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CNN
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Relaxation straightforward, America: Subway’s footlong cookie is again.
Following a four-month lengthy disappearance, Subway introduced Wednesday the “triumphant return” of the outsized chocolate chip cookie, which was pulled from many restaurants lower than two weeks after its January debut due to huge demand.
The large cookie was a part of Subway’s new Sidekick lineup, a key half to Subway’s turnaround plans, which additionally consists of a lot of different adjustments to its menus as a part of its efforts to maintain up with rivals. The lineup additionally consists of a Cinnabon churro and a mushy pretzel from Auntie Anne’s, each of which remained on sale up to now few months. Subway stated it has bought greater than 5 million cookies since its roll out.
The corporate added customization to its menu, doubled down on pushing orders to its app, elevated its international presence and most lately launched freshly sliced meats — a significant shift from Subway’s earlier methodology of delivering chilly cuts pre-sliced.
“The Footlong Cookie has delighted hundreds of thousands of People since their first bites in January, sparking unprecedented demand during the last a number of months,” Paul Fabre, Subway’s senior vice chairman of culinary and innovation, stated in a press launch.
Fabre added the chain “labored diligently to hurry” further provide into eating places.
Efficient instantly, the cookie is on the market to order on platforms the place they had been pulled from, together with Subway’s web site, app and third-party companies, like DoorDash and Uber Eats. They can be ordered in-person.
Subway might use a lift: Its location depend continues to dwindle, closing greater than 400 eating places within the US final yr. Subway completed the yr with its smallest variety of US eating places (20,133) since 2005.