SUBWAY SUE OTHER FRIENDLY VEGGIE, JUICE BAR !

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SUBWAY SUE OTHER FRIENDLY VEGGIE , JUICE BAR !

 

 

Dear Friend ,

 

SUBWAY BLOCK OTHER FRIENDLY VEGGIE RESTAURANT.

Please read the following AP press release.

 

 

1: FIRST, we warmly welcome Subway to make environmental and

animals friendly much healthy veggie sandwiches in their mixed menu

(still has meat items).

 

2: However, please encourage SUBWAY to accept other friendly

" pure " Veggie restaurants too. There is no conflict interests in the

same mall they are running. Because they are not 100 % identical

items and flavors. Just like in the same mall, there could several

restaurants selling the hot dogs or hamburgers or orange juice similar

items coming out from different restaurants.

There is no conflict interests.

 

3: Not only no conflict interests but also it will gradually draw more

customers seeking the DIFFERENT " FLAVORS " healthy foods to the

mall and it will increase business to ALL restaurants with increasing

popular reputation on Veggie foods in that particular mall location.

Therefore, overall, the little Atom's Juice Bar has positive impact to

the mall and to all of the restaurants with different flavors of veggie

foods.

 

4: More and more people recognize the cruelty and deadly health

impact of the meat food. Many ethical people can not sit with other

meat eaters next to them. For this reason we suggest Subway to

greatly increase its Veggie items in its entire franchise chain

worldwide.

This is the new trend worldwide. As you can see many restaurants

have been dumping Meat items , especially in Europe.

Subway will eventually win the position in the ethical foods.

Therefore , there is no worry to have other little veggie stores

docorating on the side. In fact, it even increase Subway's position

..

 

 

Please , contact SUBWAY to express your opinions and

request them to drop the charges against another small eco-friendly

shop Atom's Juice Bar in the same mall.

 

Please Call/Fax/Write to SUBWAY :

 

Mr. Fred Deluca , President,

SUBWAY ,

325 BIC Drive,

Milsord, CT 06460

 

His Fax: 203-783-7401

 

You may call his Secretary and talk to Mr. Fred Deluca,

Seretary: Michelle McEvoy

Her Tel: 1-800-888-4848 x1401

from: 8: 30Am to 5 Pm , Eastern Time.

 

 

OR, you may contact Subway's customer Relations :

Subway's customer relations phone # is

1 800-888-4848, then 85, then 1 to

speak to a person. Their e-mail address is:

 

asksubway (@subway.com )

 

(note: this is only customer service addr., the best is

to call the President . )

 

ALWAYS REMEMBER,

ABSOLUTELY POLITE ALL TIMES !!!!!!

 

Gary Wilson, an attorney for Atom's, said a hearing is set for

March 12 to determine if an agreement can be worked out.

If you live in the nearby area, you may attend the hearing

to help .

 

 

Thanks for the help.

Citizens concerns.

P.S.: Please remember in March, 2001

there are TWO important activities, please Join ALL you can:

1: Anti-Burger King Cruelty Campaign .

(http://www.murderking.com/demo.html

Update info : http://www.meatout.org

 

2: Meatout 2001 Campaign.

( http://www.meatout.org

Tel: 1-800-MEATOUT , 1-800-632-8688 ).

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P.S.:

The following is the story on Subway and little Atom Juice Bar :

 

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" Paul MacKenzie " <paul

Wednesday, February 28, 2001 1:04 PM

Possible concern?

 

Perhaps this could be a good citizens concern?

They are getting a ton of calls on this issue,

 

Cheers

Paul

 

Subway's customer relations phone # :

1-800-888-4848, then 85, then 1 to

speak to a person.

 

E-mail: asksubway (@subway.com )

 

Web feedback form: http://www.subway.com/applications/cs_form/

 

AP Story follows alert

 

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Forward from Earth save list:

 

I'm writing on behalf of John Chetcuti, who attempted to start an

EarthSave Michigan Chapter, before EarthSave was mature enough

to even have chapters (over a decade ago). He then went on to found

a vegetarian group which distributed six thousand of the very oldest

" Realities. "

He has been active in the plant-based movement since then. That's why

I consider him an EarthSave Chapter--in spirit.

 

 

The story is, he opened a vegan health food store in the same mall as a

Subway store. It took him over a year and a lifetime's savings to open.

Just a few months after opening day, Subway sued him for being in the

same mall and offering them competition--since they too offer " healthy "

sandwiches!

