Atlas H.
Yelp
Well, bummer. Bummer in the summer. It's summer. Went in June and it was great really great. Went a few days ago and gosh was it bad, I mean really really bad .Coming from California. This used to be a go to when you wanted to be sickened by some cheap Chinese food. But by golly was it good.
I don't know what this location's problem is or who the manager is or what's going on and why they don't seem to care, but that is the case. We are in the lake club so driving there is about 15 minutes and then 15 back. Not worth the gamble as our compadres here in the neighborhood would agree to. Well, to be clear a lot of the people I have talked to since then had yet to have visited, though there was an interest. But guess what? They're likely never to go. And that's the problem when you really mess up and don't care. I got home and I tried several times to call the phone number that is listed to the business. Couldn't get anyone to pick up. That's never a good sign for a restaurant. I mean that's a really bad sign. At least five probably six employees but no one's able to pick up the phone. And it was empty because they were accepting cash only. So unless you feel like bringing cash or going and buying something at the grocery store just to buy this stuff, you can skip it. Not picking up a phone is a big red flag for a place like this as it shows that they don't care about taking any input or dealing with any customers who may have an issue since usually people don't call for good things. ' You know? That was great. That frozen to wok orange chicken was just so great. OK keep up the good work.' It would be nice if we did that. In any case I digress, I tried to contact the store to no avail and contacted customer service and they seem to not care whatsoever as well. You have one job, comes to mind. Serve your tried and true offerings and fix it if you make a mistake. That's it basically. Then I read on here that the store left a used Band-Aid on a box of food, yummy. and the store didn't do anything more than offer to replace their rice the following time they went in. Great. $.25 of a box of rice is def. going to fix the life long trauma:), ok maybe not that bad, I have from eating at a place that left a Band-Aid on my food box. To be honest just reading that person's review makes me never want to eat at another panda express again. It's too bad. Even the worst panda express in California is pretty decent. It is really easy to alienate an entire area and dissuade them from coming to your restaurant by doing stuff like this. I'm just not going and I'm also telling people I know around here about my experience and... about the Band-Aid experience. They were lucky that someone cared enough to contact them and let them know of a problem. Having been in the executive level of this type of company I can tell you that we generally feel very happy if someone alerts us to an issue so that we can fix it. Not so much with Panda Express and definitely not with this location. In fact, no action and no return communication demonstrates that not only are they not going to care about their mistakes, quality and consistency of their product and service, they are not going to care about trying to fix them and remaining open in a competitive and dire market given, the current circumstances. I give this place maybe one year before they are gone. Either that or I give this manager maybe six months before they are gone. Panda, you know who I am, don't bother calling me what is done is done.