Subway out of bread!

[JenCdn]

Unacceptable

As a Subway Manager, I can understand running out of lettuce, or cookies, or bacon. But bread? How can you even be open without bread?
There must've been some serious chain of events leading up to that one.
...speechless.

[draftermatt]

Holy Threadbump Batman!

Seriously though, during my 2 month tenure at BK 8 years ago we ran out of ALL burgers. We had chicken & fish but no beef.

Got a lot of "How does BK run out of Burgers!?!?!?!"

The delivery truck was about 6 hours late that day, that's how. It sucked, but I was trying so hard to sell the one burger we did have, until the manager told me to stop trying to sell it and throw it away.

[coolcuziknit]

That's like when KFC runs out of chicken. I know it happens, but it seems weird. It's chicken, it's what they do!

[Spiffy McMoron]

So then I decided to go tanning, and figured, well, Arby's opens at 9:30 around here....so afterwards, I pull up there in the drive-thru, and this overbearingly loud young woman's voice blares "WE DON'T OPEN UNTIL 10 AM!" so I drive away, and while I do, I see cars parked in the parking lot, and I see some elderly people sitting in the dining room. Closed, my ass. They probably just didn't feel like doing anything other than making coffee. The Arby's in my parents' town opens at 9:30...I realize times can differ, but if there are cars in the lot and people in the dining room, don't shoo someone away.

Hmm...missed this one on the first time around. Thread bumps for the win!

To be fair to the people at Arby's, I know of several fast-food resturants that have different hours for their drive-throughs and the sit-down resturant. This is because the manager can't hire (or keep) enough people to run all of the tills at a certain time, so instead of changing the hours for the whole store, they half-open it. This might have been one of those places.

[IvorTangrean]

Hmm...missed this one on the first time around. Thread bumps for the win!

To be fair to the people at Arby's, I know of several fast-food resturants that have different hours for their drive-throughs and the sit-down resturant. This is because the manager can't hire (or keep) enough people to run all of the tills at a certain time, so instead of changing the hours for the whole store, they half-open it. This might have been one of those places.

Yes but most of the time it is the drive-through open and the dining room closed. Less work to clean and safer for the employees. With that some times you can get really nice people, there is a Wendys in the parking lot of my work and I went over for a burger to find the dining room closed and they have a no walk-through policy. So what happens but just as I go to leave one poke her head out the door and says " You work at [store] don't you?". She let me in after hours and sold me a burger, I was very happy and pleasantly surprised.

[MandaDawn]

Sorry but when I worked at Subway the dough cames in frozen logs that you put out in the proofer? they thaw and then get put in to bake...feel sorry for that girl probably the night close should have pulled the dough and didnt wich means she has to wait for it to thaw and rise to bake it..it sucks..good job you didnt snap on her...just thinking like a SC doenst make you one.

Yep... I work at Subway and while this hasn't happened to me, it has happened to people I know. Of course it could potentially be like what happened to my friend the other night--she has worked at Subway for one week and was closing with no one but a girl who has been there for two days. Neither one of them knew how to make bread and when I got there to ask her a question at 8:30 PM they had nothing but a few six inches left.

I ran in the back and made bread (something like 24 pans altogether) and taught her how to do it... The next morning her manager called mine and we both got written up (a "customer" complained--more likely a co-worker who came in and saw me back there). But that's more in the 'co workers/managers' suck category (though mine didn't want to write me up, the area supervisor would've gotten her in trouble if she didn't).

And yes, we have run out of bread many a time--usually by Sunday night we have one or two boxes of each left (our trucks come on Wedsndays). It seems like we're always running out of one type of bread, especially on weekends when my manager doesn't open/is off Sunday and the people who do work don't want to do their job properly.

Anyway, yes running out of bread sucks but it really does happen and is not always for sucky reasons. They could have been waiting for bread borrowed from another store to be brought to them also.

[Andara Bledin]

The next morning her manager called mine and we both got written up (a "customer" complained--more likely a co-worker who came in and saw me back there).

Waitaminute... Nobody bothered to train the only two people on shift how to make the bread, and when you do it on your off time, the two of you get written up.

I'd be contesting that till the cows come home.

^-.-^

[AKWalMartCartGuy]

I don't eat vegetables or anything "low carb".

+1. that's not food, that's what food eats

Waitaminute... Nobody bothered to train the only two people on shift how to make the bread, and when you do it on your off time, the two of you get written up.

I'd be contesting that till the cows come home.

^-.-^

if they don't discipline people for working off the clock they are opening themselves up to the lawsuits associated with people voluntarily working off the clock and then suing. I can't say for sure, but I can't see why Subway wouldn't have a sheet to fill out for cases like that with the times you worked, at wal mart you either fill out a sheet or do an ETA(Electronic Time Adjustment) on the computer, then you have to have your manager sign the sheet or approve the ETA, so maybe a sheet should have been filled out but wasn't


it was beyond effed up of the manager to leave 2 new people alone, why would anyone even think that could possible end in a manner that wouldn't completely suck?