Review of Costa Vida

The 1st time I ate here, after seeing thru this app they were "gluten trained", I was impressed. I told the girl I had a gluten allergy and she immediately changed her gloves and didn't touch anything else till she was done with my food. However, the 2nd and 3rd time, very different stories. The 2nd time I went there were no customers in front of me so when I told her I had a gluten allergy and she just kinda looked at me and said "uh-huh" without changing her gloves I thought ok well maybe she had just put them on and hadn't touched any flour tortillas yet, so I ordered the nachos after confirming with her there was no chance of cross contamination in the chips, she assured me, carelessly, there wasn't. Well my 3rd visit I let the woman know I had a gluten allergy, she just looked at me. Since I had just seen her touching the flour tortillas I asked her to please change her gloves. She did, but looked slightly annoyed about it. I was just about to order the nachos when I saw the other woman behind the counter flipping the flour tortillas and then use her hands, with the same gloves, to go over and scoop chips out into a container and put the rest from her hands back into the drawer. I then decided to stick with a corn tortilla fish taco. As I was standing there I saw as these employees repeatedly used their hands, not the tongs, to grab cheese, lettuce, etc. I was very disappointed! I had been so excited about a place that had "oceans of gluten free choices", the food may be naturally gluten free, but the cross contamination is certainly there!! I hope management/owners read these reviews and will properly train ALL of their employees and become a safe place for GF customers.