I wanted to hate Jersey Mike's. It looks like a sterile corporate soul sucking building complete with vast parking lot.
We went inside and I appreciate that their menu is short and posted in big enough font to be read from 15 feet away. What was immediately annoying though was we had no idea where we were supposed to go to order. I don't like feeling dumb. Makes my food less tasty.
I ordered a cold turkey sub and my husband got a hot hawaiian philly. All the employees were friendly but perhaps because of the glass I couldn't understand a word they said. I ended up getting my sub "Mikes Way" because all I could do is smile and nod whenever any of tem spoke to me. I was HORRIFIED when she started shaking what looked to be gallons of red wine vinegar and oil onto my sub. She was shaking that thing like I wanted my sub to actually be a red wine soup or something. SICK!! So I was understandably nervous that my sandwich was going to be soggy and vinegary and gross.
But...it wasn't. It was sooooo good. The bread didn't go soggy, it didn't taste vinegary. I wished I had gotten a second sandwich so I could've inhaled that one too. My husband really enjoyed his too. Thankfully we had a few free sub cards because those two subs would've set us back close to $20.
Points for: surprisingly delicious food, friendly employees, clean
Points off: PRICE (omg, only going back if someone else is buying), being unable to understand employees
*I gave it one $ because if you are cheap you can get out for less than $10, if you are really hungry or get a whole meal or big sub, you are definitely paying more than $10