It really comes down the the sandwich artist. Our local place has one kid that pours his heart and soul into each sandwich, and one grumpy lady that couldn't care less. The difference between the two sandwiches is astonishing.
not much expected for a paycheck you can barely afford car insurance on, that young kid is working hard because he would be homeless on the street if he didint
many customers use the fact that you can order essentially unlimited vegetables to make up for the (somewhat light) quantity of meat, but there's nearly half a pound of your meat of choice on a normal sandwich, which to be perfectly honest is pretty good. as far as the 10-12 bucks goes, there are tons of ways to reduce your bill, the coupons corporate sends out are quite good but not all stores accept them. Ordering through the subway ap gives additional options for cheaper sandwiches, and they almost always have some kind of special offer, usually buy one get one free, or get one 50% off
@@seancostello4158 No matter what propaganda you sprout to me won't change the fact that I use to eat there twice a week now I get it barely twice a year....and I feel cheated and disappointed everytime,...Subway obliviously doesn't know what really made customer return again and again
@@charlesstokes1967 i get that, and i'm not trying to feed you propaganda. But i should say that with the coupons, we have customers walking out of hte door with 3 footlongs for under 20 bucks all day long at our location, and I'm fairly sure you cant get 3 meals for under 20 dollars at basically any other fast food place, unless you're getting hte value menu, and those dont compare to a footlong sub, in my personal opinion.
@@seancostello4158 the problem with what you're saying is that you need a coupon,...which means it's temporary and has stipulations,..which will translate into temporary customers. What y'all need to do is augment that $5 footlongs into $7 footlongs. And please hear me well, if a couple can't find consistent fastfood satisfaction for under $20, they'll go find a diner to sit down and eat at for $30
I went to Subway last month for the first time since 2017. I didn't know what to get, so I had the cashier make me their go-to sandwich. A foot long + water ended up being $17. I paid, enjoyed my sandwich, and have 0 plans to ever return
In College, I survived on Subway sandwiches, but that was 3 decades ago. As many have mentioned the quality of their offerings has taken a nosedive, honestly I have not been to a Subway shop in close to 10 years. Nowadays, Jimmy Johns, Firehouse, Quiznos, Jersey Mikes as well as smaller ‘mom-n-pop’ shops are where I go to get my sandwich ‘fix’. Subway is going to have to do a major overhaul to get my business back, frankly I hope they do, I have many fond memories of dining on a foot-long Meatball sub.
Quiznos sadly has more or less... Well died. Very few of them. Jimmy John's is expensive but good quality for sure. Jersey Mikes- also expensive but way better quality then Subway. However Firehouse Subs has amazing quality, yeah a bit more espensive but they also have chili! Not the serious point though. The serious point with Firehouse is all purchases go and donate to local (or even not local tbh it doesn't matter, all Firefighters need donations!) well Firefighters and Firestations so big bonus with eating at Firehouse. The only thing is, if I want a sub and as for me I get home late for work... None of those better options are open. I have an open 24/7 Subway... Not that I get food from there often let alone weekly but still. The convenience is there vs the better options. Though in the end, Subway is the bottom rung value and quality wise. The others are far superior. No questions asked.
I still eat footlong meatball subs everyday at Subways. The price just keeps on going up. $8.79 in Ontario, Canada as we speak. It was $8.29 about two months ago.
I am German and over here, I find SubWay sandwiches just highly, highly overpriced, given that they are sourcing foods from food factories, thus providing no more than average quality with their sandwiches.
At this point most, if not all fast food chains are just overpriced for what they try to be. I'm just glad my mother was good at cooking and taught me her recipes.
Interesting because the main draw is they are cheaper in the US. They were the cheap to open, easy to find, and you could get a huge sandwich for less than $10. And load it down with a TON of vegetables.
The price is absolutely the issue here, anyone who doesn't realize that needs to think about how just ten to fifteen years ago these subs were half their current price. Imagine if tomorrow every bottle of coke suddenly shot up to double its current price, it would also cause a loss in sales. Subway makes their sandwiches at a cost of cents and charges you $10+ for it.
I loved the price of the $5 footlong so i went on a regular basis after work or school, when that deal ended the prices steadily increased eveytime i went so i stopped going there. I only go to subway maybe 3 times a year, last time i went my footlong was pushing $8 and i dont add anything that would cost extra. Way overpriced and everytime i go they have signs saying they're out of a certain condiment, bread or veg.
It's too expensive nowadays. I used to go there all the time a few years ago and get a regular footlong sub with chips and a drink for $7-$8. Last time I went there it was around $12 for the same meal. There are way better options for that amount of money. It's just not worth it anymore.
Used to eat at Subway all the time. Stopped eating there as prices kept going up. In just a few years a foot long cost triple what it did before. Pricing themselves out of business.
My biggest issue with subway is their food handling/hygiene issues. The last two visits I had to subway we have had issues. First visit, we had a guy start to make sandwiches without changing his gloves and washing his hands. He had just been in the lobby cleaning tables and pushing down the garbage in the garbage can with his gloves. Second visit, we had a lady that kept taking out her phone and looking at it while making our food. We told her that we wanted to cancel our order, spoke with a manager and left.
I used to work there, and it was around 15 bucks for each sandwich, and people only came at the start of each month because of coupons. It was just too expensive.
Drove past a subway the other day. Haven’t eaten there in years. Almost stopped for a meatball sub till I remember it’s basically warmed up horse meat from a bag. Usually served tepid with dried out bread. Kept driving. Lol.
I worked at Subway from 2010-2020. I feel like the ingredient quality went down, meanwhile prices sky rocketed. Also at Subway you typically get pretty poor customer service and we also always had a hard time retaining employees because the pay was always the lowest in the area! Which when it was understaffed which was more often than not we would struggle to keep stuff in stock and wait on everyone and get our other tasks all done. I also worked for one of the worst franchises in the company though too.
I definitely noticed the quality went down. We have walk in and drive-thru SUBWAYS where I am. The last time I went to the walk in, they didn't seem to care that flies were all on the options. Tried the drive thru, the quality of the ingredients was much worse; rotting tomato slices that made me sick, and mixing too old stuff with new stuff.
I remember as a kid up until I was in college, I frequented a Subway restaurant that was close by. It was actually far better than the local Jimmy John's and Jersey Mike's a bit farther away. It closed during the early months of the pandemic and I remembered being crushed at my childhood place being gone forever. It's replaced by an independently owned wing restaurant and I came to like it. So, it's a bittersweet ending with a hope for better memories.
The main problem with subway currently is the prices. I am from Poland and here its very expensive compared to going to burger king mcdonalds or kfc. And I am seeing the same thing in the USA. If I went there I would never eat a subway because of the price.
