Back in July, Lefthandedtoons drew a cartoon mocking how Subway has triangle cheese, but never arranges it in a rhombus on the sandwich. Instead, Subway invariably lays it in a razorback formation, which the cartoonist felt led to "unnecessary dairy overlap" and "soul-crushing disappointment."
Amused, a UK subway worker printed out the cartoon at work. His boss was not amused and hung the above sign in the storage room, which reads, "Cheese triangles need to be placed [drawing of razorback formation] -> this will promote the need for customers to desire extra cheese - as it doesn't cover whole sandwich. Double cheese [picture of double razorback] = 40 p extra!"
Subway: A Method to Their Cheesy Madness [Left-Handed Toons]
PREVIOUSLY: Dear Subway, Please Use Your Isosceles Cheese Correctly
They wanted to charge you for pickles? lol...most people are happy to get rid of them (personally I lvoe them, dipped in honey mustard ;)
I went to a place once (locally owned) that tried to charge me extra for NOT getting lettuce on my sub, something about how they had to add extra meat b/c of there not being lettuce or some such nonsense. I left.
]]>Actually, 2 slices IS the correct amount of cheese on a 6", unless you want to be charged extra.
I'm not a Subway defender, I just used to work there in high school. :)
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For as many times as I've had a Subway sandwich (and personally I think they're delicious), I've never stopped the "sandwich artist" in the middle of his or her masterpiece and shouted "STOP!! Oh my god, there's not enough cheese on my sandwich, please, give me twice as much!"
@Buran: Yankees suck, Jets suck, Knicks suck.
Krypton sucks.
]]>Jesus! Is it TOO much to ask for consumers to NOT be manipulated & scammed out of every nickel & dime possible by slimy POS marketeers & the POS businesses who employ them?
Seems you cant walk out the door without being constantly manipulated in one way or another by some POS trying to squeeze that last penny out of one's wallet.
Makes me feel like more of a victum than a consumer making a fair trade/square deal purchase.
This has got to be the most hilarious and insane post in the history of consumerist.
]]>I don't get why people feel the need to come in here and say "xxx sucks" almost as much as they blame the victim. Not singling you out here, but ... why?
]]>My Subway Trick: Never get lettuce. They pile that crap on there and put nothing else on your sandwich. Leave it off, and get cucumbers and spinach instead. Some workers will load up on other ingredients because the sandwich looks so barren without a mountain of lettuce on it.
The Trick Subway should do: 1 out of every 20 sandwiches, they should 'accidentally' make it double meat. Subconsciously, people have a very strong attachment to random reward. People will remember that double meat BMT, and start to crave it, ordering more sandwiches in hopes of getting another double meat (consciously, or subconsciously), or they start ordering double meat, which carries a nice margin for Subway.
]]>Those ads with that mangy rat-monkey-hamster-possum thing didn't help that perception.
]]>@Cowboys_fan: If you can manage to cut a square piece of cheese in nhalf diagonally and get two equilateral triangles, you have done an end run around the rules of geometry. Congratulations.
]]>You can give Subway to me free and I'll just feed to my dog and maybe he'll eat it. Togo's is so much better.
]]>I believe the triangles are supposed to be equilateral and not isosceles
]]>"sanctioned method for cheese placement" -- is it just me or does that sounds like something from General Petraeus' testimony about Iraq :) ?
]]>Once again, the Consumerist applies an isolated incident in a franchise (in the UK, even!) to an entire chain.
]]>To the poster that said that they had asked the cashier if the cheese cost the same:
The shredded cheese may be a more costly cheese to buy for subway but they still charge the customer the same amount. Therefore, the shredded cheese is still more expensive (cutting down profits) than the less expensive triangles
]]>Then again I haven't been to Subway much after their universal BOGO free coupon expired.
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Razorback advantage: if you open-face it, squint just so and move the sandwich laterally across your field of vision holding the 'wich parallel with the ground, it almost looks like a dragon flying past you.
Okay, I'm still in mourning that J K Rowling finished Book 7.
awesome!
]]>Screw it, I'm going with Quiznos. Nothing can be a Turkey, Bacon, and Guac on wheat. Nothing.
]]>The up down up down cheese is not visually appealing and smacks of OCD, doesn't it?
If corners weren't visually appealing, hamburger places would have circular cheese.
]]>At least Subway will tell you what is in your sandwich - extra cheese or not.
Since Quizno's will not share their ingredient information with the public, I have to assume there's something very disgusting about their sandwich contents. I liked the taste of their veggie sandwich, but after getting sick after both of my visits, I asked for nutritional/ingredient information. They acted like I was asking for an Iraq troop withdrawal plan.
]]>Normally if I ask for extra pickles most places are delighted to pile them on, so I paid the extra dollar because I really just wanted my sandwich, and they put four more pickles on. At that point I decided I wasn't paying them for anything, so I had them add ten dollars of pickles, then I told them I didn't want the sandwich and left.
]]>Every time I've gone into a subway, the service and food has taken a step down hill. When they first came to the area they would add extra meat or cheese if you asked, especially if you didn't get veggies or anything else on it. Now you're lucky to get what's supposed to be on there. The one near my second job consistently holds back on the cheese and I have to constantly remind them that it's supposed to be 3 triangles, not 2 on the 6"
]]>Quizno's is nasty.
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@mrmysterious: Actually I've started having problems doing that. I went to Subway this Sunday to get a sub. I always get the shredded mixed cheese on my sub because... well, that's the cheese I want. So I ordered my usual and when I asked for shredded mixed cheese I got the reply "They stopped letting us use the shredded mixed cheese. They say it costs too much."
I damned well know that the mixed cheese costs as much as the normal triangles of cheese. Why? My best friend used to work there and did the orders, and I hung around Subway religiously (it was the only place to hang out in my teen years). Plus I bothered to ask the lady if they didn't still cost the same.
Point being... cheese conspiracy at Subway. Jared is hoarding all the cheese.
@mammalpants: He wouldn't order cheese.
]]>Quiznos...they of screw-the-franchisee record?
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This is just another piece of evidence in what I believe is a vast cheese conspiracy.
]]>Those bloody bastards!!....I knew it!
]]>This doesn't surprise me. What does surprise me is that my cynical mind never figured that out.
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It will promote the desire for extra cheese for people who want extra cheese. I, for one, don't want that much cheese.