Who among you partakes in this fad for the occasional lunch? There's an article in the NYT about it today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/17/dinin ... ted=2&_r=0

I'm proud to say I was doing this before it came super cool and trendy. My go to at Chop't is romaine with carrots, cucumber, tomato, red/green pepper, egg whites and balsamic vinaigrette.

Yes, I know you all wanted to know what kind of salad I get. Don't deny it!

I don't eat salad. I'm not a rabbit.

I like sweetgreen better than Chop't. Chop't offers vats of lettuce...with a dusting of 'other' stuff. My go-to is the shrimp one (Palm beach? Names have probably changed) with double lemon juice instead of dressing

When you're in LA, you should check out Tender Greens.

idk what Chop't is but chopped salads arent a trend ive been eating them since I got off the baby bottle

Is it? What about convenience? At my bill rate, if it costs more than a minute or two of time to make an $8 salad, I'm depleting value. Ok, I don't take in my bill rate though... That said, spending $10 for lunch a day or spending $30 on groceries for lunch a week...it's not the thing to be most budget conscious about. I think the weight consequences of eating out every day are more significant

I once read that in the ones you buy finished there is a huge amount of sugar (in the sauce etc).

So if you make a salad do it by yourself.

Subways used to do a great salad, where you could get any meat and all veggies on it for $5.00. I used to go for the expensive stuff including roast beef and spinach, to make it a chef salad. Which was really good stuff. Now they do a chopped salad, which I haven't tried yet.

Not if you eat salads because you enjoy eating salads.

???

I gladly eat salads. Many of the low-cal, low fat dressings are delicious.

When you buy one of those finished salads.....death smiles in your face. MARK MY WORDS.

btw : chopped salad is quite a silly name. When you buy beef you also say chopped cow?

A lot of the time it just ends with me eating croutons straight out of the bag.

Chopped salad doesn't just mean salad. It's a different way of preparing a salad where all the ingredients are chopped very finely so that it's more of a grounded up consistency and you get a little bit of everything in each bite.

Like this:

Yes it is. And I understand the taste aspect but do you find it as filling as when eating a salad with bigger pieces? As, I can eat a chopped salad faster since there is less chewing required.

I actually buy bags of croutons for this very purpose.

Seriously.

I would much rather eat pizza. Or almost anything else.

If my gf gets a salad, I will eat the cheese/croutons/bacon on top.

Because you ordered a salad, not all this delicious extra stuff!

*slowly bangs head against wall in despair*

Torri makes $240 an hour.

I hope Mau notices how money oriented he is, if you catch my drift.

Hey, I'm not saying it.

Dude, what's not to like about a salad? They have fresh veggies and a lot of flavor.

lol.



I see no threads about how this is deeply insulting to Ross or anything.

Lol, I am a pretty bad Jew when it comes to money. All my friends owe me money...so much in rounds, taxis, etc that I don't keep track of it. I should. Could probably save $2k more a year by being less generous.

I'm above $240. Bill rates in the service industry have somewhat stabilized, though -- $240 is actually a high 'starting' rate at many firms... I think $800 is 'tops' at most places, $600 about typical for a principal-level employee, with a few $1000 guys out there. But idk.