@@mgomez9736 The reason is that Subway costs a fraction as much as it costs to open a McDonald's. There are no fryers, no ice cream machine, no grill and no machine to keep the ingredients warm. Just an oven for thawing, one for baking and a toaster, some thingamajigs for cutting the veggies and that's about it. I asked the franchisees of one of the Subways I worked at why they decided to open a Subway specifically, and they said the main reason was that it was indeed much, much cheaper to open than a McDonald's, Burger King or Wendy's.
Competition. You can makes subs yourself for cheaper, better and fresher then they can(one secret is buying an infused olive oil dressing/often called sub sandwhich oil as well as salting/peppering the vegtables). Meanwhile all stores from groceries to even gas stations sell their own premade subs. Not even talking about many other sub sandwich chains and local shops popping up all over the last 20 years while subway has only been steadily going down.
I had a Jersey Mike store open up in my city in the past year or so and I really like their subs. Especially if you have it "Mike's way" as they say. But even then I'm not eating out very often because money is super tight right now.
This totally tracks. Hell why would anybody eat at a Subway if they have just as easy access to either a Wawa or a Sheetz (or if they're really lucky, BOTH)
Subway prided itself on the "freshest" ingredients". Well, that was not true. Their system pre-sliced the ingredients and covered them with plastic wrap. Those ingredients slowly lost the freshness. One time (about 2006) I bought a subway. The bread was very good, but the ingredients didn't taste fresh. About 3 hrs later I felt mildly sick for the rest of the day. After that, I never purchased another subway again.
In the UK the quality is almost zero. Stale dry bread with paper thin slices of cheese, sparse ingredients. Too many franchise owners cutting massive corners. I stopped ordering a waste of money.
I used to get $5 footlongs for lunch at work a couple times a week. Then one day we were on a road trip going through the kansas city area. I got a sandwich that literally tasted and looked like dogfood. Whole family hated what they got. I haven't been able to go back to a Subway in well over 10 years now, and the price increases ensure I never will again. Plenty of other sandwich shops in the world, and with delivery options there is no reason to settle for worse food just because it is close.
@@lisabrightly I didn't have my test kit with me. Put it this way; I am a larger guy, I eat about twice as much as regular folk, and there are scarce few foods I have met in this world that I didn't like. When I get really hungry, _quality_ of food is of tertiary concern to me at best. This damn thing _leeched_ the desire to continue eating out of me in about two bites. So it may or may not have been a can of Alpo, but it was touched by some kind of evil for sure.
I remember a really long time ago when a new franchisee started up in our city with a few locations and it was really good. Food was decent, inexpensive, and everyone was actually motivated. It helped a lot that the owner was hands-on, high energy, and really wanted the stores to do well. Sadly, he sold off his stakes a few years later and I got to experience the same place as more run-down, less motivated, and just sort of in decline. They closed most of the locations about a decade after they opened. Franchising is not just about corporate giving out the playbook, brand, and food. You really have to invest in these businesses to be successful. Especially in our area where a local non-national competitor has a huge market share and pretty good food.
All of the money goes to pay for Steph Curry and Tom Brady to be in commercials. I couldn't imagine being a franchise owner getting my profits sucked away from me to pay for marketing and then having to jack up prices
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jacking up their prices cut me out of buying their sandwiches. For years I bought the 5 dollar foot long... and it started creeping up. When I decided to cut out debt, I stopped going for about a year. Imagine my shock when I went in and they wanted 12.99 for a sandwich!! WTF?? and a tip jar at the register. NOPE. I walked out.
there's alot of good points made in this video. However, i should point out that in teh case of hte subway i work for, the franchise owner of my store and 10 others made record profits during the height of covid, and actually used them to reinvest in buying several more stores. And at the store that i manage, even in the last 10 months we've seen a 22% increase in weekly sales on average, which is the time since our store was bought by our current owner. We've also managed to do so while reducing food costs by 7% and labor by 24%.. We run our store with two employees at most if not all times, and It's adequate to deal with our moderately busy location. Our store is always very clean and well kept, and we have very good reviews on google and yelp. We also have a HUGE number of regular customers, some of which drive out of their way to come to our location over closer subways, so i guess that says something about the quality at other locations in our area.
In Toronto there was a scandal where local inspectors determined there was no actual tuna in subway tuna. That pretty much ended my business with them. That goes directly to consumer trust or the lack thereof.
Expensive, poor quality, constant health and safety issues, terrible nutrition, does not taste as good as other cheaper sandwich places, and a crippling scandal with Jared Fogle.
I stopped going to subway for two reasons.. First, they got rid of the Seafood n Crab (aka Seafood Sensation) which was my favorite thing there, and secondly, they got really dishonest about things; footlongs that weren't a foot long, and when you paid for double meat, they didn't give you double meat. That really irked me, especially when it seemed like they kept putting less and less meat on their sandwiches.
I stopped going when the seafood sub disappeared. I'd often combine it with Buffalo chicken. You really needed to do double meat to make the seafood worth it
i can assure you double meat does in fact mean double meat, no matter where you are. that means 24 pieces of ham/turkey rather than twelve, or four scoops of chicken/steak instead of 2.. I'm a regional manager responsible for training at 34 locations, and that is the standard for all subway locations
@@seancostello4158 Damage control ^ also, just because your locations don't skimp out on meat doesn't mean that others won't. I mean by your admission, you don't own even a quarter of all subway locations.
@@UBvtuber I am curious how one can get away with it. Meats are usually evenly divided using paper or little baskets. So if you ask for double, they, well... grab two. You'd have to be staring off into space not to notice them trying to pull a fast one.
Bad employees on minimal wage killed the business. It is only restaurant where you see the details of food preparation. You see the tired people making your sandwich and you don’t want eat it. McDonald’s just give you sandwich and you don’t see the people struggling to make living. In subs I’m too sorry for those workers to support this business model. I’m in Europe where we can’t give tips. I don’t feel it’s fair paying so much for the sandwich and knowing that the person who actually makes it gets so little out of my money.
I derive SO much schadenfreude from hearing about Subways downfall. Besides their meatcuts being below par to a highschools cafeteria, they are a crap company to work for. I lasted 3 days in the late 90s, quitting over having to count the meatballs at the end of the day and being called on it if I was off. And, yeah, they knew about Jared Fogle.
I had subway just once out of curiosity. Cant justify their pricing when you can get like soup, meal, drink and desert for the price of sub in other places. Most supermarkets also improved their premade filled baguettes offerings for fraction of the price. I guess only options for them are go cheaper or ultra premium with ingredients like Spanish/Italian dried hams or else bankrupt because they dont offer anything unique anymore coupled with high pricing.
I went to subway a few weeks ago and the lady refused to make my sub and said they were closed an hour earlier than they were supposed to close because she got a bad phone call and didnt want to work. I snitched so hard and never went back.
