I got the email yesterday for a free Quizno's sub.  Apparently they are trying to give 1 million away for free.  I signed up, my friends signed up, and my family signed up.  I didn't bring lunch in to work today because I was looking forward to a free sub and (paid) chips and a drink.  Three of us guys at work went to Quizno's in Newport Beach at East Bluffs and were greeted by the manager saying he can't afford to honor the coupon.  He said he could give us a free drink but not a sub.  I've had Quizno's once in my life and didn't care for it because it was too salty - I figured a free sub would give them a second chance to redeem their food and it might have made a future customer out of me.  Instead, we walked next door to Carl's Jr.

I talked to a friend of mine, Scott (honorable mention here: Why Wikipedia is worthless), who took his family to get a free sub and the place turned him away because they had "hit their free sub quota."

Quizno's website has a tracker about how many free subs they have given away.  It should say how many email addresses they have collected with the false hopes of a free sandwhich.  I feel bad for the owners of the restaurants because their corporate office wouldn't subsidize their promotion and didn't think about their store owners going out of business to honor the free subs. 

To Quizno's marketing team: Please add back 8 to your counter because these "free subs" aren't worth the tree we've killed printing them or the carbon emissions our cars have emitted to get there!

Want to read another complaint about Quizno's Million Emails Collected And No Subs Given in perfect Iambic pentameter?  Check out Neil's Blog. - just kidding about Iambic pentamter, it's actually haiku.