Cafe Manna, Arlington, Virginia, Delicatessen Restaurant Details

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I really like this place because of their variety of ingredients for salads and sandwiches. It is a neat, tidy place with nice people and I am always happy to support small businesses when there are so many chain restaurants that really sacrifice quality.

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Pretty good selection of almost every kind of food. They put a decent amount of meat on the sandwiches and salads are fresh/customizable. Helps me keep on track of my diet.

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I hate that the cleanliness and customer service of the staff keeps me from visiting this location now because it is convenient. If this place ever goes under new management, I will consider returning. Until then, my entire work center has agreed to not spend another dime there.

This place has a very good selection of food. You can either select prepackaged food or have something freshly made. I ate here everyday for breakfast until recently.

The problem with this place is two-fold: 1. Cleanliness and 2. Customer Service

The staff is mostly women and they are exceptionally rude. For the most part, I would order the same thing for breakfast but every blue moon I would switch up my order and that annoyed them to no end. It annoyed them because as soon as I would walk through the door they would start making my food without asking what I wanted. I never allowed the rudeness to bother me until...

- I noticed that they are not very clean. A coworker grabbed yogurt to go and after noticing that it didn't taste right, she took it back. She started reading the label and noticed that it had been expired for a while. When she let them know that the yogurt was expired, they didn't seem concerned at all and kept the yogurt on the stand to sell and told her she could just grab another one if she wanted.

- My boss complained that on several occasions that woman at the register would sneeze into her hand and hand him his change.

- The woman making the omelets likes to throw the shells across the kitchen into the trashcan. One day part of the raw egg ended up in the food container that she was about to place my food into. Thank GOODNESS I saw it before she did.

- I was ordering a salad one day and the staff was annoyed that a woman who should have been working the station wasn't present. She made my salad and the manager came from the back area and started making his own salad. He picked up all of the food out of the bins with his bare hands. I asked him if he normally does that and he laughed, said "yes," and walked away.

- On several occasions the younger lady has sneezed and/or coughed into her hand when handling my debit card

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The service here is so-so. Sometimes really great, others not at all. I really like their salads. You can put as many toppings on it as you'd like and then make sure to add chicken for $3 because their chicken is grilled and tastes delicious. Convenient and healthy.