Friday night, a little after 7:00 pm, seems like it would be a peak time at most restaurants. Not the case at a Schlotzky’s Deli in Madison. Walking in, my dining partner and I were greeted with an empty restaurant, save for the table of people in the midst of leaving.
The front counter consisted of pre-packaged salads, bottled juices, a few baked goods, and jars of pickles–lots of jars of pickles. Glancing through the printed menu of the chain restaurant (though one I have no recollection of eating at before), sandwiches take main stage, with a few pizza, soup and salad options.
I chose a small tuna sandwich from the menu, which it informed me was one of many under 7 grams of fat. From the selection of bread, I opted for the whole wheat.
Waiting only a few minutes for our sandwiches to be prepared (what else did they have to do?) my dining partner stepped up to the window when our name was called and came back to the table with our meal. Simply presented in plastic baskets on wax paper, the sandwiches were round and despite its whole wheat designation, the bread appeared to be white, with a few grains tossed in. Schlotzky’s offers two sized breads: small and medium. My dining partner’s medium roll was definitely much larger, and the appropriate size for a larger appetite.
Checking out my sandwich’s contents, I was displeased to find large globs of mayo atop my tuna. Thinking that the the mayonnaise in the tuna salad would be the only amount present, I hadn’t thought to request no extra mayo. Perhaps the extra mayo had been added to cover the fact that the sandwich contained no lettuce, the staple sandwich filler that the deli had run out of for the night, as the handwritten note at the register had notified us.
Toasted and warm, the sandwich was good, despite the initial set-backs. The bread itself was warm and spongy, slightly odd in texture but delicious none the less. Simple and basic, the small sandwich was filling.
Offering a quiet and simple dinner, Schlotzky’s Deli was a sufficient though rather uninspiring deli, probably not worth a sought-after visit.
*2 spoons*
With pickles (and that missing lettuce),
the little spoon.
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