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| - I prefer local restaurants, but as fast food chains go, this is not bad. Same idea as Subway (custom subs to order, no table service) but more food for the money. A "medium" is about the same size (a little shorter but wider) as a foot-long from Subway, has better quality bread, and costs less. Similar vegetable options, more cheese options, and a large dining room with real booths/better atmosphere to sit in (I'd never "eat in" at a Subway if I could help it). They're about as fast as Subway for cold subs (I can't judge the hot ones). The ingredients are not on view: they ask you verbally whether you want each one. This system seems to work OK, except you can't visually verify that they've got it right until you eat it. They don't have full table service but they do bring your sub out to you (by number tag) if it needs to be cooked.
For vegetarians, always go for the Cold option. Hot means they grill the vegetables on the nasty Communal Slab of Melted Animals. (I'd also ask them not to slice the sandwich at the end, for the same reason: Communal Knife of Animal Tissue.) The veggie sub does have cheese (if you want it) but there's also a cheese sub--which I'll avoid in future: it has about eighty pounds of cheese on it! I find it hard to give up cheese 100% and go vegan, but that much cheese overload might just have pushed me over the edge!
Minus one star because they use too little sauce (kind of flavorless as a result), and because they don't have a veg patty like Subway (and if they did, it would go on the communal grill), and because there have been ingredient mix-ups; but they were nice about it and offered a free sub coupon.
Minus another star because my last veggie sub had a big chunk of tangy pink Mystery Gristle! Hwthleaughhh! Ingredient mix-ups can happen any place, so the real reason I hold it against the place: you can't see the food prep area behind the big counter. That means they have less incentive to keep things tidy, and you don't get to see what 's going in your sandwich. (Compare Subway: all behind glass, so you can actually SEE if there's a hunk of Free Range Cat or whatever among the lettuce, and tell them to take it off.)
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