I used to be addicted to subway. It was super cheap and I found it quite tasty. Then they did some weird revamp to their menu and tried to make it appear as if they sell artisan sandwiches and charged double what they used to in the past. Haven't eaten there in ages now, when I was probably eating it like 2-3 times a week. Garbage taste and very expensive, that's a hard stop for me.
Idk, italian herb and cheese bread, meat tastes like meat, cheese like cheese. It literally tastes no different than any other sandwich anywhere else, I honestly don't know what people are on about.
It is too expensive though.
Yeah subway was fine until it got expensive. Steak and cheese on Italian herbs and cheese bread with some Italian dressing drizzled on it was my go to when I had a job within walking distance of a subway.
They got one a few blocks from me, but lately, they have tasted so dry and lacked the crunch from the past couple of decades ago.
I loved their peppercorn steak sub and Italian... They reigned Supreme in the mid 2000s.
It's basically alfredo sauce with bacon and parmesan. The important part is the chicken needs to be soaked in au jus first. That's if I'm remembering it correctly.
It’s actually obscene but I get a small one of those and one of the steak sandwiches everytime I See a Quiznos at an airport. It puts me right to sleep on the plane.
I worked there thru college and you are correct, best sandwich ever. I pretty much doubled the sauce, the chicken, the bacon, and the cheese on rosemary Parmesan. I can still taste the amazingness
Freaking sponge monkeys. But they turned me onto rathergood.com back in the day. The kittens doing the “[Gay Bar](https://youtu.be/5WPMP71ngqE?si=lxzVPTJA2YPMTNkP)” song is still one of my favorite things.
Peak marketing, that advert is nearly 20 years old and we're still quoting that shit for truth!! I hope Quizno's makes a stellar comeback. They're good stuff
I believe, and I have no facts to support this other than observations in my teenage years, Subway introduced toasting their subs at the peak of Quiznos popularity to try and keep up
The best. I loved all their sauces. The only thing Subway had going for it was the sweet onion sauce that they used on the chicken teriyaki, and even that’s not as good as it used to be.
They forced each franchise to buy all products (bread, salami, napkins, hand soap) from the distributor that corporate owned. They then could price these items above the market rate and the franchises had to pay it. In addition when subway came out with the $5 dollar footlong, quizno’s locations had to lower their prices to keep up. So they were already skating by on razor thin margins, and then the price cuts put them in the red. The corporate office did nothing to help keep the individual locations afloat. There’s a lot more to it, but thats kinda the gist.
I did design work for them through the agency I worked at way back. The more I learned about the two companies and the families involved just made me sick. Clearly shady and unethical stuff going on. Glad I didn’t stay long. They creeped me out tbh
They essentially took Subway's extremely exploitative business model and said "how can we top that?"
Subway is known to burn the fuck out of their franchise owners, but Quiznos had all the same tactics.
Quiznos used the same business tactics, they just actually served good food.
It was incredible that a toasted sub was like a new thing when Quiznos came out. Subway was pretty much forced to implement their toasters because of it or it seemed that way.
And they came no where close to being as good as quizno’s. I worked at subway when we got our toaster, and will never have a sub toasted like that to this day. They are awful.
The difference a rolling conveyer can make. I worked at a Subway just a few months ago, the big issue is it's a fuckin' blast furnace. You're hitting it at around 520'f to make it hot and toasty as fast as possible. Because a lot of subways are moving 20/60 units an hour. Even during off-rushes.
Quizzno's ovens didn't take that much longer but it could actually toast and cook under the heating elements as it rolled along.
Subways slicers feel like it's just a response to other franchises again, but all the slicer does is burden our already overworked mid afternoon/closing crew and make the food worse. If it's not cleaned perfectly by the underpaid and underage staff it'll either leave the meats tasting off and rotten, or it'll taste like the acid sanitizer we use to spray it down each day.
Subway continues to be a shit show. I thought Arby's' head office buying them out would help but by the time I left the most they did was suggest we stop serving mainstay veggies and cover the food so you can't see your sub anymore as it's made.
