6.02.10 - 11:00AM
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Cole Stryker

Subway to Change Cheese Distribution Strategy After Web Campaign?

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Three years ago, a Left-Handed Toons comic (seen after the jump) illustrated the insanity of Subway's cheese distribution policy. The triangular cheese slices were lined up in a row with overlapping corners, and even worse, some parts of the sandwich were rendered cheeseless.

The comic kickstarted a small movement encouraging the sandwich chain to start alternating the orientation of their cheese slices, as seen in the image above, which would provide for a more equitable cheese distribution.

Drew at Left-Handed Comics writes:

Just look at the gorgeous coverage on the sandwich on the left, and shun his broken brother on the right, for he was born wrong. He stands there overlapped, mouth agape but unable to speak. The time of his kind is over.

Now is the time for the New Procedure. You can almost picture taking every homogenous bite. It's okay now.

Everything will always forever be okay now.

Of course, this might be only a regional test, as the information was found in an internal Subway newsletter in Australia and New Zealand. Read the whole newsletter blurb at Reddit.

Lastly, join the fight. Buy a shirt!

Update: Even Ebert has put in his two cents. What's that guy doing eating Subway? Come to think of it, What's that guy doing eating?

Update 2: Some amazing commenters are popping up. My favorite:

I managed a Subway restaurant 20 years ago and we received the cheese the way you buy a block of singles in the grocery stores that isn't individually wrapped. Subway then made us cut each stack into triangles to conform to the company standards. I trained my employees to tessellate the cheese as shown in the suggestion, going against the standard for the same reason mentioned, maximum sandwich coverage.

When confronted by my Subway D.A.(Development Agent)about this, he told me we were not adhering to the strict company guidelines on how to "build" the sandwich as he had just observed one of my employees laying out the cheese "incorrectly" for one of our customers, and promptly wrote them up for it. Funny thing is he had just eaten a sandwich prepared by the same employee, he had eventually written up, and commented on how good it was. After he wrote the employee up, I explained to him he had just eaten a sandwich the way I instructed my employees to make it, tessellating the cheese, and didn't notice the infraction then when he inspected it before he ate it. He then tore up the write up, and told me to keep doing it as we were, and directed all his other stores to follow our lead.

via:// The Consumerist

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6.02.10

By drwds

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Subway always makes my sandwich by putting all the meat on the top of the sandwich. This bugs me.

6.02.10

By michael

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Another useless bit of info from AOL. Like eating subway everyday will make you lose weight. Get real
people, there are many,many more things to worry about.

6.02.10

By ajl3324

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I worked at Subway from Auguat 2005 to December 2006. I always alternated the cheese. It's the more logical way. The boss never complained. But I was scolded for using too many add0ons (particularly the pickles, olives, and peppers). I worked at the Subway at our MegaMall for a week. They always got awards from Subway for profits & cost control. But they skimped on the contents of the sandwiches. The way the food court at the mall is set up, they get mainly new customers, not repeats. As to the meatball sandwich, its a challenge to get round objects to sit on a flat sahdwich. Dumb idea. Subway is a little pricey. But we Americans are growing into an obese society, and if you can control your gluttony, Subway is a healthier alternative to other fast food. If you think the sandwiches aren't big enough, be prepared to keep buying pants with larger waistbands. It's not about quantity, but lower fat alternatives. And, yeah, that means more boring flavor. We are addicted to grease & salt. You are what you eat.

6.02.10

By COWGIRL

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NOW SUBWAY IS OFFERING A BREAKFAST SANDWICH. I AM NOT IMPRESSED.

