I shall be in my grave before I visit Subway again
Written: Jun 09 '07
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Pros: Ubiquitous
Cons: Food of dubious quality and taste served by often inattentive employees
The Bottom Line: It is quite possibly the worst run franchise chain in American history.
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| sgersh's Full Review: Subway |
Wow. All I can say is wow. Rarely have I been subjected to such an awesome harmonic convergence of abyssmal dining as when I've visited Subway over the past three months.
It's been at least a year since I've written a review here. My experience at Subway was so atrocious, it overcame even the mighty writer's block.
Secondly, like any restaurant reviewer, I was not compelled to write this after just a single bad experience, but rather after detecting a trend: multiple cities, multiple locations, multiple "meals."
And by the way, this review is from someone who formerly enjoyed an occasional Subway sandwich. I have no prior grudge against the company, though I'm concerned about my health now every time I go into a store.
First of all, how do they get away with saying their food is "made fresh" when it sits out in near room-temperate conditions for entire electoral cycles. I didn't order the salami, but I'm quite sure I saw a hunk of red meat in their cooler growing a beard.
My first experience was to order one of "Jared's meals," formerly known as "seven below seven," which was Subway's marketing campaign before they found a fat Jared who was wasting away down to only 200 pounds. This was a "Subway Club," a sandwich made from meat that looked pale and bored. Still, I was hungry, so I wolfed it down, paying the price when later, my entire gastrointestinal tract decided to ... well, you can figure it out.
So that was about three months ago.
The next experience was in Minneapolis when I was on a business trip. The restaurant was so filthy when I walked in, I was convinced a tornado had whipped through the place prior to my arrival. There was so much garbage and debris piled up on the tables; yet I was undaunted. I only wanted a veggie sandwich. How bad can that be, right? The vegetables were flimsy and tasted vaguely of... of meat! How did they pull off that feat -- turkey flavored lettuce? Still, I ate. Apparently, I'm more than just a glutton for punishment.
The last straw was in a Subway in San Ramon, California. I took my two kids to get a turkey sandwich. It had appeared that the place hadn't been cleaned in some time, but it wasn't terrible. However, the employees including the manager/owner seemed like that had been possesed by aliens who had never experienced a Subway before. Or a restaurant. Or people. They took a good 10 minutes to understand my order, which admittedly was as complicated as the US nuclear missile program (two kid's turkey mini subs with nothing on it and a six inch turkey with everything). However, before I paid, I had them unwrap the sandwiches for inspection. Good thing, because my order had turned into some other kind of meat (it could have been beef, but it didn't look terribly like it came from any cow I've ever seen).
That was the last straw. Dirty stores, unhappy employees, dumb management, and the food has been deteriorating in quality. Don't know what's going on with this chain, but they've lost me as a customer.
Recommended:
No
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