In the Vons shopping center, is Panda Express. Very clean and nice size restaurant. First, I know it's fast food, but the quality has really gone down hill. The Chow Mein was almost completely without moisture and slightly hard. The Orange Chicken was sauced, but like over cooked on. More breading than meat. Tasted a little old. *With fast food like this, now I know why I never eat it anymore!* read more

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We were hesitant in getting food to go after reading the reviews. The reviews were correct and the food is not that good. The Orange Chicken was actually crunchy and lacked in flavor. The kung Pao Chicken was Kung Pao Squash with only 3 tiny minuscule pieces of chicken to be found and the Biejing Beef was tough and lacking in flavor. The inside of the restaurant was nice but the product was not. Staff were not that pleasant and service lacked. This is a 2 star restaurant. We will not return. read more

Panda Express - The starting line. - Chinese Near Me - Atascadero, California

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Came in twice this week because it's convenient to get dinner but at this point it's becoming more of a hassle dealing with the rude staff and long waits. Seem to notice even the "black shirt" employees are also rude to employees and customers. Please be warned if you plan on going set aside an hour for picking up dinner read more

We went at around 12:30 on Sunday afternoon. I guess we were after the rush so some of the foods were low so we waited for them to be available (5-10 minutes). It's always tasty for emergency Chinese food. It was clean and employees are all friendly. It gets 4 stars because it's fast food and not a classic sit down restaurant. read more

Panda consistency. Check. Panda ambiance. Check. Panda quality. Not exactly, but good enough for standard Chinese take-out. Everything I expected of Panda. Check. read more

Went to Panda Express on Friday, June 5th 2026. It was mid afternoon and there were a lot of people.Waiting to place their orders. However, when you open the door there were visible roaches on the floor in the corner of the building.Very disgusting. A female will stand in line along with her daughter and also notice the roaches on the floor and exited the establishment.Immediately. needless to say, I didn't stay there either, the San Luis County Health Department needs to look into this matter, and if not, then they're performing substandard work, performance. read more

Seniors beware this location no longer offers a senior's discount. Yesterday afternoon a woman manager informed me of this although they always gave me the discount before. This woman seemed to create a hostile work environment with a lot of tension among the other employees. read more

Very bad customer service they didn't give me my egg rolls and they go many times that they do the same, they are very distracted and they don't believe me that they didn't give me my food well I'm not a liar read more

Busy place, but always good service and good quality. They were timely with the online order and pick ups

Horrible service missed half my order had to come back in and they just said ok. No im sorry or anything just mean looks on their face. I waited 20 min to get my food that they missed. Manager needs to look into these workers read more

Best orange chicken. Clean restaurant & friendly servers. All the food is fresh and replenished often. Nice place for family meal. Lots of ez n free parking. We'll def be back. read more

Nathan is the manager who was so very helpful and professional. He was excellent and very helpful in our problem that we had with our order. Not his fault or the employees, but needed help. The store order was 915090. The food is always good. read more

Very bad experience... came in at 10 30am with my three girls. At first the male behind the counter greeted us with a smile and came to help. The girl walked up yo him and whispered something to him then he started serving out kids meals with chow mein. Passed the plates to her and she brought everything back and took chow mein out of each plate. At this point the male cashier stepped back and let her finish. This whole time she didn't even look at me or smile once. Were used to going to slo or paso and the portions here are way smaller than that. I didnt say anything and when it was time to pay I asked for extra extra chilli sauce. I do this wherever I go with no problem. I offered to pay like I always do cause I dony mind paying at all. She refused to give me more so I just took my food. I will not be coming back to this panda in atascadero. The male behind the counter was nice and tried to help but it looks like she is a manager. read more

Service is horrendous ordered off DoorDash didn't even get my plate called to talk to one of the employees. Emily was not accommodating at all. All she told me was to contact DoorDash when it was as simple as telling me, it's fine for me to come pick up my plate that they forgot to put in the bag because it was panda express fault not DoorDash so doesn't make sense why I need to contact DoorDash but weird flex okayyy lol read more

My son and I go to this panda express everyday after school. Food is excellent with great service. Highly recommend.

