Subway

I ate at this subway over a month ago and I swear I always think
about the amazing service there.
the employees were soooo friendly and I’ve never had a more fresh sub from subway before.
the bread was so soft and the vegtables were so fresh. I also got a free cookie with a meal which I’ve never heard of but it was awesome. I love this subway and probably will never go to another one after this experience.

My wife and I stopped off here to grab lunch when we took our cat to the vet, because they were nearby. We both got the Pastrami Melt. My wife got hers on a bun. I got mine on flat bread. We got similar vegetable toppings. Based upon her opinion, I gave them one more star than I would have based upon my opinion, because I averaged her four star opinion with my two star opinion.
My wife got her sandwich without any sauce, because she felt that the employee’s sauce suggestions were wrong. She felt that pastami was a spicy enough and flavorful enough meat to not warrant any sauces to cover up the flavor.
Due to the recent commercials advertising that Subway employees are experts at pairing sauces with sandwiches, I decided to test the employees and go with one of the sauce suggestions even though I knew that both of the suggested sauces weren’t tight for balancing out the flavors of the sandwich. The employee suggested sriracha sauce or the chipotle ranch based upon them being the two most popular sauces on most of the sandwiches. It has been my experience that spicy sauces tend to better balance out mildly flavored meats – like turkey – , but they compete with stronger flavored meats. I like sriracha sauce, but I knew that sriracha sauce wouldn’t allow pastrami to be the star of the sandwich; so, I rejected that outright and tried the chipotle ranch. Normally, I like this sauce on my turkey subs, but it competed a bit too much with the pastrami. Traditionally, delis serve pastrami sandwiches with a milder sauce; so, the pastrami shines as the star of the sandwich. To me, this indicates that Subway employees aren’t quite as «expert» at pairing up sauces with sandwiches as the company claims. They either need to improve training or stop this advertising campaign.
I liked the flavor and quality of the vegetable toppings. They were all fresh and full of flavor. The pastrami which wasn’t touched by the sauce had a good flavor. The only problem is that the pastrami was sliced too thick. Traditionally, delis slice the meat thin in order to make it more tender. Due to this meat being thick sliced, the fat and connective tissue in the meat was too chewy, and there were pieces of gristle. This indicates to me that Subway doesn’t quite understand the proper way to cut the meat in order to maximize its tenderness. Traditionally, pastrami is cut thin to make it more tender, and it is layered up thick. Cutting it thin kind of breaks up the connective tissues and makes the meat more tender.
If Subway were to cut their pastrami thinner and layer it up thick instead of cutting it thick, they will end up with a better sandwich. They have a good basic flavor profile to the meat. They just need to work on the execution a bit. Then, they need to have their employees better understand how to pair up sauces to the sandwiches so that the overall flavor profile of the entire sandwich is more balanced.