6.02.10

By mjf,jbknkn

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just put 3 slices of cheese on the sandwich you cheap bunch of sorry sandwich mak'n macon ga baboons

6.02.10

By tony

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Most of the subways here in cedar rapids ia just plain suck. The subway on 6th st sw has some really rude employees.The a hole behind the counter (when i walked in him and another employee were sittin at a table). When I walked in they both got up and the guy (from listening in on the convo they had, he was the owners son) anyway he gets up and just stands behind the counter and just stares at me, didnt say a word. He acted like I was disturbing his brake. So I told him what I wanted and the only thing he says is cheese. JUST 1 WORD is all i got out of him, cheese. I felt like saying what about it. I will never go back to that 1 ever. The 1 by joenes restaurant out by menards is no better, there rude worthless employees there too. They both acted pissed off that i was even there.

6.02.10

By been there

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call the home office/headquarters, & complain. Rude employees are bad for business. I would think that any business would want their patrons to report rude employees.

I live in Columbus, OH. I've had Subway employees make some very nasty hand gestures to me. I drove by the place a few weeks later - it was boarded up. I don't go to Subway anymore just because lately, every Subway store I've been to has been dirty & in disrepair. Who wants to eat out of a place w/ the ceiling leaking mystery substance onto the food?

6.02.10

By bob

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try jerseys mikes no meat shortage there

6.03.10

By Jennifer

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Funny... but that was a pretty insensitive comment about Ebert.

6.02.10

By Digi

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How incredibly retarded. WHo the hell cares about cheese overlapping? I mean hell if you eat a sub normally you're putting the sandwich end into your mouth so the orientation of the cheese is mooot. How stupid.

6.02.10

By Carol

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I wish they would start putting the mayo on the roll like most people instead of on the meat!

6.03.10

By dcnashinsc

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When I saw the headline I thought the complaint was about too much lettuce on the sandwich. I never had a problem with the cheese but I always have to say that is enough lettuce.

6.03.10

By Jim Wegman

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you people actually EAT that crap.

6.03.10

By Kate8TrailerDate

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The thing is in Southern California we get the added bonus of having Ilegal Aliens make our tasty sandwiches!

6.03.10

By dugandob

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I'm so sick of seeing these commercials on TV and the sandwiches always look so mouth watering. When you go to the Subway they are all thrown together looks like someone thew up on a piece of paper. And just ask them to alter a sandwich. LIKE. Instead of a ham,turkey, cheese, I'd like just double the turkey, instead of the ham. They will flip out and tell you they have to charge you extra. WHY? your still getting two types of meat. Their sandwiches are horrible. I'm sick of getting ripped off. We end up paying more for less these days. We get screwed coming and going. Every Time I go to the grocery store everything is just a little extra. Remember when soup use to be a poor mans lunch? Well now a can of watered down soup cost $1.50. Just a few years ago it was .60 and it actually had some vegetables in it, now it's mostly water with a few vegetables in it. When is it going to end? We'll all be eating macaroni without the cheese. No wonder our country is so obese.

6.03.10

By excrusade

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There is a mass amount of oil gushing into the ocean as we speak; our Earth is literally being destroyed, and you fat people are worried about proper placement of artery clogging mold on your fast food sandwich?

6.03.10

By Thomas

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Told ya that you'd use that high-school geometry sometime in life!! KEEP STUDYING KIDS!!

6.03.10

By laurel

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I've regulary eaten at Subway's in all 5 states I've lived in during the past 20 years, and they ALL made them the overlapped way. I always thought it was stupid, and a few times I asked them to do it the other (now correct)way, but they looked at me like I was crazy, so I stopped asking. Finally, common sense prevails! Too bad for them I now usually go to Mr. Goodcents or Quiznos, where they've always done it right.

6.03.10

By Tim

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i don't understand what the big deal is with the way the cheese is put on the damn sandwich..people like you need to realize that your waisting your time..by making a pointless cartoon, your making an ivalid point, or one that no one gives a shit about..use your time more productively

6.03.10

By M.A.Korman

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Who cares about their cheese. Subway sandwiches are tasteless in spite of how appealing they look in the ads on tv.
We won't even get discuss the fact that at the Subway closest to where I live the employee making the sandwich couldn't speak English let alone make an edible sandwich.