Food is ok. Passable. Service much to be desired. VERY POORLY RUN. a good Chinese restaurant in town would put these folks out of business. No question.. They s*ck that bad. Numerous experiences. And we've been to well run ones. Too bad read more

I don't even know if I have had a perfect order yet...I asked for chopsticks and they were left off the order. I'm still hoping one day for that golden order. Still love the taste of the food. read more

Panda Express - String bean? I think not. - Chinese Near Me - Atascadero, California

Ordered a la carte large chow mein and got this s**t that looks like leftover dog food! How dare you serve this crap to your customer?! No wonder why the rating of this location is so low! Will never order from here again read more

Panda Express - Chinese Near Me - Atascadero, California

We were in the mood for Chinese food, and since we received a BOGO offer in the mail we decided to head to Panda Express. As food is now only available for take-away, we did not use their dining room facility, but the interior looks very clean and inviting. Approaching the restaurant, we saw there was a line of people as they were adhering to social distancing of 6 feet between each party. The line moved relatively quickly as we made our way to the ordering station, which had a container of hand sanitizer available prior to ordering. All employees were wearing face coverings, and were very friendly. We selected their bowls of Honey Walnut Shrimp with white rice, and Kung Pao Chicken with fried rice. The Honey Walnut Shrimp was good tasting with a honey sauce coating and good-size firm tempura-battered shrimp. There were only a few glazed walnuts, which was disappointing. Our selection of Kung Pao Chicken is a Szechwan-inspired dish with chicken, peanuts and vegetables, finished with chili peppers. It was a very spicy dish with a good amount of zucchini and tomatoes, as well as a generous supply of chicken. The fried rice was fresh, plump & filled with peas, carrots, green onions & egg. We finished off with fortune cookies as our guilt-free "dessert". Their offerings of cuisine were what one would expect to receive from an American Chinese fast-food chain restaurant. Overall experience: not bad, just ok, but would recommend for a quick meal. read more

Panda Express - Kung Pao Chicken bowl. - Chinese Near Me - Atascadero, California

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Food, temperature, including sauce packets . The fortune cookies were good and plentiful

Typical Panda Express food. Has the flavor but not authentic Chinese food. It was 4:15 pm Thursday and only a couple ahead of me 1 came in beside me. The place looked clean. Looking over the steam tables I wanted something to hold me over before making dinner after shopping at Vons. The appetizers on most pans were being made, though empty so that was out. Didn't want an entree and again some pans out or low. Server called out to cooks what was needed and another came and replaced with fresh. Leftovers were put on top of fresh. No waste, good, though hope the person who ordered these received half and half or rather a quarter and 3 quarters . I ordered the medium Chow Mein. My booth was not clean though I am not too anal. Couple of rice on table and bench. A quick wipe, all good. The line was starting as it was getting close to 5 pm. Finished, cleared my table. Noticed in the beginning the first trash container was full. The exit trash container full also. Having been in the Restaurant business for over 30 years I notice the tiniest details. Not one employee came out in the 35 minutes I was there to oversee the overall presentation. Love to have been a Food Critic but I have to many dislikes. My reviews have been mostly fast food as my budget is low presently as I developed Sciatica that won't go away. Looking forward to UPPING MY GAME SOON!!! Bon Appetit read more

Panda Express - Medium Chow Mein - Chinese Near Me - Atascadero, California

The management team, Evelyn to be specific was such a delightful person to be around and the customer service from the staff was as second to none as far as pandas are concerned. The staff alone is a perfect reason to go back. read more

Door Dashed. Wasn't expecting gourmet. It was all OK. Chow mein was only soggy noodles with really no celery or cabbage. Black pepper chicken was good but tiny portion. Honey walnut shrimp was good as was the orange chicken. Food was still hot which was a plus. Bummed about the chow mein as I'd had given a solid 4. For an easy take out it was satisfactory. read more

Why does Atascadero always have the worst version of a chain restaurant? This panda is notorious for their subpar food. Which is generally room temperature, mushy, and has small servings. It never fails to disappoint. read more

Way too long of a wait and no one is in here. They are out of everything except orange chicken, and the manager is eating panda at a table. Employees are on their own. Trying!!! read more

Ordered using the app. Ordered three meals, one was correct, second was missing one of the two ontray, three was left out of the pickup bag. Took a total of three trips back to the store to get it corrected. Poor attention to order details, but the employees were very nice. The food however was medium at best. read more

This Panda Express has a 100% rate of bad. Grant it this is the second time ordering here.I was missing 1 of the plates. The driver waited almost an hour for the order and im missing something again. Order time was 4:41pm Pickup time was 4:54pm Received my missing order 5:55pm. I tried to order from the Paso Robles Panda but the online would not allow for delivery so I had to settle for the Atascadero Panda again which I've issues every time i order from there. I used the Online Contact Us option and let it be known. Gave it a week still no response. The plate was $12.00 which I am out. I don't want Panda Coupons due to the end of Panda Express for me. Everyone I talk to about the Atascadero store has the same bad experience to mention. Would like my $12.00 back read more

Panda Express - Kung pow shortage - Chinese Near Me - Atascadero, California

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The Paso location is so much better! Stopped in for lunch todau and the chow mein was trash. No flavor and dry.

