Next time you go to subway
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Let me ask you, would you bother to serve it to your relatives and/or family? If not, then WHY AREN'T YOU REPORTING IT?!!!!I don't do this stuff, my manager teaches me to do this stuff. I haven't been in a situation to change the labels and haven't dropped bread yet.
If you're serving it KNOWING full well this is going on, you're just as RESPONSIBLE for causing the issue. Don't get how you don't understand this.
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Id rather keep my job, thank you.
Wow.
I'd rather work some place where the boss has a bit of sense and integrity. As someone else pointed out by keeping quiet you're basically an accomplice to what is going on and if people get sick they will be able to trace it back to your particular store and shut you down for health code violations which also means you'll lose your job. And it will most likely go on your job history report. Not only that but any place you apply can find out where you last worked, see it was shut down and the reasons behind it and not hire you because of that.
I'd rather risk losing my job by speaking up than being an accomplice to something that I know to be wrong.0 -
good thing I hate subway and only eat Publix subs because I'm a publix snob lmao0
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Sounds like OP got fired from Subway for putting back bread that fell on the floor and changing the dates on the expired meat.
OP: if they really did things like that and people got sick that particular franchise would get shut down in a heart beat.
(although my mom used to work at Woolworths as a kid and said that they would just rinse the slime off the old hotdogs and resell them :sick: )
I don't do this stuff, my manager teaches me to do this stuff. I haven't been in a situation to change the labels and haven't dropped bread yet.
But obviously you would since your manager teaches you to do that. You know, instead of stepping up and pointing out how wrong what s/he is doing and how many people could get very sick due to these practices.
But hey if keeping your job is that important to you then keep mum until you get shut down by the health department. Good luck finding another job in the food industry then.0 -
I have tortillas in my fridge that passed the expiration date over a month ago. They aren't moldy, they aren't stale, and I definitely plan on eating them.
I'm sure not every subway in the world drops bread and reuses it. It was probably just 1 bad store, and to be fair, I eat food I've dropped on my own kitchen floor all the time and I'm just fine.
As far as chemicals go, unless you are slaughtering your own meat, milking your own cows, getting eggs from your own chickens, and growing your own vegetables, you probably ingest a lot more chemicals than you think you do. Also, technically speaking oxygen is a chemical, it's chemical formula is O2.0 -
Anyone who's ever worked in a restaurant tries not to think about this stuff when they eat out. All restaurant kitchens are gross.
Yeah but I think everyone knows this.
This is also why I won't personally send food back if it's not done right. I'd rather show it to the waiter and have them see that it's not the way it's supposed to be cooked and send it back based on what they saw.0 -
who cares. It's subway. It's an easy fix for someone with little money, or someone who just wants a huge sammich for 5 bucks and is on the run.
I wouldn't recommend making it a part of your life. And, it's a better choice than McDonald's (but I'd rather have Popeye's chicken myself.)0 -
Anyone who's ever worked in a restaurant tries not to think about this stuff when they eat out. All restaurant kitchens are gross.
Yeah but I think everyone knows this.
This is also why I won't personally send food back if it's not done right. I'd rather show it to the waiter and have them see that it's not the way it's supposed to be cooked and send it back based on what they saw.
YUP! I would rather have ugly food than food with a loogey in it. And about restaurants, yeah, it's not often I eat at them for that reason alone. But I'm not a heathen either. Sometimes you have to eat out.0 -
I'm sure not every subway in the world drops bread and reuses it. It was probably just 1 bad store, and to be fair, I eat food I've dropped on my own kitchen floor all the time and I'm just fine.
So what you're saying is because you drop food on your own kitchen floor -- a floor which you know how clean or dirty it is -- you'd be perfectly fine if you saw the person behind the counter at subway drop your bread on the floor, pick it up, dust it off and then make your sandwich with it? You don't know what the floor behind the counter looks like.
To take it a step further do you also prepare your meals while you're sick? Would you be ok if you went to a restaurant and the server or the person making your sandwich at Subway was sniffing, wiping their nose on their shirt, coughing and sneezing all over the place "because you do that at home"?
What you do at home vs. what an establishment serving food to the general public does is completely different.0 -
I have tortillas in my fridge that passed the expiration date over a month ago. They aren't moldy, they aren't stale, and I definitely plan on eating them.
HAHA, a girl after my own heart. :flowerforyou:0 -
Yes. If there weren't regulations it would happen much more, and if it leads to an illness that particular restaurant is hosed.
And was she fired?Sounds like OP got fired from Subway for putting back bread that fell on the floor and changing the dates on the expired meat.
