Subway takes on a vegan cafe
This article provides a pretty good case against Subway (or at least the one particular Subway in question). Apparently a Michigan Subway store is fighting to put a new vegan tea/juice/sandwich shop out of business. Subway claims that the vegan shop, Atom’s, violates a no-compete clause for that particular shopping center and that this new shop would steal business away from Subway.
Hm… considering that Subway only has ONE vegan sandwich (their veggie sandwich if you have them leave off the cheese and mayo), how can they claim that they’ll lose business to this new shop? Vegans aren’t eating at Subway in the first place.
In addition, Subway is trying an even more rediculous ploy by saying that the vegan shop’s “portrayal of these items as ‘the healthiest’ directly competes with [Subway's] marketing of the nutritional value of its menu, especially the ’7 Subs With 6 Grams of Fat Or Less’ campaign.” Since when can nutritional facts be claimed as a marketing campaign?
This is a sad case of a mega-corporation trying beat down the little guy (in this case the first green restaurant in Michigan).
There seems to be something about Subway that invites assholes to buy franchises.
I’ve always been a fan of Subway, especially the one near my work. But after reading this and corporate’s response to the situation, I’m a bit bothered.
They have great smelling bread but the catch of the place ends there. Have you ever been really tempted to step into the one under 12″ Dance Records because you smelled the bread in the staircase?
To the best of my knowledge none of their bread is vegan since the ones that do not contain cheese contain honey, inclding the wheat bread… Sad but true
The white (Italian) bread is vegan. It has no cheese or honey.