Eesh-Skeesh - Subway rants and more.

[Digitalpotato]

More subway rants and oddities.

People who FORGET their bloody orders in between the time they get to the registers and when it's made.

...this happens at least once a day. Seriously, is your memory problem that bad?! if it is then how in the hell are you even remembering what Subway is let alone be in college? Are you just tired? But it's annoying when I have to interrupt the people in the line to ask what I shoudl charge for the sandwich.

Me: What kind of sandwich did you have today?
SC: Steak.
Me: What kind? Philly or Chipotle? (NOTE: Philly is not a $5 footlong, the Chipotle Steak is.)
SC: Uh I forgot.
Me: ...how much meat was in there?
SC: Uh it was flat.
Me: *Facepalm* Was there a lot? A little?
SC: Well it was shredded steak/
Me: *Sigh* Coworker, what kind of sandwich did he have?

We also make so many sandwiches this is probably VERY annoying to them but they only seem to pop up whenever I'm either on Register or greeting.

Me: What kind of sandwich did you have?
SC: A 6 inch.
Me: I can see that but waht kind of sandwich is it?
SC: A half-foot
Me: What's IN the sandwich?
SC: Small.
*Coworker overhears this and bangs his head on the vein*
Coworker: Ham.


I had a $5 footlong.

Okay so during the lunch rush we got 4-5 people working and naturally I can't see the sandwich being made since it's way faster to just have one person dedicated to the register rather than constantly washing my hands in between pay-ups. Ever since the $5 footlong deal started again stuff like this has happened EVERY day:

Me: What kind of sandwich did you have?
SC: I ahd a $5 footlong.
me: ...what kind of sandwich though?
Sc: A $5 footlong.
Me: What's IN The sandwich?
SC: A $5 footlong.
Me: What kind of MEAT is in the sandwich?
SC: A $5 footlong, DAMMIT!!!!
Me: Well we need to know for inventory!
SC: Does it matter? I'm still paying $5 for it.

Seriously we need to know for inventory purposes, especially after people started getting away with free Pastrami and Philly Cheeseteaks last year when a person working the register would just punch a random thing in since they were all the same price.

"are you guys open yet?"
...THERE ARE FOURTEEN PEOPLE IN LINE OF COURSE WE'RE BLOODY OPEN YOU DIMWIT!!!!!


"Eesh-Skeesh"

(45-year-old-man who is obviously NOT a foreigner): Banana Peppers, Olives, Pickles, Eesh-Skeesh, Jalapenos."
Me: ...excuse me?
Man: "Banana Peppers, pickles, olives, eesh-skeesh and jalapenos."
Me: What's Eesh-Skeesh?"
Man: Those. *he points to the onions*
Me: you mean Onions?
Man: Yes, Eesh-Skeesh.

(I bet a buncha people are gonna say "Eesh-Skeesh" to be funny now.)


CHICKEN!!!!

Seriously, just don't say "Chicken" when I ask what kind of sandwich. We have three kinds of Chicken Sandwiches, and they are all drasticaly different.

Me: What kind of Sandiwhc did you have?
SC: Chicken sandwich.
Me: What kind of chicken?
SC: chicken.
Me: Bacon Ranch, Breast, or Teriyaki!
SC: OH! Breast!
*cue laughter from every Beavis and Butthead in line*

This is especially painful when they won't say what kind of chicken it is when Teriyaki and Chicken Bacon Ranch aren't $5 footlongs anymore. (Please, Subway?)


The 6-inch-meal-deal stupidity.

Why is it so hard to read the sign that says what kinds of sandwiches you can get as meal deals for only $5.34? It's only SOMe sandwiches, it is NOT every 6 inch meal deal.

SC: Turkey Ham and I'll have a meal deal.
Me: Alright your total comes to $6.07.
SC: But that's supposed to be $5.
Me: It's not $5.
SC: Yes it is, it's a 6 inch meal deal.
Me: do you see it up there? *points to the sign that says which 6-inches you can get as a meal-deal for $5.
SC: it has Ham in t.
me: But it also has Turkey.
SC: And it's also a 6-inch meal deal! Is there more than one kind of ham?
Me: You have to have just the ham for it to work.
SC: But it's already made can I have it for $5?
Me: Sorry, I can't do that.


