So the time seems right for a good ole fashion Rose Rant.
Today’s target… Subway.
Subway has always teetered on the Rant ready line with me. Mainly because I never seem to pay the same amount for the same thing. Ever. Usually it’s not grumble worthy because it’s with in a dollar variance. But now they have began to mess with my perception of value…
The story begins last week when I went to subway for my usual 6in BLT on flatbread. They put two strips of bacon on it. I am dead serious. Two. I’m not one to argue portion sizes but when an item is significant enough to represent a 1/3 of the sandwich’s name I would expect it to at least contribute 25% to the entire ingredient list of said sandwich (allow a margin of error for bread and condiments.)
I surrender and asked for another portion of bacon knowing full well it would be at a cost. They added two more, and when it was all said and done with a soda and chips my meal cost me 8.00 and change.
So here’s the first thing that rubbed me. The cost of a BLT is 3.50 right? After chips and soda it’s about six so that means I was charged around 2 more dollars for two more strips of bacon… that means 58% percent of the cost of that sandwich is attributed to an ingredient that should normally represent no less than 25-33% of the sandwich but hardly contributed 10% in this particular sandwich.
What kind of bacon racket are they running exactly?
But here’s where the story turns… I went in today. I skipped the disappointment and went ahead and order the six inch BLT with extra bacon. The sandwich artist proceeds to put 8 pieces of bacon on it. Everything proceeded as normal until we went to check out. The grand total… 10 something and change… so I hand them my card and did not question it once. If a sandwich with 4 strips costs 8 then I’m surely winning the king’s ransom with a sandwich with 8 strips at the mere value of 10. Then she stops and says “Wait I’m sorry… It’s 6.33”
So let’s say that subway charges nothing for bread, lettuce, tomato… my first sandwich was roughly 1.37 a slice of bacon… my second sandwich… 0.44 a slice. Madness. Pure. Utter. Madness.
Don’t get me wrong winning the favor of the Bacon King today was sweet victory, but what happens next time the next time I pull the subway trigger? I bet there’s odd running on it in Vegas.
In conclusion it’s not the cost or the accurate Bacon Representation in the BLT… it’s the inconsistency. Is it so much to ask that a sandwich costs the same with the same portion at least… 75% of the time? Subway much like a girlfriend certainly shouldn’t be the crux in destroying budget and diets abound. They just need to make sandwiches.
Today’s target… Subway.
Subway has always teetered on the Rant ready line with me. Mainly because I never seem to pay the same amount for the same thing. Ever. Usually it’s not grumble worthy because it’s with in a dollar variance. But now they have began to mess with my perception of value…
The story begins last week when I went to subway for my usual 6in BLT on flatbread. They put two strips of bacon on it. I am dead serious. Two. I’m not one to argue portion sizes but when an item is significant enough to represent a 1/3 of the sandwich’s name I would expect it to at least contribute 25% to the entire ingredient list of said sandwich (allow a margin of error for bread and condiments.)
I surrender and asked for another portion of bacon knowing full well it would be at a cost. They added two more, and when it was all said and done with a soda and chips my meal cost me 8.00 and change.
So here’s the first thing that rubbed me. The cost of a BLT is 3.50 right? After chips and soda it’s about six so that means I was charged around 2 more dollars for two more strips of bacon… that means 58% percent of the cost of that sandwich is attributed to an ingredient that should normally represent no less than 25-33% of the sandwich but hardly contributed 10% in this particular sandwich.
What kind of bacon racket are they running exactly?
But here’s where the story turns… I went in today. I skipped the disappointment and went ahead and order the six inch BLT with extra bacon. The sandwich artist proceeds to put 8 pieces of bacon on it. Everything proceeded as normal until we went to check out. The grand total… 10 something and change… so I hand them my card and did not question it once. If a sandwich with 4 strips costs 8 then I’m surely winning the king’s ransom with a sandwich with 8 strips at the mere value of 10. Then she stops and says “Wait I’m sorry… It’s 6.33”
So let’s say that subway charges nothing for bread, lettuce, tomato… my first sandwich was roughly 1.37 a slice of bacon… my second sandwich… 0.44 a slice. Madness. Pure. Utter. Madness.
Don’t get me wrong winning the favor of the Bacon King today was sweet victory, but what happens next time the next time I pull the subway trigger? I bet there’s odd running on it in Vegas.
In conclusion it’s not the cost or the accurate Bacon Representation in the BLT… it’s the inconsistency. Is it so much to ask that a sandwich costs the same with the same portion at least… 75% of the time? Subway much like a girlfriend certainly shouldn’t be the crux in destroying budget and diets abound. They just need to make sandwiches.
