To find ordering in subway stressful

[Elizanotlittle]

Just asked my oh what we should have for lunch suggested a KFC or a quiche from a local patisserie.

He suggested subway. It gave me the rage.

I actually don't mind the food but the ordering process and all the questions actually raises my anxiety levels. Especially if you want more than one sandwich.

I mean you can't just order and wait you have to constantly speak and wait and the queue always takes ages.

Aibu? Anyone else?

Yes I find it too fast and furious, I always need more time to decide what I want. Our local burrito place is the same, it makes me panic as you can’t see the menu till you are at the top of the queue, by which stage you are being asked questions and have a queue behind you

I hate ordering anywhere where the menu is only behind the counter. I can't see it!

“Sandwich artists” are always rush rush and there is too much choice. Yanbu.

This is the exact reason I stick with a Greggs sausage roll (or simple sandwich). There's too much 'choice' in these other places and I just get flustered especially when there's a queue.

I agree OP. A menu you can only see just as you are being asked what you want. “Hi we have 17 different breads, 9 different meats, 42 different toppings and 137 sauces. Pick your sandwich now please, whilst walking. And whilst I’m also taking orders from all the people infront and behind you”

Just get a wrap form supermarket.

I hate the way the sandwich disappears under the piles of lettuce they put on it.

If you go a few times it's easy as you develop a favourite and always ask for that. It's nice to have something freshly made to your specification.

Alternatively you can check the menu online before you go/ in the queue.

I also find it tricky the first time as often I can't hear what the server says if background music, and I don't like making food decisions on the spot.

I'd love to try it, but I won't go in until they get some of those kiosks like McDonald's have now.

Or an app where you can order while standing outside.

They deliver here I think, but I can't imagine they travel well.

My children laugh at me as I can only cope in Subway if I check the website first and write down my order to hand across. I just can't hear clearly enough to confidently answer the questions they ask me.

I hate it.

I refuse to go back to Subway, last time I ate there the meat was slimy and a bit off. And like you op I find the ordering process stressful - even when I've clearly said no thanks I don't want sauce, no I really don't, look I just want the sandwich plain please, they still can't seem to cope with this.

Yes, it's a pain, having to specify which bread, which length, toasted or not, which filling, with or without extra cheese, which types of salad etc when you're a family of 4 it's an absolute ball ache. Then you open it and get a load of saucy warm salad and a soft cookie. Yuk. Rather have KFC but sadly that's not gonna happen at the moment!

You aren't required to use Subway I don't find it stressful at all. Just go and buy a present made one simple.

I hear you. I love Subway sandwiches, have had them a couple of times but it definitely gets my stress levels up ordering one!
You can never see the menu until you're in the queue and by the time you've just started to look at it you're at the top and being asked 500 questions.
"Would you like a 6 inch or a foot long?"
"What bread would you like - granary, Italian, sun dried Mediterranean....."

"I dunno,do I?! Just give me a friggin' sandwich!"

I sometimes pop in to get DS2 a sandwich. I have to take a deep breath and brace myself. Keep repeating 'Ham, bacon and lettuce on Hearty Italian', then I get to the counter and panic and forget.
I can't imagine going in with sandwich requirements for more than one person.

It looks nothing like the picture when you get it either. A sweaty long plastic bag of disappointment which stinks the car out.

Long spiel of questions resulting in nasty sandwich made with cheap, processed ingredients- not worth the hassle

I will never eat in Subway because the choices and ordering is too complicated for me. I prefer my fast food to be stress free!

I'm going to file this away under 1st world problems if that's ok with everyone?

My order is meatball marinara on 6 inch soft italian, toasted with cheese, pickles, onions and lettuce, and southwest sauce. As long as I don't deviate from that in the slightest I'm fine. if the person I'm with says oh what about turkey and ham, my mind goes blank. I don't want to have to think about which salad and sauce will go best with it. Subway should just offer a set menu, for instance I should be able to walk in and ask for the "number 9" and get my above order. It would be quicker than all the questions and answers.

Not to mention the fact they uses halal meat, no thanks!

I can cope with subway. So can dp.

However drive thro' anything reduces me and dp to gibbering, stressed wrecks. Hate it.

Expectation v reality.

Can't do drive through at all. If I do happen to go to KFC or McDonalds the only way I can order is using the touch screens.