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  Feel free to make your own sandwich shop that does that
context: I disagree purely on the basis that fruit sides when offered at such places are always shit. Blackened banana, tasteless apple, shriveled tangerine. At the end of the day at least there isn’t a quality concern with a bag of chips >
  
  Yeah people forget that fresh fruit is perishable and doesn't really fit into fast food supply chains.
  Now maybe some stuff like... I guess apple sauce maybe?  Something like that. >
  
  Chick Fil A figured it out. >
  
  Their fruit is kinda frozen tho. >
  
  That must be the answer then. >
  
  You could just not get the side. The sandwiches are already pretty calorie dense >
  
  That and stop going to crappy nationwide chains.  Typically you can find much better local delis and sandwich shops.  Hell even the supermarket typically does better sandwiches, typically. >
  
  Publix subs ftw! >
  
  While I do love a pubsub, my unpopular opinion is that they are quite overrated. They ARE good for a supermarket sammich, but I’d still rather eat a Jersey Mikes or Jimmy Johns. >
  
  Jimmy John’s is the most overrated sandwich chain. >
  
  I don’t hear many people ever claiming they’re great or even good. They’re everywhere, fast, and convenient. >
  
  So is Circle K. You insinuated that Jimmy John’s is on par with Jersey Mike’s and better than Publix. Jimmy John’s is mediocre at best. >
  
  No, you inferred that. I said I’d rather eat it than a pubsub. Quality wasn’t mentioned but thanks for stopping by. >
  
  Ok. Enjoy your terrible sandwiches! >
  
  Will do. Have fun changing my oil. >
  
  I skip the sides and just load my sandwich up with vegetables: spinach, cucumbumber, onion, green bell pepper, tomato, pickles olives etc. I either stick with brown mustard or salt and pepper and skip the high sugar and fat dressings. >
  
  Mustard is such a great condiment. Piquant, the only major concern with it is sodium, goes with almost everything. I usually need a little vinegar added for sheer moisture, though. Dry sandwiches get hard to chew. >
  
  Oftentimes the fruits are not fresh. >
  
  It’s possible, but it’s going to be ludicrously expensive. 
  At Panera, we sell fruit cups, but they’re not worth it. $4 for 3-4 1” cubes of honeydew/cantaloupe, 2-3 cubes of pineapple, and 3-4 grapes. It’s such a ridiculously small portion, especially considering the $4 up charge. Even if you do want two sides, say, an apple and chips, we only charge $1 for an extra side. So even if you buy a second or even third side, it’s still half the price of upgrading to a fruit cup. 
  We only sell like 5-10 per day, and it wastes so much prep time considering we only make a dozen daily. It’s almost an hour of prep time just to make $48 of merchandise that expires in 36 hours, even when keeping it refrigerated. 
  It’s just not feasible, not on the consumer end or the business end. Why wouldn’t you just go to a grocery store, and buy a quart of prepped fruit for more or less the same price, maybe $5-8 for quintuple the quantity? >
  
  Don't forget those cubes of melon aren't ever ripe! >
  
  That's exactly what I was thinking. The average fruit cup is 90% unripe melon.
  Edit: Plus one wimpy, overripe grape >
  
  I think OneWimpyOversizedGrape is the next username I choose for anything.  Thank you for your service. >
  
  if they sold regularly they would. trust me if there is a market for it the company will sell it.
  the issue though is fruit spoils and rots quickly and that's wasted revenue. that bag of chips and sealed cookie can sit there for weeks. >
  
  Unpopular opinion because it's not economically feasible. Fruits are significantly more expensive than potatoes, they spoil, and that cost would need to be made up in the menu prices. >
  
  I'm 90% sure there's apples at Subway. I mean, I don't get them... but like, I see them there.
  Have you had a chocolate chip Subway cookie? I have plenty of healthy options at home, I'm picking the cookie. >
  
  i have eaten at subway a lot and have never once seen an apple >
  
  There are definitely apple slices at Subway. They are in the cooler where the water is kept. I have always gotten apples with my sandwiches. >
  
  You probably just need to ask. >
  
  Most of them do? Atleast in my experience. >
  
  Exactly. I’m baffled by these comments. Maybe it is regional? All of my sandwich shops have at least one fruit option, even fast food restaurants have a fruit option. >
  
  Idk if it's by law or anything, but almost any place you can eat has fruits and veggies. Any sandwich place I've ever been to either has "fresh" fruit, or like, pre packaged apple slices or fruit cups or something >
  
  Yeah, that has always been my experience too. >
  
  Doesn't Subway have apple slices? >
  
  nah they’d give us the shitty bagged sliced apples that taste like pure acid. i’ll pass >
  
  Pickles go good with sammiches >
  
  Have you ever put chips in your sub? Total game changer, fruit on the hand, ew. >
  
  Avocado and Tomato are fruit! >
  
  Bananas are berries >
  
  Horrible idea from a practical standpoint. You’re either going to get a pre-packaged fruit cup from Sysco (they use corn syrup to preserve those bad boys). The other option is for them to do it in-house so you’re suggesting Jersey Mike’s buy a lot of produce with only a portion being useable on a given day. >
  