Attempts to bribe/haggle
Our prices are NOT negotiable! You cannot haggle a non-five-dollar footlong down to just $5, no matter how much you try. If you succeed, then I will be written up for allowing that to go through, you know. -_-


Pepper-rossinos
...okay yeah this one's okay but it's weird anyways. XD

[SubwayGirl]

One of the things that really helps us on the register, is the person that wraps the sandwich writes on it what kind it is. The marker has been sanitized and sits right beside the subway wrap. We just use abbreviations, for example, tky for turkey or tb for turkey bacon.

[fireheart]

One of the things that really helps us on the register, is the person that wraps the sandwich writes on it what kind it is. The marker has been sanitized and sits right beside the subway wrap. We just use abbreviations, for example, tky for turkey or tb for turkey bacon.

They do the same at my local Subway. They use CF for chicken fillet and DBLCF for double meat or something similar.

Ouchies, you get some stupids Digital. *sends cookies*

[Digitalpotato]

A LOT of stupids. COOKIES! *nomnomnom*


We actually don't do the highlighter at this Subway due to the massive crowds and amounts of people who put everything on.

[Mr.Customer]

Me: What kind of sandwich did you have today?
SC: Steak.
Me: What kind? Philly or Chipotle? (NOTE: Philly is not a $5 footlong, the Chipotle Steak is.)
SC: Uh I forgot.
Me: ...how much meat was in there?
SC: Uh it was flat.
Me: *Facepalm* Was there a lot? A little?
SC: Well it was shredded steak/
Me: *Sigh* Coworker, what kind of sandwich did he have?

We also make so many sandwiches this is probably VERY annoying to them but they only seem to pop up whenever I'm either on Register or greeting.

My suggestion is to just charge them for the higher priced one if they do this. If they did order the $5 one then they will correct.

But seriously, I would find this annoying as a customer. When I make an order at a drive through at Burrger King through the speakers, when I get around to the window to pay for it they don't pass me the bag and ask me what it was that I ordered. In fact Subway is the only place that I know of that has to ask the customer what it was that they ordered. Really should have a better system in place.

[One-Fang]

Um, that's because Subway's the only one where they make it for you, right in front of you, while you order it.

The others they punch your order into a till, which shows the cashier what you ordered. Would you want it different?

I'll have a six-inch wheat chicken teriyaki.
*punches that into till* Gets bread, asks about cheese.
Cheddar please.
*punches that into till* Gets cheese. What salads?
Blah, blah, blah, salads...
*punches that into till* Makes sandwich

Nope. Can't see that being feasible.

[JenCdn]

Any Subway I've ever worked at passes "the baton".

That means that the person who starts the sandwich, passes to the person who puts the veggies on and says what the sandwich is (ie; footlong cold cut, extra cheese), the veggie person passes finished sandwich to the cashier and tells them "footlong cold cut, extra cheese".

Is there something at your Subway that would make this difficult to start doing?

It's not a hard thing to do and it cuts down on the extras being missed at the register. At my site, I find that most customers forget the extras until the coworker mentions them. ("um, yeah, it had bacon on it) That's usually an issue when stores are having high food cost problems.

As far as Subway being the 'only' place that has to ask at the register what the order was, that's because we're the only place that takes your cash last. After you're satisfied with what you've watched being prepared.

Restaurants like Mcdonald's and Burger King have their registers set up so what the cashier punches in is transmitted to the kitchen as an order.

[Nyoibo]

I'm curious where the hell he got Eesh-skeesh from.

[Digitalpotato]

Any Subway I've ever worked at passes "the baton".

That means that the person who starts the sandwich, passes to the person who puts the veggies on and says what the sandwich is (ie; footlong cold cut, extra cheese), the veggie person passes finished sandwich to the cashier and tells them "footlong cold cut, extra cheese".

Is there something at your Subway that would make this difficult to start doing

Usually the insane amounts of customers and dumbasses at the register. Same with the line Gummers.

This is like a mall subway and we usually get 100+ sandwiches an hour.