Is qdoba underrated? I just found them recently and I may never go back to moe's or chipotle again

Is qdoba underrated? I just found them recently and I may never go back to moe's or chipotle again.

They're still better than Chipotle, but I liked them before the rebranding. None of their specialty tacos are any good.

They deserve more business simply from the fact that treat guacamole as something standard instead of something worth paying an extra 2 bucks for.

I used to work there during college. Pretty good food, and it was just plain enough I never got tired of it.

It's great. Def underrated.
[spoiler] That said one night I ate it and then got piss drunk and threw it up all that night. Now I can't eat there ever again because I have a Nam flash back every time I walk in there.

When it opened near us I'd eat there on break from work, but this was about 8 years ago and the management has changed and it's meh now. We have moes now too, but moes feels really gimmicky.

I loved Qdoba for quite a while, but several years back, they took the barbecue sauce off their menu, which meant no more barbecue burritos. I stopped going after that. I drove by where it used to be last month and it was gone, went out of business.

So yeah, pretty lackluster without that sauce man.

OP, I'd say my ranking among the chains would be:
Baja Fresh > Chipotle > Qdoba > Freebirds > Moes

But there will likely be something local, a best tacqueria doing something awesome or even gourmet like huitlacoche tacos, traditional soups, or really good queso fundido, or even a local chain that tops them all. In Miami (fast casual so not even going to mention a nation chain like Rosa Mexicano), Mendoza's made delectable skirt steak tacos to order, plus a great salsa bar. Ernesto's is known for their late night crowds at every hour, and great pickled onions and jalapenos. Lime Fresh is all over and really good use of lime flavors, excellent selection of salads, catering to the low carb crowd as well as the cutting kind of diet and located near gyms often, and key lime pie (desserts often lacking in mexican fast casual).
But if you're lucky, you will have a bakery/market that has a lunch counter with some amazing cook doing some sandwiches or tacos to order. That's where you dine. A place only mexican lawn crews do their lunch breaks at where families shop and then feed the kids all at once. Get looking! And, then enjoy a good aqua fresca and a paleta dessert with your tacos.

Qdoba is worse than moes and chipotle. The only reason people around here go is because they're open late as fuck so it's the only place to get a decent burrito at 1am.

Qdoba is better than chipotle, especially because you can ask them to just glob on properly hot sauces and they'll do it, but it's still pretty rice-heavy

Their loaded tortilla soup is my crack cocaine.