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That and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense"
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Publix subs ftw! | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically."
] |
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While I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!"
] |
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I skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns."
] |
>
Mustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings."
] |
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I disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew."
] |
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Yeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.
Now maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips"
] |
>
I used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that."
] |
>
Oftentimes the fruits are not fresh. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well"
] |
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It’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive.
At Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup.
We only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated.
It’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity? | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh."
] |
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Don't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe! | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?"
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That's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.
Edit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!"
] |
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if they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.
the issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape"
] |
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Pickles go good with sammiches | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks."
] |
>
Fruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches"
] |
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I'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.
Have you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop."
] |
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i have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie."
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There are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple"
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Most of them do? Atleast in my experience. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches."
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Exactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience."
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Idk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has "fresh" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option."
] |
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Yeah, that has always been my experience too. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something"
] |
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Have you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too."
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Avocado and Tomato are fruit! | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew."
] |
>
And Bananas are technically an herb.
They are distantly related to ginger. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!"
] |
>
Unpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger."
] |
>
Doesn't Subway have apple slices? | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices."
] |
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Chips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?"
] |
>
I don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though"
] |
>
From a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best.
If you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad"
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Maybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side."
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Why would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?
I get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it."
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I save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams "I'm on a diet." | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal."
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Hey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other! | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\""
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As a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week.
If you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂 | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!"
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Supply only follows the demand. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂"
] |
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How does one measure demand of something that isn't available.
Like there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater? | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand."
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I've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips.
Bring on some apple or blueberry pie, though.
So I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?"
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If you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal.
Atleast it is in NYC and NJ | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side."
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nah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ"
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I work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass"
] |
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It all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli."
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Not disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast."
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Fruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want."
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Places here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.
Somewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf."
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I work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood."
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"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected."
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Horrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?"
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fruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.
If you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day."
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They likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit"
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Or .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best."
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bring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier."
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"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand."
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"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol"
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"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop"
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Bring fruit from home? Lol | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok"
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That's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol"
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"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes"
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Ok. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side."
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Can’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk."
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How about fruit chips? | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch"
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Dried fruit would be nice. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?"
] |
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Most sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice."
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I just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices."
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In all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries"
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The person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment."
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Places try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.
I mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol"
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If you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.
And if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one."
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NGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy."
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"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine."
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Fruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?"
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If the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.
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"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips"
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"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead."
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"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that"
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This is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them."
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I usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it."
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"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it"
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This isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy"
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"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier."
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I think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would"
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They dont do that in your place? Shame | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it."
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Or, they can serve people what they want. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame"
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That is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want."
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I think a better option would be to serve fruit chips or dried fruit as a side.
They will last longer, so it'll be good for both the shops and the customers. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want.",
">\n\nThat is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop."
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Fat Americans ain’t going for that, side of ranch to dip my chips please | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want.",
">\n\nThat is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop.",
">\n\nI think a better option would be to serve fruit chips or dried fruit as a side.\nThey will last longer, so it'll be good for both the shops and the customers."
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P sure at least half of those do offer fruit sides, they just suck. Pre packaged bs | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want.",
">\n\nThat is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop.",
">\n\nI think a better option would be to serve fruit chips or dried fruit as a side.\nThey will last longer, so it'll be good for both the shops and the customers.",
">\n\nFat Americans ain’t going for that, side of ranch to dip my chips please"
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Most fruit you buy at restaurants are sub par. I’d rather buy my own fruit. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want.",
">\n\nThat is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop.",
">\n\nI think a better option would be to serve fruit chips or dried fruit as a side.\nThey will last longer, so it'll be good for both the shops and the customers.",
">\n\nFat Americans ain’t going for that, side of ranch to dip my chips please",
">\n\nP sure at least half of those do offer fruit sides, they just suck. Pre packaged bs"
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"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want.",
">\n\nThat is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop.",
">\n\nI think a better option would be to serve fruit chips or dried fruit as a side.\nThey will last longer, so it'll be good for both the shops and the customers.",
">\n\nFat Americans ain’t going for that, side of ranch to dip my chips please",
">\n\nP sure at least half of those do offer fruit sides, they just suck. Pre packaged bs",
">\n\nMost fruit you buy at restaurants are sub par. I’d rather buy my own fruit."
