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| - I like Firehouse Subs for their premium tasty sandwiches, they're absolutely outstanding!
Recently I've found it somewhat harder to swallow their premium prices.
Years ago, the late Clara Peller became famous for her TV commercial "Where's the Beef?", while complaining at a burger place called, "Home of the Big Bun".
While Firehouse isn't that bad, they are close and Which Wich isn't too far behind either for the same reason. I'm tired of trying to figure out who is giving out 3oz, or 4oz of deli meat on their subs.
What I truly enjoy is a creative, well made sandwich, that has er, some beef on it, or in Firehouse's case, some meat.
Quiznos went though bankruptcy, I believe because they forgot that consumers could see them weighing the meat on a scale, and then removing a slice or two when it was too much.
Okay, here's my beef (pun intended). A group of us came here for lunch and universally found our checks in the $11.00 range. So that's a sandwich 12" long, meat, chips and a drink. How much does a 1/4 lb of the most expensive deli meat cost at Fry's or AJ's?
Sadly, we've found it easier just going to Jimmy Johns down on Chandler Boulevard, asking for double meat and paying $9.50 for the same setup.
I give the manager of this location high marks for draining the liquid from the heated pastrami/corn beef NY Steamer after it came out of the oven. I was in a Firehouse in Florida recently where they forgot to do this and the sandwich just a mushy mess.
In summary, "Yes, I am a Fan" of Firehouse Subs, particularly for all the local Outreach they do for our Bravest. But I only hope they consider taking their thumb off the scale and put some real meat on those sandwiches.
Enjoy!
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