Taste the sandwiches.

So I haven't posted in awhile but its not because I haven't been writing or reviewing sandwiches. I have a lot of back log stuff I plan to push out this weekend and on to next week

Sub Club Cards and Characters

According to wikipedia - "In early June 2005, Subway announced that the popular customer rewards program would be phased out due to counterfeiting. Another reason, which was not stated by the company, for the discontinuation of the program was that there was a large amount of internal theft of stamps by Subway employees and affiliates, including the sale of rolls of the stamps online at places such as eBay. Officially the Sub Club program has been discontinued in the US and Canada by Doctor's Associates[12], but additional markets have also made local decisions to discontinue the program."

When I worked there we accepted club cards and I'm here to tell you the real deal behind the phasing out of these cards. First off, Subway pays their workers minium wage, or pretty close to it. They also make their workers work almost every single holiday. You local subway is always open on Christmas when even Burger King is closed.

So it's no surprise to me that employees were selling rolls of the stamps on ebay, got to pay the bills and if you work at subway you are working paycheck to paycheck. I really think that if subway paid their workers even just a $1.50 a more an hour, service would be better, and they wouldn't have so many workers stealing things. I saw full bags of chicken terriyaki being stolen out of the back freezer, by disgruntled workers who knew they were getting screwed over and took matters into their own hands.

Hello Subway wake up and pay your people better you'd be surprised what a little money love would do for employee moral, service, and quality. Stop spending money on those stupid Jared commercials and pay your people better!

Review #3 Donatos Big Don Italian Sub.

I really like donatos pizza and I thought if I love their pizza will I love their subs? I just so happen to have a dollar off coupon on the fridge, which when I paid for the sub even though I came and picked it up I gave them a dollar tip. I figured if I'm going to write about them and I got a dollar off might as well. Anyway I got the sub home opened up the box and positioned it to see the insides and took the picture to the right.

I was surprised by what I saw. I really enjoyed the fact they they don't fluff their subs. Fluffying meaning that they just laid the meat down and didnt try to plump it up to look larger than what it is by curling or laying methods. Also they don't over do on the lettuce. One thing I hate is when sub shops want the sub to look larger so they add double the lettuce needed. Nice try coporate owners but I'm on to you , I know the lettuce trick. Anyway back to the review, the roma tomatoes were nice, jucy and red, as the yellow peppers added great flavor without overpowering the sandwich. The meat was a bit salty, that is expected with these types of meats. Ham and Salami are always salty.

I would have liked the cheese to be a little bit more melty and the ends of the bread to have more substance, as the ends ended up being more like pizza crust The bread was good and toasty and I loved the cornmeal bottom. All the ingredients were good, and the over all taste was wonderful.

4.0 stars It's a good italian sub from a pizza joint. Not the best I've ever had but decent with good quality ingredience and a nice toasty bread with a cornmeal bottom

More challenge talk.

A friend in the food service industry told me that I'd have a harder time then I think trying to get the subshops to add my own cheese. After reviewing his thoughts it made sense. I too still hold a food handlers license and if approached I would probably tell them that they can add their own cheese after I make. We don't have cheese waivers. I couldn't put it on the sandwich for safety reasons not for customer service reasons. Shops are required to keep meats and cheese at a certain tempeture or out of the danger zone. Putting unknown cheese on a sandwich is a liabilty.

So I'm trying to figure out what to do with the challenge. I want to keep it but I don't know how to score it. Customer service, or health issue. Maybe there is a right answer to this question.

annoying customer questions

Okay people read the menu! The most annoying customers are those that ask the lamest questions and when you work that type of job you really cant tell them to go fuck themselves while shoving a sandwich up their ass.

Here for your enjoyment are 3 of the lamest questions ever.

Q. - What comes on a BLT?

Q. - Does cheese come on a cheese steak sub?

Q. - What price is that tukey sub? while pointing at the menu that clearly has the price listed

Publix Ham and Swiss review

I had to go grocery shopping anyway and I thought why not kill two birds with one stone. I have had a publix sub before, they use boars head meat which is portioned out ahead of time, and your choice of a few cheeses and toppings. For this I chose mayo, lettuce, tomato, green pepper and banana pepper. seasoned with pepper and oil and vinegar.

No salt, the meat has enough salt in it and it doesn;t need anymore.

I knew before hand that I liked publix subs. They provide you will good quality ingredients. Boarshead meat, and an outstanding bread with just the right texture. I've had okay sandwiches there put together by the unknowing or a few not so good ones.

Publix is a good example of a template sub place, meaning that you are always assured decent ingredients but it is who puts them together that makes the different.

I was greated by a very extroverted fellow who was more than pleasent. He made note of my MIT shirt. Yes I was bumming it this sunday in a pair of old jeans and an oversized M.I.T. shirt. He striked up some good conversation out of that, picking my brain and being quite likable. Mike was so likable that I almost didn't care how he was making my sub.

He effortlessly put it together, only within conversation asking me what I wanted. I was pulling for him to put it together well , as Mike was very likable and easy going. I didn't want to have to report bad things about him. He just made it seem so damn easy. I did notice that he did the knife trick. That is a trick known by sandwich chefs as "packing it in". you take the knife and press it in so that the toppings get compacted and don't fall out.

I wasn't conviced until I ate it. I have to say hands down best publix sub I've ever eaten. The ingredients where evenly spread, and it was just the right amount of toppings. The oil and vinegar was just enough to wet the sandwich without making it soggy.

It was more than I thought it would be. Mike had done a great job combining customer service with sandwich sculpure expertise.

This sandwich gets a rating of 4.0 out of a possible 5.2.

Monthly Challenge

I had a recent thought which I really hate but it would make for some great writing. A challenge for myself. A monthly challenge to put into play some theories that need to be tested. The reason I hate this thought is because I want to be nothing my nice to the workers and be the easiest customer of the day, but the challenges may mean that I can't be that way. I will start off easy and get harder. So far my ideas are.

1. Tackling the subway cheese issue. Task level: Easy. Challenge is all about getting the sandwich artist to alternate my cheese so that it makes 2 squares instead of 4 triangles.

2. Bringing in my own cheese. Task level: Easy to low medium. Challenge involves going to 3 different sandwich shops with my own cheese and seeing if they will put my own cheese on my sandwich.

3. The picky eater challenge. Task level: medium. Challenge involves 2 shops to see if being a picky eater is problematic. Each shop will see a easy goinging person and each shop will see a picky person asking for special care to determine who each is handled.

4. The bitch. Task level: Hard. Challenge takes 2 subshops and on first occasion is nice, and on second is a complete bitch from start to finish.

I really do hate these challenges but I said I wanted a good sandwich blog so here we go. Challenge once starts April 1st.