Subway

This is my veggie delight on a burned wheat bread. Bread was so dry… looked like he was cutting a piece of burned wood.

The service was absolutely terrible. They tried to make my sandwich before I told them what I wanted. When I told the lady I wanted cheese on the bread toasted before she put the tuna on she got really upset. She than attempted to remake the sandwich and put a touch of cheese and said she would have to charge me an extra .30 if I wanted the correct amount. While I was waiting on my sandwich. Other customers were standing around or asking for a towel because all of the tables were filthy. As a customer I shouldn’t have to clean off my table before I sit down to eat!!!

This is a good go-​to lunch spot. The dining area is big and clean. The staff could be a little friendlier, but I guess during the lunch rush a smile is too much to ask. :-/​they honor most all subway coupons. I would say check it out.

As I attempt to hold together this mangled, half-​assed sandwich I have to Unilocal this immediately. I know I say this all the time when talking about sandwich (or taco/​burrito/​salad) builders: I HAVE TO ACTUALLY EAT THAT.
I was this close to asking the sandwich builder if he would make a sandwich for himself that way at home (lazily slapping on toppings with reckless disregard for proportion or distribution). I remember once at a Subway on the Near North side, I witnessed a very self-​righteous woman freak out on a sandwich builder (or sandwich artist, if you will). He had overlapped the cheese on her sandwich and apparently this lady couldn’t stand for that. She told him to «put the cheese on straight», which he didn’t understand and this lady just kept screaming «PUT THE CHEESE ON STRAIGHT» and this poor guy had no clue what she was talking about. I mean she was screaming at the top of her lungs– this woman was about to have a heart attack– and the manager had to come out and the world had to stop so this miserable woman could get her cheese triangles perfectly aligned at a 45 degree angle.
I am not like this woman nor do I have unrealistic expectations of the sandwich building process.
All I ask is that the preparer say, «Would I actually prepare this for myself?» I mean, let’s break this down logically. Subway is a no-​frills kind of place with an interest to keep prices and costs low. They could just as well be a salad bar where you serve yourself, but it’s not, so clearly the builders are there to add some value (and of course restrict people from overdoing it). Now, I don’t care if you charge me extra for extra pickles– I do however dispute your definition of «extra». Five pickles does not constitute extra pickles. That’s #1. Second of all, the «two tomatoes» rule should not apply to veggie sandwiches. Third, even if you are stingy with an ingredient, you can still actually spread it in an even layer throughout the sandwich– I cannot stress this enough. I just ate my sandwich and had one bite of lettuce, the next was green peppers, the next was spinach, and then olives were on the left half only.
I say this more as a comment to food preparers everywhere, not to pick on this subway. I like this subway fine in the grand scheme of subways. There is a very nice guy who works the register. Also it is by my work. Never seems to take coupons, though, or such is the rumor on the playground.
Gimme a P! Gimme an I! Gimme a C! Gimme a K! Gimme an L! Gimme an E! Gimme an S!

I work right across the street and stop in here real quick for lunch a lot.
It’s very clean, and always real busy, but real quick! :)
The customer service is nice, friendly, they ask you how you are doing, which is always nice :)
Minus one star for it being freezing cold whenever the door opens. I know not necessarily Subway’s fault, but it gets really cold.
Me no likey cold. :(

I wanted a breakfast english muffin with sausage, egg, and cheese. They wouldn’t give me one! They said the sausage sandwich only comes with cheese but not egg. WTF? Just give me what I ask for!
Hey Subway, I’m skinny so you don’t have to worry about jeopardizing my calorie intake by adding egg… and your sausage sandwich, even with cheese AND egg is way healthier than a greasy Sausage McMuffin from over yonder!
Jeeeez! So I had to settle for a bacon, egg and cheese muffin. How is that ANY different than the same combo of ingredients, but with sausage?
I’m the customer and I want sausage and egg! grrrr

This is a good, but not a great, Subway. They get kudos for having a double-​counter, wihch really helps get the crushing downtown lunch crowd through the line as quickly as possible. That’s what bumps this Subway up from my 3.5-star rating rather than down. (That, and the fact that it has a secret back-​door entrance from the alley off of LaSalle. Awesome!)
Decent with the fixin’s, nothing extravagant. A satisfiying if unspectacular Subway experience. Worlds better, however, than its fellow franchise just 1 block away on Washington. Even if you have to walk extra, it’s totally worth it. Word.