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I had a terrible experience at Nifty Fifty's on 5/10/2025 & it was bad enough for me to write about it, which is saying something. My kid was taking me for a pre-Mother's Day kayak trip and after kayaking for a few hours, we decided to grab a bite from Nifty Fifty's. I'm a vegetarian. I also do not eat that "Impossible" or "Beyond" stuff because I think it tastes horrible. We opened the door to the place & a nice young lady informed us that we had to order at the outdoor window. She showed us where we could get menus and we took two and proceeded to decide what we wanted to get. After a few minutes of going over the menu, we picked the items we wanted & I tried to order my sub. I asked for a sub with sauteed onions, mushrooms & green peppers, lettuce, tomatoes, pickles and oil. I also asked for no meat on the sub. The nice young lady taking the order went to the person cooking & that person said NO! What? She came back awkwardly to the window and explained that they couldn't do that. We were incredulous! We asked if they could just bill us for the meat, but not put the meat on the sub. She went back and again the answer was no. I explained that I was a vegetarian and didn't eat meat, so I didn't want the meat to touch the sub roll. She said she "had" to put the meat on the sub and I could just take it off. The funny thing is that she was very nice while explaining what her boss/chef told her. I couldn't even be upset with her, even though what she was saying was utterly ridiculous. I thought that my explaining skills might be deficient, so I tried again to politely explain that I don't eat meat and I just wanted a sub with no meat. This was again met with "I understand, but we can't do that. You can just take the meat off.". After that, I didn't turn all Karen on them. Instead, my kid & I decided to go elsewhere and we walked across the street to Oregon Steaks where my no-meat sub order was met with kindness & a smile, quickly taken, efficiently processed & fantastically fulfilled! The Oregon Steaks sub was great and it was my first time there, but it won't be my last! When a company like Nifty Fifty's refuses service because of their "anti-vegetarian" feelings, don't get angry - vote with your dollars and spend your money elsewhere. There are tons of places, like Oregon Steaks, that will make you feel welcome and take your order. My kid likes Nifty Fifty's milkshakes and, after I ordered at Oregon Steaks, they went back to Nifty and got something. I don't begrudge that. However, I will never come back to this Nifty Fifty's again. I don't know why they refused to make me a vegetarian sub with no meat or what their issue was, but it doesn't matter to me. When a company doesn't provide good service, I just write honesty about it so I can warn my fellow purchasers. I'm a vegetarian and if you don't want to accommodate someone asking for no meat on a sub roll that already doesn't have meat on it, then there are tons of other businesses that will. If you're a vegetarian or have special dietary restrictions, steer clear of Nifty Fifty's on Oregon & Alder and go to Oregon Steaks, which is right across the street on the opposite corner of Oregon & Alder.