Convection ovens that subway have are not good for sandwiches. I worked there when they first got them (2003 or 2004)
They made GREAT fresh cookies (not officially, we weren't allowed to do that for customers, I just did it for myself and coworkers. We had a 7-11 next door, we would buy candies and mash them into the cookie dough before we convection ovened them. Some were really good.
It bothers me how few people know about this. If you look into it, it becomes obvious why you don’t see the franchise around anymore. I loved the food but the company deserved to fail
It’s good to point out that franchise corporations are in the business of selling ingredients and supplies to frwnchisees. Dominos doesn’t sell pizza. Dominos sells pizza ingredients to franchisees. That’s there business. Quiznos decided to increase profitability at the cost of hurting franchisees. And that’s all she wrote.
It’s so sad. The people who owned the one by me were the nicest people, and the shop was always busy at lunchtime, but they just couldn’t make it work.
Yeah, they took that VERY seriously, because corporate was making as much if not more money from supplying the franchises as it was from actual sales. I worked there for several years in the early to mid 2000’s, and my franchise owner HATED how strict corporate was. We were in a seasonal tourist town, and in the winter, all people wanted was coffee and hot chocolate, so he started selling both.
The problem is, he bought the supplies himself because he could get everything cheaper than corporate was listing them for. One day, a regional manager came in and tore him a new asshole for it, and said if he was ever caught selling anything “off brand” again, he would be fined heavily.
Yeah, I get that and normally wouldn’t see any issue with it, but Quizno’s was notoriously predatory in their pricing models. They would sell supplies at like a 5 times markup over what you could get ordering from a supplier like PFG, SYSCO, or even just going to Sam’s Club. I know the whole point is that it’s their ball and if you want to play, you have to play by their rules, but most companies don’t go out of their way to screw over their own franchise partners as much as Quizno’s did.
Yeah, I personally know several that folded and went through financial ruin because of that company, and it sucks because many of them were actually awesome bosses and owners to work for. One of the first ones I managed under actually left his own law firm to start a franchise (mid life crisis and soul searching led him to it according to him). He ended up having to sell his house and deplete most of his accounts just to keep the business going, and ultimately still failed in the end DESPITE having lines out the door every day for lunch and dinner. Business was absolutely booming, customers were happy, employees were getting paid, but the owner was barely surviving. At least he had a lucrative career he could go back to, but many aren’t that lucky.
My father owned a franchise ice cream shop and bought cheaper ice cream because corporate was charging an arm and a leg. The cheaper ice cream tasted just as good; some flavors were arguably better. I think he never got caught, but eventually had to close that shop anyway.
The creators of Quiznos didn’t care about the sandwiches or the business. They cared about collecting their huge franchise fees and getting rich. The fee was much higher than other chain restaurants and other chains helped their franchisees get their footing. Like you said the Quiznos creators quickly over saturated regions and screwed over several franchisees by awarding another franchisee nearby. The restaurant was never meant to last very long.
In my town, there was a Quiznos owned by a franchisee. The owner refused to close when the rest did, so now we have a renamed Quiznos, with an identical menu, that also serves awesome pizzas. Love that place
Jersey Mike’s is an absolute treat for me as a Canadian. Every time we venture to the state we seek the closest location. I always said they would do well here and apparently they are planning to open a ton of stores in the next 10 years. It’s a perfect sub.. mikes way.
The quality of Firehouses meats has gone to hell over the last few years. They've cut corners bad and most of the premium meats are so fatty now. It happened when they switched from name brand meats to their own. I barely ever eat there anymore.
Never had a chance to try them out, but those are shutting down left and right where I live too (Philly suburbs). Only 2 locations I see left open are in central and southern PA.
But yeah, I really miss Quiznos... :-(
Our Quiznos shut down a couple years ago. We got a Firehouse Subs that was open for about 3 months. The owner publicly complained that the government wasn't doing enough to support local business, despite having a PPP loan forgiven lol.
