The Chopped Leaf

I went to The Chopped Leaf restaurant located in New Westminster 6^th St., with my niece today, Feb. 8, 2016 at 12:00 noon. By the way it isn’t a restaurant. You order your meal at the counter, pay your bills and you choose your seat. You wait for them to call you if they are busy or they take your order to your table. A man, the manager does nothing. He is at the counter checking things but not helping.
Pros:
convenient: as this place is located in New Westminster Mall and neighbors to London Drugs and Bi Low Grocery store.
Not crowded; About one or two tables are mostly occupied at any given time.
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Cons:
1. being that salads is mostly what they serve, the place is pricey. They as you if you want protein to be included with your veggies. Careful: protein means chicken, or shrimp and a rip off price.
2. the washroom is situated at the back of the restaurant by the mall hall and anyone can come in and not necessarily be a patron of the restaurant. They just use the washroom
3. the water they serve: BEWARE: there are plastic chips in the water along with the ice in the cup of water they serve. This is very unsafe and very dirty, as you have no idea where the plastic chips came from or how it got into the salad.
4. the bowls they use make no sense, like a sinking ship. Portions aren’t filled well as the excuse they have is because the bowl is shaped with one side higher than the other.
5. the spoons are not washed well
OVER ALL,
when I complained about the white plastic chip in my water cup along with the ice, the manager just said, «sorry. do you want me to get another water?» to which I answered, «never mind…» He continued using his cell phone after that. That’s all he did.
Will I go back? No. the price, the safety and sanitation are enough for me to tell people no one should go to this place…

Basically they took the old Taco del Mar… Oh god, thank you! I decided to give it a try since I’m gluten free and pescatarian.
The interior is very hip and clean with lime green accents.
The menu is obviously something new since I never came here before so I had to graze for a moment to see what was right for me.
Ended up getting their «design your own salad» option which for a starter is a good 6oz of yummy greens!
You basically choose your salad base, proteins are an additional charge, then it goes; cheese, 3 chippings and the final dressing all for $ 5.75 (starter 6oz size) if you didn’t add any ‘extras’.
I honestly thought it was going to be tiny but I got to say, that was a real good amount and only go bigger if you’re sharing amongst another breathing being. Haha.
Will come back to mix things up with my order.
Only downfall is, it was a bit slow to get my order and can hear them bicker «hurry up» to each other and when I was ready to order, I’m guessing it was the supervisor who called one of the employees that I’m reading and she responded with a blunt, stern «What!».
Just be a bit more respectful, It’ll get you places. Just my 2 cents.