Sandwich Artists

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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So, I’ve noticed that gradually over the last year or so Subway has been changing the way they make their sandwiches.

The most notable change to me is that they used to cut the top out of the bread, making something of a fluffy canoe. I liked this plan, it made for sandwich that held together more reliably than others. Now one by one every Subway location I visit invariably cuts the bread in the boring normal method with a long gash down its flank. This bugs me.

The other, more subtle, change is that they are now adding the meat one slice at a time, folding it over as they tile it over the loaf. This makes for a more airy, fuller looking sandwich. This method is better than the old method of prepared meat laminates of each recipe that are cut and laid into the sandwich in one flat dense meat matrix. I like this change, except I fear that the folding over theory is designed to allow them to put less meat into the same apparent sandwich which charging the same price.

So, am I the only one who has noticed this? Was there ever a press release or news briefing? Has this been a nationwide change, or is it isolated to my region?

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i don’t eat at subways.

here in philly when you get a hoagie they scoop a bit of bread out of the top of the roll, and lay in the vegetable part of the hoagie in the depression. then the meat and cheese is laid out in diamond shapes up and down the spread roll. the sandwich maker then attempts “closure” of the roll and cuts it almost in half with a diagonal swipe.

the fun part of working in a hoagie shop is eating the scooped bits of bread.

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I worked at a Subway as recently as March of this year.

There’s a name for the new cut. I’m forgetting it right now, but if you’re bent on eating out of the “canoe” you can ask for the original cut

Hinge cut! That’s it! The new cut is called the hinge cut!

Anyway- you aren’t losing any meat with this new method of preparation. The basic idea is that it looks better if each piece is laid (lain?) onto the bread individually, rather than in a pre-set matrix. Remember, people with with their eyes as much as with their mouths, and a sandwich where the “artist” carefully places each piece of meat on the bread looks so much more appetizing.