A Subway location down south goes viral for posting an indication of a joke that didn’t go over effectively.
A person named Timothy Mauck snapped a photograph forward of the vacation weekend of an indication at a Rincon, Georgia, Subway location with a not-so-tasteful pun referring to final month’s Titan submersible tragedy that left 5 individuals lifeless.
“Our subs do not implode,” the signage mentioned.
The unique submit was shared almost 800 occasions and garnered a slew of feedback from those that discovered the joke disrespectful.
“That is simply incorrect,” one particular person mentioned bluntly.
“Guess if that was their household they would not assume it is so humorous,” one other wrote, referring to the victims.
Subway confirmed that somebody on the restaurant had put up the signal and that it was, actually, an actual photograph.
“We now have been in touch with the franchise about this matter and made it clear that this sort of remark has no place in our enterprise,” a Subway spokesperson informed TODAY in a press release. “The signal has since been eliminated.”
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Mauck posted a second photograph within the remark part of his unique submit days later, exhibiting the joke had been taken down with a clean signal outdoors the identical restaurant.
In accordance with ScrapeHero, there are roughly 20,603 Subway franchises within the U.S.