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What about Jimmy John's? Surely they fit into this conversation.
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Their somewhat regular food poisoning issues seem to indicated they're cutting a few too many corners. Amato's is pretty good as far as italian sandwich chains go, but they're very regional.
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Dec 29, 2013 12:24
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Sunday Talk Show Roundup FoxNews Sunday Guests: Discussing the road ahead for Obamacare in 2014 with former Vermont Governor Howard Dean (D), and Dr. Scott Gottlieb of the American Enterprise Institute. Also, discussing the future of the NSA with House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Rogers (R-MI) and another member of that committee, Rep Adam Schiff (D-CA) Panel: Brit Hume, Mara Liasson of NPR, Scott Brown and Joe Lieberman (!)  Meet The Press Guests: House Oversight Committee Chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) talk the NSA. Also, Snowden’s lead legal advisor, Ben Wizner of the American Civil Liberties Union talks about him. Panel: Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson; NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell; Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow Elliott Abrams; Woodrow Wilson Center Senior Fellow Robin Wright; Provost and Professor of History at George Mason University, Dr. Peter Stearns  Face The Nation Guests: Barton Gellman of the Washington Post, one of the reporters that first wrote about Snowden, Jesselyn Radack, a legal adviser to Snowden, and Thomas Drake, a former NSA whistleblower talk Snowden, then Michael Hayden talks about how important the NSA is or something. Panel: Jeffrey Kluger of TIME, James Fallows of The Atlantic, Laura Sydell of NPR and Seth Fletcher of Scientific American talk about technology. This will probably sound like an Andy Rooney segment. This Week with George Guests: ? Panel: 2013 wrap-up, which means they're probably taking the week off.
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Dec 29, 2013 15:12
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pentyne posted:But honestly, I can't think of a single major franchise chain besides Blimpies and Wawa that serve sub sandwiches with any level of quality. Every city or major suburban area has places that are known for fantastic offerings, but it's never been a chain business. Sub sandwiches are/were mostly a local business thing and never became a major franchise for anyone other then Subway. Firehouse Subs. Delicious loving sandwiches. It doesn't have the variety of Subway, and the prices are a bit more expensive, but what they do is honestly a bit better in my opinion. The shops also double as fundraiser stands for 911 services, primarily fire fighters for obvious reasons. For every $2 you donate to your fire department through them they will give you a 5 gallon bucket of pickle spears for free. They're relatively new, and primarily in the south though, so there's a good chance that not a lot of people have tried them.
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Dec 29, 2013 17:26
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SedanChair posted:I like Quiznos; to learn the banal details of its greedy overlords suffocating it is real depressing. The private investment firm that mostly bought them out about 4 years ago has turned that poo poo around in a major way though, if that makes ya feel better.
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Dec 29, 2013 17:26
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Install Windows posted:The private investment firm that mostly bought them out about 4 years ago has turned that poo poo around in a major way though, if that makes ya feel better. This is one of the weirder sentences I've read on DnD. Private equity firms improving the businesses they buy? What the gently caress is this, the fifties?
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Dec 29, 2013 17:31
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Rygar201 posted:This is one of the weirder sentences I've read on DnD. Private equity firms improving the businesses they buy? What the gently caress is this, the fifties? Probably just some old-fashioned fuddy-duddys who think that a sandwich shop should make its money selling sandwiches, and can't see the immense profit to be made packaging sandwich sales into sandwich-sale-backed-securities, then pooling those SSBS into even larger securities which are divided into tranches, with the top tranche getting a AAA rating so even pension funds can gamble on Americans' love affair with sandwiches. Then you take the remaining junk-rated tranches, pool them all together, and retranche them into AAA and other levels as many times as you like. Since these are guaranteed to fail, you sell them to a sucker and secretly bet against them on the sandwich swap markets. You can goose profits by tripling the price of sandwiches, which you'd think would hurt demand, but if you accept IOU's from "Liar Buyers" and take their word to pay you Tuesday for a sandwich today, then sales will be brisk. 
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Dec 29, 2013 17:47
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VitalSigns posted:Probably just some old-fashioned fuddy-duddys who think that a sandwich shop should make its money selling sandwiches, and can't see the immense profit to be made packaging sandwich sales into sandwich-sale-backed-securities, then pooling those SSBS into even larger securities which are divided into tranches, with the top tranche getting a AAA rating so even pension funds can gamble on Americans' love affair with sandwiches. That was the best paraphrase of Michael Lewis' The Big Short I've ever read. 
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Dec 29, 2013 17:51
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Rygar201 posted:This is one of the weirder sentences I've read on DnD. Private equity firms improving the businesses they buy? What the gently caress is this, the fifties? All Quizno's did beforehand was lose money massively without it even being done in a way that got someone rich. Now they're running at a modest profit and the new owners are raking in fat stacks.
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Dec 29, 2013 18:11
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I will never eat in a Jimmy John's after hearing the stories about how they treat employees and threaten to fire them often if they get sick and can't come in.
