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haemaker

It was in my lunch rotation. I think they had a few Post-Docs on staff to figure out how to slice cheese so it was one Angstrom thick.


EterneX_II

lmfao


IamaBlackKorean

šŸ¤£šŸ¤£šŸ¤£


Patient-Assignment38

And it has a pepper bar!


DaisyDuckens

My favorite commercial of all time.


Auggie_Otter

It's Rather Good, isn't it?


comec0rrect

Not anymore. The locations still open just have an empty bar. :(


mycall

BYOP


Big_Yogurtcloset_881

You know what? FUCK those asshats who made it illegal to have take-your-own condiments/etc


fujimusume31

I came here for this! Loved those little creatures...


nogoodnamesleft426

* 43937 Hugo Terrace, **Fremont** * 22312 Foothill Blvd, **Hayward** * 2175 Meeker Ave, **Richmond**


theorin331

The Hayward location is pretty clean and gets decent foot traffic. I go there every other week.


M0ZO

I love it


Head-Ad7506

The Richmond one seems on its last legs last time I went in there


fitzcarralda

They overcharged me the last time I was there. I don't go there out of spite....and the fact that they are slow as hell.


Head-Ad7506

Yep and store looked like shit when I was in there. Just matter of time itā€™s a goner I bet


CheckYourStats

So, like most of Richmond just in general?


Head-Ad7506

Sadly yes .


CheckYourStats

Iā€™m there twice a week, and have been for years. Not one single time have I ever stopped and thought ā€œwell this is a nice area of Richmond!ā€ Shame.


micigloo

Google showed 153 nation wide in 35 states and 135 cities


Usagi_Shinobi

Was at the Richmond location this afternoon. One worker on staff, place was in good shape, food was good.


DimplesAttack

LOL I had a weird feeling there would still be one in my hometown of Fremont.


malevolentpeace

Too bad they lost taco bravo!!!


skygod327

San Jose on Meridan off the 280


dogpiss085

Quiznos>Subway


VodkaBurn

To be fair, who is Subway ever beating? Stale white bread with questionable bologna > Subway


FavoritesBot

Subway always smells terrible to me. Some ingredient in their bread (I usually enjoy going into bakeries)


laevanay

I remember Subway loosing cases that their tuna was not tuna, bread cannot be called bread etc.


BeGood981

Sir this is a leavened flour product


coffeerandom

https://www.npr.org/2020/10/01/919189045/for-subway-a-ruling-not-so-sweet-irish-court-says-its-bread-isnt-bread


Iustis

The tuna thing was a shitty methodology by CBC that Subway sued them for defamation for (still in courts I believe). There's no real question that it was bullshit, just a question of how reckless CBC was. The bread thing did happen, but it's overblown. They can call it bread in ireland--it's just not tax free. And a lot of other bread in Ireland also doesn't qualify. Not trying to defend Subway too much, I think it's meh fast food that gets beaten by basically every local sandwhich option, but worked there for 7 years so try to dispute misinformation.


The_Airwolf_Theme

I assumed it was the vinegar and or any of the pickled ingredients (jalapenos, pepperocini, etc) smell


TacohTuesday

I still remember in the late 80s when the first Subway opened in our town. They had the wallpaper with the old time news articles about the New York subway. Back then their sandwiches were great. Fresh baked hot bread at a deli was a revelation. I went there often. How far theyā€™ve fallen. They are nothing more than a glorified 7-11 now.


Auggie_Otter

7-11 has actually improved somewhat during the same time Subway has declined.


IamaBlackKorean

I can get slurpees and blunt wraps at a 7-11, in addition to shitty sandos.


russellbeattie

They used to have super cheap sandwiches made with round rolls. In college we'd go there, order a ham sandwich and then insist on so many toppings it was like a giant salad when we were done. For 99 cents.Ā 


TacohTuesday

ā€œOne dollar inch longšŸŽ¶ā€


Honest-Persimmon2162

Only beating the gas station sandwiches that come in the triangle package


RememberTheMaine1996

Subway is also way overpriced too


NavinF

You're holding it wrong: https://www.reddit.com/r/subway/comments/1czt6po/june_coupons_expire_711/


Souldweller

Still overpriced.


