Catching up on this thread:
Goodcents is great. You naysayer people make me sick. Their bread is just on a totally other level. A little fun fact about Goodcents is that (at least at one point) had the greatest failure rate of any franchise, food or otherwise!
http://cantercommercialre.com/documents/The%2025%20Riskiest%20Franchises%20for%20Lenders%201_26_09%20NuWire%20Investor.pdfPicklemans is OK -- they've got some decent options. Their italian beef doesn't do it for me though -- chicago snobbery sticks with me. They've got some pretty good stuff though.
Love planet sub. Sometimes when I go to the planet sub downtown I see Stan Weber there and he and i talk about how great Landry played against OU this season.
I also have entered a Jason's Deli renaissance. Their location downtown just closed their dining room for a bit, but until that happened, I would go there and hound down a steak poboy and spend the afternoon with the soft-serv machine, which is free! There's nothing they can do to interfere with your soft serve intake. One day I was on cone 8 or so and an employee came over and asked if I had had enough ice cream and I said "no...and you know what, I don't think Jason would like to hear about you hassling me...would you like me to call Jason and find out?" and the employee walked away haha.
The last time I ate at subway was in 2016 in Waukegan, Illinois. It was a Friday during lent and I ordered a cheese pizza from there wtf.
I've never had NJ Mike's. My sandwich intake is entirely dependent on what is close to me and NJ Mike's is never really the closest good option.