Why do so many restaurants make terrible salad?

I hate it when they pile a bunch of fricking cheese on one. A little is fine.

I had a salad Thursday night from a place and it had more cheese than lettuce.

I've never seen a house salad with egg. Ever.

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Are you just talking about a house salad?

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Ate at a restaurant one time and the server asked if I wanted the home salad with my meal. I wanted to ask her if she had ever eaten a salad in her life.

I think at most restaurants the wait staff throw the salads together, not the cook staff...not sure but that's what I was told by someone who worked in a private owned (not chain) restaurant.

Can’t speak for others but yes we servers did the salads everywhere I worked. We did make homemade dressings though.

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I think at most restaurants the wait staff throw the salads together, not the cook staff...not sure but that's what I was told by someone who worked in a private owned (not chain) restaurant.

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All three restaurants I worked at in college had a pantry chef that did all the cold apps including salads. That is actually where I started in the back of house. The last place I worked was really "fancy" and the pantry chef went by the traditional aka French garde manger.

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I think at most restaurants the wait staff throw the salads together, not the cook staff...not sure but that's what I was told by someone who worked in a private owned (not chain) restaurant.

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We have to have 1-2 people dedicated to salad making on a given shift. But we make big salads with homemade dressings, so we are unique in many ways.

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I hate it when they pile a bunch of fricking cheese on one. A little is fine.

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Most of the time you are lucky if you get cheese. Mostly lettuce, some carrots, and dressing seems to be the norm lately.

You don’t win friends with salad