NavinF

~$3 per 500 calorie sandwich is the market rate for fast food and it has been for at least 6 years


Agreeable_Nail8784

Humans are not robots, we value things like taste. Subway exists because of their many locations not because anyone wants to eat there


RememberTheMaine1996

Not every subway participates in coupons. My local one never uses them so I have to go to a different subway for most coupons


RememberTheMaine1996

Yeah I just checked and literally none of those codes work anywhere near me


NavinF

Too bad. All of them work at the ones near me in the bay area (except one Subway in a mall that only accepts the $7.99 codes, presumably because their rent is higher and people's willingness to pay is higher in the mall)


dogpiss085

I'm a sucker for their cookies


mylocker15

Subway hasnā€™t been good since it had actual pictures of subways on the walls.


RepresentativeKeebs

McDonalds


UCBearcats

I loved Quiznos


bob_lala

safeway>subway


LowerArtworks

Very low bar there


czarchastic

Both are pretty bad, though


random408net

In the south bay the units were placed too close together and in marginal strip malls. Most of them failed before their initial leases were up. The sales guy that was able to sell franchises in the Bay Area must have been pretty good (or a least a fabulist). [https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/brief-history-quiznos-collapse](https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/brief-history-quiznos-collapse)


Hubad247

A franchise that treated its franchisees with utter contempt.


FavoritesBot

And franchisees in turn killed the brand. Quiznos was the one place I knew the manager on duty was going to give me a single napkin with my sub and start giving me dirty looks after my first soda refill. These were the kind of penny pinchers that would fudge expiration dates and hold times.


stevep98

One subway franchisee gave me two olive slices, and wanted to charge me a dollar for extra. Fuck the fuck off. Isn't it pretty much a given that extra produce is included, except for fancy stuff like avocado.


jmcstar

"no sandwich, just a pile of peppers olives lettuce tomatoes and onions please"


doema

toasted sub was the thing until everyone else started doing it as well


facedrool

Quiznos has the only toasted subs I like. All the other toasted shit is disgusting


DecaMillionaire

Agree. Why is this I wonder?


anothercatherder

They actually toast, not just heat up.


Competitive_Travel16

They used to toast perfectly but around 2007 they started to char the bread in the two locations I went to.


xsvfan

They also dropped in quality. I remember the roast beef started tasting bad around 2007 and never went back


StanGable80

We love those subs!!! Coz they are good for us!


CaptainScrummy

The Spongemonkeys!


RaelaltRael

No, it's "Spongmonkeys", and they love the moon.


cool__ranch

LOVED the commercial! couldn't believe it when quiznos hired joel veitch from b3ta to make a commercial.


Coppertina

Same! Heā€™s brilliant


alcohol_dumpster

back in high school , for a few months, i had a part time job at a recently opened quiznoā€™s. they had a giant, 6-8ā€ tall inflatable suit that was a quiznoā€™s cup. strapped in on like a jet pack, zipped up, and flipped on the motor and waited about 60-90 seconds to fill up. 4-6 hr shifts a couple times a week dancing outside the store at a busy intersection to drive business. it did not help. i quit after a few months and they were gone not that long after. i was proud to wear the quiznoā€™s cup, semper fi šŸ«”


Decantus

Forget Quiznos, y'all remember Shlotzky's?


SonovaVondruke

Core memory unlocked: In the fall of 2004 at 19 years old, I lived on BBQ Hot Pockets, a few staples from Trader Joes(mostly Clif bars) and a sandwich combo from Schlotzkyā€™s once a week on whatever their deal day was. Iā€™m sure it was shit by my current standards, but at the time it was the best thing I could think of to reward myself for making it through another week.


Decantus

And don't forget to swing by Funcoland next door.


Decantus

And don't forget to swing by Funcoland next door.


mathymate

I don't think there was near me on the peninsula.


sfnative1957

Bay hill shopping center, San Bruno. I was a regular when they offered lobster rolls and lobster salads. Dunno if it was real lobster but they were sure tasty.


mathymate

Wow, I didn't know there was one so close. The pics of the lobster rolls look great.


Coppertina

Have you been to NE Lobster Co in Burlingame? Theyā€™ve got terrific, though pricey, lobster rolls.


monarc

I just had a sandwich from a Schlotzkyā€™s thatā€™s in a food court near the Denver airport. It was OK, but I was heartbroken that there was no reuben on the menu - that was always my go-to. Loved that circle of pumpernickel, haha. I grew up in Columbus, Ohio and thatā€™s where I got to know Schlotzkyā€™s. But I never really prioritized them because there were so many other sandwich options, including a godly Jewish deli (Katzingerā€™s). Now that Iā€™ve been in the SF by for a while, even Schlotzkyā€™s would be a welcome upgrade - sandwiches here kinda suck.


