/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.18105873]

Subway bros...

the game... has changed

[Anonymous No.18105884]

I will not be buying subway

[Anonymous No.18105906]

>>18105873
subway's circling the drain, and rightfully so. they fucked themselves by expanding too much, stepping on each other's toes, having hostile relations with franchisers, and not using using real fucking meat. haven't had them in 6 years and have no desire to.

[Anonymous No.18105910]

The idea of these sandwiches are good. Unfortunately they never are good in actuality.
God I would pay a premium price for a premium sammie so hard

[Anonymous No.18105917]

>>18105910
I'm not going to shill them, but if you don't live near one of the good sub shops, it's a damn shame

[Anonymous No.18105918]

>>18105873
im sorry i actually dont mind subway but the smell is just too much. i cant really describe it but its kind of like a faint hospital smell combined with stale veggies. our student union in college had a subway and the whole building smelled like a subway. what the fuck is it from?

[Anonymous No.18105925]

>>18105910
go to penn station. those are premium as fuck

[Anonymous No.18105933]

>>18105917
Unfortunately I live in Alabama.
>>18105925
>Penn Station
I've never been there but this made me miss NYC food dearly.

[Anonymous No.18105939]

>>18105933
There was a Jersey Mikes when I was living in Huntsville, so unless you're in the giga-boonies you should find SOMETHING better than subway

[Anonymous No.18105950]

>>18105918
>faint hospital smell
i've never been able to place it but literally this. being around one of the subs is enough for it to seep into your skin. god forbid you actually enter the facility

[Anonymous No.18106439]

>>18105918
>>18105950
>subway
>hospital smell
Are you faggots on drugs?
Subway smells like unwashed feet and cookies if they baked some an hour or so before you entered the store.
Also, get Jersey Mike's. Best shit there is.

[Anonymous No.18106453]

>>18105910
Nah like 1/10 times I went to subway it would be fucking insane delicious but thats not great odds

[Anonymous No.18106457]

>>18105906
>they fucked themselves by expanding too much
A couple weeks ago I wouldn't know if this was true or not but I went on a two week long road trip and I swear to God even the most derelict, side of the road shithole towns in Utah and Nevada have Subway. It's insane. There can't possibly be a population to actually support these fucking places, but they move into every single town as far as I can tell. Even if the population is 20 people and a goat.

[Anonymous No.18106464]

>>18105910
>God I would pay a premium price for a premium sammie so hard
Then do that. Jersey Mike's is very high quality, lets you customize, and the downside is they're expensive.
Even Jimmy Johns would be a massive step up from Subway.
Or Firehouse Subs for that matter.
Only sandwich chain worse than modern Subway is Which Wich.

[Anonymous No.18106469]

>>18106453
Subway started cutting costs a while back out of necessity to save their failing business model but it's a vicious cycle where they keep losing customers and making less money which in turn requires using even lower quality ingredients and stafff.

[Anonymous No.18106470]

>>18105933
>I live in Alabama
So what? People don't eat sandwiches there?

[Anonymous No.18106480]

>>18106439
>>18106464
Jersey mikes gets boring after a few visits, their hot subs are pretty mediocre and their cold cuts are just a soaking mess of oil and veggies. Their best selling point is the size, you get a lot of sandwich for your dollar

[Anonymous No.18106482]

>>18106457
market saturation
when things are good, business is REALLY good because you have a store in every nook and cranny in the country
when things are bad, they are REALLY BAD because you're hemorrhaging money from every orifice

[Anonymous No.18106486]

>>18106464
>Only sandwich chain worse than modern Subway is Which Wich.
Objectively false.
The only reason why you don't like Which Wich is because you can't actively harass the employees working there while fixing the sandwich.
The quality of their products are eons ahead of Shitway.

[Anonymous No.18106534]

They look good but i'm not paying the probably $13 for them.

[Anonymous No.18106544]

>>18106486
Wrong, I get everything delivered no matter which restaurant I use.
Which Wich is, by far, the lowest quality sandwich chain I have ever encountered.
It shouldn't even be possible to have worse sandwiches than modern Subway, but Which Wich somehow pulls it off.