 

The press release is below, so you can get the basic details from that.

What they don't say is that John has 3 children and this suit is causing

extreme hardship for his family and his brother. None of them have seen

a paycheck for the past 3 months. They have also been the target of

unfriendly gestures and actions from Subway people (such as having their

car smeared with mayonnaise).

 

Atom's Juice Bar is also a certified green restaurant. That means that

it

is 100% eco-friendly. They use no styrofoam, and use only homemade

cleaners such as vinegar and water.

 

 

It seems to me that Subway needs to hear from us on this. It is truly an

affront to all those who are choosing this lifestyle for ethical,

religious, health or environmental reasons. If chapters and ESI get

back

to me with the thumbs up on this, I'll speak to John again, (who I just

met on the phone this morning for the first time), and get more details

so we can format an e-mail/story.

 

What I do know right now is that they have started a legal fund for

donations. Checks can be made out to :

 

Atom's Juice Cafe

345 Fischer Road,

Grosse Point, MI 48230.

 

PLEASE Note on the check--> " Legal Fund Donation. "

 

Subway's customer relations phone # is 1 800-888-4848, then 85, then 1

to

speak to a person.

Their e-mail address is: asksubway (@subway.com )

 

Let me know what you all think!

 

******AP Story follows*******

 

Subway Sues Cafe Over Healthy Food

 

By LISA M. COLLINS

..c The Associated Press

 

 

GROSSE POINTE, Mich. (AP) - Subway is serious about its lowfat,

low-calorie sandwiches. So serious that it's suing the landlord of one

of

its stores for letting a vegan cafe open three doors away in a strip

mall.

 

Owners of Atom's Juice Cafe - which doesn't sell meat or dairy

products -

say that lawsuit and another suit filed against it by the mall owner are

nothing more than an attempt to run them out of business.

 

Already, legal fees have drained the small shop's profits and increased

its debt, said owner John Chetcuti.

 

``It blows me away,'' Chetcuti said. ``We're so far the opposite of

Subway, I have no idea how we're in competition with them. My clientele

is 5 to 10 percent of the eating population - the Buddhists, Sikhs,

lactose-intolerant, Hare Krishnas, vegans and vegetarians. These people

are not interested in Subway food. And Subway customers are not

interested in our food.''

 

In October, the Subway shop owner, Doris Odren and her husband, Thomas,

and Delaware-based Subway Real Estate sued Fisher Road Properties, owner

of the small shopping area across the street from Grosse Pointe South

High School.

 

The suit says that Subway's national ad campaign ``emphasizes and

stresses the healthy nature'' of submarine sandwiches, and that the

landlord violated a no-competition clause in the lease by allowing a

shop

to move in that ``directly competes with Subway in their attempts to

market healthy food products.''

 

In turn, the landlord sued Atom's for breach of contract, and Atom's

countersued the landlord. The landlord's attorney was not immediately

available for comment Monday.

 

Subway signed its lease in 1991; Atom's signed its lease in 1999.

 

Milford, Conn.-based Subway sells cold cut and vegetarian sandwiches, as

well as meatball subs, soups, salads, cookies and sandwich wraps. The

corporation has more than 14,000 stores in 76 countries.

 

Atom's Juice Cafe serves wrapped soy and tofu sandwiches, dairy-free

desserts and cookies, salads, bagels, soups and other non-meat, nondairy

foods.

 

Chetcuti said 60 percent of the food in his shop is organic. He said

he's

been a vegan - those who don't eat meat or animal products, including

milk and eggs - for 15 years.

 

Doris Odren said Monday she did not want to talk about the issue.

 

Les Winograd, spokesman for Subway, said the company doesn't comment

on pending litigation, but said it's not uncommon for strip mall owners

and food stores to have no-competition clauses.

 

Chetcuti owns Atom's with his brother, David, and the chef, Michael

Cleland. He said the cost of legal fees has threatened to put the shop

out of business.

 

Gary Wilson, an attorney for Atom's, said a hearing is set for March 12

to determine if an agreement can be worked out.

 

Chetcuti said the juice bar can't move, otherwise the brothers and their

families would go bankrupt after spending $180,000 of ``borrowed and

begged'' money to open the shop and another $7,500 on legal fees,

he said.

 

On the Net:

 

Subway: http://www.subway.com

 

Green Restaurant Association: http://www.dinegreen.com

 

AP-NY-02-27-01 1017EST

 

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