Panda Express

Excellent service. Great coupons. I wish they would serve the food a bit more hot since many of the dishes are chicken. You get an offer for a free entree with every receipt.

From the moment you step in this place team give you an enjoyable feeling. Very warm team, it is a nice place to to go out with friends and colleagues or with your date. delightful meals, skillful chef de cuisine, competitive cost and nice service. Warmly recommended.

Loved it. Cooked fresh when I asked about a specific item. Amazing!

My last Yelp review was on the Froom Ranch Rd. in SLO Panda stating how I was not going back there because of disappointing service. Now going to the SLO Panda on Foothill Blvd., I arrived @ 7:50pm just before their 8pm closing, an hour earlier than the usual hour of 9 pm because of COVID which I don't understand & I don't believe it matters to the COVID. Anyway, you get to walk in & select from the array of actual food you are going to eat which is always a bonus unlike the Panda on Froom Ranch Rd. where you barely walk thru the door, required to look at a menu & pay, then walk around the building & another business suite to the rear to pick up your food; which is inconvenient to the disabled. At the Panda on Foothill Blvd., I received a friendly greeting.
I ordered a 3 item entree dinner takeout, seeing there was plenty of chow mein & veggie rice, but just a little vegetable left being mostly broccoli, I asked for half chow mien & one quarter each of veggies & rice. The associate replied they don't usually do that, but would for me;
I thanked her. Moving over to the entrees, I selected kung pao chicken, mushroom chicken & sweet n sour chicken. Wait, what do you mean
you don't have any of those items when there is clearly an item under each name tag. Oh, they are mislabeled, except for the sweet fire chicken whose bowl is empty but for bits of red pepper & less than a serving of mushroom chicken. She named what entrees she did have which were teriyaki & orange chicken, less than their serving spoon of mushroom chicken, a beef entree ( I don't eat beef or pork), vegie spring rolls & wontons. I asked, "why empty bowls & mislabeled food" & server responded " we are closing." My attention turned to the 6 people behind me 2 of whom were being served & the truck that just pulled up to the front door. So I ordered the rest of the mushroom chicken & negotiated throwing in the red pepper bits left over from the sweet fire chicken to fill the serving spoon, the orange & teriyaki chickens which have no vegies in it & 2 of 3 renaining vegie spring rolls. She generously gave me the third one. I handed her a $10 gift card + $2.35 cash for my bill. She had trouble processing the gift card, called the manager over then he left, she stated she would figure it out later, I stated I would like a receipt, she did some register keying & handed me a receipt & my $2.35 cash back stating that she rang everything up so the $10 gift card would cover it. I thanked her & wished her a good night as she did me. I felt I had just won the lottery in customer service, but felt bad for the remaining customers & thier fate. The food was hot, tasted good & cooked perfectly even though it had been sitting out under heat lamps. This Panda would have gotten 5 stars had they had the remaining entrees labeled correctly & not left empty pans out. I'm sure this is not the first time they had customers coming in near closing. So why not forsee that & have adequate entrees with vegetables left to choose from or have the cook fire up the wok & cook it because it is all prepped? If it looks like there will be leftovers, they could serve a little more at closing
or at the manager's discretion, let the staff have it. Yes, I will go back again, maybe next time between 6-7pm to avoid empty pans & mislabeled food.
Happy eating!

Solid Panda with good service and fresh food. Gets pretty busy but they keep the line moving