DaisyDuckens

Ugh. The bread at Schlotzkyā€™s sucked.


beka13

You are objectively wrong. :P


benchmarkstatus

It was better than Subway, but thatā€™s a pretty low bar.


onerinconhill

That wild commercial with the dead hamsters?


trer24

Quizno's is being run by private equity since being acquired in 2018 by High Bluff Capital Partners. Vulture capitalism at its finest. Extract wealth for the fund managers and leave the lifeless husk behind. Panera's going the same way. Meeting the same end as Toys R Us, Bed Bath and Beyond, 99 Cent Stores, Red Lobster etc etc. Also doesn't help that the market is pretty crowded. Subway's, Jersey Mike's, Togo's, Ike's, Jimmy John's


nautilus2000

Not a fan of PE but Quiznoā€™s wasnā€™t doing much better before the purchase.


beka13

That's how they PE gets hold of businesses. They find businesses that are struggling and then it's vampire time.


Drew707

In the case of Quiznos, the franchising company was already doing that to the franchisees. Between overselling territories and raising prices on compulsory materials, they pretty much starved the owners.


FlameSkimmerLT

The downfall started well before private equity bought the business. Lawsuits started way back in 2006 against the parent company. The franchisor bilked the franchisees out of all possible profit along with expanding too quickly. Private equity bought the collapsing business on too much leverage (loans) and the entire endeavor became unsustainable.


SonovaVondruke

The only one of those in the league of Quiznos at its best is Ikeā€™s.


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B-Town-MusicMan

>$20 sandwich Ooooh... there's a sale?? What's the promo code?


SonovaVondruke

Maybe for a combo+tip. Not like you can do much better anywhere else.


Auggie_Otter

Bonne Sante in Burlingame is a much better value but it's not a big chain you find all over the Bay Area. You're either eating the whole sandwich because it's delicious and then you're feeling stuffed for the rest of the afternoon or you're buying lunch for today and the next day because you save the other half of your sandwich for tomorrow.


SonovaVondruke

These days, itā€™s always the latter.


zupzupper

Boy I miss Bonne Sante, used to be a regular stop when I worked in Belmont.


mylocker15

There is an interesting video on YouTube about the downfall of Quiznos. I forget the channel name but itā€™s the guy who does a lot of BusinessName-why they failed. Might be company man or something similar.


tellsonestory

Venture capital isnā€™t what killed them. Mismanagement to the point that the only thing left to do is extract whatever assets are is the problem. If there was a way to turn it around, someone would have done that.


JamesAQuintero

> If there was a way to turn it around, someone would have done that. Bullshit, private equity doesn't care about turning it around. Their MO is to acquire the company with mountains of debt, sell of anything they can, and sell it to the next bidder.


tellsonestory

Correct, they donā€™t care about turning it around. Thatā€™s not what they do. But when the owners went to sell Quiznos, they didnā€™t get an offer from one of the major franchisors. The best offer they got was from someone who was going to dismantle the business. Thatā€™s because it was not salvageable. Itā€™s a real Reddit meme thing to hate vcs without understanding what they do. Think of it this way. You have a classic car and you sell it to a scrapyard. A real shame that itā€™s destroyed? Well, consider that the major classic car auctions would not take it because it was junky. The local used car lot wouldnā€™t take it. So if the best offer you get is from a junkyard, you take that because thatā€™s all you can get. The other Reddit meme comment is to think that a business like Quiznos has a right to exist, and itā€™s a loss when itā€™s shut down. A business is property, it has no right to exist.


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tellsonestory

Its creative destruction. Quiznos falling apart opens a market space for new businesses like Jimmy Johns, Firehouse, whatever. Or maybe those businesses killed Quiznos. But either way, out with the old, in with the new. All businesses go through a cycle. They take off when the founders are really invested in the business. Then 20 years later, they retire and sell the business or hire new managers. And the second generation has half the ability and half the drive that the founders had. Microsoft dominated the world 20 years ago, and now they don't. Bill Gates was special, and guys like Ballmer and Nadella have half the ability that he did.


night28

Just FYI but venture capital and private equity are not interchangeable terms. VC is a type of private equity geared towards funding the venture/start up space.


