Yesterday someone submitted this comment on my Subway post:
"Subway is very clean and their sandwiches are always good. Their cherry slushes are very good and very friendly when they wait on you."
I want to find this magical Subway where the employees have been replaced with cherry slush – FRIENDLY cherry slush!
Today, and last week (either Tuesday or Wednesday) I went to Subway (store #3361 in Whitewater, WI) for breakfast. I've mentioned before that I love their breakfast flatbreads. It seems as if Subway wants me to burn myself and spill coffee all over though.
Here's the problem: they're giving out lids that don't fit the cups. They must have run out of the nice black lids that fit, and switched to a cheaper lid that's just a little too big for the cup. Unfortunately, when trying to put on a lid that's just a little too big it feels like it SHOULD be able to go on… until you force it, causing the cup to squeeze and spill coffee – right on your hand.
That first time I just decided to shrug it off, even though the mis-fitting lid allowed the coffee to slosh up out of the cup while pulling into the parking lot at work, spilling coffee in my car. Today I avoided a similar mess by only filling the cup about 3/4 full.
Like I said, the first time I just shrugged it off, but now they've had at least a week to figure this out. The lids don't fit. It's easy. They either don't care about their customers, or they can't figure out that a lid that doesn't fit… doesn't fit. Whether this is an act of incompetence, or a willful disregard for their customers, I will no longer be visiting this, or any other Subway, unless it's somehow made quite obvious that things like this are taken seriously.
This one show the rims of the lid and cup lined up with each other (or rather, not lining up):
This last one is the lid, with a sheet of paper used to measure the cup. The edge of the paper to the blue line is a measure of the inside of the rim, which is quite a bit smaller than the inside rim on the lid:
Did you know that answering "yes" when the Subway cashier asks if you want your receipt can earn you a free cookie?
Far too many times I've answered "no", not knowing that I could use the receipt to take a quick 1 minute survey and earn a free cookie.
Learn from my mistake! (or LFMF :-P)
I looove Subway's breakfast sandwiches. My normal order is a 6" flatbread, sausage, egg and cheese with onions, green peppers, and chipotle sauce. It's incredible.
The sandwich itself is $3.50, and their coffee is something like $1.20. I can't justify paying $5 for a breakfast so I go coffee-less on mornings I stop at Subway – but right now they're running a special combo that includes the coffee and the sandwich for only $3. That's cheaper than buying the sandwich alone! The combo includes every 6" breakfast sandwich except the sausage one, so I have to switch things up and order bacon instead.
The last time I was there, there was a guy that ordered the same sandwich as me, but when asked if he wanted the combo he said "no thanks." I almost stopped filling my coffee to explain things to him, but didn't. I paid $3.17 he paid $3.69.
Subway's napkins are currently emphasizing the "healthiness" of their breakfasts as compared to McDonald's Egg McMuffin and BK's Egg & Cheese Croissan'wich.
The breakfasts listed on the napkin are the:
Egg & Cheese
Steak & Cheese
Western & Cheese
Black Forest Ham & Cheese
3 of the 4 are a "meat/protein and cheese"… the term "Western" is incredibly vague. Is it a vegetarian offering? Is it spicy? Without looking it up, I have no idea.
Is there a standard "western"? Am I supposed to know and remember it?
I'm not really a big fan of ham. It's ok.. but I've never been like "Hey.. I want some HAM!"
I do know that ham comes from a pig though. Ham is pig meat… which really confused me when I saw that Subway's cold cut trio listed under the ingredients (bologna, salami, and ham) that all the meats are turkey based. Turkey bologna, I can deal with that. Turkey salami… getting a bit sketchy now. But turkey ham? NONONO!
Wikipedia says: "Ham is the thigh and rump of pork, cut from the haunch of a pig or boar."
… last I checked, "turkey" was not part of a pig's thigh.
