Friends, I need to get something off my chest.  It’s something that’s been bothering me for a while.

There are nights where I’m just a BIG fan of grabbing a sandwich at Subway.  When it’s late and I don’t feel like cooking, it’s so easy to walk the block and pick something up.  It’s cheap too.

But… SOOOOO often, when I go into Subway and ask for tomatoes on my sandwich, I start to shudder at the thought that they’re about to serve me a sandwich with an unripe tomato.  I usually just grin and bear it because I don’t want to be the guy who’s like, “Yes that one… no not that one… that one.”

It just BUGS me.  How hard is it to understand that unripe tomatoes taste like crap?

It’s just funny because I’m reading this book about the history of In-n-Out.  They talk about In-n-Out’s commitment to quality and how they’d only use the ripest tomatoes.  Even on top of that, they’d only used the slices in the middle of the tomato because those tasted the best.  That’s dedication to quality.

Hmm… Yeah so this is just a major pet peeve of mine.

Do you guys have any major pet peeves when it comes to food service?

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