OP: if they really did things like that and people got sick that particular franchise would get shut down in a heart beat.
(although my mom used to work at Woolworths as a kid and said that they would just rinse the slime off the old hotdogs and resell them :sick: )
I think it's been shown in this thread that what the OP describes, actually happens in some fast food restaurants. Not that it's a surprise.
Right.
"Some" not all.
And again if there is an outbreak of illness then it will be investigated and that restaurant will more than likely be shut down.
It's all very Upton Sinclair.0 -
I don't care if what the OP said is true or not.. have you walked into a subway and smelled it? that right there is enough for me to turn around and walk out..
Subway = :sick:
Literally the last 2 times I ate subway, i was sick.0 -
LolzWhy is this in Fitness and Exercise??
you've seen this personally with your own eyes??consider the fact that when food expires, they just change the labels to a different date.
My friend owns a subway- I can double check from her- but I can promise you she's never done that at HER"S.
you've seen this personally with your own eyes? PS I eat food off my floor at home all the time- and I'm pretty sure cats are not remotely close to sanitary.and when they drop bread on the floor, they wait until all costumers have left and put it back in the ready to serve bread cabinets.
and you're point? The meat I buy for dinner comes prepackaged- and sometimes when i'm lazy?? PRESLICED!!!Also, consider that all of the meats and cheese come pre packaged and pre sliced.
it's a hoagie- not a cultural appreciation stop.There is nothing authentic about subway,and although it may have lower calories ( not even that much of a difference ) than most fast food, it is definitely filled with just as many chemicals.
the air you breath is significantly full of chemicals as well- I guess you should just stop breathing too.0 -
That's me. I don't eat a lot of fast food, and when I do, it's usually local, but my lord that "bread" smell makes me want to hoark.I don't care if what the OP said is true or not.. have you walked into a subway and smelled it? that right there is enough for me to turn around and walk out..
Subway = :sick:
Literally the last 2 times I ate subway, i was sick.0 -
I feel as though when you have nightmares....they're made of local deli/cheese shops. Oh no! Not sliced lunch meats!
*Dum dum dum*0 -
and in some countries: someone picks up other people's leftover KFC meals from the rubbish... washes the leftovers... refries them.... and sells them cheaply to people who can't afford to go into KFC. And they think the food is heavenly and worth buying
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I don't care if what the OP said is true or not.. have you walked into a subway and smelled it? that right there is enough for me to turn around and walk out..
Subway = :sick:
Literally the last 2 times I ate subway, i was sick.
I haven't been there in a while but I don't think it smells bad. In fact it makes me more hungry.0 -
I was horrified when I went to Subway the other day and this woman complained about her bread being "flat" (they squish it when they slice it, but whatever), AFTER the worker had already put meat in it. She then took the meat out and but the bread BACK IN THE CONTAINER. As a vegan, that's disgusting. I'm never going to that Subway again and probably not any other one either. Typically when I go the workers change gloves moving from a meat to non-meat sandwich, but this was gross, and if it's common practice, I'm done with them.0
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That's me. I don't eat a lot of fast food, and when I do, it's usually local, but my lord that "bread" smell makes me want to hoark.I don't care if what the OP said is true or not.. have you walked into a subway and smelled it? that right there is enough for me to turn around and walk out..
Subway = :sick:
Literally the last 2 times I ate subway, i was sick.
"Ok what/who smells like nasty foot??!!"
*silences*
*raises hand* "
"Me....I went to subway today...sorry guys"
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: I swear the smell of subway sticks to you till you take a shower after going to their store. I still go every once in a while but it makes me chuckle everytime since someone actually said this to my husband once.0 -
It's Subway, what do you expect?0
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Subway is getting me good money for working part time while waiting for college. I would obviously not throw them under the bus in real life but these are internet forums and are anonymous.. haha. I, for one, wouldn't eat at subway after I worked there just as someone who worked at McDonalds wouldn't eat there anymore.
I beg to differ...I've worked at McDonald's (in high school and college). Been out in the real world for years now and still eat McDonalds. No problems...0 -
I was horrified when I went to Subway the other day and this woman complained about her bread being "flat" (they squish it when they slice it, but whatever), AFTER the worker had already put meat in it. She then took the meat out and but the bread BACK IN THE CONTAINER. As a vegan, that's disgusting. I'm never going to that Subway again and probably not any other one either. Typically when I go the workers change gloves moving from a meat to non-meat sandwich, but this was gross, and if it's common practice, I'm done with them.
I would have said something about that to be honest. That's just wrong.
