Fiddlehead

These salads are for salad people. They have so many options and the portions are large enough that they will leave you feeling full.

A pretty standard salad without meat is really expensive here ($10 or so). Although, I would be willing to pay that much if they had a more sustainable option for the bowls, which are a ton of non-recyclable plastic. To be fair, they allow you to reuse the same container, but I think there are more productive ways to encourage sustainability (like offering a small discount for bringing back your bowl)

I am constantly visiting this restaurant in State College. I don’t know any other restaurant with a salad bar better than this one. Everything they serve is healthy and fresh. They also prepare soups everyday which they advertise in the board at the end of the restaurant. Today, they offered the pepper with crab soup, and they are always having something different.
Besides those positive comments, I would like to do two suggestions:

1. Sell smaller salads. It is true that many people like the whole container, but I find in my experience that the right size is half of the container they have now.
2. Measure the quantity of dressing. As it is right now, you will get what the person who is preparing your salad considers it is “light, medium, or a lot” dressing.
3. Every time I go there, I see a lot of food wasted while they are trying to move the prepared salad to the container to go. An idea I have is to move the salad over a refrigerated container and sell it as “the mixed” salad for less price. For people with no allergies, that would be an option to save a dollar and get the “salad of the day.”

Really great place to get a nice, BIG salad. Very Good if you have friends with any dietary restriction. always a great choice. Also very easy to get to from campus. Only thing I would say is they don't have many tables and can sometimes have nowhere to sit. But the food is good to take with you wherever you go.