Fresh Choice Restaurant

The place used to be great, booming with business. But I guess everyone, including me, prefers Sweet Tomatoes now.
Fresh Choice looks very sad in its demeanor and the place could use a little spicing up itself.
The food itself is nothing special. Vegetables and salad selection actually weren’t that… fresh.

I can’t write a bad review for Fresh Choice, but I am only gonna give it 3 stars. The food is 3.5 stars (kinda good) but the restaurant itself lacks cleanliness a little bit. In my opinion Sweet Tomatoes is better.

I like Fresh Choice.
But this Fresh Choice located inside the Stoneridge Mall, is not so great when compared to other locations. It is smaller, and has less choices. I ‘ve been there 3 times, and almost never see a line there. I also feel that the salads are not so fresh there.
I will continue to eat at other Fresh Choice, but will try to avoid the one here.

Extremely disappointing experience! Paid $ 30 on Veterans day at lunch time and found this location completely understaffed and the food stations (after salad) were empty. Salad/​buffet restaurants are great for a family with young children, as it healthier provides options for everyone. When we went to complain, we were told the manager was busy busing tables.
Who fails to realize a mall on a federal holiday might be busy, especially towards the end of the year when people are Xmas shopping?
I think Sweet Tomatoes will always get our business.

This Fresh Choice is generally pretty good, food wise. Atmosphere could use some serious improvement. There is a dead palm tree near the back of the restaurant. Like some other Fresh Choices, this is an old location, and it feels like one. The corporation’s idea of «remodeling» a few years ago was to slap some green paint and new pictures on the walls, while leaving the same old worn-​out carpet, flooring, and woodwork in place. The place needs a real interior overhaul. Plates and silverware also look like they are 20 years old. Also, if you are going to visit this restaurant on a Sunday night, don’t believe the following statement on their website: «California stores open 11am-​9pm daily.» On Sunday night, this location closes at 8. I wasted a trip there a couple of weekends ago because of this. I then sent in an e-​mail to let the company know of the discrepancy, and not only did I never receive a response, they still haven’t changed the incorrect hours on their website.

Salad bar was ok. The pizza was very sad looking, and tasted even worse. They do have a good honey-​butter though for the bakery items.
My biggest issue with the restaurant, is that the plates and cutlery are not conveniently located. You have to go searching for them at every station. And to top it all off, the booth we were in, had a broken seat.

I’ve visited this particular Fresh Choice restaurant at Pleasanton Mall a few times already, and I would say that I’m quite satisfied with their selection of entrees. For starters, their salad selection is more than adequate, and they include Phở noodles which weren’t available at Sweet Tomatoes. What makes Fresh Choice a better choice for me is that they have more pasta items and pizza selections than Sweet Tomatoes. The latter provides more choices in the salad department, but Fresh Choice has yams, spaghetti, meat sauce, buffalo chicken pizza, etc. that are not available at Sweet tomatoes. That is, they provide more «meat» items for those that are craving for more than green veggies. The corn bread at Fresh Choice is also much better… They have corn bits in the bread as opposed to Sweet Tomatoes which is just a corn-​flavored muffin. Their selection is also better as they had melons, oranges, etc as opposed to only whole apples at Sweet Tomatoes Sweet Tomatoes does have foccacia bread sticks, sweet sticks, and blueberry muffins that aren’t at Fresh Choice.
In summary, Fresh Choice provides a great balance of vegetarian and meat dish selections. The staff was very attentive as they walked by every 5 – 10 minutes picking up used plates, wiping the tables, and asking if customers needed anything additional. I would definitely recommend this place to anyone.

One word — WACK! I usually go to the Fresh Choice in Concord, but was at Stoneridge so we decided to eat here. We didn’t think twice since we always have a good experience at the Concord one.
The salad was okay because I made it. The mac-​n-​cheese was dry, pasta was dry, bread was didn’t have enough leavener and was hard as a rock, soup didn’t seem up to temp. I felt so unsatisfied after my meal. I’ll never go here ever again.

This place is not fresh! I am not going there anymore, even if it is convenient since its in the mall. Vegetables are dry, not ripe, lettuce is brown, bakes potatoes are shriveled up. My stomach never seems to agree with the food here. And the last time I came here there was a dead fly/​bug in my lettuce…
Go down to Sweet Tomatoes if you’re in the area… everything is clean and fresh there.

The place is ok to me. My daughters love it bcz if has unlimited pizza and ice cream. I get a basic salad, nothing fancy bcz the place is not fancy at all. The soups are ok and so are salads. It is made for people that want to eat healthy with no salt at all and low on fats. My wife and i will have our salads and kids will have their pizza and ice cream and we see people that try to eat healhy but since it is unlimited I guess it’s good for some people and not good for others… If u really want to save $, then don’t buy a soda or drink. That’s how it will be under $ 10.00… Happy eating!!!

Usually stop here whenever at the mall. Love salads. Love their pasta sauces when they have them. There lettuce is always fresh as is the rest of their salad ingredients.
Have never had a bad expierence at this location.