Crumbl — Restaurant in Temecula

Monopoly is arguably the most popular board game ever created. Remember the elaborate set of rules that are included? While those may have established a great baseline, we all knew that the “House Rules” are what really mattered. Each family seemed to know exactly what “local ordinances” needed to be implemented to make this classic game that much better.

And so it is with the “Crumbl Cookie Challenge”, a.k.a., “The Crumbl Bowl” and “The Crumbl World Cup.”

Crumbl offers 200+ different cookies that are rotated on a weekly basis, so clearly a system of evaluation is required.

Although we share with you how far our family has come when determining our “local ordinances,” please feel free to adjust these as you feel necessary.

All orders are take out only, so you’ll need to determine a neutral site for your event. This is an individual evaluation, so teams, collaborations, and allies are NOT permitted.

Cut all of the cookies into equal portions for each evaluator and determine the order of cookie sampling so that chaos is averted and all evaluators are sampling the same cookie simultaneously.

Evaluators must individually rank each cookie and absolute silence must be observed during the sampling period.

Once all samplings and rankings have been completed the evaluators may again converse, but an “honor code” is to be strictly enforced so that evaluators don’t amend their rankings just so that they can join an emerging pattern of fellow evaluators.

We sampled all 6 cookies available this week so each evaluator’s rankings were awarded points in the following manner:

#1 favorite (6 points), #2 favorite (5 points), #3 favorite (4 points), #4 favorite (3 points), #5 favorite (2 points), and least favorite (1 point).

Although the “Sea Salt Toffee”, “Molten Lava”, “Pecan Pie”, “Orange Roll”, and “Classic Pink Sugar” cookies all entered our competition, the “Peanut Butter Brittle” cookie was crowned champion and earned a near perfect score of 29 (out of 30 possible points).

If you come up with any suggested improvements for this competition please let us know and happy cookie sampling!

And that’s…Henry’s...

This is the poorest run location I have ever been to. They frequently are out of multiple flavors of cookies. Tonight we weren't able to order through the app but there wasn't anything on Google or their Facebook page stating they were closed so we thought we'd go there and order in person. We pulled up to a handwritten closed sign on the door with two teenagers working inside. So we just watched as some people walked up and try the door and then walk off. Then a man with keys came and unlocked the door and walked in and put a few times, I'm assuming it was the owner or manager. Then a group of teenagers came around the corner right as the man came out and explained to them that all of his staff had quit and he was training new staff. Despite being a mile away from the Temecula location, I'll drive all the way to the Cal Oaks location instead of...

Uber eats driver here. This is the second time this week I have had an order here where the store was clearly marked open online, only for me to arrive and have to cancel the order. This time there was even an employee in the shop who not only refused to open the door for me, but just yelled "were closed cancel your order" through the door at me and offered no further explanation as to why they were closed nearly 4 hours early... Screw this place...

Terrible service, terrible consistency. I will never accept an order at this location again.

Follow up: I have tried to call this place 3 times this week to see if they are operating on different hours from those indicated here. I have NOT successfully managed to get anyone on the phone at this location. Not even...