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I eat out a lot. When I feel bad about eating unhealthy, I finally pull the trigger and order from Mandy’s. On the website I built my own salad for takeout. Nothing special: mixed greens, cucumber, tomato, feta, chickpeas, pita chips, chicken, marinated onions, Kalamata… $30. I’ve been programmed to accept expensive salads, but this is getting out of hand. Fine, I remove feta and pita chips — btw charging $2.75 for pita chips is criminal. You can get a whole bag for like $1.29 at Adonis. Whatever, I remove tomato and cucumber too because I have that at home. I’ll make my own chips. Now it’s $20. I get home. Salad looks decent, what you’d expect from Mandy’s. Portion is okay. I asked for dressing on the side; good thing, because it was terrible. What happened to the quality of this olive oil? It went from decent to bitter low grade. The bowl was a bit small so I transferred it to another one. Lo and behold, that’s when I saw disgusting lettuce. Old, slimy, soggy lettuce. Unacceptable. The whole point of paying $20 is that you expect fresh salad, not this slop. Sure, it was only around 10 leaves, but still unacceptable. I end up inspecting every leaf for slime and rewashing a few. That’s exactly what I pay extra to avoid. How is this okay? Huge staff, huge marketing budget, and you can’t guarantee fresh salad? This is the second time this happens, so I decided to write a review. Last time I told myself it was a one-off, but now I’m the sucker for going back. Don’t make the same mistake.