Posted on 10/21/2015 12:27:08 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Subway will start making its sandwiches bigger after a lawsuit claiming the chain's footlong sandwiches are shorter than advertised, according to a settlement proposal announced Monday. Subway came under fire two years ago when a photo went viral online showing a footlong sub next to a tape measure that showed the bun was actually 11 inches. The photo prompted a class-action lawsuit from Subway consumers who said they were cheated out of an inch of their sandwiches.
Subway has now agreed to start requiring franchisees to measure the bread they serve to ensure that footlong subs are 12 inches and 6-inch subs are no less than 6 inches, according to the settlement agreement. Nation's Restaurant News first reported on the settlement. Subway has also agreed to start compliance inspections to make sure restaurants are adhering to the new rules, according to the agreement. The restaurant chain will edit its training materials and franchisee protocols, "which had previously allowed for a small tolerance in the size of a footlong sandwich," to require that a footlong must be at least 12 inches.
A hearing for final approval of the settlement is scheduled for January, according to Subway.
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Yep, one inch at a time.
Never believe a guy when he tells you how long it is.
must be that last angry inch mark levin is missing to abandon the republican party for good.
They still haven’t had a decent meat-to-bread ratio for years.
As lousy as Subway sandwiches are I think they were doing us a favor.
Good. I’m all for truth in advertising. My big consumer complaint right now is with BIC lighters. The last two I bought lasted two weeks each. Before that, they lasted months. I see they’re stamped made in France.
Another one is how they measure TV set screens. My 32 inch TV is actually 31.5 inches measured diagonally. At least they admit it in the small print.
Translate: “make them longer and thinner or longer and not as tall.” Subway puts out a pretty good product for the cost, and you get to look the ingredients over before you have them put them on the sandwich.
They may have won bigger sandwiches, but the costs for larger pieces of bread has to be made up somewhere. Get ready for the new “$6 Footlong” commercial jingle.
And now let's go after "Big Lumber" who have been giving us (1 7/8" X 3 3/4") 2X4 studs like forever!
Enough of the sham!
I’ve always wondered why the food in fast food advertisements don’t look anywhere near what you’re served. Subways sandwich adverts show this huge stuffed whatever but when you get it, it looks like a car ran over it flattening it out.
"...and make it hurt", she said.
So I gave her the old 5-1/2 inches, twice... then slapped her.
I made the mistake of getting one of their cheesesteak sandwiches once. I had to use a magnifying glass to find any meat.
I saw the “fresh” meat and eggs and bread scattered over the floor of a refrigerated distribution warehouse from broken cases.
the term fresh is a misnomer
even the bread is frozen
...OK? If they were cheaping out on bread, they will just increase the cost of their footlongs. And only a fool believes in advertising (hence, the people suing Subway are almost certainly Democrats).
Government regulation (or the threat thereof) fails again, as usual.
Do we not understand nominal measurement anymore:
Types of Data & Measurement Scales: Nominal, Ordinal, Interval and Ratio
http://www.mymarketresearchmethods.com/types-of-data-nominal-ordinal-interval-ratio/
Who cares? How does this hurt anyone?
“...said they were cheated out of an inch...”
Bunch of slackards! Where’s the obligatory “that’s what she said” comment!?
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