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# The Sandwich Spot, San Jose CA: Reviews

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By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-26.

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## In short

The Sandwich Spot is a sandwich shop in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 39 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Sandwich shop |
| Address | 1258 S Bascom Ave, San Jose, CA 95128, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Fri 9:30 AM to 5 PM · Sat 9:30 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sun |
| Phone | (408) 899-8999 |
| Rating | 4.5 across 340 reviews on Google |
| Updated | October 26, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 1258 S Bascom Ave, San Jose, CA 95128, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | 1258 S Bascom Ave, San Jose, CA 95128 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM · Sat 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM · Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | The Sandwich Spot | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (408) 899-8999 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 9:30 AM to 5:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Maps | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Menus new | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Online ordering | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Sandwiches | AI guess |  |
| Links | Website | http://thesandwichspotcafe.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 3 services The Sandwich Spot offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Maps |  |  |  | From their website |
| Menus new |  |  |  | From their website |
| Online ordering |  |  |  | From their website |


### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting The Sandwich Spot

Address: 1258 S Bascom Ave, San Jose, CA 95128, USA. Phone: (408) 899-8999. Hours: Mon to Fri 9:30 AM to 5 PM · Sat 9:30 AM to 4 PM · Closed Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pizza Express Halal | Pizza restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Seoul Bulgogi | Korean restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Prime Time Pizza Halal | Restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Bascom & Stokes | Bus stop | 2 min walk |
| Bascom and Stokes | Transit station | 2 min walk |
| Bascom & Eisenhower | Bus stop | 2 min walk |


## Reputation

4.5 average across 340 reviews: Google 340. (Confirmed, read October 26, 2026.)

The Sandwich Spot offers flavorful sandwiches but struggles with service consistency and order accuracy. (AI guess, from 340 reviews.)


### What people like

- Number #7 on sourdough
- Shark Tank sandwich with jalapeno ranch sauce
- Generous portions of savory fillings


### What people do not like

- Staff unresponsive to customer inquiries
- Inconsistent sandwich sizes and quality
- Misleading advertised prices for sandwich platters
- Limited availability of menu items close to closing time


### Press

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### Awards

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## Questions people ask


### what do people usually buy there


### opening hours at The Sandwich Spot in San Jose, what are they these days?


### rough idea what the shop costs?


### where exactly is The Sandwich Spot?


### planning a Sunday visit, is that a wasted trip


### what else is on Bascom around The Sandwich Spot?


### genuinely, what is good about this one


### is San Jose expensive for this, or is it just here


### when is the shop actually dead?


### first visit at The Sandwich Spot, what do I need to bring?


### which one, the shop or The Best Sandwiches?


### bad experiences at The Sandwich Spot, anyone?


### best sandwich shop in San Jose, CA


### same day slots, does that ever happen here


### do regulars get anything here


### last update from here was when?


### how far out is the shop booking right now?


### prices round here, anyone got a number


### anyone had trouble parking round here?


### Any names worth asking for?


## The AI Score: 39 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Jose sandwich shops run 27 to 39. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. The Sandwich Spot scores 39. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | The Sandwich Spot |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 100 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Good |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 94 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 54 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 59 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 73 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a sandwich shop: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to The Sandwich Spot |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| The Sandwich Spot | LocalBusiness | #business | http://thesandwichspotcafe.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Jose, California | City | #city |  | City The Sandwich Spot is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the sandwich shops in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best sandwich shops in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose/sandwich-shop
- Best businesses in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose


### Nearby

- /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles
- /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco
- /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego
- /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine
- /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view
- /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJvc2loc40joARukOZ3r9aNb0 (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
- [2] thesandwichspotcafe.com, https://www.thesandwichspotcafe.com/maps (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
- [3] thesandwichspotcafe.com, https://www.thesandwichspotcafe.com/menu-1 (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
- [4] thesandwichspotcafe.com, https://www.thesandwichspotcafe.com/online-ordering (accessed Oct 26, 2026)
- [5] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 26, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Oct 26, 2026)