I have encountered owner operators shorting me with only 7 slices of meat and cheese at different locations and short changing me (and everyone) 25 cents on each sale. If you guestion them, the play it off. They are artist alright. Con artist. They accept the challenge of slight of hand right under your eyes like they are magicians. I stopped going.
I used to eat at Subway many times a week, then they added a prompt to tip when you checked out. I don't feel I should have to tip as this isn't a sit down restaurant with a waiter who brings the items to you, and it feels so awkward to press "no tip" while the employee is looking at you, so I just don't go to Subway anymore. They've lost so much money over it, and that location used to have a line out the door during lunch, and now when I walk by it to go to a different place there is never a line for lunch. Makes me wonder if begging for tips also bothered other customers as well.
guys, the employees cant see if you decide to not tip. And i can assure you, we dont expect it, as only about 20% of customers hit the tip option. There is no shame in not tipping, at least at our store. We consider it as a bonus if the customer thought we provided good service, and nothing more. I worked on easter two days ago, and i had a customer give us a 44 dollar tip, a 100 dollar bill for a 56 dollar order. My first response was "are you sure? we dont expect you to do that". That might not be your experience at your store, but at ours, we appreciate any gratuity and dont expect it, either. We train our employees to provide good customer service regardless.
@@seancostello4158 Great response, thanks for that. But a few times that I've hit the tip button when checking out, the cashier thanked me for the gratuity. Sooo... you're saying they can't tell, but in my experience they can. If they don't know whether or not we've tipped them, then how did he know to thank me?
@@Linda7647 it IS possible to look at the transaction on the pos or the receipt, but in general, when you're pushing the button, at least at my location, i cant see what you're hitting.. and i also dont want any of my customers to feel judged about whether they choose to tip or not
I used to eat there a lot in the 80's and 90's, and the food was good. They seriously downgraded their ingredients. I got a meatball sub a few years ago that was inedible, and the meatballs seemed to be more soy protein or whatever than meat.
I've always lived in the Northeast and never understood how Subway stayed in business in our area. At Subway you get some mangled sandwich with no meat for the same price that you could spend at a mom n pop place and instead get something that is better quality and significantly better value for your money.
After selling $5 footlongs for years then less than a decade later, price those same subs at $10 (while downsizing the product)... they deserve to fail.
Subway has had too many poor and questionable choices for spokespersons for my taste. This started my private boycott of them compounded by many other better sub shops bursting onto the scene such as Jimmy Johns, Jersey Mikes, Firehouse Subs, and Publix. These I feel provide me with much better choices. I have not been in a Subway for years and do not plan on going.
I live in Phoenix AZ. About 2 weeks ago I made a mistake and went to a Subway near my home (haven't been in a Subway for several years). The space was deplorable and the person making the sandwich threw off vibes that I was an intrusion (I was the only customer in the store). In the past I loved subway but I'll never go there again. My wife suggested a small family owned spot so I tried that. Yep, that's my new go to place for a great boars head meat sandwich and small bag of chips. I'm learning why so many small mom and pop shops have such a dedicated following.
Overpriced with NO MEAT on it. My local deli piles up the meat on my sandwich, tastes much better & Less expensive. Meanwhile at Subway they skimp on the meat, tastes artificial & over charges you.
Can't say i'm surprised. Another corporatized sandwich that lacks in, well...everything. Can't justify paying over $10 for 80% bread. Found a local shop that is not franchised or corporatized that has way better quality, and there's a clear increase in amount of fillings (50/50 fillings/bread) for around the same price. Folks, find locally owned non-franchised shops and support them, instead of throwing your money away to shamwich places like Subway.
In Hungary, there were 20 Subways allegedly, now, there's 5 Subways now, 2 in Budapest, 1 in Biatorbágy (town in our capital's agglomeration), 1 in Szeged, 1 in Debrecen. What I can say is that both BP places are in the inner city, which is crowded with tourists, students and locals. Metros advertise Subway, especially the one, where the Subway is nearby. Despite that, the 3 times I've been to Subway, I've never seen a quea longer than like 7 people. There were a bunch of places to sit, it was quiet, the workers were chill, slow and attentive, but the boss wasquite rude, like me and my boyfriend heard him ask the question "what sauce would you like?" random guy:"the spicy Mexican" boss:"don't order that it's not tasty"-like wtf dude, you wanna sell, why are you so bitter? Also, I vivdly remember a Subway in Siófok (city at the southern part of Lake Balaton), a place in BP closed quite recently and I have a mandela effect, that there was a Subway in Székesfehérvár as well. So, as far as Hungary goes, there's no major success, but I think it's due to lack of advertisement and also the mindset of the people I've talked to: "I'm sure it's great, but I don't want to pay for a sandwich" "But you go to McDonald's like thrice a week, no?" "Yeah, but those are not sandwiches, those are burgers"-well, I agree, there's a difference, but also, the concept of sauce, veggies and maybe meat between pastry makes them quite similar also. Overall, I think it'd be great, if Subway could stay afloat and be there for people, but I'm quite hopeless about it. People, who eat fast food don't seem to care about health, people, who care about health, don't seem to go to Subway, because they see it as something like McDonald's Lite and think it's the same, fatty, crappy (not my opinion!) food that they're selling there.
When they stopped cutting the bread from the top the correct way (boat-cut), the decline started. It continued when they changed the recipe of, then dropped the Seafood and Crab. (their #4 most selling product at the time)
Here in Singapore before I moved to my new office location we had a Subway outlet in the old one; it turned out to have not many customers and not being aggressive enough with any new sandwiches. By comparison the KFC outlet that was just next door had plenty of customers and was loud enough in their selling point. That was something that couldn’t be ignored.
A few years back before COVID I walked into a subway store and they told me they no longer had oregano. We went through a couple of arguments about that and I lost no wait Subway lost. I never entered the store again. So who won? I am still keeping my promise that I will never return to their stores again. I always keep my promises.
I’m in the UK. I have not been into a Subway since I found out that they only used halal food products in their outlets over here. I’m not against them doing so, as long they were also using non halal food products as. By only using halal products they were only providing food for one religion
The problem I have is getting cheated on portions. The tuna wrap is supposed to have 4 scoops. I have had employees only give 2 and say it's the right amount.
The Subway near my house started out well, but then they had a shift in management and employees a few years in. There were flies, dust - covered plants, and dirty floors. There was also a general reluctance from the staff to follow rules for cleanliness when dealing with restocking and the bathrooms were almost never cleaned. When I went to university a couple years ago, they opened a sponsored Subway. However, they charged an extra 15-20%, just like everything else on campus, and I heard from my classmates that the job felt soulless and overwhelming (general lack of instruction from others). The store already had weird hours, but shortened them further before the pandemic. It was forced to open and close multiple times before it was permanently closed and boarded up about a year ago. Sad really, as it was a way for students to make money and for the students on the south side of campus to eat without walking for 20 minutes to the dining hall.
