Au Bon Pain

just a boring chain.

Everytime I go there I swear I'll never go back.  But I continue to anyway because it's the only food in Huntsman Hall.  Not that the food is bad, necessarily.  It depends who is making it that day honestly.  Sometimes everything is fine, sometimes the sandwiches are squished or the salads have hardly anything in them.  And it's expensive for what you get.  But what I hate the most is the experience.  The place has a huge seating area that makes the choosing-your-food-and drink area comparatively tiny.  In-between classes it gets so insane in there that you can't get through, let alone try to browse for what you want.  Then you have to stand in a huge line that bobs and weavings around all the tables so that you can pay.  It's pretty much impossible to get in and out in the 10 minute break between classes.  There must be a better way to streamline things, but they don't seem to care.  The staff is mostly surly.  When they scream "next in line!" I feel like I'm being punished for making them work.  Once I was saw a staff member at the soup area who was angry that the self-serve soup pot's lid had fallen into the soup.  She picked it up and started wildly looking around and screaming "Who did this!  Excuse me!  Who did this!!"  I'm sorry, who is the customer and who is getting paid here??