I feel like you're gonna get downvoted for this but I did the same thing with the Navy Federal lol

Yea thats why i always double check if any food places are in federal buildings before i go haha

People and their fetish of downvoting. This was truly annoying considering they didn't even show any notice or anything. They even confirmed on google maps that they are open.

Truly infuriating

I wonder if anyone's every made this same mistake about this Dunkin's.

Also, fun article about that...

Yea. Just an fyi CoHi and L’Enfant locations are open to the public.

I went to GW’s campus last Fall looking for Chick-fil-a break and a student told me before I walked in it closed 💀

The Pentagon has a DC mailing address even though it's in VA. It's weird and it's obviously messing with Google Maps.

Is it the same with this popeye's?

So the popeye's is definitely not there. I tried to go once. Are they underground? I am so confused.

Sorry this happened but that is hilarious

Imagine having to get a security clearance to ladle out Orange Chicken

Haha. Its okay. Having orange chicken now. Fully worth it

Mans out here walking 20 minutes for some dried sticky rice and Beijing Beef.

As a Midwesterner, I had a similar reaction to the Steak N Shake that opened in the Capitol complex. (which I think is now closed, anyway 😭)

Not sure if this is related, but all federal agencies have zip codes that do not align with their physical location. This is because the mail goes to an off-site screening facility to be irradiated for anthrax (and I assume other things) before it is delivered.

The location in this map is actually in NW DC. Not sure why they call it “2024 concessions pentagon”

Why? The location in your screenshot is nowhere near the pentagon

The Pentagon has their own food court and it's referring to that, the zip code is just causing weird stuff with Google Maps. The area listed in the map is currently the McMillan pit that's being built out.

I do wonder what's going to happen to these erroneous bussiness listings once McMillan is built out in like 6 years.

its beside the reservoir and I checked its called the pentagon

things you have to do for asian foods and when you are an asian :(

its also a federal property. for workers inside. you cant get it

Join the intelligence community .

The zip codes were established decades before the anthrax screening facilities.

Just cause I’m white doesn’t mean I have to search out Sbarros.

Yeah, the area beside the reservoir is nowhere near the actual pentagon though. Google maps must have messed up

I've heard the janitors who work cleaning the SCIFs with a TS/SCI and higher clearance needed get paid huge salaries.

Honestly you’d have to otherwise they’d lateral

That is not the Pentagon. If you are near the Pentagon though there is a Panda Express in the mall at Pentagon city.

I feel this pain fundamentally.

What was that all about? As far as I could understand it wasn't even a real Steak N Shake but one Sysco or another company ran under contract.

For now. Restaurants in that food court are dropping like flies. As are the stores.

Anyone with a TS/SCI is getting paid decently. Not a lot of janitors that can clear that hurdle.

Is that really the closest "Chinese" restaurant? I have to imagine a 20 min walk gets you too better than a panda express.

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Lol.

It's unclassified in the general building. They've tightened things up, but the Pentagon wasn't much different than any military installation. Any person with a valid reason could get a visitors pass and wander the hallways.

Only certain rooms are classified spaces.

And not much of a sidewalk there either

Howard China is not that far from your starting location and it's much better IMO.

If you click that on the map, it lists it as "2024 Concessions Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310". No idea why they Google maps puts it in the middle of an Army Corp water treatment building. (I don't know how many people work there, but I can't imagine it's enough for a big food court.)

McMillan reservoir and these buildings aren't being redeveloped, it's the former McMillan sand filtration plant across 1st street that's been dug out.

The other week I had to buy a plane ticket to get a new pen in a pinch from the Montblanc boutique

Ft Myers as well. Locations in government institutions are the only ones not owned by the cherng family

Happened to me too. And I was hungover and REALLY craving Panda Express when it happened

How was Pho House?

How was Pho House?

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Supposedly one at George Mason in Fairfax.

Honestly as a Mizzou guy, I really need to get out there, grab a burger and catch a basketball game.

This Panda express is in the food court on corridor 7. They have 2 food courts there with other fast food places. There is also a sbarro and Dominic's on different floors that have their own seating areas, as well there being a separate outdoor food spot that's in the center of the pentagon.

Laugh in military getting paid peanuts with the same clearance 🤣

This reminds me of the time I tried to go to a Starbucks on a military base, only to be stopped by the guards who told me I was a fucking idiot.

Really? I was there about a month ago, didn’t see a significant number of closed stores or restaurants in the food court.

That’s cause they got yo ass, changing jobs is a damn felony

Same thing happened to me a few years back with a disc golf course on an army base in AZ. My friends and I drove an hour before realizing that there was an army base there and that we couldn't get in. I wish Google could've said something about that lol

Yeah this was the part that struck me. 20 mins for Panda Express?

Damn I was gonna see if I could work weekends to get me a clearance and then move over to the government

In the last two weeks they lost Nespresso, Altar’d State, and the large hat kiosk near the food court. They also lost Panera in January.

Fair, but once you leave, it wouldn't be a stretch for a contractor to pay you 6 figures with that level clearance (or at the very least a decent wage.)

I had this happen with a Taco Bell once.

they are uncleared, and they are escorted through every SCIF.

Wait till you learn what they’re doing IN the pentagon itself!!

Bro saw the Panda Express coupon and needed that Beijing beef

If you are being serious, without knowing your background there are a million ways to get a clearance.

You could just a get one of hundreds of thousands of jobs as a contractor for companies like Booz Allen, Accenture, or thousands of small businesses. They need people to do any number of jobs.

For example, while food service is unlikely to be cleared at a Secret or Top Secret level, facilities maint. can be.

You can also consider joining the army, navy, air force, reserves.

I was mostly joking, I have a full time job working with at NGO in DC, but I am currently looking into the Army Reserves as a way to get Intel experience and clearance and generally boost my career. Plus national service is very important to me

Don’t I know it, I’m looking at joining up with reserves rnow

This is correct

We have a couple of food courts and a restaurant so workers don’t have to leave the Pentagon to have breakfast or lunch. There is also a few 24/7 options for shift workers. The main food court is on the ground floor, and others sprinkled throughout. There are also, banks, credit unions, dry cleaners, jewelry store, CVS, clothing, shoe shine/repair, vendors, flower shop, optical/vision, barber sho, etc.

And then the area code shifts all of this to here on maps? I guess I will keep pinging google about it.. Thanks for the insight!

Eating Panda Express.

I'm dead

The best DMV to use in VA is at the Pentagon

Last I heard the hot dog stand is going to be a Potbelly's. It was last a really sad Au Bon Pain

I love Pentagon City, I'd go there a lot in my GW days a decade ago or so. Unfortunately with online shopping cutting down on mall patronage in general I feel like Tysons might fatally undercut Pentagon City.

Happened to a friend of mine except with the luggage store lmao.

She actually went up and tried to go in and the guard was like “ma’m this is the Pentagon.”

I’m not sure if that makes more sense or less. I seriously feel for the O-3 or gs-9 they put in charge of waste management chaperoning.