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Or, maybe, and hear me out, you go somewhere that has healthier options and sandwiches like a deli. Jason's Deli and Panera Bread are two places that fit your description to a T and those are just off the top of my head. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want.",
">\n\nThat is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop.",
">\n\nI think a better option would be to serve fruit chips or dried fruit as a side.\nThey will last longer, so it'll be good for both the shops and the customers.",
">\n\nFat Americans ain’t going for that, side of ranch to dip my chips please",
">\n\nP sure at least half of those do offer fruit sides, they just suck. Pre packaged bs",
">\n\nMost fruit you buy at restaurants are sub par. I’d rather buy my own fruit.",
">\n\nLearn to make a sandwich, buy a vintage lunch box."
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They already do in pretty much the rest of the word except the US. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want.",
">\n\nThat is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop.",
">\n\nI think a better option would be to serve fruit chips or dried fruit as a side.\nThey will last longer, so it'll be good for both the shops and the customers.",
">\n\nFat Americans ain’t going for that, side of ranch to dip my chips please",
">\n\nP sure at least half of those do offer fruit sides, they just suck. Pre packaged bs",
">\n\nMost fruit you buy at restaurants are sub par. I’d rather buy my own fruit.",
">\n\nLearn to make a sandwich, buy a vintage lunch box.",
">\n\nOr, maybe, and hear me out, you go somewhere that has healthier options and sandwiches like a deli. Jason's Deli and Panera Bread are two places that fit your description to a T and those are just off the top of my head."
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I just don’t get the sides or a drink at any restaurant.
I order the entree and drink water. No sides. They are all just saturated fats that give you cancer, and the drinks are all just sugars and carcinogens that give you cancer. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want.",
">\n\nThat is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop.",
">\n\nI think a better option would be to serve fruit chips or dried fruit as a side.\nThey will last longer, so it'll be good for both the shops and the customers.",
">\n\nFat Americans ain’t going for that, side of ranch to dip my chips please",
">\n\nP sure at least half of those do offer fruit sides, they just suck. Pre packaged bs",
">\n\nMost fruit you buy at restaurants are sub par. I’d rather buy my own fruit.",
">\n\nLearn to make a sandwich, buy a vintage lunch box.",
">\n\nOr, maybe, and hear me out, you go somewhere that has healthier options and sandwiches like a deli. Jason's Deli and Panera Bread are two places that fit your description to a T and those are just off the top of my head.",
">\n\nThey already do in pretty much the rest of the word except the US."
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America was built on innovation ... by innovators.
Go innovate, don't expect someone else to do it for you.
Also, let us know how much fruit you had to throw away because the fat slobs wanted a cookie. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want.",
">\n\nThat is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop.",
">\n\nI think a better option would be to serve fruit chips or dried fruit as a side.\nThey will last longer, so it'll be good for both the shops and the customers.",
">\n\nFat Americans ain’t going for that, side of ranch to dip my chips please",
">\n\nP sure at least half of those do offer fruit sides, they just suck. Pre packaged bs",
">\n\nMost fruit you buy at restaurants are sub par. I’d rather buy my own fruit.",
">\n\nLearn to make a sandwich, buy a vintage lunch box.",
">\n\nOr, maybe, and hear me out, you go somewhere that has healthier options and sandwiches like a deli. Jason's Deli and Panera Bread are two places that fit your description to a T and those are just off the top of my head.",
">\n\nThey already do in pretty much the rest of the word except the US.",
">\n\nI just don’t get the sides or a drink at any restaurant.\nI order the entree and drink water. No sides. They are all just saturated fats that give you cancer, and the drinks are all just sugars and carcinogens that give you cancer."