When you pay 16 dollars for a footlong, I say f them! Never go back! And 5 day old toppings left in the fridge all week, hell no! Jersey Mike's is 500 times better!
I'm in Australia right now and I have been eating at subway a lot. Subway in AU is quite different from America. They have carrots as a vegetable to put on subs. They also lack a lot of sauces and parmesan for subs. They have this sub that does not exist in America called, Subway Seafood Sensation. It is actually pretty good. Subway seems to be very successful in Australia and yet, a lot of them often run out of products. I went to one in AU that would constantly run out of buns.
in canada, slightly different. when i was a kid we had captain submarine before subway even made it to my hole in the wall town, the captains subs were vastly better than subway ever would be but specialising in subs doesn't pay, so they died, yet too much variety chokes a brand and subway is banking on VARIETY!
JFTR: the $ symbol goes in front of the numerical value, as in $500. I don't know why so many people tack it on the end. Also, the Subway chain in New Zealand is doing very well. All stores are franchises here.
@@Octovisuals Sorry but you are wrong there. The dollar sign has always preceded the amount, for a very long time. It was doing it in the 1970s when I was growing up and I am not aware of any change to the format.
I used to rock with them until I found out the "Tuna" in their Tuna sandwiches wasn't tuna at all. That was the main sandwich I would buy whenever I went there.
Never understood why people liked Subway. At least from an "old German guy" point of view...I walked into an US fastfood chain restaurant, and...no fries, but fucking potato chips? I know now that it's an US thing, but chips and sandwich are really weird to Germans. Also, not the usual fatty cheesy stuff (which is exactly why people go to these restaurants in the first place) but a baguette sandwich? And not even real baguette, but some kind of burger bread that looks like a baguette. You can buy these sandwiches in every bakery in Germany, and they are usually better. Then I tried a root beer to accompany my mediocre sandwich, and...never entered a Subway again^^
I go to a local pizza shop they have 15$ subs packed with top-notch ingredients and fresh bread. I know that IS pricey, but it felt like I was carrying a 2 pound baby home... no cap! Ate the sub in 3 sittings.
I haven't been back since the sandwiches went to $11 or $12 (with no meat on them).. by the time you get a $3 soft drink you might as well go get a steak dinner and eat at home.
Marginal quality, high prices. Want a really good sandwich, go into an Ingles grocery store. 14" sandwich, made with Boars Head meat, excellent toppings, piled high, cost $6.99. With chips and a 32 oz drink, it comes to $8.45.. I always get the large. I eat half in the store and save the other half for the next day. That comes out to $3.50 per sandwich.
How can a video, that claims to report about a world wide operating franchise chain, so US centered? All the reasons mentioned has nothing to do with the fall of subways outside US!
There was a subway 2 minutes from a place I lived at for 5 years, I went once, the day before I moved out because all my pots and pans were packed. Subway is pretty bad.
The same happened in Brazil too. Lots of stores closed, around 10 years after the start of a huge expansion. The main problem, in my opinion, is what they did to their pricing strategy. They used to be a healthier and more affordable alternative to other chains, but nowadays it is perceived as a little overpriced (so people feel more tempted to go to other chains and get a hamburger combo or something like that). I used to love it, especially as a place to eat late at night, on the way home - but now I can barely remember the last time I got a sandwich there, maybe 8 months ago.
While the factors mentioned did play a part, I dont think those 2 factors could souly be responsible. The quality of ingredients went down and there were multiple articles about how Subway's frozen veggies weren't as healthy as people thought.
I don't dislike Subway, and honestly some of their sandwiches are solid for what they are. When they had 5 dollar footlongs, I was probably there 3+ times a week because it was so much reasonably not bad food for such a great price. I went there the other day after not having gone for a while, and here in NY the prices for a footlong were astounding compared to what they used to be. We have real delis here in NY who will make gigantic and stacked heroes (subs) with Boars Head meat for similar prices. If Subway introduced a new deal (say, 7 dollars for most footlongs) I'd be right back there often
They advertise new sandwiches that they don’t know how to make !! Multiple times I went in and asked for the sandwich in the windows and they ask me what I want on it ! Ahh I want whatever comes on the sandwich I’m not the one working there they should know how to make it not me!
When I was a kid through most of my teenage years they had diced green peppers in with the steak. That with the white american cheese on the top cut bread was delicious! But like most people have stated the quality of ingredients took a nose dive and prices went way up. Last time I went I think I paid about 12bux for a 6in with a drink and chips and the best part about it was the chips. I don’t bother anymore.
I can see subway out of my living room window right across the street from my apartment. I’ve lived here three years and haven’t even given it a thought about eating it. It wasn’t that great the last time I had it about 10 years ago and was way too expensive back then I can only imagine what it is now.
Half the problem is the price, especially in the uk. You used to be able to get a 6 inch sub and a drink for £3, and upgrade to a foot long for an extra £2. Now to get a 6 inch sub, a drink and a cookie it’s £5.49. In the same time period, Tesco meal deals have gone up 40p. If they hadn’t have raised their prices so much, they would be doing better
Using an ice cream scoop to distribute "steak meat" onto a bun tells you a lot about the quality of the food, not to mention the bitchy and lazy staff I've encountered and the fact they come up with excuses Not to honor discount coupons. Subway is Sh!t is why Subway is losing business.
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Eat Fresh! How fresh can it be when they're taking the meats & cheeses out of plastic cling wrap instead of slicing it right in front of you? How long has that stuff been wrapped up? That's exactly why I walked out the first time I went there & haven't been back ever since. 🖕Scrubway!!
It is a CRIME that you have less subs than me.
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@@XSlimSxadyX That's awesome, thank you for the support🙏
@@gzyly no problem friend hope ur having a great day
I deadass almost read this as "It is a CRIME that you have less sub[way sandwiche]s than me." 😂
@@hnkul702 😂😂😂
It really comes down the the sandwich artist. Our local place has one kid that pours his heart and soul into each sandwich, and one grumpy lady that couldn't care less. The difference between the two sandwiches is astonishing.
good point
Art really does come in all forms..
not much expected for a paycheck you can barely afford car insurance on, that young kid is working hard because he would be homeless on the street if he didint
@@circleinforthecube5170 probably still lives with his parents but ur right
Spongebob speaking the truth here
No one is going to pay $10-12 for a light on the meat sub
many customers use the fact that you can order essentially unlimited vegetables to make up for the (somewhat light) quantity of meat, but there's nearly half a pound of your meat of choice on a normal sandwich, which to be perfectly honest is pretty good. as far as the 10-12 bucks goes, there are tons of ways to reduce your bill, the coupons corporate sends out are quite good but not all stores accept them. Ordering through the subway ap gives additional options for cheaper sandwiches, and they almost always have some kind of special offer, usually buy one get one free, or get one 50% off
@@seancostello4158 No matter what propaganda you sprout to me won't change the fact that I use to eat there twice a week now I get it barely twice a year....and I feel cheated and disappointed everytime,...Subway obliviously doesn't know what really made customer return again and again
@@charlesstokes1967 i get that, and i'm not trying to feed you propaganda. But i should say that with the coupons, we have customers walking out of hte door with 3 footlongs for under 20 bucks all day long at our location, and I'm fairly sure you cant get 3 meals for under 20 dollars at basically any other fast food place, unless you're getting hte value menu, and those dont compare to a footlong sub, in my personal opinion.
