
I'm delighted to see that a branch of
Subway has opened close to Melksham, and wish the enterprise all the very best. They're on the A350 just north of the Town, and open from 7 a.m. (9 a.m. on Sunday) to 10 p.m. Yes - I am giving them a "plug", even though I'm personally not a Subway fan; Lisa
is and you should have heard her cry of delight as we drove past the other day and found that the empty building, formely occupied by "The Little Chef" then "Savannah's" is now a Subway Franchise (well - I guess it's a franchised store). We shouldn't be surprised ... they have around 1000 in the UK at present and are aiming for 2010 stores by the year 2010.
[Subway's U.K. Site]

Inside, the store is spacious, and the location has plenty of parking; at the moment it's hidden behind an A350 traffic jam, and so a bit of an effort to reach from the town centre - I understand that Leekes are also suffering from a loss of business at the moment. Never the less, the location is a big vote of confidence in the store and travel corridor - this is very much an out of town store so significant for travellers. See
here and
here

They've got a lot of tricks, but not yet got all the tricks right. I popped in yesterday to pick up a menu (that we we could have chosen at home or at
the hotel and then one of us driven in to pick up), but they had none. And when I went to their online store location, the nearest it gave me was 12 miles away in Bath ... you may say "But Graham, it's early days". I agree - but it's in the early days that people need to learn about things like opening hours and menus ....
Pictures taken with permission of a staff member ... my intent was to have the menu boards in a form that could be read, but I shook the camera. Oh well. (written 2007-09-02)
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