I really hate to start off the New Year with a bad review; but alas...sometimes it's unavoidable.
So this subway is one of an emerging number of locations that's open 24/7. That, coupled with its location (in the Walmart plaza at the top of Highland Avenue near the 210 freeway and the 330 on the way to the mountains), is quite convenient.
However, that's (mostly) where the positive vibes stop dead in their tracks. The wife and I were here yesterday hungry for dinner and we had a gift cart I had received for Xmas as well as a coupon from our local paper. We had begun placing our orders and they were being made when my wife mentiones she was using a coupon FROM SUBWAY for a 6" sub, chips and a drink for $6.99. The young man looks at us with this perplexed look on his face and points to the menu behind him and states "Here are the meal-deals we have". When we indicated that she wanted the deal that was on the coupon, both of the gentlemen looked at us confused and then said..
"We don't honor Subway coupons".. our mouths dropped open.
Me: "But you're a Subway"
Him: "Yes... but we don't honor the coupons.."
Me: "Then why would the company feature coupons in paper if you're not going to honor them?!"
Him: *nonchalant shrug of shoulders..* "Oh, those are put out by corporate. We're a franchise; we don't have to honor those..."
Me: "Riiiiiight... so how are we to know if you're a corporate store or a franchise just by walking in?!"
Him: "Oh well there's a sign out front that says we're a franchise so you can plainly see this...*
Honestly, I have never had a more inane conversation with a food service worker in some time. The only reason we didn't just leave and go a mile away to the one on Boulder (that we KNOW accepts coupons) is because they were already halfway done with our order, and we were hungry.
When we left with our orders, we scoured the signage out front for proof of what they had said. On their sign stating their ours in a little corner were the words "Proudly locally owned and operated"; NOT easily visible at all.
Needless to say, we won't be ordering food from here again. I fail to see why they could not accept coupons FROM THEIR OWN COMPANY just because they were franchise shop. Now, if they had explained it like "Franchise store's computer systems are not compatible with the ones at corporate stores so we can't accept their coupons", that would have been a little better (though still sketchy, as almost every MacDonald's is a franchise store and they have no problems with such things.) They also could have included more informative signage on this.
The only reason they got a 2nd Yelp star in this case was because the sandwiches were very tasty. But come on, Subway. You can do better than this. You're in the customer service business; lets do better at explaining things, shall we? read more