Wayne State University Blimpies now offers Halal Subs!

PR Log (Press Release) – Oct 06, 2008 – I dined in Blimpies near Wayne State University today for lunch. To my amazement, I learned they now offer Subs with Halal meat. They now have a wide variety of subs that come in Halal standards. Including turkey, turkey bacon, corned beef, and roast beef. WSU Blimpies is the only sub sandwich shop that offers Halal subs in the midtown Detroit Wayne State University area. I noticed the decor, menu, and Ownership has changed. The store is now owned and operated by Nick Sleiman. I asked Mr. Sleiman why he is the only Sub shop in the WSU Detroit area serving Halal subs. He responded by saying, “Wayne State University has a very diverse faculty and student base.” "People come from all over the world to study at Wayne State University.” "Many are from Muslim countries and have few options where they can eat a sub.” "At WSU Blimpies they know it’s always freshly sliced, served with a wide variety of bread choices (including Mediterranean flat bread, marbled rye, and spinach flat bread to name a few), and Halal certified"." In addition, we offer a variety of spices you will not find at any sub restaurant in Detroit. We carry crushed red pepper, garlic powder, cayenne pepper, onion salt, and steak seasoning." "Many customers feel like their back home after biting into one of our custom Halal subs".

I also noticed WSU Blimpies offers other options as side dishes you will not find at other sub restaurants in the area. I had a choice between potato salad, macaroni salad, chili, chips, cookies, brownies, dill pickles, and five different soup choices part of a combo. On top of all that, they offer fresh kettle popped pop corn, frozen cokes, iced coffee drinks, ice cream sandwiches and they even have an atm for their customer’s convenience. Along with a fifty inch plasma TV for the new decor. I am impressed a small business owner has finally stepped up and started offering menu items that cater to the surrounding community. I am glad WSU Blimpies is offering Halal subs, now I will not have to drive all the way to Dearborn to get a Halal sub.



In my opinion, adding Halal meat as an alternative to non-Halal subs is a great option for food conscience customers. It’s Ironic that Wayne state University has several subways and a Jimmie Johns in a one-mile radius, and none of them serves Halal meat on their subs as an option. It is obvious that these other sub shops are not aware of the desire for Halal meat some of their market base prefers. Only Mr. Sleiman the owner/operator WSU Blimpies offers The Halal subs because he knows and cares about his customers. Mr. Sleiman has also informed me of his current promo to introduce his new sandwiches. He is offering 10% off your total order if you bring in any type of coupon. For example, coupons for an oil change, home repair, grocery, another restaurant, etc.


The definition of Halal when it comes to meat means, any meat must be slaughtered according to traditional guidelines set forth by the Sunnah, known as dhabiĥa. This is the strictest definition of Halal.




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