I love me my subway salads. They are a great way to get a lot of veggies and some tuna. But lately they have started adding the different veggies in little piles, rather than mixing the salad. Who wants to eat a clump of cucumbers, and then a big bowl of lettuce? Obviously the higher ups have dictated that this is the new way to make a salad, but why?
You can ask the subway artist to spread out the veggies like they used to, but often the artist has english as a second language, and getting this point across can be difficult. Also they charge $2 extra for the salad over the sandwich, and don’t have to include the bun. Veggies are fairly cheap right? So why do they try to put just a little of each veggie on my salad and leave it half empty. By the time I get the salad I wanted I often feel like I had to fight a battle.
I would get the salad a lot more often if I didn’t always have to go through this process. How are the salads in your area?
I don’t understand the complaint. Can you not mix up the salad in whatever way you like?
Others may prefer to keep them separate, or to mix in only part of the veggie portions. It’s nice for them to have options, and it’s nice for you to have options too, isn’t it?
I like my salads separated, because tomatoes are icky. So is egg. So is cucumber. I want to be able to pick off all the icks before I eat the salad, without having to dig through it.
I’ve never eated a salad from Subway, but I can assure you that in college I discovered that I had a number of friends who preferred to assemble their taco salads in little piles.
As someone who prefers to stack her taco salads, this struck me as weird.
No, you can’t really mix it up once it is made. It is in a full bowl (hopefully) and has dressing and meat on the top and if you try mixing it you will likely end up wearing it in your lap. That’s why you toss a salad in a big bowl.
Subway also decided once that they would take away the subway sauce and make people use the new sauces. The subways I visited hid a bottle of the good stuff under the counter because customers demanded it. Eventually the honchos saw the light and reinstated the sauce.
Perhaps it’s a cunning plot to increase sociability in your town. Person A, not liking lettuce, then goes and swaps the lettuce with Person B who does like lettuce but not, say, tomato …?
Oh all right, then, that way no one would ever get lunch eaten during lunch break, and all would starve. Oops, bad plan there. Lettuce IS silly stuff, though.
Perhaps this is a franchise and the separate portions aren’t part of a decree from on high (I agree it’s hard to mix afterwards). They may be trying to cut costs or rise the price but reducing portions. Also, not mixing it up might be a labor-saving (they think) idea for them.
The separate portions and the smaller sizes could be part of a decree from whomever to subtlely give you less and eke out more profit (like the smaller reduced tuna can sizes).
The local franchisee was doing this with the sandwiches. The little pre-portioned cardboard tubs they use dictate how much meat will go on each 6" sandwich (for me, footlong steak always). Slowly I noticed I was getting less and less meat until, finally, the two meat tubs they used produced two tiny portions on each 6" section. They wouldn’t even come near to covering the entire length of bread --even when I opened it up and spread it out. I stopped going to that Subways.
Those are all good points, 5-4-Fighting, but I eat at various subways in several cities and they are all doing the clumping vegetable thing. I asked them about it and they said it was corporate policy. Do we have an Doper Subway artists to clarify?
I know food costs are rapidly rising, but saving too much on food costs will not improve profits if Subway also loses customers.
Telll me about it. Footlongs are $7.50 (alone) in NYC; if I’m going to pay that much for a sandwich, it better be satisfying or I will (and have) quit frequenting any business who shortchanges me.
I only mentioned the franchisee thing 'cause those seemed to be the only places I run into in my local travels with such niggling practices. The place I mentioned also tries to give you only one napkin.
Hmm. Around here there are commericals on the TV and pasted all over the subway stores. “$5 foot longs”. Of course its only for about 5 different sandwiches, but I figured that was a nation wide promotion.
I noticed that, too, about the protein portions on Subway sandwichs getting smaller and smaller. Yet the TV ads and print ads all show overflowing subs. I’d love to find a Subway that actually made them that way. Around here, we have Blimpies - similar fare, similar prices, but they do proper protein portions.
It was “Sandwich Artist” when my sister worked there in the mid 90’s. That’s what it said on her uniform. “Subway Aritist” sounds like a person who spray-paints graffiti.
I usually get the Veggie sub. Since there’s no meat, I like lots of lettuce. Not like a whole head of lettuce but more than they typically put on sandwiches.
So, as I watch my “artiste” compile my sandwich, I tell them I would like lots of lettuce. They put on the standard 3 shreds of lettuce, I ask for more. They add a few more shreds, I ask for more. Finally, they get the hint but it’s still a struggle. At least I get to watch them make the sandwich.
