Is Subway in trouble?

I had no idea Schlotzky's was still in business. The one I used to frequent went Tango Uniform about 2 1/2 years ago.

 

Schlotzkey's is very active, at least between Houston and Oklahoma City. Don't know about east-west of I-45, but you won't go long without seeing one going N-S.

 

Probalby Mike's Giant Subs or possible John & Mary's - both local Buffalo chains.

 

I ate at Subway several times last month when the spicy Italian sub was on sale for $1.99. I guess this month it's back to bologna, which will severly curtail my Subway dining.

 

I lived off Little Caesar's in high school and college, and thought it was the best chain pizza for the price (plus they had great commercials). I don't know if it's me (maybe it's because I'm now sober when I eat it), or if the quality went down, but it's clearly not what I remembered. Still, it's not bad to get a pizza and order of crazy bread for $7.50. It feeds me, my wife and six-year-old when money is tight.

Minor threadjack: The only thing that gets me about the Little Caesar's around my house though is that they have put out a tip cup. I go in and order a "hot and ready" $5 pizza. The crazy bread is in a little heating caddy next to the register. And they want me to tip them for turning around, picking up a pizza box off the counter and successfully balancing a bag of crazy bread and a cup of sauce on an 18" square. Riiiiiight. Don't get me wrong. I tip well. If dude had brought said order to my house, I'd have thrown in a couple bucks for his trouble. But a tip for doing less work than what someone does for me at McDonalds? No way.

 

They were all over the South, at least my neck of it. Love, love, love their turkey and bacon club on sourdough. Nothing beats that sandwich, although when I think sub I don't think of Schlotzky's. There are sandwich shops, and there are sub shops -- Schlotzky's is the former.

 

Schlotzky's was pretty good. I'm a bigger fan of Roly Poly. Rolled sandwiches and they must have over 100 different ingredients to choose from. Cheaper than Quiznos.

 

Same thing with my local pizza restaurant. Also, McAlister's 'Deli' - more of a sandwich shop - strongly encourages tips. I think any place where you have to stand in line and order your own food should not encourage tips.

 

1. Brooklyn, Sheetz ain't a small regional chain, they're a friggin monster now in the Mid-Atlantic. Try living in Altoona, Pa., their corporate home. Sheetz every mile or so.
2. Wawa >>>>> Sheetz, and I say that without being a Sheetz hater. The breakfast sizzli from Wawa is heaven. The Sheetz menu has expanded, though, and it's closing the gap.
3. Wegman's kicks the crap out of every grocery store in America. Sadly, there are none in the Boston area.
4. Publix is nice, but it's not Wegman's.

 

wow, your favorite sandwich shop is in another country?

 

Don't start hating on Publix. We would get a clown car of copy editors together and roll up to Publix for dinner back in the day. And they they would go cut the meat fresh at the deli counter, not the pre-sliced crap that's been sitting in a cooler at Subway for a decade. I've had a few less-than-stellar experiences at Subway in the last year and don't eat there anymore.

I miss the old days at Subway, when they would take the bun and cut the sliver out of the middle and then stuff everything inside. Not this newfangled method, which I guess they've been doing for about a decade now.

 

I remember Publix for always screwing up at the checkout line to my detriment. And TP, I didn't say "Colombia," which I think is the country that Mayfly's last lay came from.