[Anonymous No.18107545]

>>18106486
>arguing in favor of which wich
just stop.

if subway started using real ingredients i'd each there somewhat frequently.

their bread and meats just dont seem legit.

work caters sandwiches from jimmy johns, firehouse, or a couple local places weekly so im intimately familiar.

[Anonymous No.18107659]

>>18107545
Which Wich doesn't cause hot liquid to surge through my gut as if the footlong I just ate is sprinting for the exit in a burning movie theater.
Subway has the worst quality control both with products and employees.
With Which Wich, you can get one big ass sandwich (longer than 12") with bacon and guac on it for a reasonable price, and tastes good.
Subway? Lol, get charged $1.50 more just to add paper-thin bacon that barely has any noticeable flavor.
But enough with that, here's where Subway is on the hierarchy:
>Jersey Mike's == Firehouse Subs
>Publix Deli Subs
>Jimmy's Jimmies
>Which Wich
>soggy, reheated taco from Taco Bell that was bought over 36 hours ago and smells like a dirty diaper with beans
>Mom n' Pop Convenience Corner Store Deli Sandwich out in the boonies
>Subway

[Anonymous No.18107711]

>>18106464
>the downside is they're expensive.
>compares firehouse subs to JJ
Last Firehouse sandwich I had was the size of a regular Jersey Mike's sandwich at around the same cost ($9). I do like to get a giant at Jersey Mikes so I can eat two meals out of it.
I generally get Publix subs on deal when I want a sandwich though and I know I can get the same great quality if I head back home and get Wegman's instead.

[Anonymous No.18107738]

>>18105873
What are 7 and 12?

[Anonymous No.18107792]

>>18107738
>7 years was the Fogle incident
>12 years ago, roughly, when the first repealed the $5 footlong deal

[Anonymous No.18107798]

>>18105873
Looks good
Don't understand the hate they get

[Anonymous No.18107822]

>>18105873
>should we add new meats?
>no
>should we add new toppings?
>no
>should we add new menu items?
>no
>should we add new snacks?
>no
>what should we do?
>lets find 5 new ways to arrange the same handful of shitty ingredients we already have
t. every subway exec in the last 5 years

[Anonymous No.18107827]

>>18107659
>>Jersey Mike's == Firehouse Subs
based
JM has better cold cuts but FS has better chicken/steak

[Anonymous No.18108890]

>>18105873
These are so overpriced
I got a Champ, a soda, and left a 20% tip and it came out to sixteen bucks
Guess I'm just not going to subway again

[Anonymous No.18108932]

>>18106457
Subway let pretty much anyone get a franchise and set it up wherever, even if there was a nearby Subway. Franchises like McDonald's had and still have way stricter requirements for buying a franchise, it costs a lot more, and they don't allow one McDonald's too close to another. I read some article about subway franchises where people at the new franchise owner meetings didn't have any idea what they were getting into or understand the math.

In 2018 there were 24,798 Subways in the United States. The second most common chain, McDonald's, had 13,229. Per store sales at Subways are horribly, around $420,000 a year. https://www.qsrmagazine.com/content/ranking-top-50-fast-food-chains-america

I'm not sure what typical profits after expenses are I saw anywhere from 28,000 to 60,000. That's pretty fucking bad given the amount of time and stress that running a Subway requires.

[Anonymous No.18109556]

>>18106534
the 6 inch is $13

[Anonymous No.18109568]

>>18108890
>16
what the fuck? I order a footlong here and it's 8.50. then I use the buy one get one free code for another sub the next day (I think it's freefootlong or freesub, I forgot). The quality of the one in my town isn't bad at all. Just get the rotisserie chicken or italian and you can't really go wrong. Veggies are fresh too.

I mean, it's not quality by a longshot, but it's acceptable for a fast food place. And 8 dollars for 2 footlongs is a good deal.

[Anonymous No.18109571]

>>18105873
Can I still get a footlong cold cut combo?

[Anonymous No.18109580]

>>18107711
Based Publix sammy poster

[Anonymous No.18109701]

I'll eat shit before I eat slopway

[Anonymous No.18109725]

Why is there a menu if you can't order off it?
You can point to the special and specifically request it by name and the wagie just ignores you and goes through the script of "what bread you want? what meat? what veg?" because that's all they've been trained to do

[Anonymous No.18109865]

>>18109725
top fucking kek they're supposed to NOT do the script if you order these. looks like subway forgot they hire only NPCs.

