Freshii

Sign on the door says they are closing early at 2pm due to the Thanksgiving Holiday. I walked up at 1:50. I pointed out the discrepancy between the sign on the door, and the current time. I was refused service.

First time trying it. Needed hot soup to clear out the respiratory system. So confusing, staff not helpful. Veggie soup with added tofu totally tasteless and lukewarm. I have salt/​pepper/​soy sauce added at my desk and it helped. I think I’ll stick with Tokyo Lunchbox.

Yummy! I’ve only been here once and had the teriyaki bowl. It was really delicious! I will definitely return to try the different soups and chilis.

Rating: –100. I found a huge moth at the bottom of my salad today. Needless to say, I’m never going back.

Love all the healthy options. Service was quick and efficient. Lots of things to choose from so it was awesome very clean and lean. Customization is also a major plus.

The food was pretty good, but the service was unfriendly and painfully slow. I’ll give them credit, it was a Monday morning and I’m not usually the most jolly but the window adds seem to emphasize that they’re a breakfast place with smoothies, wraps, yogurt parfaits, etc. Color me surprised when I walk up to the register and the crew member just stares at me.
We ordered a few breakfast sandwiches. The southwest-​type burrito and apinach, mushroom, tomato, and goat cheese egg wrap. I was quickly run up without so much of a pleasant end remark or any sign of appreciation for coming in. We waited for about 10 minutes for our food and popped a squat to eat.
The food was in fact, pretty great. My egg wrap was warm and it had a nice even balance of ingredients on the inside. I was excited about the goat cheese as it complimented every single one of my taste buds. My man had the burrito and he said it was pretty good, except that the pico it was dressed with was a bit watery and made the whole burrito a little soggy. I could see myself going to this restaurant again but I will avoid this location as much as possible!

3 stars for the life support smoothie. ITS SUPER GOOD! However everytime a different person makes it, it tastes a little different. Lol but always good all the different ways. I’ve ordered a few food items and the wait is usually long and the food is alright. I’ll stick to the smoothies. Service is good! They are very nice to me!

If I could give negative stars — this would get a –5 stars. Our office orders from here through seamless because they are one of the only places that will deliver food by 11AM (we start early so get delivered food early). Today was my last straw with this place.
I normally order a Lifesupport drink, hard boiled eggs, and a Monterey chicken pocket. When the Lifesupport drink comes, it is HOT. Not room temp. Not cold. Legitimately hot. As if the drink was made, then for fun thrown into a microwave (I’ve also asked multiple times to add extra ice to the drink to make it colder — obviously this was never taken into consideration). The eggs ALWAYS taste old, as if they were boiled 4 days ago and then given to you today. Today however was the icing on the cake — the eggs not only WERE multiple days old, but they were rotten and moldy. I opened the tin off the cup and the smell was so horrible I haven’t been able to eat all day. Want something healthy? Go to protein bar. You’ll pay 5 bucks more and get ACTUAL non-​rotten non-​moldy decently made food. Freshii = Oldii
Feel free to peep the pic of the eggs — unedited, untouched by lighting or anything. You can see the film formed around the cup from the rotten egg, and the yellow/​green coloring of it (and this isn’t coming from the reflection of the green cup, the egg is legit green, I would pick it up to show but its putrid smelling and I don’t feel like getting more sick than I am)

Good lunch place. I go here when I need something healthy and fast. I’m all about eating my vegetables, but Freshii just tastes TOO healthy. You can customize your order and add chicken, avocados, etc. Sriracha sauce helps the taste too. The smoothies are delicious but on the pricy side.

Wow literally 4^th time in a row that they forget to add something or my order is wrong. How does this always happen? Oh maybe because they are busy talking and socializing in the back to actually pay attention to the paper? For $ 14.00 I am let down. The food is not all that great. Wont make the mistake of going back a 5^th time. Listen to all the reviews. They 1 – 2 stars are all spot on.

I think Freshii has really nice tasty, healthy options. But they’ve continually gotten my order wrong, which is frustrating when I’m taking it up to my office to eat and can’t ask them to remake it. I order the bliss bowl when I go there for lunch, which is supposed to have goat cheese in it. The last two times I’ve ordered it, there was no goat cheese. So today, I specifically checked off the goat cheese box on the order form. I also decided to get tofu added in for $ 2. Result: More than enough goat cheese, but no tofu! By the time I realized, I was already back at my desk and didn’t have time to go back. Like I said, frustrating, especially since Freshii can get pretty pricey with extra add-​ins.