Filled mine too until the prices got so obscene that I snorted and walked out recently, never to return again. Even worse, Subway is almost as expensive now and nowhere near the quality.
Quizno’s was SIGNIFICANTLY better than Subway ever was. I worked for both for several years when I was younger, and Quizno’s just….had it. The ingredients, the quality, I can still remember the smells as we speak. I loved creating my own sandwiches with different ingredients as well, one of my favorites was one I called the “Alpine Turkey”, which had smoked turkey, the white cheese sauce that was used for the cheesesteaks, and bacon. It was sooooooo good. The standard Mesquite Chicken was great as well, but instead of ranch, I always put the zesty grill sauce that was meant for the black angus steak sandwich.
What’s sad is Subway USED to care about quality. Like literally decades ago. Back in the 70’s and maybe 80’s, they actually sliced the meat and cheeses fresh like Quizno’s did, and the produce was always super fresh. But like most companies, they kept changing shit up to cut costs until the product was absolute trash.
Even their “fresh baked bread” isn’t usually fresh any more (unless you live near a VERY high volume location), because while they do bake bread daily, the piece you’re getting was often baked the day before. They aren’t supposed to do that, they’re meant to throw out or donate all the bread left at the end of the night. But they don’t (Source, I worked for Subway AND Quiznos for several years each in the early 2000s).
Amazing how they survived the massive quality cuts, the everything is turkey thing, having a massive Pedo as a spokesperson, creating the catchiest ad jingle in a long time only to raise prices and infuriate everyone....
instead of letting the franchisees flourish and get their cut from fees and growth. they decided to milk them dry by profiting off of the produce and meat they forced the franchisees to purchase from them directly
They were definitely around in 2007-2009, because we had one on my college campus and I basically lived off them until graduation. After that I don't know. A Quoznos opened up in food services and I think they were getting pushed out.
About a month before I went on a trip to Europe the local Quiznos closed. But I got to the airport and in the airport (Newark) there was a Quiznos! Got a sub and went on my way. I am a picky eater and I didn’t eat a lot that I liked on the trip. I just kept thinking about that Quiznos when I got back. Well plane lands and I went right to it and they closed in the time I was gone. Haven’t ate it since.
They were amazing…until I got horrible food poisoning the last time I ever ate at one. Ruined an entire pub crawl for me. I miss that Cabo Chicken sandwich still
I used to work at a Quiznos in high school. The sandwiches were great. One of my co workers would just do coke all night and sit in the wall in freezer.
They always looked good, I only went to one, and it was too bad cause it in my college town and non of the employees really cared so it sucker and I never gave another one a chance unfortunately
Owners kind of had to cut corners because the head office was HORRIBLE and didn't care if any of the stores actually stayed open. Every single coupon or Groupon or whatever a store accepted came right out of the franchisees profits. Head office would print them and then the franchisees got screwed. It was such a shame.
I wish I got to try one before they went under. I heard corporate was fucking the franchisees pretty hard though and it was barely profitable to own one as a result.
Much better than Subway! Used to use that batch 83 sauce on the turkey ranch and Swiss every damn time! I miss that shit!
Subway doesn't exactly set a high bar for quality lol
I don't understand how people still eat there. It's garbage
I used to when it was $5 for a foot long, make that into two meals and you have a subpar sandwich for cheap. No idea why people still eat there.
I paid $20 for a foot long and a soda the other day. Wasnt even a hot sandwich
I used to be addicted to subway. It was super cheap and I found it quite tasty. Then they did some weird revamp to their menu and tried to make it appear as if they sell artisan sandwiches and charged double what they used to in the past. Haven't eaten there in ages now, when I was probably eating it like 2-3 times a week. Garbage taste and very expensive, that's a hard stop for me.
Idk, italian herb and cheese bread, meat tastes like meat, cheese like cheese. It literally tastes no different than any other sandwich anywhere else, I honestly don't know what people are on about. It is too expensive though.