[Anonymous No.18109882]

>be subway
>expand franchises to oversaturation
>sell even more franchises to pajeets
>suddenly subway goes from teenage white girls serving to disheveled gujarathi women
>surprise surprise quality tanks
>subway now synonymous with filth
>LETS REVAMP THE MENU
>now have to pay more for the exact same subs just called different
>still assembled by the same unskilled, uncaring brown hands

no thanks subway.

[Anonymous No.18110758]

>>18109725
>>18109865
white customers are to blame.
you've no right to complain because if it isn't (You) that behaves in such an insufferable manner, your peers certainly fill in the gaps. kick your peers' asses for being retards, not the employees who were strong-armed into giving up.

if you happen to be a non-white, please, by all means, redirect your discourse to the retards that share my skin color as my ethnic group is notorious for infantile shenanigans.

>white comes in
>i'd like to order uhhhh
>15 seconds pass
>a chi'-pote-lay chicken on ih-tæl-ee-ahn hurrbz and cheese brehd
>*what would you like on it, sir/ma'am?
>whatever comes on it
>*alrighty then!
>[starts using recommended formula]
>UP-BUP-BUP-BUP
>I DON'T WANT THAT!!
>*no [ingredient]? no problem, i can remove that for you!
>NO! START OVER!!!
rinse and repeat for several thousand times, and, eventually, the employees give up and hold your hand through the entire process step-by-step so as to get it righty-right just for (You)!
>inb4
>you can't say that!
>that's racist!
t. white as can be.
just because i am white doesn't mean i'll play ball with you for being one also.
misbehave, get in the grave.
behave, and enjoy the rave.
it's not difficult.

or maybe it is difficult considering how similar whites are to cats.
>does something it shouldn't
>whack it with the fly swatter
>does it again anyway
>gets angry when you punish it for doing the forbidden

>disclaimer
>employees are taught the individual formulas - which are borderline identical with a few variations.
>they don't forget because they weren't paying attention, they [disregard] it because they know Billy and his fat ass will waddle into the store and start shit unless you help their handicrapped ass every step of the way

don't @ me. will not reply.
not a discussion; these are the facts.
don't like it? do better!

[Anonymous No.18110783]

>>18108932
Interesting. You got any links to the articles about the new franchise owner meetings where they had no idea what they were doing?

[Anonymous No.18110801]

>>18106464
>Only sandwich chain worse than modern Subway is Which Wich.
Giant faggot

[Anonymous No.18110844]

>>18105873
They got rid of the south west chipotle sauce and replaced it with some sort of "Baja" taco sauce. Corporate and their shills gaslight the people complaining and say tell us its the same sauce with a new name; but taste doesn't lie, and employees have shown ingredients are different. Because of this transgression, I will never go back to subway.

Good day, sirs.

[Anonymous No.18110850]

>>18105917
Shill them and anons here can tell you if they're good or not

I just had potbelly recently and it was shit. It was overpriced, too. I remember it being crazy good (15 years ago, possibly before a corporate buyout).

[Anonymous No.18110853]

>>18106439
>unwashed feet and cookies
Add some "chemical smell" to your list and you've just described the smell of an American hospital...

[Anonymous No.18110854]

>>18110850
I blatantly refuse to use brand names on here. Unless they pay me, they're not getting even word of mouth advertising

[Anonymous No.18110856]

>>18105918
I worked at one for four years throughout HS/college. It's from the bread and specifically the herbs and cheese. You would role the dough sticks in the herbs/cheese mixture shit and put it in the bread proofer. When it sits in that humidity it gets really fucking stinky for some reason. I would have to take a shower and immediately wash my work outfit after coming home. It clung to your skin

[Anonymous No.18110884]

>>18110856
I always identified it as coming from some combo of the "ham" and the "coldcutcombo" packs. There are definitely a lot of microsmells at play adding together, but whatever they are they just do not fucking come out of fabric.

[Anonymous No.18110901]

>>18106457
I used to drive down this long stretch in the middle of bumfuck nowhere central Florida when I was going to and from school and every gas station I saw had a Subway.
They were usually the only buildings for miles too.

