Subway Suck, the Pizza Edition (and more short tales)

[TheTigress]

The main tale happened 3 days ago while on my shift. (the Pizza story) The others more recently.

Saturday was a really busy day up until 5 pm. (was so thankful I came in at 3 so I only had to deal with the tail end of the rushes) We get a huge rush all of a sudden and the next guy I helped wanted about 3 footlongs *and* a pizza. Yippy for me....

I went ahead and got his sandwiches started first since the pizzas take much longer to toast. Once I had the meats and cheese on his sandwiches I asked him the following question regarding his pizza:

Me: For your pizza do you want cheese or pepperoni? (as in a cheese pizza or a pepperoni pizza)

SC: Cheese.

So I went ahead and sprinkled the handful of mozzarella cheese on his pizza. I even went out of my way and gave him some of our monterey cheddar shredded cheese on top of it for good measure.

As I got all 3 of his footlongs in the toaster, his SC started showing.

SC: What about my pizza?!

Me: I'm toasting the sandwiches first and will toast your pizza as soon as they are out.

SC: Where's my pepperoni?!! (Oh great, I have one of THESE on my hands)

Me: You said you wanted a cheese pizza.

SC: AND PEPPERONI!

Me: When I asked you you told me cheese and I did not hear you say pepperoni. (I wanted to say "You didn't say you wanted pepperoni, asshat, you told me CHEESE when I asked you!")

SC: Grumble grumble I wanted pepperoni too!

Me: (throws some pepperoni on his pizza and moves him down the assembly line)

Idiot.

This next one happened yesterday. A lady gave me the cat butt face because I did not "zig zag" her Dijon mustard apparently. Apparently such an offense is worth a "cat butt face".

The Subway formula for sauces is to make "3 passes" of sauce on the meat side of the sandwich. (one long line across the sandwich, then back the other way and then the opposite way once more.) Just like an elongated "Zorro" style Z pattern on the sandwich.

This lady tells me she wants her mayo "zig zagged", (going up and down repeatedly across the sandwich) so I did how she asked for her mayo, and then she tells me she also wants dijon mustard, but DIDN'T say she wanted that zig zagged too, so I assume she didn't.

I put the dijon mustard on the "Subway normal formula" way and immediately I had the biggest cat butt starting directly at me.

I was thinking to myself, "If non sig zagged mustard was the biggest problem in my life right now, I'd be in very good shape."

The last one:

We no longer accept any currency over a $20 bill because counterfeit $50's and $100's have been a huge problem in our town lately. (I completely agree with the rule not only for that reason but because it's a huge pain in the ass when we end up having no change in our till from the people who want to pay for 5 dollar sandwiches with $100 dollar bills!)

We have an "official Subway" sign stating this right next to the bread choices sign/picture on the sneeze guard. Eye level.

But you know SCs and how they don't read signs!

Two people in two days have "failed" to see this sign and tried handing me $50 dollar bills for payment. One of them got extremely huffy and defensive and claimed "That's all I've got!" but then right after saying that said "I guess I'll have to use my debit card!" and handed me his debit card.

[blas]

I feel so bad for people at Subway.

This past Saturday, the last time I went there, both the lady before me and I got really simple subs. The girl behind the counter looked almost astounded, and said "I wish everyone were this easy to please!"

Maybe she said it because we are both regulars (I see the other lady there almost every Saturday that I go to Subway. She goes there in her scrubs so I assume she's a nurse on lunch break).

[4love]

I really like the people at the two local Subways. The only direction I ever give them, aside from the necessary, is an occasional "just a little bit of mustard, please" (i.e., a single pass instead of three). Depends on which sandwich I'm getting.

Anyway, they're all very good. Quick, accurate, friendly.

I've never tried a Subway pizza. How are they?

[Digitalpotato]

The Subway pizzas are alright. But not the best.


Oh lord it makes me thankful that we don't have Pizzas. We don't carry pizzas for numerous reasons:

1) There's a pizza place right next door. And we're not allowed competition because seriously, if Subway had pizzas, the pizza place would go out of business.
2) Due to how busy it is it'd take too long.
3) I think the regional manager said that several subways were stopping doing the pizzas anyways.


And thank god I haven't gotten the people who've tried to pay for a cookie with a $100. >.<

[CruiseShipGirl]

I worked at Subway a few years ago for 6 months. Some seriously sucky customers. I didn't even know they had pizza now. Glad it wasn't around when I was working. I still always cringe when I think about how many people came in during the hottest time of the year and were pissed off that we didn't have hot soup (only during fall and winter months, people!)

[Ben_Who]

I actually quite like Subway's pizzas, but there's an unpleasant little franchise near the shopping center that never puts the finished pizza on the wax paper when they box it up. The result is a pizza that tastes like the box.

Love, Who?