Anal? Or Detail-Oriented? You Decide....

--excerpt from an email--

I'm writing to comment on the Chicken Wonton Salad with the Honey Mustard dressing. It's one of my faves here at the cafeteria, but I'd like to offer two improvements:

First, wontons are really pasta-like dumplings for soup - actually the precursors to ravioli - and what is included in the salad seems to be thinly cut strips of flour tortillas then fried. That's fine, but if the salad continues using tortillas instead of wontons then perhaps it should be renamed. Call it the chicken tortilla salad or the chicken fiesta salad, but don't deceive consumers by calling it a chicken wonton salad. Even the deep-fried American variety of wontons still reflect their Chinese heritage and are typically wrapped around a bite of meat or other filler prior to frying. Thin fried strips of crunchy stuff does not a wonton make.

Another suggestion would be to use dark greens in the salad portion of the meal - baby spinach, red leaf lettuce, etc. This is marketed as a healthy meal, but by insisting on using iceberg lettuce, you're including value-less, taste-less filler with the nutritional equivalent of cardboard. The mandarin orange slices are a nice touch!

Lastly, I'd like to comment on the breakfast burritos. You should see what people do to these when they leave the serving line. They unroll the meat, egg, and chese from the tortilla and throw the flour tortilla shell away. I can tell you why - it's too big and too thick. One suggestion is to have someone coordinate with the food services group in our offices in Texas to learn how to make breakfast tacos. For the stuffing in today's current burritos, you could use 1/2 of the wrap material, call it a breakfast taco, and increase revenue to sell 2 for $2. People buy the burritos, as I do, because they want a quick "all in one" breakfast thing that is quick and portable - like the croissant and bagel breakfast sandwiches. I'd venture most people don't like being so wasteful with their burritos. And if time and budget allow, even better to ditch the canned salsa and chop up some freshly - eliminating the tinny taste.

Thanks!!

I suppose you could make the argument either way....but I'd be interested in your opinions!