he's mad as hell and he is not going to take it anymore.

That's a mighty expensive Jimmy Johns this guy works for.
The one near my job charges $1 for chips. This place apparently charges $1.75.

I try to avoid buying small bags of chips. In fact, I have been avoiding eating chips in general.

The salt + vinegar chips there are so yummy!

@chipslave: seconded! they are THEE BEST!

Growing up, when we stopped at McDonalds for food, my mom never let us order drinks. We had pop at home.

Still to this day, I avoid buying soda at fast food restaurants. When I am heading out, and know I'll be stopping on the way at a FF joint, I'll take a can or 2 of coke with me.

@chipslave: Yes, you are correct. One of God's little wonders.

Well it's just a convenience charge for ordering chips through them rather than going to the grocery store and picking up a few big bags.

the guy has a chip on his shoulder

I use to work at Jimmy Johns and our chips were $1 also. And if you are concerned with the prices of food, you should avoid JJ's as there is NO dollar menu NOR kids meals. They are perfectly happy appealing to their demographic only. If you don't like the music being played there, go somewhere else. If you don't like what comes on the sandwich, too bad, it isn't a damn subway, nor does it want to be anything like subway. Also, their food is fattening, so it's nothing like a subway.

So what's his solution? You have a lunch meeting or your boss decided to treat his team to lunch. Does this guy want me to put a bowl of chips in the middle of a conference room table? He surely can't expect me to share from one big bag of chips with my co-workers, I barely want to shake their hands. And what happens if we all want different chip flavors and types? Hey sandwich guy, stick to delivering sandwiches, leave the "advanced finances" to the pros.

they sandwich's come in one size, 9", and either french sub style bread or wheat slices (like you get in a loaf at the store). We hated it when people came in and acted like it was subway.

anyone else think they have the best tuna sandwiches? and also try a vito, with turkey, mayo and dijon added to it, it will cost a little more, but I promise it is fire! OOOh, and their pickles are the best!!

Won't someone PLEASE think of the CHILDREN?

That said I love me some salt&vinegar chips. I think that this dude needs to calm down and ... dare I say ... have a bag of chips?

I used to LOVE Jimmy Johns. Their sandwiches are the best. Unfortunately I got food poisoning from them a few months ago so now just thinking about them makes me feel a little queasy. :(

Is a fast-food place charging extreme prices for add-ons really that suprising? Most pizza places charge like $2.50 for a 2-liter of Pepsi. You're not paying for the actual item, you're paying for the convenience of not having to go get your sides and drinks...

@AlexTheSane: Ha! That's what my boss does. They put tiny little tongs by the bowl, as if you could even pick up chips with it.

Boy do i have a newsflash for this guy. Do you know how much five cents worth of flour and three slices of turkey cost?

Ill give you a hint: its not $5

@dakotad555: Don't forget those $4 bottles of water at the movie theatre!

About two years ago I was waiting for my sammich at a deli, and I overheard a man explaining to his four-or-five-year-old daughter how she shouldn't get the snack-sized bag of chips, because she could have a full 5oz bag for a few cents more. Got to start training these kids to shhop smart young.

dad?? i told you not to send emails to websites when you're drinking!!

"Dear mr. president, there are too many states nowdays. Please eliminate three.

PS, i am not a crackpot."

Aww, I could so go for a Billy Club right now. Provolone, roast beef, ham, all the "salad fixins"...Damn. Now I'm gonna have to order one. Who cares if some schmuck spent $50 on chips? He had the corporate card, and wanted chips...by george he'll pay whatever it costs as long as he's not paying for it out of his bank account!!

Nope, Jimmy Johns isn't subway...and I love that about them. Their food tastes like a deli's, not from the back of a walmart like subway's.

I used to work for a corporate caterer, where the people calling me to order were the assistants, and bills got paid by req number. One day one of our customers calls up. The big boss is throwing a birthday party. Cake, hors d'oeuvres, oh, and how about Martinelli's sparkling cider? Sure, I say, I'll write up the order and fax it over for you to sign. (This was years ago. The internet existed, but we didn't have access.) Now I'm writing up the order. The cake, etc have set prices but we've never served Martinelli's before. I dimly remember my boss lecturing us about a huge markup so completely out of the air I charged them $9 a bottle and she signed off on it.

A week later I checked the price of Martinelli's at Safeway and it was $1.99. I was like "damn."

JJ Sandwiches = OK. Not a life-changing experience, but you won't barf or develop herpes if you eat one.

JJ BBQ Chips = OMG NOM NOM NOM! I love those things, possibly for the very reason that they are in little crack-vial size packages. Each one is a tiny fix for the oily orange crumb monkey on my back. I think if I ate a large package, I would experience an awesomeness overdose and probably never want to look at another bag of them ever again. Quite possibly the best non-hot BBQ chips I have ever had. (For hot BBQ nothing comes close to Gibbles).

