Actually they still refern to them as sandwich artists. It says so right on their lil polo shirts. On that note am I the only one that thinks that if they are going to call them sandwich artists that they should have them wear smocks? (sp?)
I have the same experience as gatopescado.
I’ll take a Subway club on white with everything.
Do you want cheese?
Yes give me everything.
Do you want onions?
Yes give me everything, even jalapenos.
Do you want lettuce?
Yes give me everything you have in all these little containers, even salt/pepper, vinegar & oil.
Do you want tomatoes?
.
.
Now I realize I’ll never get them to understand but I’m still hungry so I have to hang my head and just say yes.
.
Do you want pickles?
Yes
Do you want green peppers?
yes, yes, yes…
Ug, they resurrected that shit? They had discontinued it when I worked there aprox. 9 years ago. Shows you how much attention I’ve paid to them since.
Actually, it just occured to me that since Subway is a franchise, individual owners can buy whatever kind of Subway-approved shirts they want, so some owners may be clinging to the past…
It stands for Boston-Manhattan Transfer, an old subway line…at least according to Subway lore. It’s a nauseating sandwich that consists of baloney, ham, and pepperoni. Nasty.
For some reason this struck me as very funny, guess i need to spend a little less time working on computers.
IANAEconomist but I believe the term is called added value.
I walk into a subway and I know that my Rib sandwich comes with whatever I do or dont want on it. Wouldnt it suck to walk up to the register and experience this at the register
<beep>Rib sandwich 2.99
<beep>extra BBQ sauce .39
<beep>lettuce .25
<beep>onion .30
<beep>Cheese .45
<beep>Olives .39
<beep>pickles .25
<beep>Tomato .37
So maybe I pay $.17 extra for the two items I didnt want on my order, eh screw it. I am paying more for convenience anyway
All of that takes time to ring up. Even a few more seconds time thousands of transactions = many man hours. Man hours saved = less labor and more customers helped per hour. Imagine just for sake of scale if subway could shave 1 second off of each sandwich nationwide. What would the labor savings be.
So it comes down to
Screw a few unfortunate people like yourself or provide better service to the other millions of customers a week.
If I was the CEO of Subway I would probably make the same decision.
Also they build all of their food cost calculations based on a worst case scenario cost wise (all condiments, most expensive meat/cheese/bread, etc) this way they can plan their business without going (smack forehead) “Damn we didnt plan for everyone ordering onions.” The fact that you omit something gives them a little more breathing room financially and they are not going to give you that back over $.02 worth of onions.
You want a sandwich that you only pay for whats on it go to the store and buy your own stuff, make your own damn sandwich.
Oh, that is a cheesesteak, my friend, a Primanti Brothers cheesesteak, the finest example of cheesesteak there is. Of course, to properly appreciate a Primanti’s hoagie, one must be drunk at 2:00 a.m. the first time they eat one. After that, they all taste good- the keilbasa, the fish, the capacola, the pastrami, the egg and bacon. Of course, the coleslaw must have viniger and oil on it, not creamy slaw dressing. That would be disgusting.
I took my little brother for his first Primanti’s. When asked what he wanted, he said the words “Philly cheesesteak”. I thought we were going to get thrown out.
Only been to Primanti’s (Or Primannees, in Pittsburghese) once, and got the cheese fries. Yummy.
I prefer Klavon’s gyros, myself.
:eek: ???
Maybe in your market, but around here:
BMT= “Big Meaty Taste” Pepperoni, Salami & Ham
They are good cheese fries, but I think that the cheese fries at the O are the best. But, again, it helps if it is late at night and one is drunk.
Uuuuuuuuhhhh, yeah, hi. I’ll have a 12" meatball. Only I want it cut into 2.8 inch segments and each of those cut diagonally with rounded corners. Oh, and instead of meatballs I want roastbeef and lettuce with taco shells crumbled on top. And then put lots and lots and lots and lots of parmesan cheese on it… but not too much. And how about some diet american cheese too. And a soda. I want easy on the ice and mix three sodas so that it is orange and tastes like Dr. Pepper. Now how much will that be?.. Oh, ok. I’ll be up to the window in a second, just let me find my bag of pennies.
Hey, I get that you pay X for the sandwich no matter which of the standard toppings you choose, but I have a problem being charged for an extra slice of cheese on a sandwich that has most of the toppings left off in the first place!
Couldn’t they consider the extra slice to be in place of the toppings I’ve rejected? Apparently, no.
Heh. Maybe it’s your market that’s the fucked up one. 
“Big Meaty Taste”? Sounds like an after-the-fact rationalization if I’ve ever heard one. However, seeing as my experience is a decade out of date, I bow to your modern Subway knowledge.
Replacing the baloney with salami ups the fat content considerably too…I never was able to eat more than a bite of a Spicy Italian sub without being thoroughly disgusted.
-Very good sir. One of our artisans will be out front presently to install the remaining .29" of your sandwich for you. I’m sure you’re familiar with the concept of a ‘suppository’?
How fortunate for you we rounded the corners.
The meat and cheese are the most expensive part of the sandwich. As I recall from my pizza days we paid about 2.50 a pound for most of our meats/cheeses on average. The veggie on the other hand are pocket change I think we paid .60 a pound. Typical fast food places run about 20% food cost. So a $5.00 sandwich has $1.00 of food at their cost. If cheese is 2.00 a pound and you want an extra ounce of cheese thats an extra .06 in food cost translating to .30 in retail price. Veggies at an average of like .50 a pound are far less of a concern, you would have to work at piling enough lettuce on a sandwich to rate an extra charge.
I went and got my chicken sandwich today. I ate all 12 inches in one sitting-yummy.
God, that sounds dirty…
I guess I just live right. At my local Subway I have not one, not two, not three, but four different employees who all know my sandwich. This is off my going in twice a week before classes. Every so often one of them will ask if I want hot peppers but all in all they do me right. They’ll even cut my bread the old-fashioned way if I want (it’s called a “u-gouge” for those who are interested).
Oh hell. Just do what I do at Carl’s Jr.: write it on a piece of paper and pretend you’re deaf. (Sorry, handy.)
So, if modern Subways don’t cut their bread like this now, how the hell do the meatballs stay in the sandwich?
Don’t do it, Demise! Stand proud and fight the power! Look around you, ferchrissake, when you’re in that Sub emporium. They got the name Subway from the below-earth rail system of the earth’s finest city, the place so nice they named it twice, NY, NY! Of COURSE BMT is a reference to the transfer line you mentioned.
[sub]“Big Meaty Taste” indeed… grumblegrumblegrumble. Why’in’t they just make it “MEETY”!!!..