Zankou Chicken (purple food of mystery)

[munchitup]

Originally Posted by Miss Pip

This place is a joke. I got a falafel plate to go and they didn't bother wrap up the pitta bread or anything, they just dropped it in the bag on top of my box of food. The cashier almost touched the bread with his bare hands, after touching everyones money. I was like "No. Why isn't the pita bread wrapped in foil? Why is it just left like this? You need to wrap this up and if you're going to try and touch my food you need to be wearing gloves. Standard.". They were clueless. It's just standard/common sense to wrap up some damn pita bread in foil! or put it inside the box of food. The falafel plate was nothing to get excited about either.

Just a strange place. I don't understand the hype and I don't understand the point of this post either.

Promise I don't work for Al Wazir or anything, but both times I ordered from there you get a full packet of pita bread, still in the original plastic wrapping. It's kind of ridiculous they would skimp on the amount of pita since a packet of that stuff costs like 1.00 retail, imagine it is much lower at cost.

[jm1982]

At Jon's market you can buy pita for something like 60cents a pack.

If you buy it at Ralphs or another type of chain it's like $2

They are probably paying a lot less than $1 per pack.

Are you saying Al Wazir gives you a full pack like 6 pieces?

I think Zankou and a lot of places only give you like 1 or 2 pieces.

[munchitup]

Originally Posted by jm1982

At Jon's market you can buy pita for something like 60cents a pack.

If you buy it at Ralphs or another type of chain it's like $2

They are probably paying a lot less than $1 per pack.

Are you saying Al Wazir gives you a full pack like 6 pieces?

I think Zankou and a lot of places only give you like 1 or 2 pieces.

Yeah like 6 or more pieces, at least both times I ordered from there. Usually have some left over for the next day.

[jm1982]

Sounds good , will definitely have to hit it up soon.

[Miss Pip]

Originally Posted by jm1982

I think they always do that with the pita...it is kinda weird

I agree Zankou has gotten pretty pricey...not sure if the quality has remained consistant either.

Got a tarna plate from the Toluca Lake location , the quality wasnt very good from what I remember. .

I have to say they are VERY quick though...almost mCdonalds quick with getting ur food to you

A lot of middle eastern type places take their sweet time

They are very quick because they don't pay attention to the quality of the food and they don't wrap up their pita bread. They just leave it out in the open. So yeah, that's why they're quick. They're sloppy.

[smokingGun]

Isn't Zankou the chain involving the murderous rampage & huge family dispute? Like some of the locations are owned by one side of the family and the others by another faction?

[Exitus Acta Probat]

I liked the Falafal King in Westwood Village. Are they still there?