The Perfect Pita — Restaurant in Virginia

My friends and I have always loved The Perfect Pita and enjoy lifting up local businesses. Sadly, today will be the last day I purchase food from there. The fare is decent (not great) but I appreciate their wholesome approach to food service.

I stopped by the Springfield location to pick up a late lunch for a sick relative and her son. There were two young (college age) girls behind the counter. One of them was busy chatting with a patron, as she leaned over the counter. The other (Josselyn (sp?)) ushered me over to take my order and it was all down hill from there.

During the course of our interaction, Josselyn seemed irritated and rolled her eyes as I asked questions about the food and its preparation. She was shockingly rude and dismissive. She assured me that she understood and brushed me away, after, of course, I paid. The food came out in relative short order and as I was leaving I could hear the two girls laughing at me. So bizarre. The irony is that my order was wrong. What a tragic display of customer service or even more basic than that, simple kindness.

The DMV has so many awesome food options, this one is worth skipping. Basic customer service should be easy and obvious as a business...

Honestly, the food tastes really good here and the service is very quick. However, they really stiff you if you order anything with meat. Anytime I’ve ever gotten a pita with meat, the meat is almost nonexistent. For example, the chicken Gyro pita has more lettuce and tomato than chicken. The other day I just got a spinach melt with chicken and I promise you this Pita had like three tiny pieces of chicken in it and that was it. And to give a better description of the chicken, think about very, very thinly sliced Gyro chicken. There was only three tiny pieces of that in the pita . Now I have ordered the falafel pita in the past and they put a ton of falafel in the pita, but don’t expect to get a decent amount of meat in your pita. This place is good for a quick and convenient meal, but I truly feel ripped off anytime I come here. Believe it or not subway puts more meat on their sandwiches than this place And that should tell you something...

Perfect Pita Hummus is our supermarket humus go-to. We were delighted to stumble across what is apparently their factory store, which, when we visited (July, 2024) was somewhere between initial operating capability and full operational capability.

Atmosphere: very clean and tidy but not much of a "lived-in" feel.

You're not here for the atmosphere though.

You're here because the food is excellent . . . a worthy extension of the supermarket-humus reputation.

Like any newly-launched food establishment, they were still working out some kinks when we were there but WE...