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Agreed, but I think it'd cost the store more money to have fresh fruit and I doubt they'd do that. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want.",
">\n\nThat is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop.",
">\n\nI think a better option would be to serve fruit chips or dried fruit as a side.\nThey will last longer, so it'll be good for both the shops and the customers.",
">\n\nFat Americans ain’t going for that, side of ranch to dip my chips please",
">\n\nP sure at least half of those do offer fruit sides, they just suck. Pre packaged bs",
">\n\nMost fruit you buy at restaurants are sub par. I’d rather buy my own fruit.",
">\n\nLearn to make a sandwich, buy a vintage lunch box.",
">\n\nOr, maybe, and hear me out, you go somewhere that has healthier options and sandwiches like a deli. Jason's Deli and Panera Bread are two places that fit your description to a T and those are just off the top of my head.",
">\n\nThey already do in pretty much the rest of the word except the US.",
">\n\nI just don’t get the sides or a drink at any restaurant.\nI order the entree and drink water. No sides. They are all just saturated fats that give you cancer, and the drinks are all just sugars and carcinogens that give you cancer.",
">\n\nAmerica was built on innovation ... by innovators.\nGo innovate, don't expect someone else to do it for you.\nAlso, let us know how much fruit you had to throw away because the fat slobs wanted a cookie."
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They should serve whatever they think their customers want, if you don't like what they offer you should take your business elsewhere. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want.",
">\n\nThat is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop.",
">\n\nI think a better option would be to serve fruit chips or dried fruit as a side.\nThey will last longer, so it'll be good for both the shops and the customers.",
">\n\nFat Americans ain’t going for that, side of ranch to dip my chips please",
">\n\nP sure at least half of those do offer fruit sides, they just suck. Pre packaged bs",
">\n\nMost fruit you buy at restaurants are sub par. I’d rather buy my own fruit.",
">\n\nLearn to make a sandwich, buy a vintage lunch box.",
">\n\nOr, maybe, and hear me out, you go somewhere that has healthier options and sandwiches like a deli. Jason's Deli and Panera Bread are two places that fit your description to a T and those are just off the top of my head.",
">\n\nThey already do in pretty much the rest of the word except the US.",
">\n\nI just don’t get the sides or a drink at any restaurant.\nI order the entree and drink water. No sides. They are all just saturated fats that give you cancer, and the drinks are all just sugars and carcinogens that give you cancer.",
">\n\nAmerica was built on innovation ... by innovators.\nGo innovate, don't expect someone else to do it for you.\nAlso, let us know how much fruit you had to throw away because the fat slobs wanted a cookie.",
">\n\nAgreed, but I think it'd cost the store more money to have fresh fruit and I doubt they'd do that."
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"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want.",
">\n\nThat is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop.",
">\n\nI think a better option would be to serve fruit chips or dried fruit as a side.\nThey will last longer, so it'll be good for both the shops and the customers.",
">\n\nFat Americans ain’t going for that, side of ranch to dip my chips please",
">\n\nP sure at least half of those do offer fruit sides, they just suck. Pre packaged bs",
">\n\nMost fruit you buy at restaurants are sub par. I’d rather buy my own fruit.",
">\n\nLearn to make a sandwich, buy a vintage lunch box.",
">\n\nOr, maybe, and hear me out, you go somewhere that has healthier options and sandwiches like a deli. Jason's Deli and Panera Bread are two places that fit your description to a T and those are just off the top of my head.",
">\n\nThey already do in pretty much the rest of the word except the US.",
">\n\nI just don’t get the sides or a drink at any restaurant.\nI order the entree and drink water. No sides. They are all just saturated fats that give you cancer, and the drinks are all just sugars and carcinogens that give you cancer.",
">\n\nAmerica was built on innovation ... by innovators.\nGo innovate, don't expect someone else to do it for you.\nAlso, let us know how much fruit you had to throw away because the fat slobs wanted a cookie.",
">\n\nAgreed, but I think it'd cost the store more money to have fresh fruit and I doubt they'd do that.",
">\n\nThey should serve whatever they think their customers want, if you don't like what they offer you should take your business elsewhere."
