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Subway fast-food restaurant company revealed its plans to remove pre-sliced meats when making its sandwiches. The chain’s executives believe that this small change will help it bring down the food costs.
In place of pre-sliced meats, Subway will add Deli slicers to provide freshly cut meats instead. The phasing out of pre-sliced meats is set to be implemented in all of its restaurants in the United States.
The company’s decision to go for freshly sliced deli meats is said to be part of Subway’s continuing transformation phase. For this change, the U.S. location will be supplied with deli meat slicers so staff can personally slice the protein at the site, just before serving them to customers.
This big change is set to occur in the first half of this year and the company’s goal is to install the machines in its stores across the nation by summertime. Currently, Subway has 22,000 locations and these are expected to receive the new slicers soon.
"In five decades worth of sandwich making, we’ve explored many things, tested many things, tried many things," Subway North America’s president, Trevor Haynes, said in an interview. "This is the natural next step of the evolution of the U.S. business and operations."
He added that the new meat slicers will allow them to work “with other vendors that could help reduce costs for franchisees." As per Fox Business, the new slicer machines are automatic units and not the hold-hand version.
Staff will slice the meats in two periods during the day while in operation. Customers will be able to view the slicing process since this will be visible in the food preparation area.
"As part of Subway's ongoing transformation journey, we are rolling out deli meat slicers to restaurants across the U.S., elevating the quality of our protein offerings even further," Subway’s spokesman further told PEOPLE. "Our goal is to have freshly sliced meats in all U.S. restaurants by summer 2023."
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