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The food quality is trash. You get salads that are palatable because they're dowsed in dressing and stacked with croutons. By grilled meats I'm assuming you mean the ocean water brined grilled chicken that somehow manages to be as cardiac arrest worthy as a fried chicken sandwich while maintaining the texture of a hockey puck? These places suck. It's because the people who make the food don't care about making food and the owners only care about margins.

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I'm not talking about Wendy's salads. I'm talking about casual-to-upscale places that feature salad like Just Salad, La Madeleine, Pret A Manger, Sweet Tomato (Souplantation), Chopt, Salad Works, Souper Salad, etc. And that's not even getting into the fast-casual sandwich places like McAlister's Deli.

If all that's not fresh and healthy enough, it's not hard to pick up an (unsauced) grilled chicken breast at a BBQ place and some fresh veggies at the grocery store.

I mean, maybe you have especially refined taste, but all those places aren't unpalatable to the median person.

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