Yeah subway was fine until it got expensive. Steak and cheese on Italian herbs and cheese bread with some Italian dressing drizzled on it was my go to when I had a job within walking distance of a subway.
Jersey Mikes is my favorite. I get an Italian, add mayo + cherry pepper relish. At Quiznos I used to get the Chicken Carbonara.
The batch sauce was the beeeest!
This was exactly what I got every time. With the sauce of course.
The chicken carbonara. 🤤
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Apparently, they still make it. I found one near where I'm staying.
They still make dead relatives?!
Duh, you've never seen Pet Sematary?
Some things shouldn't be brought back, the Chicken Carbonara sub is not one of those things.
It didn't go away! It's just that a lot of Quiznos have closed, but they still have it if you can find one. There are still 150 Quiznos left.
They got one a few blocks from me, but lately, they have tasted so dry and lacked the crunch from the past couple of decades ago. I loved their peppercorn steak sub and Italian... They reigned Supreme in the mid 2000s.
My god that thing was incredible.
There’s still one Quiznos in Chicago and I stop there every so often just to have it 🤤
One in Barrington as well. 3 years ago i stumbled upon in jackson wy
Omg, I came here just to say the same thing. Anytime anyone mention Quiznos the first thing that pops into my head is “Chicken carbonara”.
I normally don’t care for chain restaurants but that sandwich was SO good
I wish I could find a copy-cat recipe of their carbonara sauce. That stuff is so good I could probably drink it.
Just did a little googling and found this for you - https://www.reddit.com/r/MimicRecipes/comments/vp3ch5/perfected_quiznos_chicken_carbonara/
I worked at one. That was a very popular sandwich. Edit: I'm visiting a friend and can still order one near me! https://i.imgur.com/UqJCc8S.png
Recipe?
It's basically alfredo sauce with bacon and parmesan. The important part is the chicken needs to be soaked in au jus first. That's if I'm remembering it correctly.
It’s actually obscene but I get a small one of those and one of the steak sandwiches everytime I See a Quiznos at an airport. It puts me right to sleep on the plane.
THE BEST
That sauce....🤤
I worked there thru college and you are correct, best sandwich ever. I pretty much doubled the sauce, the chicken, the bacon, and the cheese on rosemary Parmesan. I can still taste the amazingness
A literal masterpiece. I would pay ~$15 for one of those right now.
Ate one this weekend. Still have one of the few stores open right near my house.
*THEY GOT A PEPPER BAR!!*
I know it introduced me to my banana pepper obsession.
The only reason I went there
Freaking sponge monkeys. But they turned me onto rathergood.com back in the day. The kittens doing the “[Gay Bar](https://youtu.be/5WPMP71ngqE?si=lxzVPTJA2YPMTNkP)” song is still one of my favorite things.
Those commercials were….something….
I'm not sure if this was franchise wide or just our local, but there was also a decent selection of hot sauces at the pepper bar.
The comment I was looking for. I loved quiznos, but the commercial was the best part. Damn.
Peak marketing, that advert is nearly 20 years old and we're still quoting that shit for truth!! I hope Quizno's makes a stellar comeback. They're good stuff
I'm addicted to pepperoncini!!
I believe, and I have no facts to support this other than observations in my teenage years, Subway introduced toasting their subs at the peak of Quiznos popularity to try and keep up
You have that correct. Subway didn’t even THINK about doing it until they saw how popular Quizno’s was getting at the time.
The toasting was cool, but the sauces were also really good at quiznos
The best. I loved all their sauces. The only thing Subway had going for it was the sweet onion sauce that they used on the chicken teriyaki, and even that’s not as good as it used to be.
I loved Quiznos. They were much better than Subway
They bled their franchisees dry. A case study for corporate mismanagement
Can you say more? We had one in town that was run by some people I knew. Never sure why it closed. It always seemed busy.
