Not toasted!

[gerund]

Yesterday I wanted a Sub for lunch, so I went to the nearest way of the sub to me. There was a new girl on. She looks like a drug addict. Skinny pale (almost transparent) tattoos and a dead look in her eyes.

M: Footlong Italian herbs and spices turkey and ham please.
(I moved to stand in front of the cheese)
DA: Did you say turkey and ham?
(I look back and she has some turkey on the sub)
M: Yes please.
DA: Toasted?
M: No thanks.
(She puts the rest of the meat on)
DA: Cheese?
M: Swiss thanks
(She puts the cheese on)
DA: Toasted?
M: No thanks.
(I move on to the salads and see her take my sub towards the toaster.)
M: Not toasted! NOT toasted! NOT TOASTED! NOT TOASTED!
(She finally takes notice and comes back with my untoasted sub - but she had it in the toaster.)

The rest was easy because I have all salads. But really? The attention span of a gnat?

[notalwaysright]

I haven't been to a sub place in a long time, but I remember once being with some friends up North, and the lady kept putting cheese on everyone's sandwich without asking. I didn't bother saying anything, because I wanted cheese anyway, but my friend had a hard time getting her to stop. "No cheese... No, not a different cheese, no cheese at all. No, it doesn't come with cheese!" (The lady said that a turkey sandwich always came with cheese...) The vast majority of the time I've never had any issues, so I remember that one time.

[Seanette]

Maybe the sandwich wasn't toasted, but sounds like the "sandwich artist" was.

[Monterey Jack]

I haven't been to a sub place in a long time, but I remember once being with some friends up North, and the lady kept putting cheese on everyone's sandwich without asking. I didn't bother saying anything, because I wanted cheese anyway, but my friend had a hard time getting her to stop. "No cheese... No, not a different cheese, no cheese at all. No, it doesn't come with cheese!" (The lady said that a turkey sandwich always came with cheese...) The vast majority of the time I've never had any issues, so I remember that one time.

I always get this when I order at Subway...the employee will always seem really surprised when I tell them that I just want turkey and bacon, NO cheese, NOTHING ELSE.

[drjonah]

They get shocked at me when I don't want ten thousand vegetables on my Meatball sub.

[Monterey Jack]

They get shocked at me when I don't want ten thousand vegetables on my Meatball sub.

What's the point of a sandwich that's so crammed with veggies, meat and condiments that it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to actually close the damn thing? If you want that much damn stuff it in, just buy two sandwiches and have a regular amount in each.

[icmedia]

I think it's just a Subway-wide thing about the toaster; I travel a lot for work, and no matter what city or state I am in, the Subway employees always look at me like I have 3 heads when I say I don't want it toasted. Most repeat, "not toasted?" and many still act like they're going to toast it anyways because I obviously couldn't not want it toasted.

[gerund]

look at me like I have 3 heads when I say I don't want it toasted. Most repeat, "not toasted?"

That is really strange because the main selling point is they bake the bread fresh during the day. Do you want fresh bread toasted? The only reason I toast bread is if it is stale and toasting it make it taste nice again.

[greek_jester]

That is really strange because the main selling point is they bake the bread fresh during the day. Do you want fresh bread toasted? The only reason I toast bread is if it is stale and toasting it make it taste nice again.

Mild point of order; if I've got something with cheese on such as the meatball sub or one of the melts, it doesn't taste the same if it's "raw". Something like a beef salad with mayo? Why the frilly heck would you toast that? The Subway employee actually did that to me once when I turned away to answer a question from a work colleague, so I made her re-make the sub.

[An Haddock]

I don't like cheese on hot roast beef sandwiches... and despite my saying this, half the time it doesn't sink in. I finally had to start saying something to the effect of: "And no cheese because if there's cheese on there I'll end up in the emergency room"

Which isn't true, but it's the only way to make sure people listen.

[cindybubbles]

All of my subs are toasted and with cheese because that's how I like them. Sometimes they offer me different varieties of cheese, and sometimes, they don't, but I don't care.

[notalwaysright]

When I used to get sandwiches, I never ever got them toasted. It's not that I don't like hot sandwiches, I do! However, I was buying a sandwich for lunch... Lunch that I wouldn't eat for several hours. So I want a cold sandwich. I never had any trouble with the Way of Sub in this regard, but it's been years since I regularly got subs. I'm not sure why they would suddenly have gotten pushy about this. One thing that I really liked about them was that you could get your sandwich exactly the way you wanted. Mine was fairly boring, and nobody cared. Foot long turkey on white, cheddar, lettuce, olives, mayo, extra mustard.

...Now I want sandwiches.

[Ironclad Alibi]

What's the point of a sandwich that's so crammed with veggies, meat and condiments that it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to actually close the damn thing? If you want that much damn stuff it in, just buy two sandwiches and have a regular amount in each.

I always thought the people who did this later took the veggies off and had them as a side salad with the sandwich. Of course since that is a logical thought, they probably don't do that.

[Teefies2]

I often get a BLT before I go into work, to eat later at work. Every single time, the sandwich artist heads towards the toaster. I say NOT TOASTED, NOT TOASTED, etc. They look at me like I just spit in their Wheaties :/ "Ma'am you want COLD bacon on this???????"

No, no I don't. But I'm not going to eat it now. I will heat up the bacon at work before I eat it ... I *PROMISE* Really, I promise!!!! Why do they feel the need to comment on your culinary preferences?? It's not that hard - make the sandwich (or product, or service) the way the customer wants it. Jeesh!

And before anyone gets upset, I work in retail. I wait on customers ALL day long, in a drugstore. I see some really strange things, believe me. But I do NOT comment on those things that seem strange to me. It's not my job. My job is to serve you, in the way you want, to the best of my ability (and within the limits of the law). Trust me, it's not that hard - frustrating yes, off-putting yes sometimes - but it's not that hard.

[EricKei]

I just wish I could get them to actually TOAST the things without just telling them to charbroil the sammiches. They're usually barely in the toaster box long enough to get soft and warm, let alone the slightest bit crispy.

I don't like cheese on hot roast beef sandwiches...

O_O Blasphemy! Tho, with SW's idea of "cheese," I can certainly understand. If they had access to some good muenster, on the other hand...