Hey, Franchisee!  Are you interested in catching on the next hot trend in fast food?  Well, let me tell you about Noodles and Company!  Noodles you say?  That sounds too ethnic for middle America!  Well, let me tell you about the Noodles and Co that I went to in Chapel Hill, North Carolina!

Ok, that’s enough exclamation marks for this review.  I was getting tired of eating down home southern food, and I was actually craving something that would be quasi-healthy.  I was walking down Franklin Street and was immediately drawn to Noodles and Co (probably because I needed to use a public restroom).  After leaving the bathroom and catching the eye of the annoyed cashiers, I decided to order something.  The premise of  Noodles and Co is the modularization of Noodles.  You pick a noodle type, then do it in a certain style and wait 10 min as they make you a fresh plate of noodles.

While I waited, I was given this hilarious marker that I could laugh while I waited for my noodles (which didn’t take very long).

I decided to get the noodles with peanut sauce, vegetables and tofu.  This is probably my finest photographic work (I think I got lucky with the lighting), but the picture is quite fitting for the noodles, as they were really tasty.  Admittedly, they were not as cheap as the marker suggested (about $7 for a plate of noodles), but they were very fresh tasting and I would definitely recommend returning here.

I feel strange highly rating franchise restaurants, but Noodles and Co seems to have a pretty good business model.  They make reasonably priced tasty noodles (ranging from Italian to Asian style) fairly quickly.  There are a fair number of combinations that are vegan, and since it’s modular, you can definitely get something different each time you come.  And it has public bathrooms (sort of).  So, I’ll give Noodles and Co four cheese sandwiches.

Noodles and Company
214 West Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27516 
(919) 967-7320