I was some place waiting to get a coffee and I saw the guy who was serving me sneeze, blow his nose and then start reaching for my cup. I looked at him and said "I hope you're going to wash your hands first." And continued to watch him until he did.0 -
I have worked in restaurants and fast-food restaurants... Food touches the floor all the time. Regardless of how much you pay someone, there will always be people out there who just don't care because they do not know who you are. Hell, I dropped a hamburger off the grill one day and put it right back on. Some of my friends saw. We just played Russian Roulette of who we would give it to.0
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I've just been there...
Any sandwich that I'd make myself would be prepared with unwashed hands from ingredients (most likely) past their sell-by dates. As for bread dropped on the floor, I've taken mystery pills that I found on the floor at school hoping they'd get me high. Do you think a little dust on my bread really fazes me?0 -
Hey OP, where do you live? Town and state, please. I need to make sure to never ever go to your Subway!0
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SERIOUSLY??? And name me one food establishment is the world where a disgruntled customer or employee has not made similar remarks. I have heard far worse from friend who years back worked in other food establishments.
I guess we should have all known the second something throws the name of a place into the title, that someone has and axe to grind. How this has ANYTHING to do with Food & Nutrition is beyond me.0 -
shamrock you're playing the world's smallest violin0
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Meh. IMO Subway has subpar subs, but they'll do in a pinch, and I've never noticed any unpleasant smell at a Subway. Whether OP's post is true or not (I dunno), you pretty much roll the dice when you go out to eat anywhere. A friend who used to work at Round Table shared with me her horror stories, and when I was a teenager I used to work at a fast food restaurant that had a salad bar that was REALLY disgusting...I haven't been able to look at a salad bar the same since.
However, for the most part I tend to lean more towards the optimistic viewpoint that what I'm served has been handled properly. While I don't eat out as much as I used to, I've eaten out A LOT in my nearly 50 years and I'm still alive and kicking, so all is good.0 -
I've just been there...
Any sandwich that I'd make myself would be prepared with unwashed hands from ingredients (most likely) past their sell-by dates. As for bread dropped on the floor, I've taken mystery pills that I found on the floor at school hoping they'd get me high. Do you think a little dust on my bread really fazes me?
And again, how you prepare the food in your own house is your prerogative. You're not giving the general public the sandwich you just made. It's ludicrous to go to an establishment and watch the faulty food handling and think "meh. I do the same thing at my house so who cares." You don't know what sort of cross contamination is happening that could make someone very, very ill. We've all done the "five second rule" in our own house but I certainly wouldn't do that if I saw the person making my sandwich drop it on the floor, dust it off and then expect me to pay for it. Even when I prepare my own meals I do my best to not cross contaminate foods. Am I 100% perfect? No. I might forget to wash my hands while making a sandwich but I make darn sure that when I handle raw meat I wash my hands and scrub down any surface that meat has touched. I also won't eat meat that's a little sketchy (my husband on the other hand, that's a whole other story :laugh: )
There's a local restaurant that my husband and I used to go to. They made good pizza and they were close -- only 20 minutes away (which is close for us). We found out that he was cutting up raw meats on the cutting board used for cutting vegetables and using the same knife. He went ballistic on an employee for dumping a batch of veggies that she just got finished cutting up into the garbage because they were cross contaminated with raw pork. There were several other things that he did that could cause someone to become very ill. We no longer go to that restaurant for that reason. He's probably like you. It's stuff that he does in his own house and just figures it doesn't matter. With any luck word of mouth -- or someone getting violently ill -- will put him out of business.0 -
I used to work at Subway and they are so strict on hygiene.
Out of date food is never used, not even if it goes over by one day.
Anything that is dropped on the floor goes in the bin immediately, my hands used to get chapped from the amount of time we HAVE to wash our hands.
Yeah I know all the food isn't the healthiest or nicest but there's no need to take to an online forum to try and taint a business with false accusations just because you had a bad experience.0 -
I used to work at Subway and they are so strict on hygiene.
Out of date food is never used, not even if it goes over by one day.
Anything that is dropped on the floor goes in the bin immediately, my hands used to get chapped from the amount of time we HAVE to wash our hands.
Yeah I know all the food isn't the healthiest or nicest but there's no need to take to an online forum to try and taint a business with false accusations just because you had a bad experience.
OP claims to work there and the practice they are talking about is implemented by the manager and they HAVE to do it that way.
S/he would rather sit quite and wait for someone to get violently ill than speak up and lose h/his job. Which I doubt they would if they were to speak up. Chances are the manager would be the one to get fired. But if s/he's willingly going along with the manager then perhaps they should be fired as well.0
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