Restaurant Grades

We noticed that all the restaurants have to post their Health rating in their front windows. We also noticed that most of our restaurants rate a B. The food is really pretty good so we don't think too much about it. That is until a cockroach the size of a mouse runs across your feet. Then you scream and tuck your feet in under your legs and put your bags on your lap. One of my co-workers "Con" actually thought it was a small bird on the floor. She didn't know it was a roach until we talked about it again days later. Thank God none of our restaurants are a C. Who knows what runs around in there!

The best way to hide that your restaurant is shady:

Eating Fast Food- Part 2

Locally based restaurant:
Jack In the Box
I'm wary of this establishment ever since the JitB near my family's former home in Colorado was shut down for not passing the food inspections after a rash of food poisonings.

Cool thing: they've added ordering Kiosks inside the store so now you can limit your time face to face with the pimply high school student to when you pick up your order. They also have recently redesigned their logo.

Eating Fast Food

Locally based restaurant:
Rubio's
A wonderful taco shop with a very fun decor. I enjoy the street tacos that do really remind me of the street tacos we got in Mexico when I was in high school. They also serve beer displayed in ice buckets in front of the registers. And their condiment bar is always stocked with fresh limes, lemons, cilantro & onions, pico de gallo and other salsas.

Cool facts: Most Rubio's serve Vanilla Coke. And a family friend of my told me he used to eat at the original Rubio's in Mission Beach when Ralph Rubio still cooked all the food.