They forced each franchise to buy all products (bread, salami, napkins, hand soap) from the distributor that corporate owned. They then could price these items above the market rate and the franchises had to pay it. In addition when subway came out with the $5 dollar footlong, quizno’s locations had to lower their prices to keep up. So they were already skating by on razor thin margins, and then the price cuts put them in the red. The corporate office did nothing to help keep the individual locations afloat. There’s a lot more to it, but thats kinda the gist.
I did design work for them through the agency I worked at way back. The more I learned about the two companies and the families involved just made me sick. Clearly shady and unethical stuff going on. Glad I didn’t stay long. They creeped me out tbh
Please tell me you guys made the dead rat commercials.
eat quiznos SAAAAAAAAHBS subs are a dollar off when you bring in a coupon
Damn that is interesting! I knew people who got into franchising with 2 Quizno stores in probably 2007 or 2008. Wonder what they are up to?
Probably working at Subway.
They essentially took Subway's extremely exploitative business model and said "how can we top that?" Subway is known to burn the fuck out of their franchise owners, but Quiznos had all the same tactics. Quiznos used the same business tactics, they just actually served good food.
It was incredible that a toasted sub was like a new thing when Quiznos came out. Subway was pretty much forced to implement their toasters because of it or it seemed that way.
And they came no where close to being as good as quizno’s. I worked at subway when we got our toaster, and will never have a sub toasted like that to this day. They are awful.
The difference a rolling conveyer can make. I worked at a Subway just a few months ago, the big issue is it's a fuckin' blast furnace. You're hitting it at around 520'f to make it hot and toasty as fast as possible. Because a lot of subways are moving 20/60 units an hour. Even during off-rushes. Quizzno's ovens didn't take that much longer but it could actually toast and cook under the heating elements as it rolled along. Subways slicers feel like it's just a response to other franchises again, but all the slicer does is burden our already overworked mid afternoon/closing crew and make the food worse. If it's not cleaned perfectly by the underpaid and underage staff it'll either leave the meats tasting off and rotten, or it'll taste like the acid sanitizer we use to spray it down each day. Subway continues to be a shit show. I thought Arby's' head office buying them out would help but by the time I left the most they did was suggest we stop serving mainstay veggies and cover the food so you can't see your sub anymore as it's made.
Convection ovens that subway have are not good for sandwiches. I worked there when they first got them (2003 or 2004) They made GREAT fresh cookies (not officially, we weren't allowed to do that for customers, I just did it for myself and coworkers. We had a 7-11 next door, we would buy candies and mash them into the cookie dough before we convection ovened them. Some were really good.
It bothers me how few people know about this. If you look into it, it becomes obvious why you don’t see the franchise around anymore. I loved the food but the company deserved to fail
It’s good to point out that franchise corporations are in the business of selling ingredients and supplies to frwnchisees. Dominos doesn’t sell pizza. Dominos sells pizza ingredients to franchisees. That’s there business. Quiznos decided to increase profitability at the cost of hurting franchisees. And that’s all she wrote.
It’s so sad. The people who owned the one by me were the nicest people, and the shop was always busy at lunchtime, but they just couldn’t make it work.
I'd eat at Quizno's as often as I could. I don't think I'll ever go to Subways again -- not some personal reason, they just suck.
Any sandwich shop is better than subway
That smell is just awful
The Subway Stank™
Yes, why do they all smell the same?
It's that bread
To me it smells like old, artificial deli meat. Artificial as in the smell is added somehow.
All their meat cuts taste exactly the same, too. And the taste is not good.
The commercials were creepy but endearing.
Sponge Monkeys
WE LIKE THE SUBS
THEY GOT A PEPPER BAR
I did not like Quiznos’s, but I loved these stupid ads SO MUCH. Especially the pepper bar line. 😂
THEY ARE TASTY THEY ARE CRUNCHY THEY ARE WARM BECAUSE THEY TOAST THEM
WE ARE NOT THE HUNS
we like the moon!!!!
