Fiddlehead — Restaurant in State College

I am constantly visiting this restaurant in State College. I don’t know any other restaurant with a salad bar better than this one. Everything they serve is healthy and fresh. They also prepare soups everyday which they advertise in the board at the end of the restaurant. Today, they offered the pepper with crab soup, and they are always having something different. Besides those positive comments, I would like to do two suggestions:

Sell smaller salads. It is true that many people like the whole container, but I find in my experience that the right size is half of the container they have now. Measure the quantity of dressing. As it is right now, you will get what the person who is preparing your salad considers it is “light, medium, or a lot” dressing. Every time I go there, I see a lot of food wasted while they are trying to move the prepared salad to the container to go. An idea I have is to move the salad over a refrigerated container and sell it as “the mixed” salad for less price. For people with no allergies, that would be an option to save a dollar and get the “salad...

I never write reviews but I felt like I had to for this one. I have eaten at a TON of places just like this and this was definitely the worst. The lettuce was brown, they do not chop anything, it was well over-priced, what they cannot fit into your bowl, which could be a whole cup of stuff, gets thrown out which is really annoying if it includes the veggies/proteins whatever that you paid extra for. Also the environment itself was not the cleanest, and a little sticky. The people who worked there seemed very nice and like they were enjoying themselves at least. Also, they only had one soup for the day. I just feel like a soup and salad place should have more than that. The carrots were cut so weirdly too, no consistency. Honestly, there was nothing special like it looked exactly like they went to the nearest grocery store and were like hey I will throw together what you want and charge 20x more for it. Healthy option it might be and the chicken was delicious but I will never...

Healthy and fast! (Well, depending on how much dressing you decide to add.) It's set up a little like a Subway, with a line of ingredients in front of you and a worker compiling your salad as you go. Choose from pre-designed recipes or create your own. You can expect to pay about ten bucks if you have protein in your salad, but it's a HUGE salad and they all come in (compostable!) to-go bowls right off the bat. If you're making your own, here's what I've dubbed "The Ultimate": spring mix, edamame, quinoa, garbonzos, broccoli, tomato, craisins, white cheddar cubes, corn, grilled chicken, parmesan crisps, and avocado. I like the BBQ Ranch dressing, but they're all pretty good. They also have different soups made from scratch every day, and they used to post them daily to their Twitter account. Only downsides: it can be very busy during lunchtime, and...