Among all the other things happening in the world today, Subway customers can finally sleep easy at night, knowing that their ‘footlong’ sandwiches will actually be a foot long from now on.
Back in 2013, an Australian teenager from Perth posted a photo to Facebook of an 11-inch Subway sandwich against a measuring tape. Later, The New York Post found that four out of seven footlongs purchased from Subway in New York “measured only 11 or 11.5 inches”. Talk about false advertising, hey?
But now, after having a belly full of this nonsense, a judge has put the matter to rest. In the class-action suit of the century, Subway was ordered to pay US$250,000 in legal fees, plus $500 to each of the 10 individuals who were representatives of the class.
Subway has also promised to ensure its bread rolls are at least 12-inches long, for the next four years.
Proving that every bite counts, judge Lynn Adelman for the US District Court Eastern District of Wisconsin, wrote that “a sandwich that was [an] inch shorter than advertised might be missing a few shreds of lettuce or a gram or two of mayonnaise.”
The sandwich chain made a statement on the matter, saying: “We have already taken steps to ensure each guest receives the footlong or six-inch sandwich they order …This allows us to move forward, without distractions, on our goal to provide great-tasting sandwiches and salads, made exactly as each guest likes.”
Judge Adelman granted no monetary claims to members of the class, because according to lawyer Thomas Zimmerman, “it was difficult to prove monetary damages, because everybody ate the evidence.”
It’s a wonder that Subway has been getting away with this travesty for so long. Surely, it’s not the only chain out there cheating customers out of those final precious morsels of their meals. I say we start a movement to uncover what’s happening in fast-food joints across the nation. Exactly how many grams are our McDonalds quarter-pounder burgers?
So, dust of your scales, pull out your measuring tapes and go forth. We’ve got important work to do!
Read more at news.com.au.
