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You Should Never Order These Chain Restaurant Salads
BY Samantha Maxwell
Dairy Queen
Dairy Queen's chicken strip salad is a bit too low-effort. It's essentially just chicken strips on a bed of lettuce that doesn't feel worth paying for at a restaurant.
While it also contains diced tomatoes, bacon, and shredded cheddar cheese, these few ingredients don't exactly make for an impressive, flavorful salad.
Jack In The Box
Jack in the Box's side salad is just not worth your money. It only has three ingredients — romaine lettuce, carrots, and grape tomatoes — that come unseasoned.
Some people hate salads because this is the kind of salad they've always been exposed to. A random bowl of vegetables, or vegetables doused in dairy, likely won't taste that good.
Sweetgreen
Sweetgreen kale Caesar surprisingly replaces lettuce with kale in Caesar salad. To make matters even worse, they also include tomatoes in the mix.
The Parmesan crisps are another unconventional addition, but it at least makes sense in a Caesar salad. Overall, this salad may disappoint you if you're a true Caesar salad lover.
Wendy's
Wendy's Parmesan Caesar salad is a bit closer to the real deal and a step up from Sweetgreen's version, but it still doesn't deliver a good-quality, flavorful salad.
This salad isn't terrible, but nothing makes it stand out either. Plus, a Caesar salad tends to fall short without a freshly made Caesar dressing, which is exactly what happens.
Subway
Subway's cold cut combo salad is just some lettuce, random vegetables, and chopped-up deli meats. It feels like an afterthought instead of a well-constructed menu item.
It couldn't even offer a more exciting protein source than chopped cold cuts. It feels like something you'd make when you have nothing in the fridge and don't want to go shopping.