Subway sandwich shops have been acquired by Roark, which is a massive mega-congolmorate. They apparently own just about all the fast food companies now, plus almost everything else. Apparently when they acquire a company, both product quality and customer service diminish massively. And now I see Subway is Footlong-ing everything including their cookies. Wow, great idea Roark. Whose kid came up with that one? Their menu has changed—for now they're still making the classic subs, but I suspect not for much longer. Now they have a bunch of what seem like weird subs with ridiculous names.
Oh, this is not happy news for me. When I want to treat myself, I go and get a steak and bacon sub from Subway. If it changes, I won't be happy.
If we're lucky they'll keep the classics around. Mine is usually the meatball marinara, or sometimes the BMT. They're no longer on the menu, but when I asked they made me a meatball sub the other day. And there was a sign saying "We're sorry, but we're out of footlong cookies for now. They'll be back soon." A footlong cookie would be like four or five regular cookies, and I don't want that much. But they'll probably still have regular cookies as well. I think the more insidious part is, their food quality will be going downhill along with their customer service. Soon they'll be as bad as McDonalds and so many of the rest. I went into Taco Bell the other day, first time in many years (because I always had to sit in the drivethru for like twenty minutes, even if there were only three cars in front of me). I went inside and stood at the counter waiting, one person in front of me. After a long time one employee walked up, but was on the phone and talking to somebody, and didn't wait on us or inform the counter person there were customers. After a while, another one came up and stood there staring into space, and didn't take our orders. Then another one walked past laughing real loud and shouting at somebody in the back. None of them seemed to know we were there (or rather just didn't care). I went across the street to Subway. I won't be going back to Taco Hell ever again.
I watched that video until they started talking about "low wages and employee mistreatment". Immediately I thought of Amazon. Or did I jump to the wrong conclusion? I've only been to Taco Bell once, and that was at a previous job. The fat insensitive PHB (sorry, excuse-for-a-CEO) was giving a fellow worker the sack for ... get this ... being pregnant. So, to "celebrate", he took everyone out to Taco Bell. Everyone had to come. And he insisted on wearing a huge sombrero. It was about as awkward as it sounds. The guy had a "middle manager" who played favourites. While the rest of us worked our butts off, she had her own "favourite" workers, who she showed blatant favouritism to. For instance, one of them got the coveted job of senior accountant. One day, she disagreed with me about something, and started yelling at me. I didn't even have time to defend myself; I was straight-away called into the CEO's office and told to "straighten myself out" and "stop whining". The other veterans at that place (i.e. not that woman's "favourites") quit one by one, until there was just me left. I only stuck around for as long as I did because I have a mortgage to pay, and needed the money. I got out of there 10 years ago. Last I heard, both of them got the sack. Good!
You must have better franchise owners than we do here. The Subways around here are all owned by an awful man. I worked at one in the 90's, and the dude is a monster. They are very hit or miss on service, definitely no better than McDonalds or (God forbid) Burger King and they're out of staples all the time, not just cookies, but meats. He extorted $50 from me, but that's a whole story. The Subway by my house has been especially terrible for 20 years. I gave up entirely at some point. I buy Subway sometimes, but only when I happen to be across town, and I have to go inside and walk down the line with them. They can't get drive through orders right. I hate that it tastes good, because I would rather not give that man money. He's richer than God, though, so me boycotting would do him no harm whatsoever.
We do! Thank Christ. I've yet to have a pleasant experience in Subway and have only ever gone in there at specific request of my son. They have rules, you know, but they don't tell you the rules and then look scornfully at you for not knowing the rules, so I tried pointing at one of the sorry looking pieces of crap on their display but still there's a bunch of rules that I still don't know and still get the scornful looks from the most unhelpful staff. Overpriced and underwhelming. Best and, thankfully, easily avoided.
I like a good footlong. Ms. Territory, on the other hand, won't go within a kilometre of one. She says everything there is 'slimy.' I guess I like slimy? It's polarizing for most people. I don't personally think their food practises are any less appealing than other franchises. I don't necessarily mean that as a compliment to Subway, though, more as a reminder not to think about how your food is being stored and handled in general.
From Subway, the steak and bacon on herb bread with jack cheese (toasted) and lettuce, tomatoes, green peppers, crispy onions and garlic aioli is one of my favourite sandwiches.
The outlaw minus onions and chipolte sauce, add lettuce, cucumbers, and yellow pepper. Yum. Buy a footlong and have it for four meals: lunch, dinner, breakfast, lunch. I loathe tomatoes and olives, but I don't think saying so disses anyone who adores those nasty bits of vegetation.
I don't go to Subway very often. I can make my own cold sandwich the way I want it. I have never cared for Taco Bell. Besides, in Texas, we have taco shops all over the place, and they taste much better.
I actually did figure out how to make a BMT once, but man, you have to buy so many ingredients! And then it takes like four times longer to make the sandwich than it does to eat it. Hmmm, now the wheels are turning though. I wonder if I could get meatballs that are something like what they use? Or make my own?
Bingo! Meatball Sub (Subway copycat!) And, since that recipe only says "Cook the meatballs," here's a more detailed article on making them, with several options for how to cook them: How To Make Meatballs
We have a right to know. I'm sure I'm not the only one here dismayed to discover that writers whom we (formerly) held in high regard, not only like Subway, but have a favourite sandwich!! It should be a mandatory disclosure for all new members to ensure we don't waste our time building affection for those whose values are so incompatable with our own. Just had a thought, this being the internet and all. Who knows what people might really think? Neither this post nor my previous are all that serious, though the mild discomfort of not knowing how to lay down an order to Subway staff who really chose not to be helppful translates better with a pinch of hyperbole.
We have a right to know. I'm sure I'm not the only one here dismayed to discover that writers whom we (formerly) held in high regard, not only like Subway, but have a favourite sandwich!! It should be a mandatory disclosure for all new members to ensure we don't waste our time building affection for those whose values are so incompatable with our own. Just had a thought, this being the internet and all. Who knows what people might really think? Neither this post nor my previous are all that serious, though the mild discomfort of not knowing how to lay down an order to Subway staff who really chose not to be helppful translates better with a pinch of hyperbole.
Well, at least some writers know better than to eat tripe and guzzle cheap home-brewed rotgut whiskey until they go blind, you overdressed peacock! (Sorry, I don't remember the wording properly, but I hope you know what I'm semi-quoting). And it's 2 favorite sandwiches!
Ah man, you got us all wrong. Thems our Scottish cousins. We like to eat crubeens and go blind from guzzling cheap home-brewed rotgut poitin, while underdressed in the thick fur of living wolfhounds.
Ah, who can tell 'em apart? Ya all wear kilts, play bagpipes, and dance funny on mountaintops. (Probably none of that is true) But hey, at least I can usually understand the Irish when they speak. Depending on how much they drank I suppose.
Uileann pipe players like to tell the tale of how their Scottish brethren nagged them for the schemata to make the wonderful instrument. In a fit of pique, they gave over instructions that led to the construction of the bagpipes and the Scots still haven't got the joke. In case, again, that comes across as mean, it was banter between musicians and that solitary bagpipes player on the roof of Murrayfield for Flower of Scotland on matchday is hard to beat.
I'm from Texas. We have legitimate Mexican food here, not just Tex-Mex. You can enjoy Mexican and Taco Bell both. They're very different things. This is like saying hotdogs are sausages for people who don't know what sausages are. Liking hotdogs doesn't mean you've never heard of bratwurst.