My fav is the Itailian Night Club. I could eat those all day long... Omnomnomnom!

@Rectilinear Propagation:
"The one near my job charges $1 for chips."

Yeah, but those chips are chipped.

Isn't this common for any catering? In college a few years ago, I was ordering the catering for a breakfast function from the Einsteins Bagel Bros owned by the campus dining services ... they charged $13 for a gallon of Tropicana Orange Juice and 8 Dixie cups.

@boones farmer: Wait a darn second here...my momma always told me that *I* was one of God's little wonders. It's either the chips or me...oh my...you're right...she was lying!!!

Multiple servings per bag? Next thing you know people are going to have their own soda fountains and will start buying Gatorade in dry mix form.

I always brown bag my chips and drinks for lunch, then the only thing I buy is the sandwich. I get some weird looks from the Subway people when they ask "Do you want the combo?" and I say "No. Just the sandwich." Other than that, I save some cash every day doing so. It's not so much the chips I think are a ripoff, its the drinks. $1.75 for a medium Coke, half of which is ice, and 60% of the time the syrup mixture ratio in the machine is all jacked-up making it taste like brown seltzer water. No thanks.

I should really just make my own sandwiches and brown bag my whole damn lunch, which would save more money, but that would take... you know... effort.

I say midnight raid on the Lay's factory, then we dump all the chips in the harbor!!

Here's the thing. I routinely order from JJ for work I'll spend up to two hundred dollars on chips / cc cookies / and subs. Do I actually pay for this? No, this is a work expensed meal for customers. This is commonly practiced in the business field and is what is contained in that mysterious "Selling and Administrative Expense line in Corporate annual reports.

Typically we have huge bags of chips in the office to cut down on expenses but you often don't march up to a high ranking C level customer and tell him he can't spend $1.75 on chips. Actually our corporate policy is something like $20 per person for lunch $40 for a dinner, so JJ is very cheap all said and done.

@Mr. Guy:

mr. guy, you're not a crackpot, you're a genius. i propose a merger of pennsylvania, delaware and new jersey into one state: pennsylawarey

homemade potato chips are the bestest. while you're frying thinly sliced potatoes in olive oil, you can melt little pieces of roquefort cheese on them.

Jimmy Johns is delicious. #10 all the way. Now I think I know what I want for dinner... Thanks consumerist! :)

But what does Captain Duvel Moneycat think of the chips? Hmmmm?!

@AlexTheSane: The solution is potato salad. For the crunch eat carrots. (feel free to dip the carrots in salt)

Is the price of chips a regional thing or something? I only pay something like a dollar at the one right down the road from me.

Dammit, now I'm hungry... slim 5 and jalapeno chips... OM NOM NOM NOM!

How about don't buy chips because they make you fat.

Learn to cut carbs people, live healthier and more productive lives.

The chips are $1 here, too. I'll happily pay that because a) the chips are awesome (especially the BBQ) and b) it's convenient. Isn't that sort of the point of all "fast food" or short order places? It's almost always cheaper to make stuff at home, so the business is catering to a specific need--feeding people who are lazy or have no spare time.

I go to Jimmy John's because they promise to make me good food fast. If I was putzing around planning my meals and buying ginormous-yet-economical bags of chips, I'd probably also make my own Turkey Tom, thankyouverymuch. :)

The best way to cut down on your chip intake is to only eat British crisps. Sure they cost more, $1 a bag, but you'll not eat them as often and they are much better than American ones. It also works with candy, too. It also helps if there is a nice bricks and mortar store you can take the subway to so you can get them.

@guroth: Eating chips doesn't make you fat, eating chips and not exercising makes you fat.

The walkers are on the march! Run!

No pun intended, but hey.

First, Jimmy John's chips are great!

Second, for an order of 30 bags, it sounds like a business lunch possibly. In fact, that's the only opportunity I ever take to eat at Jimmy John's (no offense to them; when we eat out, it's at real restaurants).

Business lunches are exceptionally common, and when the company hosting you is writing it off (and charging your company in the long run anyway), then paying that kind of money is just a drop in the bucket.

Now before anyone complains, I'm talking about big group business lunches. If a supplier takes me out by myself or with only a colleague or two, then we go to real restaurants.

@bagumpity: "JJ Sandwiches = OK. Not a life-changing experience, but you won't barf or develop herpes if you eat one."

Not according to dadelus

I love JJ's #5, w/o tomato, w/ peppers. Not a fan of the chips though.

@Triborough: OMG!!! Walkers! These are da BOMB!

Wish I could find them here in Seattle. Got a place to order them from?

Screw Jimmy Johns. Give me Potbelly's. Mmm. Bring Potbelly's to the East Coast, please.

@ideagirl: Well, to be fair I never said anything about herpes.