Another work lunch. Never even heard of this place before but it’s nice to have some healthy options in the area. Had the lemongrass and quinoa chicken burrito. Was it amazing? Not quite, but with a little help from my red cock buddy sirracha, it went down real nice like. Would like to try a few other options before I gave a final grade, but for now I pleased. Staff was great too.

For a semi-​quick healthy bite in the loop, Freshii is a great way to go. It can be a bit pricey depending on what you’re in the mood for but the staff is quick, especially during those crazy busy lunch rushes. Alex at the 111 W. Jackson location is so friendly and always takes a few minutes to chat with me when I stop in. He’s the best! It’s definitely worth stopping by and trying to switch up your usual lunch routine. They also have great breakfast options — my favorite is the bacon, egg and cheese pocket!

There’s really not much to say about Freshii.
Pros:
— You can customize your own salad/​wrap with the clipboard.
— Lots of other snack choices to purchase near the cashier (al la Starbucks) such as chips, protein bars, candy…
— Pretty quick
Cons:
— Veggies are pretty fresh, but I don’t know how I got like 2 – 3 soybean sprouts in my salad when I didn’t order it. I also had a few leaves in my spring mix that weren’t exactly wilted, but they looked like they had been eaten by a bug before me (which really means its pesticide-free…but still not appealing to see/​eat).
— Bit on the expensive side.
I’d probably come back to try the burritos and other items before I customize my own salad again.

This location in the heart of the financial district is busy especially at lunchtime. The staff is friendly and tries very hard to be on top of their game; they rush the orders pretty well.
Some of my favorite picks: Baja burrito, powerhouse wrap, gluten free bar, mark bar, and RealBeanz iced cappuccino.
I like the idea of customized orders, however I have had the occasional experience where someone forgot an ingredient in my order. Recently it happened to me that they forgot avocado in my customized order for the powerhouse wrap, I brought it to their attention and the manager, Josh was very friendly and offered to make me a new wrap :)

Freshii in the beginning was great but over the years they have downsized their portions and change their menu. The worst change is meat is not added to many of the items, you have to add it. This raises the price. Before a good portion of the items came with meat now you need to add it separately. On the subject of meat when you do get it, the chunks of chicken let’s say, are smaller. Perhaps this is good and we are too use to eating larger proportions. I rather have larger chunks of meats others may not.
The best part of Freshii, this is where their true strength lies, is the customization. In fact you could create your own and put whatever you want in it from their lists. This customization allows a person to easily keep track of what they are eating. I say if you are looking for a way to eat healthier and keep track of what you eat then Freshii is the place for you. Otherwise I do not think it is worth it at least not on a daily basis.

Eugh, this place is gross. I ordered one of their popular salads, something with salmon that looked good on the menu. The salmon looked like it had just come out of the freezer, with deliberate grill marks yet looking like a frozen piece of lard. The spinach salad was full sized spinach, not baby spinach, so eating the salad was messy.
The avocado was mushy and not at all fresh, like it had been marinated in citrus for hours to keep its color. Seriously, cutting an avocado fresh is not that hard. AND, it cost $ 1.25 for ¼ of an avocado that tasted like it had been canned.
Finally, the worst part was the dill cucumber sauce, which ended up being just tzaiziki sauce, with no dill to complement the salmon. Basically, a waste of the $ 12 I paid, which was kind of steep for a salad to go. I couldn’t even finish the salad, it was so ridiculously bland. If you’re looking for a quick lunch, check out one of the other restaurants in the area. Definitely will not be back.

Boring and bland. Not glad I stopped in and the fact that the McDonald’s nearby was far busier should have tipped me off.
Oh well, you do crazy things when you’re hungry.

I decided to change up the post-​run fuel. I ordered the spinach and goat cheese wrap, it was about $ 3.50. I thought ‘man that’s cheap, compared to my Protein Bar burrito. It was ready in record time but it was only 10am during the week and most of the breakfast rush was already at work. I picked up my sack and opened it up and thought, ‘man that’s tiny!’.
It’s was a nice small breakfast option for hot breakfast food lovers like me… but it’s more of a snack or light breakfast option rather than active adult fuel. I convinced myself I was satiated for 2 hours, which for me was okay because by then it was lunchtime anyway.

Pretty much Protein Bar only with way more options for customization.
Bowls, burritos, wraps, or pastas with brown rice, quinoa, chickpeas, beets, edamame, roasted red peppers, and pretty much any other topping you can think of.
I don’t think it’s quite as good as Protein Bar, but if you’re a complete control freak about what’s on what you’re eating then you’ll love Freshii.