@@seancostello4158 the problem with what you're saying is that you need a coupon,...which means it's temporary and has stipulations,..which will translate into temporary customers. What y'all need to do is augment that $5 footlongs into $7 footlongs. And please hear me well, if a couple can't find consistent fastfood satisfaction for under $20, they'll go find a diner to sit down and eat at for $30
That's why you a get a deluxe my guy
I went to Subway last month for the first time since 2017. I didn't know what to get, so I had the cashier make me their go-to sandwich. A foot long + water ended up being $17. I paid, enjoyed my sandwich, and have 0 plans to ever return
In College, I survived on Subway sandwiches, but that was 3 decades ago. As many have mentioned the quality of their offerings has taken a nosedive, honestly I have not been to a Subway shop in close to 10 years. Nowadays, Jimmy Johns, Firehouse, Quiznos, Jersey Mikes as well as smaller ‘mom-n-pop’ shops are where I go to get my sandwich ‘fix’. Subway is going to have to do a major overhaul to get my business back, frankly I hope they do, I have many fond memories of dining on a foot-long Meatball sub.
Quiznos sadly has more or less... Well died. Very few of them. Jimmy John's is expensive but good quality for sure. Jersey Mikes- also expensive but way better quality then Subway. However Firehouse Subs has amazing quality, yeah a bit more espensive but they also have chili! Not the serious point though. The serious point with Firehouse is all purchases go and donate to local (or even not local tbh it doesn't matter, all Firefighters need donations!) well Firefighters and Firestations so big bonus with eating at Firehouse. The only thing is, if I want a sub and as for me I get home late for work... None of those better options are open. I have an open 24/7 Subway... Not that I get food from there often let alone weekly but still. The convenience is there vs the better options. Though in the end, Subway is the bottom rung value and quality wise. The others are far superior. No questions asked.
Have you ever tried Penn Station Subs, they're pretty good, although technically they have cheesesteak sandwiches, not subs, I guess.
I still eat footlong meatball subs everyday at Subways. The price just keeps on going up. $8.79 in Ontario, Canada as we speak. It was $8.29 about two months ago.
@@KadeKillz There's still a lot of Quiznos where I live.
@Wolfhunterxz facts I noticed that jersey Mike's is always closed early for some reason jimmy johns some if the close later than others
I am German and over here, I find SubWay sandwiches just highly, highly overpriced, given that they are sourcing foods from food factories, thus providing no more than average quality with their sandwiches.
At this point most, if not all fast food chains are just overpriced for what they try to be. I'm just glad my mother was good at cooking and taught me her recipes.
Interesting because the main draw is they are cheaper in the US. They were the cheap to open, easy to find, and you could get a huge sandwich for less than $10. And load it down with a TON of vegetables.
So is penria bread
Subway is garbage
The price is absolutely the issue here, anyone who doesn't realize that needs to think about how just ten to fifteen years ago these subs were half their current price. Imagine if tomorrow every bottle of coke suddenly shot up to double its current price, it would also cause a loss in sales. Subway makes their sandwiches at a cost of cents and charges you $10+ for it.
The best years was the era when they still had the wallpaper depicting art-deco era New York City.
For me, it just comes down to higher prices and lower food quality when it comes to their meats. It's just not a remotely good deal anymore, IMO.
I loved the price of the $5 footlong so i went on a regular basis after work or school, when that deal ended the prices steadily increased eveytime i went so i stopped going there. I only go to subway maybe 3 times a year, last time i went my footlong was pushing $8 and i dont add anything that would cost extra. Way overpriced and everytime i go they have signs saying they're out of a certain condiment, bread or veg.
At my local Subway I ordered a ft.long chicken bacon ranch deluxe and 3 cookies. No drink or chips. It cost me over 19 dollars. NEVER AGAIN.
@@tracywood9506wow that's crazy you might as well buy pizza with sides I noticed I don't know how 5 dollar foot longs became 8 dollars 1 year later
It's too expensive nowadays. I used to go there all the time a few years ago and get a regular footlong sub with chips and a drink for $7-$8. Last time I went there it was around $12 for the same meal. There are way better options for that amount of money. It's just not worth it anymore.
Although we get Subway coupon flyers in the mail, our local Subway refuses to honor them! Haven't been for 2 years.
Used to eat at Subway all the time. Stopped eating there as prices kept going up. In just a few years a foot long cost triple what it did before. Pricing themselves out of business.
When I tried a Subway sandwitch the bread was stale and the ham was old and "off". I never went to Subway again.
My biggest issue with subway is their food handling/hygiene issues. The last two visits I had to subway we have had issues. First visit, we had a guy start to make sandwiches without changing his gloves and washing his hands. He had just been in the lobby cleaning tables and pushing down the garbage in the garbage can with his gloves. Second visit, we had a lady that kept taking out her phone and looking at it while making our food. We told her that we wanted to cancel our order, spoke with a manager and left.
I used to work there, and it was around 15 bucks for each sandwich, and people only came at the start of each month because of coupons. It was just too expensive.
Drove past a subway the other day. Haven’t eaten there in years. Almost stopped for a meatball sub till I remember it’s basically warmed up horse meat from a bag. Usually served tepid with dried out bread. Kept driving. Lol.
I worked at Subway from 2010-2020. I feel like the ingredient quality went down, meanwhile prices sky rocketed. Also at Subway you typically get pretty poor customer service and we also always had a hard time retaining employees because the pay was always the lowest in the area! Which when it was understaffed which was more often than not we would struggle to keep stuff in stock and wait on everyone and get our other tasks all done. I also worked for one of the worst franchises in the company though too.
Sounds exactly like my experience.i was a manager and got paid 11.50 smh
I definitely noticed the quality went down. We have walk in and drive-thru SUBWAYS where I am. The last time I went to the walk in, they didn't seem to care that flies were all on the options. Tried the drive thru, the quality of the ingredients was much worse; rotting tomato slices that made me sick, and mixing too old stuff with new stuff.
I noticed the quality was way down the last time I went to Subway too, it made me think it was like if a prison kitchen served deli food.
Exactly, they cut salaries driving good stuff out to be replaced by people who shit into bread instead of providing tasty experience.