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Dec 29, 2013 18:55
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FlamingLiberal posted:I will never eat in a Jimmy John's after hearing the stories about how they treat employees and threaten to fire them often if they get sick and can't come in. For what it's worth I worked at the Jimmy John's at UCF and they were a good store and treated everyone fairly. That sucks that other stores weren't the same.
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Dec 29, 2013 19:07
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Seriously though, people should go to jail for forcing sick employees to work in the food service industry and potentially make other people seriously ill.
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Dec 29, 2013 19:08
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FlamingLiberal posted:I will never eat in a Jimmy John's after hearing the stories about how they treat employees and threaten to fire them often if they get sick and can't come in. At my old store being sick and not finding someone to cover your shift was considered a no call - no show and people had to sign papers at hiring stating that. If you could afford to see a doctor (good luck with minimum wage and no health insurance) then you could get a note. One for every day you were sick. I never fired anyone for being sick though, I'd send their rear end home because I'll be damned if I'm going to work 60 hours a week with a cold because some jackass coughed on me.
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Dec 29, 2013 19:12
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Alkydere posted:Firehouse Subs. Delicious loving sandwiches. It doesn't have the variety of Subway, and the prices are a bit more expensive, but what they do is honestly a bit better in my opinion. The shops also double as fundraiser stands for 911 services, primarily fire fighters for obvious reasons. For every $2 you donate to your fire department through them they will give you a 5 gallon bucket of pickle spears for free. They're relatively new, and primarily in the south though, so there's a good chance that not a lot of people have tried them. We got em up here in the Chicago 'burbs, and I'll second that they are really good but don't really have a big variety of sandwiches on offer. What they all have though is a huge collection of rare hot sauces that are fun to try and range from mild to nuclear. Also drat I didn't realize JJ's treated their employees so lovely  I thought I.read somewhere that they were unionized.
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Dec 29, 2013 19:15
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Silver Nitrate posted:At my old store being sick and not finding someone to cover your shift was considered a no call - no show and people had to sign papers at hiring stating that. If you could afford to see a doctor (good luck with minimum wage and no health insurance) then you could get a note. One for every day you were sick. I never fired anyone for being sick though, I'd send their rear end home because I'll be damned if I'm going to work 60 hours a week with a cold because some jackass coughed on me. What an exceptionally lovely practice. "I mew be spewing from both ends, but I can't find anyone to cover for me, so I have to drag myself to work, and cough on the boss in the hope he'll send me home."
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Dec 29, 2013 19:21
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quote:Ari Shapiro was more diplomatic. "I will say that no matter how big a fan of Jimmy John's subs you may be at the beginning, after a few weeks on the Romney press bus, the sight of that box will be enough to make you decide to skip lunch," he tells us. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/07/19/156970883/romney-and-jimmy-johns-sandwiches-never-far-apart
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Dec 29, 2013 19:24
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Before my restaurant relocated I had a jimmy johns with a drive thru on my commute route and I ended up eating subs probably 3 days every given week. I actually miss them, too. I like a plain-rear end lettuce & mayo sub and they had good roast beef.
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Dec 29, 2013 19:48
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I was wondering what conservative rear end in a top hat said which outrageous thing that spawned 2 pages of new replies. Turns out we're discussing food.
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BiggerBoat posted:I was wondering what conservative rear end in a top hat said which outrageous thing that spawned 2 pages of new replies.
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Dec 29, 2013 21:03
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FlamingLiberal posted:I'm pretty sure foodchat is the #1 derail of SA threads, whether it's here, in SAS, CD, or TVIV Hell, over in Trad Games, we turned our D&D Next thread into our dedicated food derail thread.
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Dec 29, 2013 21:27
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That Capriotti's chain that Biden got caught without money to pay for his sandwiches at a few weeks ago also makes some drat good sandwiches. Like, 20" Thanksgiving sandwiches, with in-house roasted turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce on them. I miss those sandwiches.
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Dec 29, 2013 23:13
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Kilty Monroe posted:That Capriotti's chain that Biden got caught without money to pay for his sandwiches at a few weeks ago also makes some drat good sandwiches. Like, 20" Thanksgiving sandwiches, with in-house roasted turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce on them.