  Fruits spoil. That money is lost. Chips and packaged cookies last much longer. It’s maybe a good experiment to buy a couple of bunches of bananas and hang them by the register to see if they sell before they spoil. But the main reason prepackaged snacks are dominant in sandwich shops is because they are more likely to make a profit for the shop. >
  
  Chips $0.10 a bag.  Cookies $0.20 a cookie. Fruit even dried $0.70 per item minimum. They could do it but they would prob charge extra like an upgrade fee and most wouldn’t bother.  Good idea though >
  
  As a jersey mikes employee. Hard no. 😂 Expensive fruit that hardly anyone will buy over chips and then we’ll just waste a shit ton of it because we have to toss is after so long. And well you can’t magically know who is going to buy fruit for the week. 
  If you want something healthy like fruit, go to the grocery store or a place you know has it. These sub shops are legit fast food, when have you ever expected to find something moderately healthy in fast food😂 >
  
  Not disagreeing with you, but people buy the chips and cookies because that's what they want, not fruit. It's not a smart business practice to offer your customers products they don't want. >
  
  Supply only follows the demand. >
  
  Reductive. Are you saying there are no gaps in any markets? >
  
  I don’t need all that sugar from fruit, but a veggie side wouldn’t be too bad >
  
  It all comes down to price and shrinkage. They would be throwing out a lot of fruit while chips can stay good for weeks. Cookies are cheap to make but they do go bad fast. >
  
  Fruit goes bad. Chips and cookies do not perish on the shelf. >
  
  I've never been a fan of fresh fruit, although I don't actively dislike it.  It's just something I don't  overly enjoy eating so I don't purchase it to eat.  And when I have a choice between chips and fresh fruit, I'll always take the chips. 
  Bring on some apple or blueberry pie, though. 
  So I don't care one way or the other whether or not sandwich shops offer fruit as a side. >
  
  If you go to a good place,  its usually a deli pickle that is served with your meal.  
  Atleast it is in NYC and NJ >
  
  Pickles are the absolute best and by far the superior sandwich side. I don't know if I'd classify them as fresh fruit though. >
  
  I work in a deli.  We sell fruit at $2 for one. I'm not a true American because I plan ahead and buy fruit at the fruit store,  sandwiches at the deli. >
  
  Places here tried it, no one bought it. It's also a PITA to maintain, as fruits are super perishable.
  Somewhere that isn't a chain has what you want, maybe, but it'll be 20 bucks to get that. Too rich for my blood. >
  
  I work at a local sandwich shop. Fruit is definitely one of our most popular sides along with potato salad. Chips is an option but rarely selected. >
  
  I'm sorry, i thought this was America. Are we not in America? >
  
  fruit doesn't stay fresh as long, especially once you slice it up.
  If you want a healthier options you can go to the grocery store for lunch and get a sandwich at their deli and some fruit >
  
  They likely tried and compared. Chips and cookies probably won the AB test. They surely offer what sells, not what best. >
  
  Just not getting a side is the solution here. >
  
  
  Sandwich shops like Jersey Mikes
  should offer fruit as a side option.
  
  It's literally right at the register... there's bananas and apples in a giant bowl literally at the register... 
  Also while I love a good deli here in NJ deli food is not healthy lol adding an apple or orange is not gonna make any difference to an 18" cheesesteak or Italian sub. >
  
  You are One of those who eats a double cheeseburger with diet coke
  If you want to be healthy you don't have to be there >
  
  I wish more places served actual good soup, and yes I'm including the amazing local mom and pop shops. So hard to find a place that makes a few different soups. >
  
  I disagree. Offering a vegetable side like carrots or celery would be a better option. Fruit has a tendency to go bad faster than vegetables. >
  
  Meh if I wonder into a brothel I don't want a cuddle.
  If I wonder into any of these establishments, its not because I'm concerned about healthy eating. >
  
  The problem is those things only last a few days, then if they're not used they get thrown out. chips and cookies can sit in the cupboard for weeks. >
  
  Pro tip... order extra everything - extra lettuce, tomato, cucumber, etc. Get the sauces on the side. Sit down, remove the majority of the toppings and put them on a plate. Add vinaigrette and ta dahhhhh.... free side salad. 
  Our family does it almost everywhere. Most places stack your burger sky high with vegetable toppings if you ask for it. I usually tell them IF it's not a bother just put all my toppings in a pile on the side so it stays cold. Most don't mind. 
  I have family that preferred the subway salads but they were higher priced and less food. They started getting like a $5 Club (well... not anymore), toasted bread, extra everything, vinaigrette on the side. Then deconstruct it into a chef salad and garlic toast. >
  
  Having worked in the restaurant industry I can tell you from experience that keeping fruits looking and tasting good at peak of their ripeness is dramatically harder than managing other foods/ingredients. The sales window is tiny and they still require as much prep as anything else.
  Rather than plain fresh fruit it would make more sense for restaurants with real kitchens to serve freshly made fruit products that store better. Have you even had a cup of apple sauce that didn’t come from a factory? A serving of baked berries? A real sherbet or sorbet? >
  