[Anonymous No.18110927]

>>18110856
>>18110884
>Bread has yeast
>Parmesan cheese stinks at or above room temperature
>Yeast can gunk up the vents, it can gunk up your fabrics
>Proofer set to ~100°F
Surprise!
Ham smells like unwashed ass when you open the package.
That chemical smell is the Super-Sani sanitizing agent - used for dishes, wiping down tables/the line/service areas, and used for rising the trough at the soda fountain. Also, the Floor Cleaner detergent used for mopping has a particular scent - like the weird plastic toys they had in the classroom for younger elementary school students in the 1990s with a hint of grocery store garden center.

[Anonymous No.18110983]

Here's a no-no you can do with the Cookies, when they've dried up, re-pan them, and toss them in the proofer for a bit. With a cleaned cavity and new water of course.

[Anonymous No.18111017]

>>18110884
I never noticed the meat itself smelling off in anyway. It all smelled like random deli meat. That said the green roast beef we regularly got was less than appetizing

[Anonymous No.18111022]

>>18110983
I use to toss one in the toaster for a few seconds. Made a bastardized chicken kiev that way once as well

[Anonymous No.18111066]

>>18106457
There's subways in fucking RURAL Australia

[Anonymous No.18111100]

>>18106544
>get everything delivered
All opinions immediately discarded

[Anonymous No.18111292]

>>18111022
>chicken kiev, unironically
...do you fantasize about subjecting yourself to cumflation, anon?
>>18110901
>>18111066
Even though it appears crazy on the surface, it costs less to open, operate, and maintain a Subway store than other fastfood chains.
If they're smart and occupy a vacant property, only need hundreds of thousands to cover startup expenses where with a mickey d's you need roughly a million at least to get up and running.
Those hybrid toaster ovens are $5k a pop if it's a new eikon model.

[Anonymous No.18111310]

I actually quite like Potbelly.

[Anonymous No.18111313]

>>18105939
In my hometown, we have a Subway and a mexican restaurant.

[Anonymous No.18111359]

>>18111310
>I actually quite like Potbelly.
Sir, how many raspberry cheesecake cookies have you had tonight?

[Anonymous No.18111385]

>>18111292
>no burners
>no gas
>no raw meat

Babbys first restaurant really.

[Anonymous No.18111448]

>>18110758
white people created the societies everyone else wants to live in. you should thank white people that you are able to enjoy plentiful food at all.

[Anonymous No.18111455]

>>18105873
Nothing will ever top the Seafood Sensation

[Anonymous No.18111466]

>>18110854
So you don't want to recommend and support businesses you enjoy? How long is your ponytail

[Anonymous No.18111472]

Grilled subs:
Penn Station>Potbelly>Capriottis>Jersey Mikes>Firehouse subs

Never get a grilled or toasted sub from chains besides these.

Cold sub:
Jersey Mikes>Dibellas>Capriottis>Jimmy Johns>Firehouse Subs>Subway=Which wich.

All of them are okay though.

[Anonymous No.18111678]

>>18107711
i prefer subway meatball subs over firehouse. Maybe it's just the Canadian location. Maybe I'm just a faggot leaf. Maybe both. I don't know.

Hi Subway sandwich artist, can I get a

>footlong meatball on italian herbs and cheese
>not toasted
>white cheddar
>extra parm
>extra blackpepper
>oregano
>strip of peppercorn ranch sauce
>strip of garlic aoili

Rate my footlong boys

[Anonymous No.18111726]

>>18111678
classic. I get something similar. I don't get ranch. Add black olives and instead of ranch I get a hot sauce or a sriracha mayo

and HOLY FUCK THESE CAPTCHAS ARE GETTING NUTS

[Anonymous No.18111754]

>>18108932
>they don't allow one McDonald's too close to another.
Yeah that's not true at all. In my town there are multiple mcdonalds a mile from each other.

[Anonymous No.18111785]

>>18111754
depends how fat, and shitty your town is. Your probably sucks asshole and is fat as fuck. People probably stop for a hashbrown at one location on the walk to get a mcgriddle at the next one. Reverse order when the shift at the cracker factory ends.