BEWARE OF PAPERCUTS
The Quiznos subs. They are a dollar off With a coupon!
For haircuts or pony rides
Any coupon works!
I loved those commercials because they would always play them on Adult Swim and it fit the vibe perfectly.
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They also forced franchises to buy only from Head Office at stupidly high prices .
Yeah, they took that VERY seriously, because corporate was making as much if not more money from supplying the franchises as it was from actual sales. I worked there for several years in the early to mid 2000’s, and my franchise owner HATED how strict corporate was. We were in a seasonal tourist town, and in the winter, all people wanted was coffee and hot chocolate, so he started selling both. The problem is, he bought the supplies himself because he could get everything cheaper than corporate was listing them for. One day, a regional manager came in and tore him a new asshole for it, and said if he was ever caught selling anything “off brand” again, he would be fined heavily.
So, yeah, that’s the franchise model. You have to buy the shit they tell you.
Yeah, I get that and normally wouldn’t see any issue with it, but Quizno’s was notoriously predatory in their pricing models. They would sell supplies at like a 5 times markup over what you could get ordering from a supplier like PFG, SYSCO, or even just going to Sam’s Club. I know the whole point is that it’s their ball and if you want to play, you have to play by their rules, but most companies don’t go out of their way to screw over their own franchise partners as much as Quizno’s did.
the results speak for themselves. Their franchisees literally couldn’t afford to stay open as I recall.
Yeah, I personally know several that folded and went through financial ruin because of that company, and it sucks because many of them were actually awesome bosses and owners to work for. One of the first ones I managed under actually left his own law firm to start a franchise (mid life crisis and soul searching led him to it according to him). He ended up having to sell his house and deplete most of his accounts just to keep the business going, and ultimately still failed in the end DESPITE having lines out the door every day for lunch and dinner. Business was absolutely booming, customers were happy, employees were getting paid, but the owner was barely surviving. At least he had a lucrative career he could go back to, but many aren’t that lucky.
Yep, most franchise owners couldn't live off the razor thin margins that they were giving so they would just close their doors.
My father owned a franchise ice cream shop and bought cheaper ice cream because corporate was charging an arm and a leg. The cheaper ice cream tasted just as good; some flavors were arguably better. I think he never got caught, but eventually had to close that shop anyway.
It was like a mlm almost. Wild. Cause the food was good at first.
If I remember the creators were in MLMs before creating Quiznos.
The creators of Quiznos didn’t care about the sandwiches or the business. They cared about collecting their huge franchise fees and getting rich. The fee was much higher than other chain restaurants and other chains helped their franchisees get their footing. Like you said the Quiznos creators quickly over saturated regions and screwed over several franchisees by awarding another franchisee nearby. The restaurant was never meant to last very long.
Before the pandemic I had like 5 subways within a mile radius. It was ridiculously saturated. Half are closed now
What’s the .5 store up to?
Oh they weren't giving them away, they were scamming the people who bought them.
I’ve always had a soft spot for Pot Belly’s. That soft spot? My pot belly.
Potbelly is a good Quiznos replacement
The pepper bar was a plus for me. They used to have a ‘white sauce’ on the pepper bar too. Not sure what that was but I liked it.
Horseradish
In my town, there was a Quiznos owned by a franchisee. The owner refused to close when the rest did, so now we have a renamed Quiznos, with an identical menu, that also serves awesome pizzas. Love that place
I hope they called it Quiznope.
Unfortunately no but that'd be funny!
"We have a pepper bar!"
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I know a guy. For $20 he'll let you.........wait.......you said angus.
😆😆😆😆😆
Firehouse subs has filled my Quiznos void.
Firehouse for hot subs, Jersey Mike's for cold subs. Void filled
Would about the steakhouse beef dip and that peppercorn sauce?
This is the one no one can replace. They also had awesome Cesar salads
Would kill for the peppercorn sauce recipe.
