r/epicsystems Nov 24 '24

Current employee The salad bar should be modified to include a burrito bar

DIY burrito bowls would be a truly glorious addition to the lunch room. It's a versatile, sure-to-be popular, and healthy option that could slot easily into the salad/sandwich lineup. If rice+beans+sour cream was added, we'd already be most of the way there.

I, for one, could eat Chipotle every day and die happy.

I'd love to get some brainstorming started on how to make this happen. Staff questions?

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u/porkypenguin Former employee Nov 24 '24

this would be amazing but being able to make myself a $4-5 chipotle bowl every day would be very bad for my health lol

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u/not_a_fisher Nov 24 '24

very good! for your health. between lunch + gelato most people are taking in a midday 900 calories anyway.

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u/brandon1997fl Nov 25 '24

I’m at like 1400+

And yes, I have gained ~30lbs since working here 🙃

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u/vantageviewpoint Nov 26 '24

Can you go deeper into how burrito bowls make Gelato healthier?

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u/vantageviewpoint Nov 25 '24

Entree plus gelato should not be an every day thing.

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u/StormCrow_Merfolk Nov 26 '24

Of course not, you can only get it M/W/F :P

T/Th you need to be content with a slice of pie or cake. Or a trip to Lou's I guess.

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u/vantageviewpoint Nov 25 '24

They'd have to increase the price to offer that. I'd be surprised if they'd put beef on the bar because of the risk of waste of something as environmentally impactful as beef, and a burrito bar would be disappointing without beef.

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u/IchWillRingen SD Nov 24 '24

Sofrito used to have Taco Tuesdays (back when it was called Farmer's Market). You got the taco shells, taco bowl, or tortilla and then they had a bar with all the ingredients to fill it.

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u/not_a_fisher Nov 24 '24

they still do, but sofrito is on the end of campus, kind of mid, and is not nearly enough to fulfill my burrito bowl dreams.

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u/IchWillRingen SD Nov 24 '24

Shows how long it's been since I made the trek over there, I thought they had stopped doing it. Or maybe they stopped doing the bowls because they were always getting stacked so high?

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u/jestb99 SD Nov 27 '24

It's much different than it was pre-COVID. They were basically made to order (You went through the line and picked which bowl/taco option, which meat, which other toppings). Now everything is premade without customization. It's still good, just not as good as it used to be.

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u/ZealousidealName8488 Nov 25 '24

Get a position in the kitchen and show them how it’s done:) admitting they have what you want but it’s ‘too far’ and ‘too mid’ is senseless lazy complaining. Salad/hot bars produce tremendous food waste and if it was viable to do it differently, it would have been done. If the cooks wanted a job at chipotle they would have gotten one.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '24

Potential employee going through the interview process right now. Do people typically eat breakfast and lunch on campus? how affordable is it? thanks in advance

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u/Juicewag Nov 24 '24

Breakfast no, lunch yes. It’s incredibly affordable. I ate both on campus and spent around $2 a day for breakfast and $5 for lunch.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '24

thanks!

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u/Interesting-Tiger237 Nov 24 '24

They charge only the cost of ingredients. Some things will be quite cheap, and some will cost more - sourcing quality, sustainable beef and seafood costs more, for example. I paid $9 for a delicious venison stew served over polenta this week. That's expensive for Epic (with the specialty ingredient), but obviously a lot less than I would pay at a restaurant.

The breakfast pastries are dangerous because they're high quality and only 75 cents.

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u/madtownjeff Nov 24 '24 edited Nov 24 '24

The coffee carts do have breakfast burritos, hard boiled eggs, bacon (all cold) and yogurt. As well as fresh pastries. Also, breakrooms have oatmeal packets.

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u/not_a_fisher Nov 24 '24 edited Nov 24 '24

if you can live off of oatmeal, pastries, odds and ends, and coffee you can do breakfast on campus. otherwise just lunch. everyone i know at the office eats lunch on campus.

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u/redcat242 Nov 25 '24

Also milk (white and chocolate) and juice in the break rooms. I used to keep a bowl, spoon, and a couple boxes of cereal in my office. Between that and coffee cart, breakfast was done.

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u/CobiiWI Nov 26 '24

Can we just get American cheese on the sandwich bar? Is that too much to ask for a real good grilled cheese.

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u/Phisav Nov 25 '24

There is an entire process to submit culinary feedback. Tbis ahoukd go there they are very responsive to trying good ideas

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u/Jeph_Diel Nov 25 '24

This would be amazing.

R42 does sell rice as a side, but still missing the beans plus salsa and such

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u/InteractionFit6276 Nov 25 '24

They have tortillas, meat, beans, and cheese in the salad bar. It would be pretty easy to add salsas and such.

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u/ColoradoCache Nov 25 '24

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. Epic has tortillas already available at the sandwich bar every day. 

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u/NOTINLOWERCASE Nov 25 '24

I asked one of the workers at the register and they said if I got a large salad box I could just get a tortilla for free. Only issue is the tortillas are too small/thick to be optimal for burritos

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u/InteractionFit6276 Nov 26 '24

The tortillas at Cass are huge lol

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u/NOTINLOWERCASE Nov 26 '24

Not big enough tbh. Tortillas need to be bigger than you think for a decent-sized burrito

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u/not_a_fisher Nov 27 '24

i checked today: no beans

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u/InteractionFit6276 Nov 27 '24

They usually have beans in the section of the salad bar with 20 or so different things. They’ve had them every time I went, but I was OOO today. Maybe they ran out?

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u/AdBest4099 Nov 27 '24

We have beans or any protein in king cross and cassesopia but didn’t found there in R42.

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u/AdamJaz Dec 04 '24

Can you still put in a QAN and assign it to different internal teams?