{"id":648716,"date":"2010-01-30T08:00:09","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T13:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001367"},"modified":"2010-01-30T03:14:27","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T08:14:27","slug":"subways-beef-barbacoa-sub-could-use-some-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/648716","title":{"rendered":"Subway’s Beef Barbacoa Sub Could Use Some Beef"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Subway is offering a limited-time sandwich, the “Beef Barbacoa,” in a few markets. Skylar in California ordered this sandwich, being misled by the name into thinking that it contained a reasonable amount of beef. Don’t be silly, Skylar.<\/p>\n

He wrote to Consumerist:<\/p>\n

I submit to you my disturbing “Advertised vs. Reality” picture. It would seem I am getting ripped off and received about 1\/4 the amount of advertised meat… so today I had a bread sandwich.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, now: there’s also some cheese and lettuce in there. Skylar sent an email complaint to Subway, and received this response from the franchisee:<\/p>\n

Hello!<\/p>\n

Thank you for your comments regarding our beef barbacoa sandwich.This sandwich is a new offering and consequently when new products are offered there are many issues to address with valuable feedback such as yours.As a matter of fact portioning on this sandwich has been a common complaint.As franchisees we are obligated to follow company standards and at [restaurant] we do that on every issue I can assure you that.Unfortunately the required amount of meat does appear a little skimpy and I am sure that Subway will re-address this issue.<\/p>\n

Once again thank you for your comments and we hope to see you soon enjoying another of our tasty subs at Subway.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

At least they admit the problem, but actually fixing it, as well as sending disappointed customers a coupon or two, might go a long way toward solving it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Subway is offering a limited-time sandwich, the “Beef Barbacoa,” in a few markets. Skylar in California ordered this sandwich, being misled by the name into thinking that it contained a reasonable amount of beef. Don’t be silly, Skylar. He wrote to Consumerist: I submit to you my disturbing “Advertised vs. Reality” picture. It would seem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2758,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ILa","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}