The food was gross. The customer service wasn't all that great. There was a huge line, it was overpriced and the food was ok at best. Not happy with me coming in today! read more

The open hours seem more like "guidelines" than business practices. I often try to go on Sunday evenings (they close at 8:00) but experience shows that if you arrive much past 7:30 there's no food available. Many times I've left empty-handed. Arrived this week at 7:06. Closed up tight, no signs, no lights, no employees. They could have been closed for an hour or all day. Just pass on this. Even if it's open are you really that much better off? read more

Can confirm this is indeed the worst Panda in SLO County (the ones in SLO aren't great, either, so that's saying something). Should have read the reviews before going in, lesson learned. It was 12:30pm and there was not a single fresh item to be had, the employees all looked as miserable as the food did. If I wasn't so hungry, I would have (and should have) turned around and walked out. DON'T DO IT! read more

This place is understaffed, food is cold Close your doors. You tried and you failed. read more

This evening on Wednesday, (1/11/11) I went to the Atascadero Panda Express. The food service was so bad I would have given the evening management team a zero, but I can only rate them a 1. I had ordered my family meal on line and was suppose to be able to pick it up by 7:20am. When I arrived the crew serving and the manager totally ignored me. I had to approach them which I did (3) different times. They acted like I was invisible. The cook finally helped me even though he was swamped and very busy in the back. Adam the cook was the only crew member working. The rest of the other (5) member crew looked like they could careless about getting my order to me and did not appear to be working either. Finally, after 20 plus minutes I got my order. The cook Adam deserves a (5) star and the food was good. The rest of the crew unfortunately deserves this horrible review. The District Manager of this Panda Express needs to make some serious changes on this Wednesday evening crew that worked tonight. This particular crew lacks proper customer service and really needs an over haul. Until, the upper management makes some very necessary changes here. I probably won't be back anytime soon. I do hope that the crew gets their act together here as the food is prepared fresh and did taste good. read more

Ordering online is a joke. I have ordered online three times now and the first two times it has been 20+ minutes after my expected pick up time. This time it is 45 minutes after. Watching the employee who is in charge of filling online orders consistently wandering about, getting off task, and having online order receipts pile up. If they could be better organized, their rating would definitely go up, because their food has consistently tasted good. read more

5 people working, only one person helping customers on a Saturday night. 8 people in line now. First rule of business- wait on customers, get them taken care of and get paid. Cleaning the back room can wait. Manager needs training. read more

Great staff always friendly and helpful I see so many customers come and are rude to the staff Great job keep up the good work Faithful Alison Customer read more

I used to really dislike this location. The employees were rude and slow. Ever since the new manager took over, Carmen she has really turned that place around. I now receive great customer service, they are fast for lunchtime and it's always nice and clean. Thank you Carmen!! read more

They literally told me they would not cook food selections that were empty because they were "too busy." They had about 3 customers in the store, and 3 employees on a Saturday during lunch. Sizzling shrimp is supposed to be their showcased item right now, but they had none and wouldn't make any. They also had no spring rolls. They told me to pick from what was out and that was the only options. Since she had already dished up chow mein I felt like I had to order anyway - but I honestly should have walked out. read more

Today I went in at 3:30 pm, I left at 3:50 with no food. The wait was so long, and for no apparent reason. The manager Alfredo was just chillin back there nonchalant, no sense of urgency for the 3 people waiting on orders to be filled or the 6 people waiting in the line. When I finally did get close enough to paying, the cashier decided I could wait some more and went to fulfill more orders, so I left. No one was acknowledged or greeted, we all just stood there watching one girl work really hard and her manager just hang out. They were out of one thing everyone asked for, I heard it. One lady wanted spring rolls, they're out. One lady wanted teriyaki sauce, they're out. For a new location they're really not setting a great first impression in this town. read more

Placed an online order of two bowls and one plate at 1:13. Was supposed to be ready at 1:25. Didn't get my food untill 2:10. They were out of chow mein. Gave us impossible orange chicken instead of chicken and green beans in one bowl. They gave me wontons and a free drink for the wait which was nice but good God, these employees need better support. What a nightmare. read more