Stop & Shop hot bars are often overlooked as a quick meal option, but customer feedback frequently criticizes the quality. Reviews cite bad taste, including panini bread described as chalky and wings reported as nearly inedible due to being dried out. Other complaints focus on food sitting too long, suggesting stale preparation. Cleanliness concerns also appear, with customers describing dirty hot food areas and visible issues such as random half-eaten or empty containers left in aisles. Some customers connect higher prices with lower quality and express reluctance to recommend eating from the hot bar based on their experiences working in multiple stores.
""Stop & Shop's prepared food leagues under everywhere else," said one disgruntled customer on Reddit, continuing in detail that "the panini bread is like chalk" and that they'd "rather eat at a gas station." Similar comments about poor taste seem to follow Stop & Shop's hot bar across various social media platforms."
"Another customer on Google Reviews said that in "the new hot food area, food is horrible," explaining that the "food has been sitting there forever" and that the grocery store's wings at the hot bar are nearly inedible because they're "so dried out.""
""Prices are high [and] many stores are dirty," said one Redditor, complaining that "the stores that have a hot food buffet ALWAYS have random half-eaten or empty food containers in random shelves throughout aisles in the store.""
"Another Reddit user simply chimed in that they've "worked at multiple stores and... would never suggest eating from [the]""
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