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| - To call this place a pop-culture "museum" is a pretty big stretch. What it is, is a sub-shop that feels like the business that time forgot. I love kitschy, I love retro,... but for some reason, this one just didn't do it for me.
I'm not sure if it was the plethora of rude and uninterested staff girls who were too busy constantly picking their short-shorts out of their crotches (seriously, how hard is it to wear clothes that you don't have to pick out of your ass while making food you're serving to the public??) while running in and out of the back office, or it if was the brown paneling and hard orange chairs that matched the dirty orange floors and trash littered ancient table tops, or if it was the mediocre food - which all I kept thinking while eating it was, "God I hope I don't get sick". It made me feel like the bumper sticker decor of the early eighties was just a distraction to make you forget everything else that was unpalatable.
This feels like a place with an absentee owner who seems to be sucking out every dime of profit without adding a red cent more back into it than absolutely necessary. A shame really, because with a solid deep cleaning, an overhaul of the staff, some minor updating (and I mean minor - not asking for the world to change here), and a slight upgrade in quality of ingredients, they could easily stop being famous for being some of the cheapest subs around, and actually retain customers for being one of the best sub shops around. I was honestly surprised by the volume of business they were getting on a Sunday afternoon.
Sadly, what used to be witty, funny, and trendy now just feels neglected and bitter, like the prom queen that got knocked up & lives down the road in the trailer park with her 3 kids and a drunk mechanic for a husband. As it is, it continues to be "affordable" because they can't realistically raise their prices to competitive market value; with everything I've listed it would be an insult for them to charge anything more. It'll do in a desperate pinch, but I honestly wouldn't recommend it to anyone who doesn't have fond memories of the place from 20+ years ago.
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