Subway: $5 Footlongs and Tiny Sammiches

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I don't know how common this was known, but Subway has actually shrunk the size of their sandwiches to coincide with the $5 footlong deal.

They're still footlongs, y'know - but they portions of meat they put on them shrunk by 1-2 pieces for cold cuts, and an ounce or two for chicken/steak/tuna/whatever.

I noticed this yesterday when I ordered a club and, even though it's been awhile since I ate there, they put two fewer slices of roast beef on it. So I nicely asked about it, starting with the safe assumption that, as a Subway employee, the person making my sandwich was a blithering idiot of Faulknerian proportions.

No, as it turns out, I was wrong. Subway corporate has redrawn sandwich portions to be smaller. As they told me, the footlong roast beef gets a whopping 4 (count 'em! 4!) slices on it.

So, it's still alright. It's still Subway - but be armed with knowledge as a shopper that they're not giving you the same sandwich for $5.
 
Subways used to be great but I haven't been to one for about two years now due to the reason stated in the OP. They jacked up the prices and cut back on the meat/cheese so much that it'd be considered skimpy even for putting in between two pieces of wheat bread.
 
I don't think it's entirely the whole $5 sub thing, but more the introduction of the $1.00 for "extra meat" and the $0.50 for extra cheese a few months back.

When I go there (there's one right near work), I get the Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki. So I should see if the chicken portions are cut.

I always ask for HEAVY jalapeno peppers, which must be why I get the diarrhea. :cool:
 
Well where do you expect them to get the money from to lower thew price to $5? Gas goes up and so everything else does too. Simple economics, they have to make up the money somewhere, every business is feeling the squeeze.
 
[quote name='KillJoi99']Well where do you expect them to get the money from to lower thew price to $5? Gas goes up and so everything else does too. Simple economics, they have to make up the money somewhere, every business is feeling the squeeze.[/QUOTE]

Well, yes, but the promotion is "footlongs for $5!" not "smaller sandwiches!" - so it may be redundant to you, Paul Krugman, but when you're accustomed to a certain level of service and it is secretly changed on you like this, it's nice to know.
 
[quote name='mykevermin']Well, yes, but the promotion is "footlongs for $5!" not "smaller sandwiches!" - so it may be redundant to you, Paul Krugman, but when you're accustomed to a certain level of service and it is secretly changed on you like this, it's nice to know.[/quote]

Well, it really just goes to show that Subway is using this to implement a new policy that will continue to make them money after the $5 footlong promo. They are getting people used to smaller sandwiches.
 
That, too. There's no way I'll buy these sammiches for full price. $5 is cool, but when they go back to near $7-8, not a chance. I hardly paid that much in the first place.
 
[quote name='help1']Well, it really just goes to show that Subway is using this to implement a new policy that will continue to make them money after the $5 footlong promo. They are getting people used to smaller sandwiches.[/QUOTE]

I'm not sure it's a promo anymore - their recent ads make it look like this is a regular part of the menu now.
 
[quote name='Gothic Walrus']I'm not sure it's a promo anymore - their recent ads make it look like this is a regular part of the menu now.[/quote]

It appears that they are offering 8 "classic" subs for $5 each now.
 
[quote name='Maklershed']You guys eat the foot long subs on your own? :whistle2:#[/quote]


I said something similar:

[quote name='help1']Uh, I can never finish a whole footlong anyway, so maybe that is why I never noticed this.[/quote]

But then I realized that the rest of people just throw the rest into the fridge like I do.
 
they just want to "upcharge" you to the "double the meat or double the cheese" portions..IMO its hard to get a sandwich there WITHOUT doubling the meat on it in the first place.. but i can't finish a foot long these days so i just stick with whatever 2.50 6 inch they have on whatever day
 
[quote name='mykevermin']That, too. There's no way I'll buy these sammiches for full price. $5 is cool, but when they go back to near $7-8, not a chance. I hardly paid that much in the first place.[/quote]

The promotion is over, it ended last week. Now they're permanently selling
these for $5. However, theres only 8 different kinds that have this offer. (My aunt works there, lol)
 
It seems to vary by store, the one near me went down to 6 $5 footlongs weeks ago (the subs that were only 5.50 for a footlong before), but others still have them all last I checked.

I haven't tried the quiznos $5 footlongs yet... does that apply to all of their subs, or just regular ones? $5 quiznos footlongs would be awesome if it's any sub.
 
Which is why I bow down to the footlong subs in the grocery store deli. $6, but they're literally two or three meals. Me and Subway don't talk anymore anyway. I don't care if they do have those insanely delicious peanut butter cookies.

Hey, it's lunch and grocery time, too. *runs across the street*
 
They should be even cheaper, or at least be the same size as they used to be. The daily specials were $2.49 for a six inch. Making a footlong is cheaper for them than making two six inches, so why can't a full-size sub be $5? I never understood that.

I used to have to tell them I want two six inch subs (made exactly alike) just because the two daily special 6" were about $2 cheaper than the one 12".


