An update:
Breakfast:
Breakfast tacos are a decent deal as long as you only get 1 meat and 3 veggies. If you ask for more than that, they hit you for like a dollar per add on at the register, and you might as well get the burrito. If you are an employee, the "healthy" breakfast sandwich (turkey,egg,lowfat cheese,english muffin or wheat bread) is a decent option. If you're not an employee, it is drastically over-priced at something close to $4-5. I see a lot of people get ala carte items, eggs etc. The pre-made things are always much smaller portion versions of the fresh made items, and the buffet by weight is a mine field of priciness. Don't touch the heavy barite buttermilk biscuits $$$, or the bacon! It's a DOLLAR extra PER SLICE for bacon, on top of the charge by weight. I'd give breakfast 3-4 stars as long as you have figured out the mine field of things that make it not a good deal.
Lunch:
Lunch is ok cafeteria food at a relatively premium price for cafeteria food. I would stick to the fresh made options a la Chipotle style. I won't buy hamburgers here, because part of their healthy push training is to smash all the juice out of the burgers while cooking them, and they are always very well done. Those carvery and premade items are never cooked right, and I've seen them plop them under the warming lamp at 8am in the morning. I used to get the pork loin, but that has gotten so consistently horrible I would never wish it on anyone without their chainsaw. How you make a pork loin not at least sort of tender is a mystery to me. In the several I have cooked, I have never managed to slaughter one as badly as the last several I have consumed at NEBU. My friend orders the sushi a lot and said they diminished the amount of fish on it. I would give lunch 3 stars. It's ok.
Catering Buffet:
OMG, from about ~3/2017 I don't know what happened. I think they hired a vegan to be in charge of catering the lunch buffet.
It used to nearly always be:
Italian with sausage or chicken, red or white sauce, pasta, and bread
fajitas with steak or chicken, tortillas, beans, rice, and chips
or barbecue with sausage, pork loin and chicken with baked beans and corn.
Which got boring, but it was a solid lunch. Now literally every time I have been in months, the ONLY meat option among 4 other veggie dishes is always disappointing and as mentioned, everything else is a carb or veggie dish. I have heard of people being chastised for taking more than 1/2 of a butterflied breast too, so it seems they are really forcing you to eat almost no meat, and always low fat poultry. The last several options were:
plain grilled butterflied chicken breasts
bruschetta tomato coated otherwise plain dry butterflied grilled chicken breast
ground turkey taco meat for healthyish tacos
ground turkey nachos as the main course
chicken wings as main and only meat course
I really hope they get someone else in charge of this buffet or change whatever weird restrictions on planning it they put in place soon, because I will be getting food outside when attending lunch meetings until they change this. It is currently abysmally bad unless you are vegan and get all excited about veggies.
Overall, I feel like Guckenheim must operate with a lot of overhead. They always seem very obsessed with costs and they are also all VERY into the healthy bent. They are going to get you for every add on and make sure you don't walk out ahead. Your food has to be inspected on checkout, in case you snuck any golden bacon slices?? They are super strict about what they will consider a healthy item, down to minor condiments, and they do things in their food preparation to force you to eat healthier than you might have intended. It's kind of strange. It's sad so many of the alternatives nearby got pushed out by construction. Hopefully they will have more competition when all of the construction is done. read more