Chris Coleson, a businessman from Richmond, VA told his wife he could lose weight by eating anywhere — even McDonald’s.
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Subway's Gift Card Machine Is Indefinitely Broken
By 6.9.08
Reader Kristina was hungry and ready to make use of her Subway $20 gift card, however, when she tried to redeem it at the Subway store at Water and Wall St. in Manhattan, the transaction unfolded like this:
There Are Bed Bugs On The Subway Benches. Yes, Really.
By 5.14.08
Bedbugs are usually thought of as something that only hotel guests have to worry about, but apparently New Yorkers who like to sit on benches while they wait for the subway should be concerned about the bloodsuckers as well.
Subway Sandwiches Now With Rusty Bolt Goodness!
By 5.9.08
According to News 10, Josh Sjowall ordered a foot-long roast beef combo at a Subway store in Tracy, California. As he picked up the sandwich he felt a foreign object with his thumb and discovered it was a rusty bolt. And oh yes, Subway is….”taking it very seriously.” Details and photo, inside…
San Francisco Orders Restaurants To Display Calorie Information, Industry Laughs
By 3.30.08
San Francisco passed a resolution last week requiring chain restaurants to display calorie information on their menus, but the industry couldn’t care less. They will continue fattening us up like gingerbread cash-cows, regardless of whatever regulations pitiful municipalities hurl their way.
NYC To Vote On New And Improved Menu Labeling Regulation
By 1.22.08
The New York City Board of Health will vote today on a new regulation requiring calories on menu boards in New York City. The former rule was shot down by a federal judge who ruled that the regulation’s criteria for determining which restaurants would be required to post calorie information on their menus was illegal.
By 12.7.07
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Turkey subs from Subways in Manhattan now cost $11.03! [East Village Idiot]
60 Minutes Tackles The Menu Labeling Controversy
By 11.19.07
60 minutes aired a lengthy report last night on the menu labeling controversy, and all the usual suspects were in attendance.
Subway Cheese Scam Protest Tshirt Designed
By 9.12.07
For only $12.95, you can protest Subway’s cheese geometry scam in this fetching tee. [More]
Judge Tosses NYC Menu Labeling Regulation
By 9.11.07
UPDATE: Menu labeling isn’t dead yet, the CSPI says the judge objected to an easily fixable condition of the NYC regulation.
Subway's Incorrect Use Of Isosceles Cheese Actually A Vast Conspiracy
By 9.11.07
Subway’s penchant for not using their triangle cheese correctly is actually part of a diabolical mind-control plan to get you to pay more. [More]
Just Asking Politely Sometimes Does The Trick
By 9.10.07
Reader Tim tried to pay for his Subway meal with a debit card today but was foiled by a technical snafu with the card reader. He didn’t have cash on him, but there was an ATM machine in the store, so he withdrew the funds and paid the old-fashioned way. The trouble was, he was now stuck with a $2 ATM fee for a $12 purchase.
Dear Subway, Please Use Your Isosceles Cheese Correctly
By 7.18.07
Come on guys, you got the putting calories on the menu thing right. Now, let’s try draping the calories across the sub in a geometrically satisfying pattern, the one that fulfills the design destiny intended by your sandwich scientists. Spurn not their legacy. [More]
Subway's "3 Foot" Subs Are Shorter Than 3 Feet
By 7.10.07
Apropos of our post on new Subway Super-Stuffed Subs, the Arizona Department of Weights and Measures sent us this KNVX investigative news clip into sandwiches that weren’t quite measuring up…
We got a complaint about six months ago concerning six-foot subs that weren’t six feet long. Subway’s response was to change its advertising – in Arizona at least – but not address the issue that its six-foot subs were about four inches short of the advertised length.
Our favorite part is when the calipers show Subway’s three-foot sub box isn’t even three feet long.
Subway Is Not Ashamed: First Fast Food Restaurant To Put Calorie Info On Menus
By 7.9.07
While the other large fast food chains sue the City of New York to keep calorie information off their menus, Subway has gone ahead and complied with the New York City regulation. Dunkin’ Donuts, meanwhile, submitted a sample menu meant to “prove” that putting calorie info on its menu just couldn’t be done… and the NYC Health Department responded by having its own graphic designer redo the sign to prove that it could be done.
Secret Menu Items Confirmed With Undercover Investigative Journalism
By 6.8.07
A reporter at the Arizona Daily Star decided to put our little Secret Menu Items post to the test by ordering the items at some of our nations finest fast food eating establishments.