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Dec 29, 2013 23:30
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TURN IT OFF! posted:What an exceptionally lovely practice. That's pretty much everywhere in the food industry because they're staffed as sparsely as humanly possible to reduce overhead. If you call off sick in any restaurant without someone to cover for you, you make everyone's lives harder since they have to pick up your slack. There's a motto in the industry that if you don't find someone to cover your shift you better be in jail, in the hospital, or in a ditch. There's a story in the Kitchen Industry thread in GWS about someone who knew a guy that went to work and ended up plating salads with what he thought was the flu, but turned out to be norovirus and got a couple hundred people sick and the catering company got sued for millions. You'd think that the potential court cases and the food inspector shuttering your place of business would make sure you have someone just in case, but
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Taylor Swift instagrammed a pic of herself and her brother wearing matching red flannel pj onesies. At Powerline, John Hinderaker gives us maybe the clearest example of what it's like to be trapped in the mind of a dittohead. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/12/merry-christmas-5.php quote:The guy in the photo is Taylor’s brother; I know because one of my daughters told me so. But here’s the question: can the red plaid onesies possibly be a coincidence? I see three alternatives: 1) Miss Swift really is the only person in the USA who doesn’t know that plaid onesies, paired with hot chocolate and nerd glasses, have been mercilessly mocked by millions for the past week. Argument for this interpretation: She has written many songs, not one of which contains even a hint as to any political leanings, suggesting she has none. She is immensely rich and does indeed live in a bubble. 2) Miss Swift is slyly joining in the mockery. Argument for this interpretation: How can she not know? Everyone knows. 3) On the contrary, she is subtly sticking up for Obamacare by assuring her legions of fans that plaid onesies are cool after all. Argument for this interpretation: Swift reportedly looked pained and disapproving when hosts Carrie Underwood and Brad Paisley mocked Obamacare at the Country Music Awards. I have no idea which answer is correct, so the only way to solve the riddle is with a poll. If you have an opinion, go ahead and express it: I hear these words delivered in a hollow, echoing, Twilight Zone voice-over during an extreme close-up of darting eyes. And yes there's a poll on the page. "It's her subtle way of endorsing Obamacare" is winning at 52%, over "Sheer coincidence. She is unaware of Pajama Boy" and "It's her sly way of ridiculing Pajama Boy and Obamacare." Von Sloneker fucked around with this message at 01:08 on Dec 30, 2013 |
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Dec 30, 2013 01:05
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How can she not know? Everyone knows. 
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Nobody who isn't a loving rear end in a top hat knows about "Pajama Boy". This is some A Beautiful Mind level poo poo.
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Dec 30, 2013 01:15
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Where's the option for "who loving cares"?
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Dec 30, 2013 01:16
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Von Sloneker posted:At Powerline, John Hinderaker gives us maybe the clearest example of what it's like to be trapped in the mind of a dittohead.
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Dec 30, 2013 01:19
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 I've seen my share of offensive headlines for stories but images, this is just despicable from Breitbaft
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Dec 30, 2013 01:44
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Woo-hoo! Go Connecticut! Also, gently caress Breitbart. That sort of malicious ignorance is so loving commonplace I don't even know how to respond other than that.
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Yeah, that's a bunch of poo poo. But what perplexes me is the article itself is written straight, it may as well be from AP. Who the gently caress that isn't a spiteful right-winger would write for Breitbart? Do they grab "straight" news articles then slap horrible images on them? Who is Dr. Susan Berry and does she know she's a Breitbart writer? Weird. If I were to hypothesize that the site were trying to cultivate a more serious image in the newsgathering world, that picture sure nips that in the bud. edit: wait, I get it, it's like those Chuck Asay cartoons where the intended readership is supposed to recoil from what most sane people would think is reasonable, i.e.: in this case insuring the transgendered. yet another edit: for those who don't subject themselves to the horrors of the political cartoon thread, this is what I mean: 
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Von Sloneker posted:Taylor Swift instagrammed a pic of herself and her brother wearing matching red flannel pj onesies. At Powerline, John Hinderaker gives us maybe the clearest example of what it's like to be trapped in the mind of a dittohead. Red flannel pajamas are to conservatives what cake was to video game nerds after Portal came out.
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Dec 30, 2013 02:29
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Here's a former Republican Congressman wearing red flannel pajamas last week.
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Holy poo poo that is the most smug painting ever put to canvas. Ted Cruz's of course being the most narcissistic put to canvas. Raskolnikov38 fucked around with this message at 03:44 on Dec 30, 2013 |
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Dec 30, 2013 03:39
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Is he sitting next to Paris Hilton?  I hope Republicans never, ever stop obsessing over pop culture minutia. May their political will forever be spent on referencing memes, emailing TV stations, and smugly ordering chicken sandwiches.
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Dec 30, 2013 03:43
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Here's a close up of the picture he's holding. Yes, those are little people bowing down to him.
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Dec 30, 2013 03:45
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Sharkie posted:Is he sitting next to Paris Hilton? For real dude? That's Mika Brzezinski.
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The hostility to gender-change surgery is baffling to me. It's like they think people do it for fun or vanity or something. Who the hell would get a sex change for fun?
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VitalSigns posted:The hostility to gender-change surgery is baffling to me. It's like they think people do it for fun or vanity or something. Who the hell would get a sex change for fun?
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Lycus posted:God made you the sex you were born with. You're going against God's will. Yeah but if you feel like you should be the other sex, god also did that. Because god does everything. So if you don't change your sex you're going against God's will.
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