AVOID LIKE THE PLAGUE.
While on a road trip, we hit Dothan right about dinner time and needed a place to eat. Regrettably I'm the only carnivore in a family of vegetarians, so that generally doesn't get me a leg up when it comes to deciding on dining locations, and nothing distracts vegetarians more easily that "tofu" being included on the menu.
I pulled up my handy-dandy Yelp app and looked around and as soon as the wife saw "Moe's" that was pretty much the end, although I really would have liked to try a local joint. But then something concerned me. A chain place that is generally consistent, albeit bland, with a two-and-a-half star rating, but again, I was overruled because TOFU. WARNING - DANGER WILL ROBINSON.
It was a little concerning when we arrived and the parking lot was relatively empty in what was generally a vast sea of packed outdoor shopping. When we entered at 6PM, we were greeted with a zombie-sad "welcome to moe's (please kill us)" and gazed upon a chip-strewn nightmare. It looked as if someone had taken several trash bags of chips and scattered them around the booths. And since it was 6PM and empty, you couldn't say that it was because of a dinner rush.
When we got up to the counter and ordered, it took a while and it seemed nobody on the team was working together and that we were kind of a pain in the ass for them. When I got to the sour cream, there was a large wad of chicken floating on top, and the guy prepping the burrito asked me if that had fallen off the burrito that he was preparing for us, and I said "No, it's been there since we came in" and another team member said it had been like that for a while. Really hope my wife didn't see that. He strained out the chicken with a spoon and left the other guy to complete my burrto.
The sad sacks behind the counter completed our order and we went to go sit down and ingest the piles o' food. The salsa table had one offering that looked like it hadn't been tended to since the previous day and had dried to resemble a red crater. I then remembered one of the guys asking how old the chips were, and I wish that I had put two and two together, because when I bit into one of the 8 chips that had landed on my tray, it had the consistency and flavor of dried paint chips. And then I bit into the burrito. Apparently, they had used the last of the rice on us, because I almost broke a filling biting into it. The whole damn thing was loaded with crunchy dregs rice. Turns out that wife's burrito bowl was lousy with the crap too. And while I tried to not gloat as she half-assedly attempted to down the bowl of tragedy, it was kind of nice to realize that Yelp was right again. And believe me, there were no winners at the table.
So anywho, we pretty much just left the plates of Tex-Mexcrement behind us and walked out without finishing and learned a $30 lesson. Go local, and avoid this crap. read more