Croutons in Carlsbad has served made-to-order salads, panini and flatini sandwiches, and homemade soups from its Van Allen Way counter inside The Island at Carlsbad since the brand launched in 2003. The chicken pesto panini and turkey artichoke flatini anchor the sandwich program, and the chicken and wild rice soup uses a from-scratch cream base — a soup-and-sandwich format built for the same weekday lunch window that drives the sub counter at On a Roll Sandwich Shoppe nearby in the Poinsettia corridor. Seven Southern California and Oregon locations run the same menu, and the Carlsbad kitchen operates weekdays through the afternoon, catering to the office parks along Van Allen Way, College Boulevard, and Palomar Airport Road. The Mandarin Chicken Salad tosses shredded chicken with mandarin oranges, wonton strips, and a sesame-ginger vinaigrette over mixed greens. A catering menu scales the full salad, sandwich, and soup lineup for corporate meetings and office events, and the same build-to-order logic that drives each plate extends to the chicken tenders and burger builds at Surf Up Chicken across the Palomar Airport Road business park. Fresh-baked crouton dessert bites and a complimentary brownie on Fridays close out the meal.