I remember as a kid up until I was in college, I frequented a Subway restaurant that was close by. It was actually far better than the local Jimmy John's and Jersey Mike's a bit farther away. It closed during the early months of the pandemic and I remembered being crushed at my childhood place being gone forever. It's replaced by an independently owned wing restaurant and I came to like it. So, it's a bittersweet ending with a hope for better memories.
The main problem with subway currently is the prices. I am from Poland and here its very expensive compared to going to burger king mcdonalds or kfc. And I am seeing the same thing in the USA. If I went there I would never eat a subway because of the price.
Is Portland really becoming drug addicts capital ,and car thefts are not punished,just like to know how Portland changed in few years?
only reason last 5 years is greed and they keep raising prices to get to big, also known as greed, subway is in deep shit.
It’s not declining in sales it’s declining in places because there were too many subways and they were practically competing with each other on sales.
Exactly. It's insane how many subways are out there. I think they have over twice as many locations than McDonald's.
@@mgomez9736 The reason is that Subway costs a fraction as much as it costs to open a McDonald's. There are no fryers, no ice cream machine, no grill and no machine to keep the ingredients warm. Just an oven for thawing, one for baking and a toaster, some thingamajigs for cutting the veggies and that's about it. I asked the franchisees of one of the Subways I worked at why they decided to open a Subway specifically, and they said the main reason was that it was indeed much, much cheaper to open than a McDonald's, Burger King or Wendy's.
@@Erika-xm2mi that doesn't explain having 3 subways within a half mile of each other.
@@mgomez9736 it literally explains exactly why there are so many subways 😅
@@anthonykiedis1765 there is no explanation for 3 subways within a half of a mile. That's just stupid business.
Competition. You can makes subs yourself for cheaper, better and fresher then they can(one secret is buying an infused olive oil dressing/often called sub sandwhich oil as well as salting/peppering the vegtables). Meanwhile all stores from groceries to even gas stations sell their own premade subs. Not even talking about many other sub sandwich chains and local shops popping up all over the last 20 years while subway has only been steadily going down.
I had a Jersey Mike store open up in my city in the past year or so and I really like their subs. Especially if you have it "Mike's way" as they say. But even then I'm not eating out very often because money is super tight right now.
This totally tracks. Hell why would anybody eat at a Subway if they have just as easy access to either a Wawa or a Sheetz (or if they're really lucky, BOTH)
Subway prided itself on the "freshest" ingredients". Well, that was not true. Their system pre-sliced the ingredients and covered them with plastic wrap. Those ingredients slowly lost the freshness.
One time (about 2006) I bought a subway. The bread was very good, but the ingredients didn't taste fresh. About 3 hrs later I felt mildly sick for the rest of the day. After that, I never purchased another subway again.
You bought a subway? As in you bought a sandwich there or you bought a franchised location? lmao
@@UBvtuber My thoughts exactly. *🤣☠️*
In the UK the quality is almost zero. Stale dry bread with paper thin slices of cheese, sparse ingredients. Too many franchise owners cutting massive corners. I stopped ordering a waste of money.
I used to get $5 footlongs for lunch at work a couple times a week. Then one day we were on a road trip going through the kansas city area. I got a sandwich that literally tasted and looked like dogfood. Whole family hated what they got. I haven't been able to go back to a Subway in well over 10 years now, and the price increases ensure I never will again. Plenty of other sandwich shops in the world, and with delivery options there is no reason to settle for worse food just because it is close.
*was* it dog food...👀
@@lisabrightly I didn't have my test kit with me. Put it this way; I am a larger guy, I eat about twice as much as regular folk, and there are scarce few foods I have met in this world that I didn't like. When I get really hungry, _quality_ of food is of tertiary concern to me at best. This damn thing _leeched_ the desire to continue eating out of me in about two bites. So it may or may not have been a can of Alpo, but it was touched by some kind of evil for sure.
Im pretty sure my dog eats way better stuff then subway ever could offer
I remember a really long time ago when a new franchisee started up in our city with a few locations and it was really good. Food was decent, inexpensive, and everyone was actually motivated. It helped a lot that the owner was hands-on, high energy, and really wanted the stores to do well. Sadly, he sold off his stakes a few years later and I got to experience the same place as more run-down, less motivated, and just sort of in decline. They closed most of the locations about a decade after they opened.
Franchising is not just about corporate giving out the playbook, brand, and food. You really have to invest in these businesses to be successful. Especially in our area where a local non-national competitor has a huge market share and pretty good food.
I used to walk a mile as a kid to get the $5 footlongs but now I visit it once or 2 a year.
Subway give coupons, yet the stores here don't take coupons..
I can get a $7.50 sub from the deli at Walmart that’s fresher and better than what subway is selling these days.
I've been sick more times after Subway than any other fast food place.
All of the money goes to pay for Steph Curry and Tom Brady to be in commercials. I couldn't imagine being a franchise owner getting my profits sucked away from me to pay for marketing and then having to jack up prices
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Wow, thank you!
jacking up their prices cut me out of buying their sandwiches. For years I bought the 5 dollar foot long... and it started creeping up. When I decided to cut out debt, I stopped going for about a year. Imagine my shock when I went in and they wanted 12.99 for a sandwich!! WTF?? and a tip jar at the register. NOPE. I walked out.
The price went up but the quality of the food is not the same as it used to be.
They changed the food it just doesn't taste good anymore.
there's alot of good points made in this video. However, i should point out that in teh case of hte subway i work for, the franchise owner of my store and 10 others made record profits during the height of covid, and actually used them to reinvest in buying several more stores. And at the store that i manage, even in the last 10 months we've seen a 22% increase in weekly sales on average, which is the time since our store was bought by our current owner. We've also managed to do so while reducing food costs by 7% and labor by 24%.. We run our store with two employees at most if not all times, and It's adequate to deal with our moderately busy location. Our store is always very clean and well kept, and we have very good reviews on google and yelp. We also have a HUGE number of regular customers, some of which drive out of their way to come to our location over closer subways, so i guess that says something about the quality at other locations in our area.
In Toronto there was a scandal where local inspectors determined there was no actual tuna in subway tuna. That pretty much ended my business with them. That goes directly to consumer trust or the lack thereof.
I wonder what they used instead of tuna? Because canned tuna isn't an expensive item
@@insertnamehere5809 it was proven to be a false hoax
In Toronto y'all have got Mr. Sub on every corner. Isn't that better?
There was an episode of food Theory on UA-cam were they debunked this.
@@alfabdall but the meat was fake, the chicken wasn’t chicken.
Kind of hard justifying damn near 10 dollars on some cold cuts and a sprinkle of potato chips....
Expensive, poor quality, constant health and safety issues, terrible nutrition, does not taste as good as other cheaper sandwich places, and a crippling scandal with Jared Fogle.
I stopped going to subway for two reasons.. First, they got rid of the Seafood n Crab (aka Seafood Sensation) which was my favorite thing there, and secondly, they got really dishonest about things; footlongs that weren't a foot long, and when you paid for double meat, they didn't give you double meat. That really irked me, especially when it seemed like they kept putting less and less meat on their sandwiches.
