Short Stop

Short Stop is a decent grab and go place located between Peet’s Coffee and Home Plate. It is literally right below the glider lounge. It’s a convenience store so if you want to sit down and eat, you have to find tables outside. The tables are mostly in front of Home Plate. There’s like 2 or 3 little tables in front of Short Stop.
They serve breakfast sandwiches and burritos until 11:00am. They also have build your own smoothies, a vegetarian menu, paninis, sandwiches, and gelato. All sandwiches are $ 6.95 + tax. My friend and I both ordered the pesto chicken panini. It contains grilled pesto chicken, Swiss cheese, red bell peppers, lettuce, tomato, and pesto aioli. To be honest, I didn’t have high expectations of this place, but omg the pesto chicken panini was really good! WAYY better than the pesto chicken panini from Croutons. The sandwiches also come with a super tiny side of your choice: fruit, pasta, or Thai noodles. I got the pasta one. It tasted whatever lol.
This place is definitely pricey. But if you need to grab something quick or just sick of dining hall food, Short Stop is not a bad place to go.
3.5 stars!

This is a great spot for grabbing lunch to-​go!
It’s located between home plate and Peet’s café on the Ridgewalk, where Rimac is. So it’s perfect when you just want something quick and filling when you’re on this side of campus.
They sell convenience food with a handful selection of salads, snacks, sandwiches, and parfaits. Also there’s a few vegetarian options too.
Lunch set comes with a sandwich, small side, and a drink for $ 7.51. So it’s not that expensive like Croutons or Clubmed.
I ordered a pesto chicken sandwich. It’s ok compared with campus standards. The chicken tastes kinda like rubber though. Next time I would definitely get grilled vegetables instead.

This little spot is the bees knees! Fast, friendly service and delicious noms. They have hot/​cold sandwiches, wraps, breakfast burritos, smoothies, and waffles all made to-​order. They also have gelato if you need to satisfy that sweet tooth! Coffee is always hot and there is also a selection of convenience items (like pastries, parfaits, nutrition bars, etc.) if you are in a big rush. I definitely recommend paying a visit if you are on campus! :)

Short Stop is short of anything good. The only reason I stopped by is because my friend and I walked across campus to eat at Home Plate right next door, but the line was too long. To be honest, this was my worst meal on campus.
I guess customer service isn’t something that these workers abide by, because I felt as if I was such an inconvenience when I ordered food. The workers would much rather talk and giggle to each other than waste any amount of happiness towards the customers.
The food here is not great in quality or quantity. My friend and I both got the sandwich combo, which obviously comes with a sandwich, a drink (iced tea or lemonade iced tea), and a bag of chips. The sandwich is the same size as the palm of my hand, I feel, and it lacks in flavor. The cheese tastes like Kraft singles, and the chicken seems as if it’s not fresh/​from a frozen dinner.
The only thing that saved this place from getting just one star was the drink and bag of chips – even though the chips weren’t even made by them. The lemonade iced tea was actually pretty refreshing! Unfortunately, the bag of chips was so tiny. The chips collection is very limiting.
In terms of the place itself, it looks unsanitary. Not only does it look dirty, but also like they haven’t replaced some things in millenniums.

Great place for a quick snack. The gelato choice are a amazing they also have choice of fruits for a smoothies you get to pick the one you want, great and fast service

Perfect place to grab a quick bite for a really fair price. Sandwiches and paninis are only 6.95 plus tax and they come with a side salad. They also have breakfast burritos and breakfast sandwiches. Oh! And also seattles best coffee! Trust me when I say this is the place to go. Did I also mention they sell absolutely amazing gelato? Yep.

The workers are pretty unfriendly and make the experience a bit unpleasant.
I only come here for convenience and because I really love panini’s, even if they’re badly made I suppose.
A lot of times, the sauce I choose for my panini won’t be evenly spread or they’ll forget that I requested no cheese.
The chicken utilized in most of the panini’s aren’t isn’t quality chicken either. But you do get a bag of chips or choice of a small pasta side with your order.
Meh

Pretty bad customer service, many of the workers are rude. My first time here and I was just checking out the menu and asking some questions, but they were not friendly at all about answering. The food seems pretty good but I wouldn’t come again.

