I worked at a Subway from Feb 93 to May 94. Probably the most fun I've ever had at work. I was super fast and put on a lot of things when people asked for a lot of things. When I ask for extra pickles, people never put enough pickles on. So I figured when people ask me for extra whatever, I'd load em up. You want extra tomatoes, here's 20 slices of tomato for ya. The people loved it. I got tips. Customers would request me to make their sandwich. When ran a pretty loose ship in the evening times and it wasn't a smoke free like place like most fast food places were by that time. So we had plenty of kids hanging out all evening. The place smelled like a hippie. We'd give kids free food if they cleaned up the dinning area. It was a great job....if only they paid more. (though it was more than minimum wage)
Subway has always made me mad, to the point now that I've stopped going. Let's say you go in there and you just want a de-facto sandwich that is supposedly on the menu. Ain't gonna happen.
"So yeah, let me get the sweet onion chicken teriyaki on such and such bread."
"So what do you want on it?"
"Uh, as advertised."
"So what do you want on it?"
"I want the sandwich you're selling on the menu."
"I'm sorry, we don't know what's in that sandwich."
I don't know if it's that so many people like to be creative in how they order or if all Subway employees are just stupid, but this has been the conversation I've had in at least 4 Subways in my area (I should check out the other 10). It got to the point where it was infuriatingly funny, where I'd go in and try to start up this exact conversation because I knew they were going to be idiots and that Subway apparently doesn't teach its employees how to make anything other than a basic sandwich. If I'm in a hurry, I don't want to pick out every single element of my sandwich - If I have to build it, might as well stay at home and save the money. What are all those pictures and prices for, anyway?
They were looking for you to say, "oh, tomatoes, lettuce...maybe a little mayo....". If I was working and you came in, I'd turn around and look at the picture and try and match that.
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