"You mean you don't give a student discount?! BUT YOU'RE INSIDE A STUDENT CENTRE!!!!"

[Digitalpotato]

As you can tell from that thief who tried to steal from my backpack (Not the first time I've had someone steal from me. oh well I had my revenge last spring when someone stole my OJ that I took a drink out of when I had a cold.) school has started up for me. With a new batch of freshmen comes a new batch of people who assume that because the businesses NEAR the school offer free stuff for students, that the businesses INSIDE The school offer a discount for them.

that's not how it works. It is not economical to do that. Even the bookstore isn't allowed to give a discount to university workers that don't work in the bookstore. (Even professors will have to pay full price.) Student Discounts are only done by places that get enough business outside of students to be able to afford such a thing. (Because if you walk into the Subway that DOES give student discounts...there are plenty of non-student-customers that don't engage in the act of bargain-diving)


And why won't the Subway do student discounts or give drinks? Because we actually wind up LOSING money on occasion because of that stupid $5 footlong deal where Mayonnaise Monsters and the Pickles Anonymous crew would put about $5 on them on a normally $7 sub and then $15 worth of veggies. (Not including the Chicken Fetish Club.) Not surprisingly after a day of over 500 sandwiches (At least 300 of them being Chicken Bacon Ranches or Teriyaki) we wind up making a much smaller profit than you think.



Bonus complaint: I dislike saying this at least 5 times a day but the cup you get with the meal deal is the 21 oz one. Sure, nto everyone knows this, but you'd think that since they're conveniently labeled that people would think those are the 21 oz cups instead of the 44 oz cups I have to keep tellign them to put back.

[Anriana]

$15 of veggies? Was that hyperbole? I can't imagine how that would even fit.

[TheTigress]

I swear every time I read one of your posts I learn a new awesome phrase. "Pickles Anonymous Crew" = Win. Chicken Fetish Club is already catching on with the co-workers at my store.

[smileyeagle1021]

$15 of veggies? Was that hyperbole? I can't imagine how that would even fit.

scarily, depending on location, that might not be that much of hyperbole... if you are in an area that is far from any major farming centers (say Utah), fresh produce does get costly due to shipping costs... that said, I still think it's a stretch.

[Samaliel]

Never underestimate the idiocy of the customer.

I remember reading on these boards a story about a customer who asked for about every available items to be put in their sub and then complained that it would overflow.

So I can quite see someone asking for 15$ worth of vegetables... Cause it's free, and it would be a shame to waste on such a bargain, wouldn't it?

[rerant]

Who the hell needs 44oz of pop?
Gut rot, anyone?

[EricKei]

Agreed; it's not that hard. People who pile on the veggies generally aren't asking for full heads of lettuce.

Tomatoes can get pricey in a hurry; anything pickled tends to be expensive as well. Waaaaay back at DaddyJim's piza, japalenos and banana peppers were-- by far -- the most expensive toppings. Anchovies were high, as well. That's part of the reason why you don't get many of them on a pizza. The next worst offender was Pepperoni, but it was cheap compared to those three.

Cheese...oy. That sucked, too. Our cost (early 2000's, before dairy prices skyrocketed) averaged out to more or less a dollar per cup when you take labor/waste into account...which means that we sold it at cost. We paid, at the time, a random price of $25~45 per box of cheese (it vacillated seemingly at random)-- which is 40 cups, or 20 large pies, assuming no "extra cheese" orders (paid for or otherwise), and no waste.

[Geek King]

Who the hell needs 44oz of pop?
Gut rot, anyone?

Its so cute when they're innocent. rerant, when I worked midnights at the print shop, it was normal for me to go through a two liter of Dew in a night, plus water runs, and sometimes hit the machine for another 20-oz or two. I've cut back quite a bit now, but you'd be surprised how much you can drink when it sweats right back out, even in the dead of winter's night. No gut rot so far, but I have a lovely caffine addiction.

[StanFlouride]

Who the hell needs 44oz of pop

Besides Abby Sciuto?

[rerant]

Its so cute when they're innocent. rerant, when I worked midnights at the print shop, it was normal for me to go through a two liter of Dew in a night, plus water runs, and sometimes hit the machine for another 20-oz or two. I've cut back quite a bit now, but you'd be surprised how much you can drink when it sweats right back out, even in the dead of winter's night. No gut rot so far, but I have a lovely caffine addiction.

Groooooooss!
Go team water! Or vodka, but I can't have that at work.


Yet.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I used to go through a 44 or 48 or whatever-ounce soda per 8-hour shift when I was working third shift. I'd stop at the convenience store every night before work to make sure I had an adequate supply of caffeine on hand.

Couldn't do energy drinks--those made me crash. Hard.

Now that I'm back on days I have an aluminum water bottle that I tote along with me. When I go back on third shift in November for a few days to get through Black Friday I'll probably be OD'ing on the caffeine again just to stay awake.

Back to the original subject--I get onions, green peppers, tomatoes, lettuce and pickles on my Subway subs. And Chipotle southwest sauce. It never ends up being all that messy.

[Soulstealer]

Groooooooss!
Go team water! Or vodka, but I can't have that at work.


Yet.

That's why you get a water bottle that you can't see the contents off either because it isn't see through or some sort of colour that discolours the contents to anyone looking at it.

For example my purple water bottle makes it look like I have grape juice for the darker liquids (it was soda, not that anyone cared so long as I didn't spill on the computer).

[Digitalpotato]

I swear every time I read one of your posts I learn a new awesome phrase. "Pickles Anonymous Crew" = Win. Chicken Fetish Club is already catching on with the co-workers at my store.

thanks. XD

Man I didn't know the Chicken Fetish club was so widespread.