[quote name='VioletArrows']Which is why I bow down to the footlong subs in the grocery store deli. $6, but they're literally two or three meals. Me and Subway don't talk anymore anyway. I don't care if they do have those insanely delicious peanut butter cookies.

Hey, it's lunch and grocery time, too. *runs across the street*[/QUOTE]

I get the 8-inch "Traditional Hoagie" from Safeway, it's $2.99 and about a pound of food, far more filling than a 12" from Subway.
 
I've already stopped going to Subway that much anymore anyway. Jersey Mike's is better for cold subs and Quiznos is better for hot ones.

Subway also recently (like maybe a year ago...) changed the steak they use and their steak and cheese sandwiches are 10x worse IMO.

EDIT: Wawa is great too, can't forget Wawa.
 
I can agree with this. (I was going to say VA-OW-JA but I can't spell it)

I've always ordered the Tuna at Subway like at least twice a month for a long ass time. And I am starting to see them barely filling the melon scooper up. They kind of half ass scrape the side of the Tuna tub. Very suspiciousssss indeeeed. BUT that being said, the $5 footlong thing is great. And I am glad it is really working out for them it shows that lower prices = good!
 
I haven't been to Subway in awhile but I went to Quiznos yesterday and really felt like they should have gave me more turkey for what I paid. I tend think Subway might be actually trying to give the correct serving size for some of these meats to stay a "healthy". Thats why its all iceberg and no meat.

I say if you're too lazy to make your own sandwich, go to a local deli. They always pack on the meat and cheese.
 
There are better places than subway anyway, i don't like the way subway stores smell, i can't explain it, maybe like old vegetables or something.

Theres a local place here that does these steamed hoagie sandwiches that are amazing. They actually make the sandwich cold and then put it in this steamer that warms the bread and meat.
 
[quote name='SpazX']
EDIT: Wawa is great too, can't forget Wawa.[/QUOTE]


yesss!! My BF is a manager there so I'm pretty sick of the food. Wawa is pretty good. It's ashame it's VERY YMMV (I think it's just PA, NJ, DE, and like 2 other states?)
 
[quote name='Moxio']Subway is overrated. There are many ways to eat healthy without paying such a high price. :cool:[/QUOTE]

Pei Wei. 6-7 bucks and you end up with something that'll last two meals easily.

As for Subway, I figured there was something off when the $5 foot long thing started, and now that it's part of the daily menu, thought it would continue. Good to have confirmation - the way food prices are right now, seems like that's the story at most places.

As for idiot employees fucking things up, sad to say that such isn't the case sometimes. There's a local burger joint here that's been a staple for a long time - great big greasy burgers, huge basket of fries, old wooden tables that are full of etchings where people put in their names/initials/etc, and so on. A real joint. A few years ago a new manager rolled into town and took over, and instantly cut back on everything. You could get this stuff called Tijuana Fries, which were fries covered in three types of cheese. It was like tasty lava. Now they put a spat of it in the middle and call it day.

Sad, really.
 
I'm actually surprised (and quite jealous) that Myke was able to hold a conversation with the employee. All the Subways around here have VERY foreign people who own and operate them and I have a hard time ordering and I gotta use the "POINT" method and point to everything and shake my head yes or no.. :bomb:
 
[quote name='anomynous']5 Dollar Footlongs soundls like a porno[/QUOTE]

Starring myself and your mom.

It starts off with me walking into a Subway, saying I have a delivery of meat.
 
[quote name='Strell']Starring myself and your mom.

It starts off with me walking into a Subway, saying I have a delivery of meat.[/QUOTE]

:applause:

well played
 
[quote name='Strell']

As for idiot employees fucking things up, sad to say that such isn't the case sometimes. There's a local burger joint here that's been a staple for a long time - great big greasy burgers, huge basket of fries, old wooden tables that are full of etchings where people put in their names/initials/etc, and so on. A real joint. A few years ago a new manager rolled into town and took over, and instantly cut back on everything. You could get this stuff called Tijuana Fries, which were fries covered in three types of cheese. It was like tasty lava. Now they put a spat of it in the middle and call it day.

Sad, really.[/QUOTE]

They clearly went mad with greed
 
[quote name='Strell']Starring myself and your mom.

It starts off with me walking into a Subway, saying I have a delivery of meat.[/QUOTE]

*enters LB*
 
[quote name='lilboo']I'm actually surprised (and quite jealous) that Myke was able to hold a conversation with the employee.[/QUOTE]

As my 'sandwich artist' was assembling my food, and I'm thinking of how to properly convey that I want a small amount of light mayo (note: "light lite mayo" makes their brains as-plode), and I kept glancing at the employee at the register with their mouth open, cockeyed and staring at nothing/the ceiling and the floor at the same time for about 40 seconds straight.

It's better than the typical "you're fuckin' up my day by making me work" attitude of most service industry employees I encounter these days."

[quote name='Strell']A real joint.[/QUOTE]

I want to say fuck yeah to this notion. Makes me think of the Port of Call restaurant on Esplanade in New Orleans. Dark, dirty, corny, and the kind of place whose aesthetics would make you feel uncomfortable in the "sex-crimes were committed in this room" sort of way if it were an apartment - but since it's a local restaurant that serves huge portions of good comfort food, it just fuckin' works something flawless, man.
 