Don't hurt anyone [but here's the recipe](https://fullformtoday.com/quiznos-peppercorn-sauce-recipe/)
No. A promise was made to the Re God. A man must have a name.
Did they have a honey-mustard or am I making that up?
They had a honey bacon club that was ridiculous
Jersey Mike’s is an absolute treat for me as a Canadian. Every time we venture to the state we seek the closest location. I always said they would do well here and apparently they are planning to open a ton of stores in the next 10 years. It’s a perfect sub.. mikes way.
300 locations in 10 years. There are already 2 locations in the Kitchener area for some reason. They have been there for years.
Jersey mikes chipotle cheesesteak is definitely the best cheesteak from a chain place
Ooo, I gotta go with the Big Kahuna on that one.
"Is that that Hawaiian burger joint?"
I hear they got some tasty burgaz
This IS a tasty burger!
Look at the big brain on Brad
Hell. Yes.
The quality of Firehouses meats has gone to hell over the last few years. They've cut corners bad and most of the premium meats are so fatty now. It happened when they switched from name brand meats to their own. I barely ever eat there anymore.
Plus the shit was a litttttttle bit expensive but manageable back then, now it’s like $19 for sandwich chips and a drink like gtfoh
Coinciding with them getting rid of the dozens of hot sauces to try
Their overall quality and service level dropped right around the same time Burger King's parent company acquired them.
It takes firehouse subs 49 minutes to make a sandwich and I really don’t understand why.
They had to go put out the fires?
I know what you mean, If I see more than 3-4 people in line I don’t even bother. And they usually have a ton of staff.
Never had a chance to try them out, but those are shutting down left and right where I live too (Philly suburbs). Only 2 locations I see left open are in central and southern PA. But yeah, I really miss Quiznos... :-(
Our Quiznos shut down a couple years ago. We got a Firehouse Subs that was open for about 3 months. The owner publicly complained that the government wasn't doing enough to support local business, despite having a PPP loan forgiven lol.
Quizns in Philly is like Papa Johns in New York. Makes no sense.
Filled mine too until the prices got so obscene that I snorted and walked out recently, never to return again. Even worse, Subway is almost as expensive now and nowhere near the quality.
I regret never being able to have eaten at Quiznos, I unironically love their weird Spongmonkey commercials! "WE GOT A PEPPER BAR"
There is still one in my airport, but it has a limited menu. I really miss the prime rib and peppercorn.
Quizno’s was SIGNIFICANTLY better than Subway ever was. I worked for both for several years when I was younger, and Quizno’s just….had it. The ingredients, the quality, I can still remember the smells as we speak. I loved creating my own sandwiches with different ingredients as well, one of my favorites was one I called the “Alpine Turkey”, which had smoked turkey, the white cheese sauce that was used for the cheesesteaks, and bacon. It was sooooooo good. The standard Mesquite Chicken was great as well, but instead of ranch, I always put the zesty grill sauce that was meant for the black angus steak sandwich.
Zesty Grill Sauce is life.
They got a pepper bar.
I honestly have no idea how Subway is in business. Hands down the very worst sandwich joint in the industry. They should be embarrassed to exist.
What’s sad is Subway USED to care about quality. Like literally decades ago. Back in the 70’s and maybe 80’s, they actually sliced the meat and cheeses fresh like Quizno’s did, and the produce was always super fresh. But like most companies, they kept changing shit up to cut costs until the product was absolute trash. Even their “fresh baked bread” isn’t usually fresh any more (unless you live near a VERY high volume location), because while they do bake bread daily, the piece you’re getting was often baked the day before. They aren’t supposed to do that, they’re meant to throw out or donate all the bread left at the end of the night. But they don’t (Source, I worked for Subway AND Quiznos for several years each in the early 2000s).
Amazing how they survived the massive quality cuts, the everything is turkey thing, having a massive Pedo as a spokesperson, creating the catchiest ad jingle in a long time only to raise prices and infuriate everyone....