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American food chains are poison. Don't eat them and you'll be healthier than the majority of Americans. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want.",
">\n\nThat is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop.",
">\n\nI think a better option would be to serve fruit chips or dried fruit as a side.\nThey will last longer, so it'll be good for both the shops and the customers.",
">\n\nFat Americans ain’t going for that, side of ranch to dip my chips please",
">\n\nP sure at least half of those do offer fruit sides, they just suck. Pre packaged bs",
">\n\nMost fruit you buy at restaurants are sub par. I’d rather buy my own fruit.",
">\n\nLearn to make a sandwich, buy a vintage lunch box.",
">\n\nOr, maybe, and hear me out, you go somewhere that has healthier options and sandwiches like a deli. Jason's Deli and Panera Bread are two places that fit your description to a T and those are just off the top of my head.",
">\n\nThey already do in pretty much the rest of the word except the US.",
">\n\nI just don’t get the sides or a drink at any restaurant.\nI order the entree and drink water. No sides. They are all just saturated fats that give you cancer, and the drinks are all just sugars and carcinogens that give you cancer.",
">\n\nAmerica was built on innovation ... by innovators.\nGo innovate, don't expect someone else to do it for you.\nAlso, let us know how much fruit you had to throw away because the fat slobs wanted a cookie.",
">\n\nAgreed, but I think it'd cost the store more money to have fresh fruit and I doubt they'd do that.",
">\n\nThey should serve whatever they think their customers want, if you don't like what they offer you should take your business elsewhere.",
">\n\nWhat about a small snack pack of peaches or pears? Or pineapple cubes. They can be pretty good."
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To me, good deli sides are potato salad or maybe a soup. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want.",
">\n\nThat is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop.",
">\n\nI think a better option would be to serve fruit chips or dried fruit as a side.\nThey will last longer, so it'll be good for both the shops and the customers.",
">\n\nFat Americans ain’t going for that, side of ranch to dip my chips please",
">\n\nP sure at least half of those do offer fruit sides, they just suck. Pre packaged bs",
">\n\nMost fruit you buy at restaurants are sub par. I’d rather buy my own fruit.",
">\n\nLearn to make a sandwich, buy a vintage lunch box.",
">\n\nOr, maybe, and hear me out, you go somewhere that has healthier options and sandwiches like a deli. Jason's Deli and Panera Bread are two places that fit your description to a T and those are just off the top of my head.",
">\n\nThey already do in pretty much the rest of the word except the US.",
">\n\nI just don’t get the sides or a drink at any restaurant.\nI order the entree and drink water. No sides. They are all just saturated fats that give you cancer, and the drinks are all just sugars and carcinogens that give you cancer.",
">\n\nAmerica was built on innovation ... by innovators.\nGo innovate, don't expect someone else to do it for you.\nAlso, let us know how much fruit you had to throw away because the fat slobs wanted a cookie.",
">\n\nAgreed, but I think it'd cost the store more money to have fresh fruit and I doubt they'd do that.",
">\n\nThey should serve whatever they think their customers want, if you don't like what they offer you should take your business elsewhere.",
">\n\nWhat about a small snack pack of peaches or pears? Or pineapple cubes. They can be pretty good.",
">\n\nAmerican food chains are poison. Don't eat them and you'll be healthier than the majority of Americans."
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If that's the only place you've ever eaten a sandwich then you actually haven't had a good sandwich yet | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want.",
">\n\nThat is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop.",
">\n\nI think a better option would be to serve fruit chips or dried fruit as a side.\nThey will last longer, so it'll be good for both the shops and the customers.",
">\n\nFat Americans ain’t going for that, side of ranch to dip my chips please",
">\n\nP sure at least half of those do offer fruit sides, they just suck. Pre packaged bs",
">\n\nMost fruit you buy at restaurants are sub par. I’d rather buy my own fruit.",
">\n\nLearn to make a sandwich, buy a vintage lunch box.",
">\n\nOr, maybe, and hear me out, you go somewhere that has healthier options and sandwiches like a deli. Jason's Deli and Panera Bread are two places that fit your description to a T and those are just off the top of my head.",
">\n\nThey already do in pretty much the rest of the word except the US.",
">\n\nI just don’t get the sides or a drink at any restaurant.\nI order the entree and drink water. No sides. They are all just saturated fats that give you cancer, and the drinks are all just sugars and carcinogens that give you cancer.",
">\n\nAmerica was built on innovation ... by innovators.\nGo innovate, don't expect someone else to do it for you.\nAlso, let us know how much fruit you had to throw away because the fat slobs wanted a cookie.",
">\n\nAgreed, but I think it'd cost the store more money to have fresh fruit and I doubt they'd do that.",
">\n\nThey should serve whatever they think their customers want, if you don't like what they offer you should take your business elsewhere.",
">\n\nWhat about a small snack pack of peaches or pears? Or pineapple cubes. They can be pretty good.",
">\n\nAmerican food chains are poison. Don't eat them and you'll be healthier than the majority of Americans.",
">\n\nTo me, good deli sides are potato salad or maybe a soup."