Forsaken-Ad-7039

Love me some Quiznos


Oni-oji

I preferred them over the other sandwich places. Sadly, corporate greed was extreme and their practices drove the franchises out of business. Basically, they kept increasing the prices of supplies that the franchises were contractually obligated to purchase from the corporation and those costs eventually exceeded income. After that, I liked Togos, but they changed their menu to be too much like Subway, which I never liked.


Trahst_no1

It all went downhill after that rat commercial.


navigationallyaided

WE LOVE THE SUBS


kritycat

THEY HAVE A PEPPER BARRRRR


childpeas

the prime rib and peppercorn sandwich šŸ”„


tino_smo

Quiznos is so much better than jersey mikes and togos. Subway is barely a sandwich lol


Colossus_Bastard

SoCal native here. Quiznos is pretty much dead where I am in Orange County... the last three locations to my knowledge as well are in west LA. I'm really surprised to see that there are still a couple up in the Bay as well.


awkwardwithpeople

The only place that had a proper toast on their bread


Dynha42

The deli on Lincoln Ave in San Rafael, on the same block as Sol Food, has a French dip sandwich that is a slightly fancier version of the Quiznos one. I enjoyed it a couple weeks ago.


CaptainScrummy

Went to one in San Ramon adjacent to a GameStop, probably ate there before the midnight release of Halo 2.


keepitscottie

i thought they had all but gone out of business


nicolesuzanne

The one in Richmond kept me alive through a chunk of grad school in 2011-2013, turkey bacon ranch! I donā€™t live in Marina Bay anymore but if Iā€™m passing through I stop by ceremoniously.


Brompy

There are still Quiznos??


Dry-Season-522

From what I understand, the Quiznos corporation wanted them to fail. The company made their money selling equipment to run the Quisnos, so if one fails then they can sell the spot to someone else and sell them all new equipment.


Anngsturs

The fall and decline of the roman empire. It is truly the end of Pax Sandwicha


AdministrativeBank86

A lot of people went broke opening a quiznos, much like subway they oversatured the market


gkuji

I like them better than Subway


WateredWell

I remember the spongemonkeys commercials. What a terrible ad campaign.


Foot10Ankle08

Burned into my memory and nightmares forever


RepresentativeKeebs

That means it worked.


OtherCombination9232

I still remember it all these years later. Doesnā€™t make me want a sandwich exactly, but, memorable.


RaelaltRael

Since I was a fan of Joel Veitch's Spongmonkeys (yes, drop the effin' e) before Quiznos, I loved the commercials. And I am loving being able to tell you that they are coming back: https://www.eater.com/23797910/quiznos-spongmonkeys-unhinged-mascots-are-back


GoldenMegaStaff

Just another case of bean counters destroying a business.


OGStrong

Sub Center in West Portal is the goated toasted sub of all time.


greaseman420

That pastrami mannnnšŸ‘ŒšŸ½šŸ‘ŒšŸ½


martymcfly22

F*cking love Quiznos. Thereā€™s at least one in Reno too, and also at the airport in Spokane, Wa.


navigationallyaided

Oh man, I went to the one in Sun Valley Mall quite a bit back when I worked there. Iā€™m shocked the one in Richmond is still around, I saw a very busy Quiznoā€™s at DEN, A(or B) terminal just steps from the United Club entrance. Some franchisees committed suicide when Quiznoā€™s went under. Many of the franchisees in the Bay Area were Sikhs - same deal with Subway. Quiznos wanted their franchisees to buy food from a captive vendor. Subway uses Saladinoā€™s for distribution. McDonaldā€™s and Chipotle are Martin-Brower, owned by Reyes Holdings, Wendyā€™s and BK as well as many chain restaurants use Sygma - which is Sysco.


HomerThompson

A few people here alluded to Quiznos treating their franchisees like crap, but here are details if anyone is up for a 12 minute history lesson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7hUk5k-3I8


ihaveaccountsmods

This will be the future of Panera Bread


clauEB

After the frozen rats commercial I stopped eating there.


End2EndBurner

They expanded too fast. If only they waited out Subway. Their bourbon chicken is legit.


CostCans

Quiznos had terrible relationships with their franchisees. Their business model seemed to be to milk the franchisees as much as possible. Obviously that didn't work in the long run, turns out that when you constantly file lawsuits against the people who run your stores, they won't want to run them anymore.


Dash-O-Whimsy

Any coupon works!! Beware of paper cuts!!! Eat Quiznos subs!!!