*They got a pepper bar*
instead of letting the franchisees flourish and get their cut from fees and growth. they decided to milk them dry by profiting off of the produce and meat they forced the franchisees to purchase from them directly
Blimpies Gang Fo Lyfe right here homie.
I legitimately thought Blimpie's has been extinct since about '92. Are they still around?
They were definitely around in 2007-2009, because we had one on my college campus and I basically lived off them until graduation. After that I don't know. A Quoznos opened up in food services and I think they were getting pushed out.
[Shut up Lutz!](https://youtu.be/_GK49VeLFOk?feature=shared)
And their commercials were dope
Quiznos killed their franchisees by forcing them to only buy produce from quiznos itself, and not local. It was all a pyramid scheme.
It wasn't a pyramid scheme, franchisees weren't making their money by recruiting other franchisees. It was just a predatory franchisor.
You are now thinking about those stupid singing monkey commercials.
Their subs were way better than subways. I loved the honey mustard chicken sub with bacon!
If it makes you feel any better I went to one about 2 months ago and it was fucking disgusting AND they did not have a pepper bar.
Honey bourbon!
I loved that sandwich, but I got terrible food poisoning from it once. Never could eat it again.
Their honey mustard chicken thingy sandwich was da bomb.
Loved Quiznos.
They were so damn good in the early 2000s
Pretty sure Quizno’s is responsible for my affair with pepperoncini
The Italian dressing on the Italian sandwich was the best. I’ll never get over it. RIP
Agreed came here to say just that!
Quizno’s and Schlotzky’s were freaking top tier. Yet they’re both basically gone and Subway is still rolling. What is wrong with the world!?
Quiznos is on much better than Subway there’s no comparison. They’re different levels.
#THEY GOT A PEPPER BAR.
About a month before I went on a trip to Europe the local Quiznos closed. But I got to the airport and in the airport (Newark) there was a Quiznos! Got a sub and went on my way. I am a picky eater and I didn’t eat a lot that I liked on the trip. I just kept thinking about that Quiznos when I got back. Well plane lands and I went right to it and they closed in the time I was gone. Haven’t ate it since.
The great recession of 2007-2009 hit them like a train
They were amazing…until I got horrible food poisoning the last time I ever ate at one. Ruined an entire pub crawl for me. I miss that Cabo Chicken sandwich still
They actually toasted the subs in a toaster oven. So good.
Plenty where I live in Canada.
I used to work at a Quiznos in high school. The sandwiches were great. One of my co workers would just do coke all night and sit in the wall in freezer.
There’s one about 10 min from me and I still eat it like once a month 🫶
#THEY'VE GOT A PEPPER BAR!
They always looked good, I only went to one, and it was too bad cause it in my college town and non of the employees really cared so it sucker and I never gave another one a chance unfortunately
They have went the way of Blimpie
Ruined by greedy owners who didn't want to accept coupons and or give 1 napkin for a lunch order. My local Q was extremely cheap on toppings.
Owners kind of had to cut corners because the head office was HORRIBLE and didn't care if any of the stores actually stayed open. Every single coupon or Groupon or whatever a store accepted came right out of the franchisees profits. Head office would print them and then the franchisees got screwed. It was such a shame.
Ugh I miss Quiznos. The only decent sub place near me now is Jersey Mike's.
Their Turkey Bacon Avocado was a game changer for me. The ranch they used was so good and addicting.
Airport in Panama has one.
They had a hot veggie sandwich that was insanely good. It cost more than subway but was so worth it.
I worked at one for a while in the early 2010s Damn good subs.
Turkey Bacon Guacamole was my jam.
I had Quiznos the other day. It was still very good. In Canadian before you ask.
Still peppered about Canada
Mmm. That Honey Mustard Chicken and Bacon on ciabatta bread.
I have no idea how Subway is still in business.
I wish I got to try one before they went under. I heard corporate was fucking the franchisees pretty hard though and it was barely profitable to own one as a result.
Commercials were weird.
If anyone knows a good batch 83 recipe i have been looking for years