Jimmy John’s

Honestly the best jimmy johns I’ve been to so far. Super friendly workers and fast! The eating area is also very clean.

Super fresh and super fast! Best sandwich place in town. My favorite is a veggie — cheese and mayo for vegan style, extra avocado, dijon mustard, extra lettuce, extra tomatoes and their signature fresh bread too. We’ve had Jimmy Johns pick up, dine in and their super fast delivery — consistent quality and service every time. 5 stars

I eat jimmy johns when I have to because there is so few food options in this shit hole town. Jimmy johns is know for their «speedy service» but I’d rather wait a few minutes longer not to have these cracked out locals make my sub. The one thing I find inexcusable and to be honest below me is that jimmy johns doesn’t provide napkins! Am I to wipe my mouth and hands with my shirt? I dare not take a shit in the bathroom, I’d worry they didn’t provide toilet paper.

Stale bread (hurt the roof of my mouth!), weirdly salty, and very eh for vegetarians. Sort of expensive for what you get. If I’m getting a fast-​food sub, I’d rather mosey on down Court St. to Subway.

This used to be one of my favorite late night choices in Athens. Until one fateful night…
I was grabbing some 2:30 AM subs with friends when I notice something weird about the glove on the guy prepping subs across the counter. His glove appeared red. I didn’t understand what I was seeing, obviously quite a few drinks in being past 2 AM. I kept looking and it was a dark red, and looked a lot like blood… filling his glove?! I thought it was impossible and I was most likely seeing things. I kindly asked the cashier as she handed back my card about the worker’s glove.
She said «Oh, yeah, he cut himself pretty bad on our meat slicer earlier. He had it bandaged but it kept leaking. He has a glove on though.»
My mouth dropped. An employee, with BLOOD gushing from his hand so fast that it literally filled his entire right glove, was making our subs. Most people were too drunk or distracted by friends to even notice.
I demanded a refund from the manager and stated that I would never, ever return. I got my refund and will not return as an alumni to this day.
Disgusting.

Sandwiches are Excellent. Service is alright. Recently «corporate» decided to cut out about ½ of their delivery area because it wasn’t within «2 miles of the store.» I clocked it on my way home, they stopped at 1.5 miles and i live less than a ¼ of a mile from the cut off point. Their «line» also removed about ½ of the faculty/​staff at Ohio University that live in Athens. These are people who live there year round and HAVE money to buy Jimmy John’s regularly. I am not sure what brainiac came up with this new delivery area but it couldn’t have helped their bottom line any.

If I could give it zero stars I would. I ordered a BLT and got stale crusty bread, overwhelmingly salty bacon. Three thin slices of roma tomatoes — oops! one of those slices was a pointy end of the tomato about the diameter of a quarter. My grandson ordered the turkey which I then paid $ 1 extra for cheese which we discovered after we got home was skipped. My daughter ordered a specialty turkey sub that was supposed to have avocado. This was her choice of where to eat and she had to open the sub and dig around to find it.
I will never eat there again. The bill was almost $ 18 (subs only, no drink or extras as it was eaten at home). I was gouged.

I like Jimmy Johns. Really like em. In fact, they’re one of my favorite chain lunch locations. My fave sando is the beach club with extra turkey and tomatos on their whole grain bread. It’s delsih and healthy.
All that said, how in the world could JJ’s have a 4.5 star rating? This speaks to the dearth of great eats in Athens.

After eating here a few more times, I’d definitely say it’s the best sub place in Athens

I was either really, really hungry or they just have the best darn subs around!