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I bought a sandwich at Subway today and ordered "extra cheese". That is 2 slices of cheese cut diagonal to make 4 small slices.
Then they charged me $1.50 for the extra cheese!
I won't do that again.
I rarely eat out. The last time I went there I think it was 50 or 75 cents for extra cheese - a more reasonable price.
I stopped buying soda pop at fast food restaurants a LONG time ago because it tasted watered down and twice the price of convenience stores.
Thanks to Stratford's link to the online menu ... the answer is that it is .75 for extra cheese on a 6" sub, and 1.50 for extra cheese on a footlong.
Makes sense to me.
Yes it is a lot more expensive than buying cheese yourself at a supermarket, but you are paying for the convenience of having a restaurant purchase and prepare your food for you.
The restaurant also stores the cheese in their own refrigerator, and they make certain that the cheese is fresh on the day you come in. Again ... extra costs incurred by the restaurant.
If you truly want cheaper food ... then I recommend eating at home, and also preparing your own meals to take with you.
That is what I do the majority of the time, and it saves me a lot of money on food.
I always value shop for the best food prices, so I rarely pay too much for any type of food.
Take home-prepared food with you when you go out. Get a portable nylon cooler with a freezer pack.
Wait for sales at your supermarket, and read your weekly supermarket sale ads.
There is a supermarket near me that puts nearly the exact same foods on sale one week each month, so I just wait for the particular sale week to buy certain foods, such as boneless/skinless chicken breast for $1.39/lb, and tomatoes for .33/lb. Then I stock up for entire month, and have enough until the following month's sale.
Regarding extra cheese ... do yourself a favor, and eat less cheese. It's loaded with fat.
If you do need extra food on a Subway sandwich, add more veggies. Double up on the spinach leaves, cucumbers, and bell peppers.
33 cents/pound for tomatoes? You can't even convince a neighbor to give you his extra tomatoes from his garden for that cheap. The going rate for "vine ripened" (most assuredly GMO) tomatoes is $2.99/pound here. Same with "tomatoes on the vine" (also probably GMO). The ones they claim are "hothouse" tomatoes, are around that much, and local grown beefsteaks that are pulled off the vine DAYS before they're even close to being ripe run $1.99-2.49/pound.
There's a produce store here in town, and their beefsteak tomatoes always run less expensive. By less expensive though, I don't mean 33 cents/pound. I mean $1.49/pound. The other tomatoes they offer are usually $1.99/pound.
The only way you can get 33-cent tomatoes here is to grow them yourself. But the top soil, fertilizer, and marigolds to keep the bugs away will probably cost you more than 33-cents per tomato.
ON TOPIC: I'm not all that fond of Subway subs, but for $5 it's a cheap and filling supper for my husband. And since I don't actually -dislike- it, but merely "not especially like it," I can tolerate a 6" once a week. I don't ask for extra cheese, neither does my husband. So it doesn't really matter how much extra they charge, they won't be getting it from us.
33 cents/pound for tomatoes? You can't even convince a neighbor to give you his extra tomatoes from his garden for that cheap. The going rate for "vine ripened" (most assuredly GMO) tomatoes is $2.99/pound here. Same with "tomatoes on the vine" (also probably GMO). The ones they claim are "hothouse" tomatoes, are around that much, and local grown beefsteaks that are pulled off the vine DAYS before they're even close to being ripe run $1.99-2.49/pound.
There's a produce store here in town, and their beefsteak tomatoes always run less expensive. By less expensive though, I don't mean 33 cents/pound. I mean $1.49/pound. The other tomatoes they offer are usually $1.99/pound.
The only way you can get 33-cent tomatoes here is to grow them yourself. But the top soil, fertilizer, and marigolds to keep the bugs away will probably cost you more than 33-cents per tomato.
Here in San Diego, our tomatoes are typically .50 per lb at our local swap meet (Kobeys), or .50 per lb or less at Carnival Supermarket.
It is very wrong of you to tell me what my experience was at Subway. I was at this cheapskate store for the first time with my husband. Believe me, I do not exaggerate.
We smiled and told them we were happy that the store was there. We no longer live in the area, but it was in the Shop Rite mini mall, 8th street, Passaic, N.J. We received such lousy service that we never went back. When we were there we noticed that people were just walking in for take out morning coffee. Nobody - nobody - ordered any food.
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Originally Posted by goldengrain
You sound as though you may be a part of the chain. I hope so. If these stores are as good as you say someone should take the franchise away from the creeps who run this store since they are clearly ruining your reputation.
I am not saying that the people there seem unfriendly, but they have NO CLUE as to how to run a business.
33 cents/pound for tomatoes? You can't even convince a neighbor to give you his extra tomatoes from his garden for that cheap. The going rate for "vine ripened" (most assuredly GMO) tomatoes is $2.99/pound here. Same with "tomatoes on the vine" (also probably GMO). The ones they claim are "hothouse" tomatoes, are around that much, and local grown beefsteaks that are pulled off the vine DAYS before they're even close to being ripe run $1.99-2.49/pound.
There's a produce store here in town, and their beefsteak tomatoes always run less expensive. By less expensive though, I don't mean 33 cents/pound. I mean $1.49/pound. The other tomatoes they offer are usually $1.99/pound.
The only way you can get 33-cent tomatoes here is to grow them yourself. But the top soil, fertilizer, and marigolds to keep the bugs away will probably cost you more than 33-cents per tomato.
ON TOPIC: I'm not all that fond of Subway subs, but for $5 it's a cheap and filling supper for my husband. And since I don't actually -dislike- it, but merely "not especially like it," I can tolerate a 6" once a week. I don't ask for extra cheese, neither does my husband. So it doesn't really matter how much extra they charge, they won't be getting it from us.
In NJ, you can get Jersey tomatoes almost free certain times of the year.
Subway lost me as a customer years ago. They allowed themselves to become the low end fast food chain of the sub world. They are light on the ingredients, quality and style.
I wait for the occasional big weekly discounted cheese. This week I got two 2-pound blocks of cheese for $5 each, that's $2.50 a pound and about the best price that can be had in these parts. It rarely gets cheaper than that, and never below $2 per pound.
Where do you get that?
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