Clean Eatz — Restaurant in Jacksonville

This was my first visit to a Clean Eatz. I had been wanting to try it after reading about the Deerwood location opening and about the franchise concept as I prefer to follow a healthier diet as much as possible.

The restaurant is an order at the counter style like you might find at a place like Panera or Zoe's Kitchen. You place your order at the register and somebody brings the food out to your table. A drink station has everything you need to get your own drinks, ice, stevia, lids and straws.

The drink station featured three kinds of freshly brewed iced tea: blueberry green tea, mango green tea and plain unsweet which was the more traditional black tea you find at most restaurants. Being an iced tea lover, I sampled all three. I found the regular unsweet to be pretty weak, and I also wasn't in the mood for the extra caffeine, so I mostly drank the mango green which was refreshing. There was also a big dispenser filled with water infused with fresh orange slices that was also very good. The water and ice dispenser indicated it used filtered water and dispensed both with the push of a button.

I had the hammerhead wrap for my lunch with a side of the apple slices (it included a drink too). It was a whole wheat wrap with salmon, turkey bacon, spinach, guacamole and CE Cilantro Lime sauce. It was served warm and was a nice combination of flavors.

There were four apple slices that came with a peanut butter dip that was really good; it was a mixture of peanut butter, honey and yogurt. In fact, I liked the dip so much that I put the lid back on the container and took the rest home with me!

The cashier alerted me that the dip had yogurt in it for a possible dairy allergy. While I do not have any food allergies, I appreciated that the restaurant did that and it would undoubtedly be helpful for some customers.

The whole meal was a good portion size; I was satisfied but not overly full.

There is also a dessert case with a variety of offerings packaged to go with sweet treats that are relatively low guilt. Although they are sweet, they are made with natural ingredients and would be a better splurge than, say, a big piece of cake or bowl of ice cream. Among other things, one can find dark chocolate fudge, peanut butter buckeyes, s'mores, and chex mixes of various flavors. All of the items are made fresh in the restaurant. Ingredients include things such as dark chocolate, honey and coconut oil (the s'mores) or rice chex and protein powder (in the chex mixes).

One of the employees was very helpful in explaining some of the items and even gave me a couple of free samples. I ended up getting a package of the buckeyes and s'mores, both of which were excellent.

The restaurant also has a meal program where you can purchase meals to take home with a menu that varies weekly and a large selection of frozen meals in a freezer in the restaurant that can be taken to go and heated up at home.

Overall, I enjoyed my visit to Clean Eatz and I will look forward to having lunch again...

Let me start off by saying the food wasn’t bad and the price wasn’t bad either!

$12 for the build your own bowl with Salmon $11.49 for my wrap which I converted into a bowl

The problem I had was that I left hungry. Flavor wise it was good but honestly I felt compelled to buy another meal because the portions were small.

Secondly, my big boy wrap 2.0 which I turned into a bowl came with a side and I chose the sweet potato fries. Those fries came out ice cold. Not exaggerating… I sent them back and after me having to get up to ask for the status they finally came and they were better since they were warm.

The girls working there were nice but need to be mindful of the guests when standing up. There was a lady there waiting for quite sometime and no one approached her. Finally the lady realized that her food was just sitting there at the pick up box the entire time.

Mind you the lady also should have asked where her food was after that long but I was observing the girls working and they didn’t bother to ask her if she needs help or anything which is what happened with me and my fries.

So overall i give it a 4 star based on amount of food and lack of...

Went today to grab a healthy lunch. I chose to build my own bowl. I did the potato base, chicken (I confirmed when ordering it was white meat chicken), zuchini, carrots and green peppers. My order came out and it looked, smelled and tasted like canned tuna. I thought they'd messed up my order so I took it to the counter and told them I'd ordered chicken, not tuna. They assured me it was chicken, that they don't have tuna. She said they shred their chicken. The chicken was pink, wet and smelled funny. It was 100% canned chicken. I asked if the chicken was canned and she said no, but there is no way that was any form of baked or grilled chicken breast. They kindly offered to make something else so i got the same thing and switched my protein to shredded beef. It was edible but nothing to write home about. The veggies were all under cooked (carrots were so hard, my fork wouldn't go through them so had to scoop them to eat them. There was a puddle of liquid at the bottom of the bowl so the potatoes were inedible and soggy. I ate the meat but threw the majority of the bowl away-...