[quote name='crazytalkx']They clearly went mad with greed[/QUOTE]

I'm just saying, when it's made one way for 20+ years, and then it's changed overnight, you tend to notice. We complained about it to the college boy working the register, and he - in an amazingly surprising show of humanity - actually leveled with us, talking about how the new manager enforced it, it had pissed off lots of customers, and that he himself was sick of having to explain it because even he used to be a regular. He even took it back and made it the way it used to be made.

Just sucks when it's that apparent.

Now that I think about it, there's another place here called Freebird's, which makes these monster giant burritos. You used to be able to get double cheese/beans on them for free if you wanted. Now there's a tiny sign that says "Due to the cost of cheese rising, we have to charge for any extra." Compound this with their cut-back on what a normal amount was. Burritos are still good and almost as filling, except that they also upped the prices recently.

fucking economy.

[quote name='mykevermin']
I want to say fuck yeah to this notion. Makes me think of the Port of Call restaurant on Esplanade in New Orleans. Dark, dirty, corny, and the kind of place whose aesthetics would make you feel uncomfortable in the "sex-crimes were committed in this room" sort of way if it were an apartment - but since it's a local restaurant that serves huge portions of good comfort food, it just fuckin' works something flawless, man.[/QUOTE]

It's a scene, man. Don't go in there and order a salad - you'll get dirty looks. 'Course if you were going there to begin with, I imagine you sealed your culinary fate long in advance.

I mean those Tijuana Fries are something else, so long as you're okay with the 1-2 years of your lifespan they delete.

Sex crimes? Ehh. I definitely know there's been lots of drunk frat boys and hicks around, so I could see that. I could see a brawl being lit up there, too. Which must be hilarious - those tables aren't going to break for shit, so I'd like to see someone astonished when they throw someone into 'em and the table glances back and shits in their face. The giant fireplace might serve as a weapon in and of itself, to say nothing of the odd memorabilia strewn across the walls (stuffed animal heads including a moose, deer, and various ducks, old timey country western paraphranelia such as old tin cans and ranch hand tools, etc).
 
[quote name='mykevermin']

I want to say fuck yeah to this notion. Makes me think of the Port of Call restaurant on Esplanade in New Orleans. Dark, dirty, corny, and the kind of place whose aesthetics would make you feel uncomfortable in the "sex-crimes were committed in this room" sort of way if it were an apartment - but since it's a local restaurant that serves huge portions of good comfort food, it just fuckin' works something flawless, man.[/quote]

That's some Hunter S Thompson like narrative there.

 
[quote name='musha666']Go to Quiznos. There foot longs are $5 now and they have more to them then Subway.[/QUOTE]


Yeah but less selection, local Quiznos only has three subs, ham and swiss, tuna and chedder and turkey and chedder, for some reason they took the roast beef and chedder off the menu . Still even saying that i'll take them over subway
 
[quote name='Brak']I don't think it's entirely the whole $5 sub thing, but more the introduction of the $1.00 for "extra meat" and the $0.50 for extra cheese a few months back.

When I go there (there's one right near work), I get the Sweet Onion Chicken Teriyaki. So I should see if the chicken portions are cut.

I always ask for HEAVY jalapeno peppers, which must be why I get the diarrhea. :cool:[/quote]


Damn microtransactions infecting foodstuffs.

Pretty soon you'll have to buy the almonds for your Almond Joy.
 
Which leaves me one choice where I live: Cousins. Expensive, but good. They don't toast subs though.

Quiznos would be an option, but they got rid of the meatball sub. Makes absolutely no sense.
 
La Pita, the middle eastern place I eat at Wayne State, also upped some of its prices slightly in recent months. The amount of food seems to remain unchanged, though, as my falafel pitas are still stuffed.
 
[quote name='Maklershed']Subways used to be great but I haven't been to one for about two years now due to the reason stated in the OP. They jacked up the prices and cut back on the meat/cheese so much that it'd be considered skimpy even for putting in between two pieces of wheat bread.[/quote]

Totally with you on this one. I used to enjoy Subway years and years ago. They used to be a great sandwich shop. Now they're just crap. Even coupons don't make it worthwhile to eat there. There are so many other, better places anyway. Port of Subs, Quiznos, Firehouse, Jersey Mike's, to name a few.

I hope that Subway turns into the next CompUSA/CC/etc. THey hardly give you anything on their subs anymore. It's incredibly lame.
 
I've never had any problem finishing off a foot ong. even back in the day it's not like they gave you much of a sandwhich.
I'm definately a quiznos man though. toasted is the onyl way to go. sandwhiches are more expensive but worth it.
 
Has anyone here ever heard of "jimmy john's?" One opened here around a year ago, great sandwiches. They have a tough sort of grinder type bread. The sandwiches are fairly big, pretty good prices. Another thing i like is that they deliver.
 
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