Pastrami also got taken away
I stopped going when the seafood sub disappeared. I'd often combine it with Buffalo chicken. You really needed to do double meat to make the seafood worth it
i can assure you double meat does in fact mean double meat, no matter where you are. that means 24 pieces of ham/turkey rather than twelve, or four scoops of chicken/steak instead of 2.. I'm a regional manager responsible for training at 34 locations, and that is the standard for all subway locations
@@seancostello4158 Damage control ^
also, just because your locations don't skimp out on meat doesn't mean that others won't. I mean by your admission, you don't own even a quarter of all subway locations.
@@UBvtuber I am curious how one can get away with it. Meats are usually evenly divided using paper or little baskets. So if you ask for double, they, well... grab two. You'd have to be staring off into space not to notice them trying to pull a fast one.
Bad employees on minimal wage killed the business.
It is only restaurant where you see the details of food preparation. You see the tired people making your sandwich and you don’t want eat it.
McDonald’s just give you sandwich and you don’t see the people struggling to make living.
In subs I’m too sorry for those workers to support this business model.
I’m in Europe where we can’t give tips. I don’t feel it’s fair paying so much for the sandwich and knowing that the person who actually makes it gets so little out of my money.
Maybe charging $11 for a basic foot long sub ???
Their prices have Doubled and quality has Halved
Every had a Jimmy John's sub? You'll immediately understand why Subway is failing.
I derive SO much schadenfreude from hearing about Subways downfall. Besides their meatcuts being below par to a highschools cafeteria, they are a crap company to work for. I lasted 3 days in the late 90s, quitting over having to count the meatballs at the end of the day and being called on it if I was off. And, yeah, they knew about Jared Fogle.
In New York state we have so many options for top tier deli sandwiches.... Subway food quality just can't even begin to compete with a "real" deli.
I had subway just once out of curiosity. Cant justify their pricing when you can get like soup, meal, drink and desert for the price of sub in other places. Most supermarkets also improved their premade filled baguettes offerings for fraction of the price. I guess only options for them are go cheaper or ultra premium with ingredients like Spanish/Italian dried hams or else bankrupt because they dont offer anything unique anymore coupled with high pricing.
I went to subway a few weeks ago and the lady refused to make my sub and said they were closed an hour earlier than they were supposed to close because she got a bad phone call and didnt want to work.
I snitched so hard and never went back.
I have encountered owner operators shorting me with only 7 slices of meat and cheese at different locations and short changing me (and everyone) 25 cents on each sale. If you guestion them, the play it off. They are artist alright. Con artist. They accept the challenge of slight of hand right under your eyes like they are magicians. I stopped going.
I used to eat at Subway many times a week, then they added a prompt to tip when you checked out. I don't feel I should have to tip as this isn't a sit down restaurant with a waiter who brings the items to you, and it feels so awkward to press "no tip" while the employee is looking at you, so I just don't go to Subway anymore. They've lost so much money over it, and that location used to have a line out the door during lunch, and now when I walk by it to go to a different place there is never a line for lunch. Makes me wonder if begging for tips also bothered other customers as well.
It's always been a turn off for me, too. However, if they have the "round up" as an option I will usually press that button.
Yeah, I'm not crazy about that either. If I don't leave a tip, I feel bad. But that's what they want.
guys, the employees cant see if you decide to not tip. And i can assure you, we dont expect it, as only about 20% of customers hit the tip option. There is no shame in not tipping, at least at our store. We consider it as a bonus if the customer thought we provided good service, and nothing more. I worked on easter two days ago, and i had a customer give us a 44 dollar tip, a 100 dollar bill for a 56 dollar order. My first response was "are you sure? we dont expect you to do that". That might not be your experience at your store, but at ours, we appreciate any gratuity and dont expect it, either. We train our employees to provide good customer service regardless.
@@seancostello4158 Great response, thanks for that. But a few times that I've hit the tip button when checking out, the cashier thanked me for the gratuity. Sooo... you're saying they can't tell, but in my experience they can. If they don't know whether or not we've tipped them, then how did he know to thank me?
@@Linda7647 it IS possible to look at the transaction on the pos or the receipt, but in general, when you're pushing the button, at least at my location, i cant see what you're hitting.. and i also dont want any of my customers to feel judged about whether they choose to tip or not
They shouldn't have hired a guy who let little girls try his footlong.
Great quality video. I was surprised you have less than 200 subscribers!
I used to eat there a lot in the 80's and 90's, and the food was good. They seriously downgraded their ingredients. I got a meatball sub a few years ago that was inedible, and the meatballs seemed to be more soy protein or whatever than meat.
I've always lived in the Northeast and never understood how Subway stayed in business in our area. At Subway you get some mangled sandwich with no meat for the same price that you could spend at a mom n pop place and instead get something that is better quality and significantly better value for your money.
After selling $5 footlongs for years then less than a decade later, price those same subs at $10 (while downsizing the product)... they deserve to fail.
Subway has had too many poor and questionable choices for spokespersons for my taste. This started my private boycott of them compounded by many other better sub shops bursting onto the scene such as Jimmy Johns, Jersey Mikes, Firehouse Subs, and Publix. These I feel provide me with much better choices. I have not been in a Subway for years and do not plan on going.
I live in Phoenix AZ. About 2 weeks ago I made a mistake and went to a Subway near my home (haven't been in a Subway for several years). The space was deplorable and the person making the sandwich threw off vibes that I was an intrusion (I was the only customer in the store). In the past I loved subway but I'll never go there again. My wife suggested a small family owned spot so I tried that. Yep, that's my new go to place for a great boars head meat sandwich and small bag of chips. I'm learning why so many small mom and pop shops have such a dedicated following.
Overpriced with NO MEAT on it. My local deli piles up the meat on my sandwich, tastes much better & Less expensive. Meanwhile at Subway they skimp on the meat, tastes artificial & over charges you.
Subway is the McDonald's of sandwich shops. Jersey Mike's, Port Of Subs, Quiznos and Firehouse kick Subway's ass.
great vid, your channel deserves a lot more attention ^^ subbed
Can't say i'm surprised. Another corporatized sandwich that lacks in, well...everything. Can't justify paying over $10 for 80% bread. Found a local shop that is not franchised or corporatized that has way better quality, and there's a clear increase in amount of fillings (50/50 fillings/bread) for around the same price. Folks, find locally owned non-franchised shops and support them, instead of throwing your money away to shamwich places like Subway.
I used to eat at subway. There was a Tuna scandal which made me never go there ever again.