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They do? I usually get an apple as my side when I eat at a sandwich shop. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want.",
">\n\nThat is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop.",
">\n\nI think a better option would be to serve fruit chips or dried fruit as a side.\nThey will last longer, so it'll be good for both the shops and the customers.",
">\n\nFat Americans ain’t going for that, side of ranch to dip my chips please",
">\n\nP sure at least half of those do offer fruit sides, they just suck. Pre packaged bs",
">\n\nMost fruit you buy at restaurants are sub par. I’d rather buy my own fruit.",
">\n\nLearn to make a sandwich, buy a vintage lunch box.",
">\n\nOr, maybe, and hear me out, you go somewhere that has healthier options and sandwiches like a deli. Jason's Deli and Panera Bread are two places that fit your description to a T and those are just off the top of my head.",
">\n\nThey already do in pretty much the rest of the word except the US.",
">\n\nI just don’t get the sides or a drink at any restaurant.\nI order the entree and drink water. No sides. They are all just saturated fats that give you cancer, and the drinks are all just sugars and carcinogens that give you cancer.",
">\n\nAmerica was built on innovation ... by innovators.\nGo innovate, don't expect someone else to do it for you.\nAlso, let us know how much fruit you had to throw away because the fat slobs wanted a cookie.",
">\n\nAgreed, but I think it'd cost the store more money to have fresh fruit and I doubt they'd do that.",
">\n\nThey should serve whatever they think their customers want, if you don't like what they offer you should take your business elsewhere.",
">\n\nWhat about a small snack pack of peaches or pears? Or pineapple cubes. They can be pretty good.",
">\n\nAmerican food chains are poison. Don't eat them and you'll be healthier than the majority of Americans.",
">\n\nTo me, good deli sides are potato salad or maybe a soup.",
">\n\nIf that's the only place you've ever eaten a sandwich then you actually haven't had a good sandwich yet"
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I mean sandwiches are pretty easy to make. Buy the fruit and stuff to make them and you'll have what you want. | [
"You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense",
">\n\nThat and stop going to crappy nationwide chains. Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops. Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically.",
">\n\nPublix subs ftw!",
">\n\nWhile I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns.",
">\n\nI skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings.",
">\n\nMustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew.",
">\n\nI disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips",
">\n\nYeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.\nNow maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe? Something like that.",
">\n\nI used to work at a sandwich shop and we'd have apple sauce available for purchase. it came standard with a kids meal but you could purchase individual cups of apple sauce in the drink/deli salad cooler. it was nice to have a semi healthy side choice rather then the cookies or chips we served as well",
">\n\nOftentimes the fruits are not fresh.",
">\n\nIt’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. \nAt Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. \nWe only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. \nIt’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity?",
">\n\nDon't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe!",
">\n\nThat's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.\nEdit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape",
">\n\nif they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.\nthe issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks.",
">\n\nPickles go good with sammiches",
">\n\nFruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop.",
">\n\nI'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.\nHave you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie.",
">\n\ni have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple",
">\n\nThere are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches.",
">\n\nMost of them do? Atleast in my experience.",
">\n\nExactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option.",
">\n\nIdk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has \"fresh\" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something",
">\n\nYeah, that has always been my experience too.",
">\n\nHave you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew.",
">\n\nAvocado and Tomato are fruit!",
">\n\nAnd Bananas are technically an herb. \nThey are distantly related to ginger.",
">\n\nUnpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices.",
">\n\nDoesn't Subway have apple slices?",
">\n\nChips $0.10 a bag. Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother. Good idea though",
">\n\nI don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad",
">\n\nFrom a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best. \nIf you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side.",
">\n\nMaybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it.",
">\n\nWhy would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?\nI get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal.",
">\n\nI save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams \"I'm on a diet.\"",
">\n\nHey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other!",
">\n\nAs a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. \nIf you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂",
">\n\nSupply only follows the demand.",
">\n\nHow does one measure demand of something that isn't available.\nLike there's 0 demand for a car that can run on dirty rainwater?",
