= = = = = DAILY LUNCH & DINNER BUFFET! = = = = = \n\nIt's been two years since I reviewed this Sweet Tomatoes, so I got Scott W. to join me to give it a go for lunch today. & see how they are these days:\n\nLet's do the good first: These Sweet Tomatoes (aka: Soup Plantation) restaurants are properly managed, which means that the food is fresh, kept properly stocked, everything is the right temperature, & the staff is friendly. The salad is always good, with a nice array of choices, & the restaurant layouts range from beautiful (Ahwatukee) to weird (Tatum Bv. Phx & Power Rd Gilbert), to normal (this one & Camelback), to poor (Southern Av. Tempe), but most STs are nice places to eat as long as you take two plates for your salad so you don't have to fight crowds trying to go back through the line for seconds.\n\nThe not so good: Once you get past the salad line, the rest of the food at Sweet Tomatoes is BLAH! Today, for example, they had blah Shepherd's Pie (soup to put over potatoes), blah Scalloped Potatoes, blah Penne Arrabbiata, blah macaroni & cheese, three kinds of blah focaccia bread, blah low-fat cottage cheese, & so on. You get the idea.\n\nFrankly, I was annoyed to see this place fill up with lunch customers while similar Souper Salad right across the freeway is struggling to survive with much tastier hot food & a $3 lower price! What-ever.\n\nDaily Lunch & Dinner Buffet: $8.99/$8.09 Sr. (Rev. 11/26/13)
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