  Ummm ok... What exactly is controversial or unpopular about this opinion... 
  There's a sandwich shop here in Atlanta that does exactly that... >
  
  This sub has really deteriorated. The vast majority of restaurants will sub a salad or side of fruit for fries/chips, this post is stupid. >
  
  if you wanted healthy you wouldnt have gone to jersey mikes in the first place. >
  
  There's a chicken sandwich shop that does this. You may have heard of it. Chick-fil-A >
  
  Doesn’t Panera do this ? >
  
  Paradise cafe has a good kids meal (i normally eat kids meals still, it’s always been enough for me idk why), it comes with a sandwhich or whatever, plus a cookie AND fruit. the cookies there are amazingggg >
  
  Wait you're not offered an apple as a side in your subway? Is this country based? >
  
  It's pretty standard for salad and fruit to be sold in sandwich shops though?
  Maybe depends where in the world you live >
  
  Majority of us don’t any fruit with our sandwiches and most fruit would go bad. I worked at a sandwich shop that had fruit, we didn’t switch it every day and yeah no it wasn’t great >
  
  Preserving fruit is more expensive. That's why they don't do it. >
  
  From a nutritional AND cost effective standpoint, there should be no sides. A sandwich at one of those chains is more than enough calories, carbohydrates, saturated fat and sodium for an adult to consume in a single meal (if not a single day), and tacking on more carbs (fruit, a soda, a cookie, chips) and sugar, OR more fat (chips/cookies) is a recipe for a blood sugar crash at best.  
  If you're looking for a lunch on the go, chances are no nutritionally balanced side would be convenient (e.g., vegetables without fat-laden dipping sauce or salt, plain, low or non-fat Greek yogurt). If you're eating a dense sandwich, you shouldn't need a side. >
  
  Maybe I don't eat my whole sandwich tho. I'd rather have half a sandwich and a banana than a full sandwich. Its about making the meal diverse, not just adding shit to it. >
  
  Why would you pay for a whole sandwich if you're only going to eat half, though?
  I get what you're saying, though. What places could do (and many of them do!) have a salad option that uses the ingredients they already have. I think half a turkey sandwich with a garden salad with balsamic vinagarette sounds like a very balanced meal. >
  
  I save my sandwich for lunch the next day! I would love a small salad as an option too. Salad as an entreé just depresses me out. I know it's stupid but from tv and stuff it just screams "I'm on a diet." >
  
  Hey, trust me I get that. There just needs to be a perfect restaurant with diverse, healthy AND cost effective options without having to compromise one for the other! >
  
  ok >
  
  Or .. and hear me out .. if you want to eat healthy, don’t eat at those places. It’s poison. Adding some preserved apples ain’t making it healthier. >
  
  bring a banana and don’t get a side. a sandwich is a whole meal. you don’t NEED a cookie. they’re not forcing you to eat it. it would be more expensive if they offered fruit, and it probably wouldn’t be high quality since there would presumably be less of a demand. >
  
  Babe, why don’t you just eat healthy if you wanna eat healthy? lol >
  
  Start your own sandwich shop >
  
  Bring fruit from home? Lol >
  
  That's why I pack my own lunches and add either a little mandarin or a baggie of grapes >
  
  I wouldn’t mind fruit cups if they ever start doing that as a side. >
  
  Ok. >
  
  Can’t put fruit on my sandwich to add a little crunch >
  
  How about fruit chips? >
  
  Dried fruit would be nice. >
  
  Most sandwich places do though. I can’t think of one where you can’t at least get apple slices. >
  
  I just wish it wasn’t 4 dollars to upgrade for a small side salad at a restaurant instead of fries >
  
  In all the places that do serve fruit and stuff I never see them get picked. Not to mention sliced fruit cuts would go bad very quickly unless you wrap them in plastic which is bad for the environment. >
  
  The person that orders 2 big macs, large fry, and a diet coke.  Lol >
  
  Places try it from time to time, but it rarely works out unless like Subway and McDonalds they have those processed, preserved apple slices in bags - which still don't sell well, but at least they don't draw flies and increase waste even further.
  I mean my local gas station is 14 miles from the closest grocery store and they used to have bannanas, and if they looked right I'd buy one most times I was in. This was a two day window on the bannanas top, and I think one other person also sometimes bought one. >
  
  If you’re not loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then you’re better off making a sandwich at home.
  And if you are loading your sandwich up with a ton of veggies then the fruit will make your meal less healthy. >
  
  NGL, on a calorie per-calorie basis, there probably wouldn't be much difference between the calories in a side of chips and a side of fruit I would imagine. >
  
  they do? >
  
  Fruit is expensive and has a shorter shelf life than a bag of chips >
  
  If the fruit is not garbage, I'm a fan of this.
  If the fruit is garbage, I'll take another pile of sodium instead.