">\n\nI've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it. It's just something I don't overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat. And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. \nBring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. \nSo I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side.",
">\n\nIf you go to a good place, its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal. \nAtleast it is in NYC and NJ",
">\n\nnah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass",
">\n\nI work in a deli. We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store, sandwiches at the deli.",
">\n\nIt all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast.",
">\n\nNot disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want.",
">\n\nFruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf.",
">\n\nPlaces here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.\nSomewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood.",
">\n\nI work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected.",
">\n\nI'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America?",
">\n\nHorrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day.",
">\n\nfruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.\nIf you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit",
">\n\nThey likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best.",
">\n\nOr .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier.",
">\n\nbring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand.",
">\n\nBabe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol",
">\n\nStart your own sandwich shop",
">\n\nok",
">\n\nBring fruit from home? Lol",
">\n\nThat's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes",
">\n\nI wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side.",
">\n\nOk.",
">\n\nCan’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch",
">\n\nHow about fruit chips?",
">\n\nDried fruit would be nice.",
">\n\nMost sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices.",
">\n\nI just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries",
">\n\nIn all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment.",
">\n\nThe person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke. Lol",
">\n\nPlaces try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.\nI mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one.",
">\n\nIf you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.\nAnd if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy.",
">\n\nNGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine.",
">\n\nthey do?",
">\n\nFruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips",
">\n\nIf the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.\nIf the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.",
">\n\nFeel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that",
">\n\nThe purpose of food industry is to make profit, make customer addicted to their products, make their customer's health deteriorate since they're colluding with health industry. Let customer having healthy food won't help them.",
">\n\nThis is a pretty myopic view. American food culture is built around ultra processed foods that are scientifically engineered to be addictive. Not having fruit as a side is the least of it.",
">\n\nI usually buy a 6 inch sub, then go home and eat yogurt and fruit/applesauce with it",
">\n\nDried fruit could work but drying it probably makes it more unhealthy",
">\n\nThis isn't unpopular, they just won't do it. Up to you to get your own and eat healthier.",
">\n\nthey must not be as profitable or else they would",
">\n\nI think it's both lame and sad that this is an unpopular opinion. I 100% agree with it.",
">\n\nThey dont do that in your place? Shame",
">\n\nOr, they can serve people what they want.",
">\n\nThat is a whole other ball of wax. Chips last for months and fruit lasts days maybe more. Not worth it for a sub shop.",
">\n\nI think a better option would be to serve fruit chips or dried fruit as a side.\nThey will last longer, so it'll be good for both the shops and the customers.",
">\n\nFat Americans ain’t going for that, side of ranch to dip my chips please",
">\n\nP sure at least half of those do offer fruit sides, they just suck. Pre packaged bs",
">\n\nMost fruit you buy at restaurants are sub par. I’d rather buy my own fruit.",
">\n\nLearn to make a sandwich, buy a vintage lunch box.",
">\n\nOr, maybe, and hear me out, you go somewhere that has healthier options and sandwiches like a deli. Jason's Deli and Panera Bread are two places that fit your description to a T and those are just off the top of my head.",
">\n\nThey already do in pretty much the rest of the word except the US.",
">\n\nI just don’t get the sides or a drink at any restaurant.\nI order the entree and drink water. No sides. They are all just saturated fats that give you cancer, and the drinks are all just sugars and carcinogens that give you cancer.",
">\n\nAmerica was built on innovation ... by innovators.\nGo innovate, don't expect someone else to do it for you.\nAlso, let us know how much fruit you had to throw away because the fat slobs wanted a cookie.",
">\n\nAgreed, but I think it'd cost the store more money to have fresh fruit and I doubt they'd do that.",
">\n\nThey should serve whatever they think their customers want, if you don't like what they offer you should take your business elsewhere.",
">\n\nWhat about a small snack pack of peaches or pears? Or pineapple cubes. They can be pretty good.",
">\n\nAmerican food chains are poison. Don't eat them and you'll be healthier than the majority of Americans.",
">\n\nTo me, good deli sides are potato salad or maybe a soup.",
">\n\nIf that's the only place you've ever eaten a sandwich then you actually haven't had a good sandwich yet",
">\n\nThey do? I usually get an apple as my side when I eat at a sandwich shop."
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