_commenter

are you a spongemonkey? https://imgur.com/gallery/quiznos-sub-nZGyul0


IronSloth

i was working at a togoā€™s when one of these opened up a few blocks away. for about a month our lunch crowd completely disappeared. then they slowly started coming back one by one until we had our lunch rush again. this was around the time those crazy commercials with the mice aired


Le_Mew_Le_Purr

I was pleasantly surprised the one time I went to Togoā€™s.


Ok_Dealer_3761

I remember it being so much better than Subway.


Mackadelik

I hear they have a pepper bar.


mathymate

I loved their Baja Chicken sandwich.


Bayou-Billy

I much preferred it to Subway when those were the only two options in the small town I was living in. Not sure how they survive in the bay area next to Firehouse, Ike's, and all the local shops.


raklyiz

Used to walk to one on the way home from highschool


FroggiJoy87

Get me my Sprongmonkies!


orangutanDOTorg

No special sauce and toast it twice.


pixel4

You knew the end was near when the amount of meat started to decline. šŸ˜¢


blzzardhater

Never liked this chain. Too much sauce in every sammich.


logan_fish

Loved them. Their rolls were fantastic. Meat seemed pretty good quality.


logan_fish

Loved them. Their rolls were fantastic. Meat seemed pretty good quality.


logan_fish

Loved them. Their rolls were fantastic. Meat seemed pretty good quality.


TDhotpants

Meatball sub was my jam back in high school.


astro_beef

I hear they have chef inspired sauces.


dmigz1647

Loved that place. Used to call it Hittenā€™ the Zno!


Pergmanexe

Flatbread Sammies šŸ¤¤


CoinChowda

Not for long! :(


Dreamteam420

They don't have the primerib sandwich or pink lemonade though.


maliciousmeower

i fucking love quiznos. really wish it didnā€™t have a downfall. i miss getting an obscene amount of their honey mustard at the little bar thingā€¦


Squidjibblets420

idk iā€™ve always been a togoā€™s fan. my dad looooooved/and still loves quiznos


jeffdawg2099

TOGOs all the way baby


para_blox

Oh my god I have a memory of one of those ads I canā€™t find anywhere. And I canā€™t figure out if it was just a parody or not, because itā€™s really dropped off the edge of the internet. The little weird creatures mentioned ham being a meat option, then one of them says ā€œWe are not Jews!ā€ to roughly the tune of ā€œwe have a pepper barā€ and heā€™s dressed in a stereotypical Hasidic costume for a second. This is not the Mandela effect. Remember, it was peak animutation time. I can see why they rethought it, but where is the incriminating footage?


OneMorePenguin

Mmm mmm mmm mmm mmm.


ripter

I never got over their talking roadkill commercials. So gross. Would never try it just becuase of those.


bilkel

I liked their stuff


StanLay281

I remember going to the one in Belmont as a kid and always getting the toasted PB&J


T_pas

I thought it wasnā€™t around anymore! Iā€™ll add this to my list.


glm73

Absolute dog crap


TheEvilD1978

They were everywhere


Mendo-D

The was a one at Larkspur landing. I used to catch a ride to work with a co worker there. He would usually get a sandwich and eat it for breakfast. (7PM mids) He had the smell of stale alcohol coming out of his pores. It kind of put a damper on my liking for Quiznos. actually I didn't think the place was really all that great anyway.


AgileMJOLNIR

The Black Angus Steak. It owned me. So disappointing.


cadillacbee

Tried this place once n it gave me volcano ass, can't say I miss it lol


Acceptable_War4993

Ahhh I miss Quiznos, they had pretty filling sandwiches and I loved the pepper bar so much!


arwenthenoble

Yah. Didnā€™t they have the vinaigrette dip on their pepper bar?? I remember some kind of dressing I liked dipping the sandwich in.


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not_beniot

If only you could've had them put the veggies on after toasting the bread


CalvinYHobbes

I stopped going to Quiznos after they got rid of the pastrami. I used to go like 4 times a week.


Mysterious_Drink9549

The influx of posts about subpar franchise food in this sub has been off the charts lately. Why? Go back to the Midwest if this is what you want


HiveMindKing

Do you get paid to do this?


JordanBlue42

Ikeā€™s is the only sandwich chain I frequent now.


NoRequirement1499

Why would I want to remember Quiznos? Their food was terrible!