What happened to the Arby’s salads?

I’m on a roll – lots of posting.  Actually I just thought of something I need to get off my chest.  Perhaps you recall, about exactly a year ago I got hooked on Arby’s Santa Fe Chicken Salads.  I’m not real big on fast food and eating crap all the time, but salads are pretty healthy and if you head on over to Arby’s website and check out the nutritional information, the Santa Fe chicken salad ranks up there pretty good for a healthy lunch or dinner.  Especially if you get it with the light ranch dressing, because the regular santa fe ranch dressing makes it rather fattening.  Anyways, my point is that I was eating one for dinner about once a week and I was happy.  After a while I sort of stopped eating them because I had been trying to cook at home more, and I was going out on the weekends, etc.  Two weeks ago I decided to go over to Arby’s for lunch and get one and was kind of excited because I guess I forgot they existed and hadn’t had one in months.  I ended up very disappointed though.  The salad had shrunk and the quality of it was not the same.  There was brown lettuce in the salad and it was soggy.  Had the place not been packed for lunch I would have returned it.  Instead I picked out the chicken and some edible pieces of lettuce but ended up tossing most of it.  So last week I stopped at a different Arby’s location and decided to give the salad another try.  This time my salad was filled with large chunks of iceberg lettuce, four little pieces of chicken, and seriously like three kernels of corn and a few sparse black beans.  I was so disappointed.  I really wish I could afford the Whole Foods salad bar every day.  But last time I went there, my salad was almost $10.  That’s not cool either.  Arby’s, get back on track …… or else.

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