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About time. The non-compete clause was challenged before (I forget where), and the judge at the time ruled that the practice, while unethical, toed the line of being illegal. Which is a pretty good summary of JJ's entire business model: "Technically, what we're doing is a massive dick move, but legal."
While I can't fault the CEO for looking like a squinty John Goodman with a spray-on tan, the sandwiches are not very good at all. The lettuce is finely-shredded wet confetti (which sadly affects Jersey Mike's too, a recent opening in the area), the bread has this weird chemical smell (even more of a problem than Subway), and the bread/meat/cheese/vegetable proportions are all wrong (despite the up-and-down actual quality of the fresh produce at Subway, Jimmy John's is very stingy with vegetables).
Just looking at the guy I'd believe it. Dude looks like he does lines so often that when he sneezes it sounds like a clarinet.
Low-end companies deliberately obfuscate whatever trade secrets they actually have, especially as all ingredients are basically pre-prepared. If you worked in foodservice (like me) you'd be lucky if it even had a manufacturer's name on it (ingredients for Subway never did, except for French's yellow mustard). Other "trade secrets" are fairly open to consumers (like how technically the amount of vegetables you put on a footlong by default--three slices of tomato/pickle/cucumber for each six inch).
It's funny cause Jimmy John's has big-ass containers of Hellman's mayonnaise and Starkist tuna openly visible to the customer. Gee I wonder how they make their tuna ??
Like I said, Randroid. Dude really wants to make sure everyone within three city blocks of one of his shitty franchises knows that he's a big-time businessman who brings in the big bucks.
