The Potbelly Sandwich Shop is Terrible

Written on February 27, 2009. Written by Glenn Vance.§ 3
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I am a sand­wich guy. Love sand­wiches. I could live off of them for days and weeks given the oppor­tu­nity. I even like cre­at­ing new ways to make sand­wiches. Grilled chicken and spicy mus­tard on a grilled cheese com­prised of pro­volone and moz­zarella? Why not?

Jason’s Deli, Which Wich, chopped beef, sliced turkey with honey bar­be­cue, I love them. And if they were sen­tient and could feel love, they would love me too.

And so I was at Pot­belly Sand­wich Works the other day with Kim. I ordered the Pizza Sand­wich and she got the Turkey Skinny. I had to go back to the house so I took mine with me and she met a client. About twenty min­utes passes.

I eat the sand­wich when I get home.

Seri­ously? They call this a Pizza Sand­wich? Pep­per­oni, mari­nara sauce (who­ever put that on pizza?), provolone(again, who put that on pizza?), mush­rooms and Ital­ian sea­son­ing. Those are the ingre­di­ents that make up the vaunted “Pizza Sandwich”.

It was ter­ri­ble. Pos­si­bly the worst sand­wich I’ve ever bought at an estab­lish­ment that pur­ported to be a sand­wich shop. It didn’t taste like pizza, and it didn’t even taste good. It was like the bread was a wet sponge and the “pep­per­oni” (all two slices) was so low rent that it needed a bailout.

I talked to Kim later and told her the Pizza Sand­wich was ter­ri­ble. She imme­di­ately retorted, “My sand­wich was ter­ri­ble too!”

So good­bye and good rid­dance, Pot­belly Sand­wich Work. You’ve been in busi­ness for 32 years but hope­fully you’ll go out of busi­ness very soon and stop pol­lut­ing the world with your crummy “sandwiches”.

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§ 3 Responses to “The Potbelly Sandwich Shop is Terrible”

  • Rory says:

    Hey Glenn, sorry to hear about your bad expe­ri­ence with the Pizza sand­wich. I must admit I’m a fan of the Wreck on Wheat. I get it with all top­pings except for mayo. Try it out, it’s much better.

  • Glenn Vance says:

    Rory — What are ya gonna do? I made up for it by head­ing over to Which Wich and get­ting their Pizza Sand­wich. Now that’s what a Pizza Sand­wich should taste like — lots of pep­per­oni and cheese. Very tasty.

    - Glenn

  • Joel says:

    Hey Glenn,
    I com­pletely agree with you on that one. I have never been a big fan of their sand­wiches. There really are very few good ‘wich places around town.

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