Subway : Shocking Deals

A slightly strange report by Special Correspondent Raman Sathiapalan.


CHENNAI : Information reached me ages ago that the popular dine-in and take-away place Subway launched a 'deal' thingy - You get a sub of the day and a coke for Rs 80. However, if you buy just a sub, you're made to pay 120 Rs.

My parents went to Subway's Besant Nagar outlet the other day and asked for four subs, part of the deal, but without the coke. But when they received the bill, it said Rs. 480. Doing some quick math, they figured out that they were being charged the actual price of the subs (hence the 4 x 120 = Rs 480).

They argued for a while, but the staff members were obstinate. "So finally," my father told me, "I was forced to capitulate. I asked them to give me the coke too."
The price was instantly reduced to Rs. 320, and my parents gained four glasses of coke.

"And they did it with a straight face, as if what they were doing was perfectly sane," my mother stated. "I was bubbling with laughter but managed to control myself for fear that they'll realize their folly and put it right."

Contrary to the popular saying (The merchant laughed all the way to the bank), here, The customers laughed all the way home.

Perhaps I've made a big mistake by posting this here. If a Subway official sees this, he'll immediately alert all the offices and this extraordinary deal will get removed from their list of offers.

I guess I've added the tag-line 'Offer for limited time period only.' to this deal most unintentionally. So hurry, folks. You know what to do. Rush to the nearest Subway and choose the deal.

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Hello, readers. This is not the first time something like this is happened. I know of something similar : Long, long ago in Japan, when my grandfather took a vegetarian friend of his to a restaurant to dine, he saw (not surprisingly) at first glance that there was nothing vegetarian. On going through the menu again, he found a 'Vegetable Sandwich.' He ordered that. When the food came - "after an eternity of waiting," my grandfather added - he and his companion discovered, much to their horror, that the vegetable sandwich consisted of some sort of meat with a few onions and lettuce scattered here and there. My granddad called the waiter and asked him for the same sandwich, but without the meat.
He found after finishing his lunch that he was charged extra from removing the meat. He protested, but the waiter just shook his head and added solemnly, "Sorry, sir. Extra charge for no meat."

Well, I'll be damned.