10.25.04

End of fancy sandwiches

Posted in Restaurants at 10:33 am by James

I went to Central Market today, the first time in about 2 weeks. Turns out shortly after my haitus started, they changed the format of the sandwich bar. They changed the format from two sets of spreads and fixings with meat and cheeses in the middle to 3 sets of spreads and fixings with meat below. This seems good from an efficiency point of view: they can service more people in a shorter number of time. However, they slimmed down the available condiments. The cranberry spread and carmelized onions are no longer available. . During the summer they dropped picked onions from the list. The frequent CM shopper will recall that CM limited the type of fixings last year. (ie. avocade, roasted red peppers, squash, zucchini started to be an extra charge) So now my sandwich is reduced to a semi-mundane: bread, spread, meat, lettuce, tomato, onion. Some customers were complaining that they would prefer to see the meat and cheese on the table. I agree. Picking the sandwich meat is like asking for mystery meat. You dont really know what they have… So maybe on my next trip, I’ll write down a note and drop it in their suggestion box.

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