I end up getting food here somewhat often, whenever I don’t have time to pack a lunch. Quality of food and quickness/​friendliness of service completely depends on who is working. For example, I ordered a breakfast burrito last week and today. Last week service was slow, not particularly friendly, but the burrito was decent (although I thought charging $ 1 for ¼ of an avocado was a bit of a scam). Today, service was quicker, a little more friendly, but the beans were cold, the eggs tasted like the last thing cooked on the grill and the cheese wasn’t melted. I realize there aren’t a lot of quick options near my department so I’m kind of at their mercy, so I guess Unilocaling is my only outlet. I think I’ll give Goodie’s another try though; it’s a bit annoying that the wait tends to be longer than justified based on the line and come on, melt the cheese, heat up the beans. Rookie stuff.

Way too long of a line for a «grab & go» setting. As one of the previous reviewers said, it is much faster to just go to homeplate. Not to mention, the employees are fairly rude and off putting. They ignore you when you walk in the door and make you wait in the longest line while running around trying to prepare sandwiches for all the people who had been waiting for the past 20 minutes. Even if you just want a drink or a candy bar, the prepared food backs-​up the line by 15 minutes, at-​least.

Short Stop, we gotta talk. Your redesigned store is an absolute failure in both concept and execution. It seemed like a good idea to have a place to grab a nice, quick meal on the go, but the menu items you have chosen to offer take a ridiculously long time to prepare, and leave your scant staff scrambling to take orders, fill orders, and cash out customers. Frequently, all of these tasks are completed by a single staff member, which is an absolute clusterfuck. All of this amounts to waiting much longer for a damned sandwich (28 minutes, if anyone’s counting) to be prepared than it would take to pick up something to go at the Home Plate next door. Also, there is no consistency in the items you offer – I had an awesome mac and cheese there once I have never seen again, which has instead been replaced with tragically flaccid pasta salads and bullshit «pizza» (focaccia with scant, weird toppings [potatoes?] that has been sitting out for hours is not pizza! It is sad bread! Who do you think you’re kidding, bro?!).
Also, please either have soup or don’t have soup – you can’t have a crusty remnant of potato goo at 11:20 am and say you’re just «out»; we KNOW that has been there awhile. What are you trying to pull?
Seriously, get it together or try a new concept. You’re embarrassing yourself.

i’ve only had their deli stuff but i have to say, i’m a fan! at 8oz for $ 1.50 and 12oz for $ 2, i’m here to pick up a quick bite before my Rady classes every single week. SO CHEAP compared to other places on campus and they have healthy choices like barley salad, quinoa salad, turkey meatballs, etc… will be coming back to try the gelato soon: D

Definitely a decent grab & go convenience store + grill.
All sandwiches $ 6.50.
Made-​to-​order veggie Panini was yum and up pretty fast!
Lone counter guy had his game on, workin’ the customers and flattop with finesse.
Get your caffeine and/​or gelato on here too.
Snag a patio seat, nosh, kick back…

Solid sandwich but no wow factor and comes with a side. The side comes in a sample size container. Wish they gave a larger amount for the side. For the most part, I would come again because the sand which is made to order.

Short Stop re-​opened spring of 2014 after a remodel, and a menu change. This quick to-​go convenient store, which is part of Home Plate has a great selection of sandwiches (your choice of hot and cold) and paninis, which are all around $ 7 and served with your choice of their fresh side (which honestly one of the affordable options of on-​campus eats you can get).
They also have a great new assortment of gelato that you can purchase and enjoy on a hot sunny day at UCSD!
Be prepared to wait a little for your sandwich as they are made-​to-​order (you get to choose your bread too), and if there are people in front of you the wait can take longer.

This is a great place to go if you want to pay $ 10 dollars to wait for 45 minutes for food that will never come. If you wait another 10 minutes they might figure out how to cancel your order and refund your money. (In my case they could not.). Don’t be fooled by the employee reviews, you’re better off just going to Goodies.

The pork, veggie, cheese burritos are delicious! They’re a cute, small size and only $ 1.50 each!

This nice little place has been restructured, expanding its business from snacks to lunch package (pizza, rolls, etc.)
Now they even have a fresh gelato selection imported from Gelato Stop!

I love coming here! Its a great place to go after the gym to get some gatorade or protein bars. They have sandwiches and fresh bagels every morning. The prices aren’t bad either.

Located at the new RIMAC annex, this convenience store makes sense. It provides similar options that you would see at the Sunshine Market, but it is located in a winner spot, right next to the gym, so you can get your post-​workout goods here. I also see this place as potentially being the Earl’s Place answer to I-​House and ERC residents.
I guess the drawback is that their business hours are not as sweet as Earl’s Place or OVT, but it’s still rather functional in my opinion.
I suppose that in addition to RIMAC goers and ERC/​I-​House kids, Rady grad students will also become regular Short Stop clientele.