ways, son my message to management and the staff would be:

1- assume positive intent. Most people who use the restroom, even if not customers, will not cause harm. They may even decide to stick around and buy something. 2 - don’t lie to your customers. Everyone who walks through that door, intent or not, is a potential customer. “Sorry sir the bathrooms are for customers” can go one of three ways: they are already a customer (like me “oh no worries I’m just using the restroom first”), they will walk out, or they will convert to a customer “oh ok do you have a drink or a snack I can buy? I really gotta go so I’ll pay a few bucks for the restroom”

Instead I walk away feeling unfairly judged and unwilling to return...

They have on gloves. Touching their phones. Masks, brooms, countertops, cleaning tables WITH THE SAME GLOVES TOUCHING YOUR CONTAINERS, FOOD, GRABBING THE INSIDE OF THE CONTAINER TO CLOSE IT, TOUCHING YOUR SAUCES, NAPKINS WITH THOSE DIRTY GLOVES!!!!🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮 Ask them to change their gloves and they do while whispering about you and one guy got an attitide. It's so nasty having on clean gloves then touch the doors going in and out taking people food, then back to the counter with those same gloves. One Guy constantly touching his mask and then sees you looking, changed gloves. One guy wiped his nose and sweat with his gloved hand then turned around and touched the food! ABSOLUTELY NOT, PLEASE CHANGE THE GLOVES! He did and was very pleasant. Girl got on 1 glove but touching your food with the hand without the glove. She is very pleasant tho.

I went for the first time and guy touching broom and cleaning with the same gloves on, touching food and they changed the gloves, very pleasant food absolutely delicious. The 2 stars come from me eating there the next day again and the tall guy was so nasty. I'd eat their again because the food is absolutely delicious but scared because if they do that in the open, what else are they doing. In 2 days I spent $140+ buying food for my family and I don't feel like I need to talk to adults who know right from wrong, how to be sanitary and clean. So they've lost a good customer. I may rethink it and try another location if they have it or, not!

Food great, majority of the staff is very friendly and pleasant and one guy is absolutely nasty while the others need to know that just because you have on gloves mean you can touch any and...