It's funny you should mention the onion soup...I always ordered it before and then when I started to eat it, I would remember that it has large onion pieces in it. I'm used onion soup that has caramelized onion slices in the broth, but the LCF version has more like stir fried onion pieces (soft, but not yet limp or caramelized). It's been this was the last few times I had it, so I think that is the way they make it on purpose.