Ive toasted a lot of bread in my life and Ive never seen bread shrink that much. And if it was the case that its pre-cooking, I dont see that as a disclaimer in any of their marketing material in the store, on their website, or anywhere else.
My guess is the stores cut the bread shorter so that they have to put less toppings on it. if you cut a 12" sub down by 10% to 10.8" then you save 10% on the cost of bread, meat, veggies, sauce, etc.
With Subway it would be more difficult to bake a shorter bread. But with Quiznos, the bread is cut by the employees so i can see the franchise owner making the decision to make the subs smaller. Even 5%smaller would mean youve increased your margins by 5% which is huge in the restaurant business.
All speculation.
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Originally Posted by RW99
Maybe thats 'net length' before cooking  |