In Hungary, there were 20 Subways allegedly, now, there's 5 Subways now, 2 in Budapest, 1 in Biatorbágy (town in our capital's agglomeration), 1 in Szeged, 1 in Debrecen. What I can say is that both BP places are in the inner city, which is crowded with tourists, students and locals. Metros advertise Subway, especially the one, where the Subway is nearby. Despite that, the 3 times I've been to Subway, I've never seen a quea longer than like 7 people. There were a bunch of places to sit, it was quiet, the workers were chill, slow and attentive, but the boss wasquite rude, like me and my boyfriend heard him ask the question "what sauce would you like?" random guy:"the spicy Mexican" boss:"don't order that it's not tasty"-like wtf dude, you wanna sell, why are you so bitter?
Also, I vivdly remember a Subway in Siófok (city at the southern part of Lake Balaton), a place in BP closed quite recently and I have a mandela effect, that there was a Subway in Székesfehérvár as well. So, as far as Hungary goes, there's no major success, but I think it's due to lack of advertisement and also the mindset of the people I've talked to: "I'm sure it's great, but I don't want to pay for a sandwich" "But you go to McDonald's like thrice a week, no?" "Yeah, but those are not sandwiches, those are burgers"-well, I agree, there's a difference, but also, the concept of sauce, veggies and maybe meat between pastry makes them quite similar also.
Overall, I think it'd be great, if Subway could stay afloat and be there for people, but I'm quite hopeless about it. People, who eat fast food don't seem to care about health, people, who care about health, don't seem to go to Subway, because they see it as something like McDonald's Lite and think it's the same, fatty, crappy (not my opinion!) food that they're selling there.
People figured out eating a loaf of bread is not healthy
When they stopped cutting the bread from the top the correct way (boat-cut), the decline started. It continued when they changed the recipe of, then dropped the Seafood and Crab.
(their #4 most selling product at the time)
Thanks for the info!
They are declining because they stop taking coupons
Here in Singapore before I moved to my new office location we had a Subway outlet in the old one; it turned out to have not many customers and not being aggressive enough with any new sandwiches.
By comparison the KFC outlet that was just next door had plenty of customers and was loud enough in their selling point. That was something that couldn’t be ignored.
A few years back before COVID I walked into a subway store and they told me they no longer had oregano. We went through a couple of arguments about that and I lost no wait Subway lost. I never entered the store again. So who won? I am still keeping my promise that I will never return to their stores again. I always keep my promises.
Simple answer. Jersey mikes dominated them. Higher quality product for practically the same price.
I’m in the UK. I have not been into a Subway since I found out that they only used halal food products in their outlets over here. I’m not against them doing so, as long they were also using non halal food products as. By only using halal products they were only providing food for one religion
I hate the smell of their baking bread that their stores emit. That’s not real bread.
The problem I have is getting cheated on portions. The tuna wrap is supposed to have 4 scoops. I have had employees only give 2 and say it's the right amount.
The second I learned that Subway putting a yoga mat rubber ingredient in their bread I never went back. Jersey Mike’s is so much better.
I ate at subway recently. It’s been at least a year before that and it was terrible, the quality dropped significantly. Never will I stop there again.
The Subway near my house started out well, but then they had a shift in management and employees a few years in. There were flies, dust - covered plants, and dirty floors. There was also a general reluctance from the staff to follow rules for cleanliness when dealing with restocking and the bathrooms were almost never cleaned.
When I went to university a couple years ago, they opened a sponsored Subway. However, they charged an extra 15-20%, just like everything else on campus, and I heard from my classmates that the job felt soulless and overwhelming (general lack of instruction from others). The store already had weird hours, but shortened them further before the pandemic. It was forced to open and close multiple times before it was permanently closed and boarded up about a year ago. Sad really, as it was a way for students to make money and for the students on the south side of campus to eat without walking for 20 minutes to the dining hall.
If you think about it, you can make the same sandwich at home in 60 seconds, and it will be a lot cheaper.
When you pay 16 dollars for a footlong, I say f them! Never go back! And 5 day old toppings left in the fridge all week, hell no! Jersey Mike's is 500 times better!
I'm in Australia right now and I have been eating at subway a lot. Subway in AU is quite different from America. They have carrots as a vegetable to put on subs. They also lack a lot of sauces and parmesan for subs. They have this sub that does not exist in America called, Subway Seafood Sensation. It is actually pretty good. Subway seems to be very successful in Australia and yet, a lot of them often run out of products. I went to one in AU that would constantly run out of buns.
Thank you for sharing the info
I can remember seafood options in the US throughout the last 30 years, but haven't been recently.
UK Subway was good last time I had it. They had corn, carrots and chicken tikka.
I just eat meatball subs with cheeze on them. When I used to be healthy I ate pikzza subs but that was over 26 years ago.
they taste just fine in NZ but all the cheese options are gross, they need better cheese not that plastic American stuff
I remember when Subway was damnnnnnnnnnn good. Now it blows.
in canada, slightly different. when i was a kid we had captain submarine before subway even made it to my hole in the wall town, the captains subs were vastly better than subway ever would be but specialising in subs doesn't pay, so they died, yet too much variety chokes a brand and subway is banking on VARIETY!
JFTR: the $ symbol goes in front of the numerical value, as in $500. I don't know why so many people tack it on the end. Also, the Subway chain in New Zealand is doing very well. All stores are franchises here.
Because it's the way almost everyone uses symbols. You're the exception.
@@Octovisuals Sorry but you are wrong there. The dollar sign has always preceded the amount, for a very long time. It was doing it in the 1970s when I was growing up and I am not aware of any change to the format.
I used to rock with them until I found out the "Tuna" in their Tuna sandwiches wasn't tuna at all. That was the main sandwich I would buy whenever I went there.
Never understood why people liked Subway. At least from an "old German guy" point of view...I walked into an US fastfood chain restaurant, and...no fries, but fucking potato chips? I know now that it's an US thing, but chips and sandwich are really weird to Germans. Also, not the usual fatty cheesy stuff (which is exactly why people go to these restaurants in the first place) but a baguette sandwich? And not even real baguette, but some kind of burger bread that looks like a baguette. You can buy these sandwiches in every bakery in Germany, and they are usually better. Then I tried a root beer to accompany my mediocre sandwich, and...never entered a Subway again^^
I go to a local pizza shop they have 15$ subs packed with top-notch ingredients and fresh bread. I know that IS pricey, but it felt like I was carrying a 2 pound baby home... no cap! Ate the sub in 3 sittings.
I haven't been back since the sandwiches went to $11 or $12 (with no meat on them).. by the time you get a $3 soft drink you might as well go get a steak dinner and eat at home.
Marginal quality, high prices. Want a really good sandwich, go into an Ingles grocery store. 14" sandwich, made with Boars Head
meat, excellent toppings, piled high, cost $6.99. With chips and a 32 oz drink, it comes to $8.45.. I always get the large. I eat half
in the store and save the other half for the next day. That comes out to $3.50 per sandwich.
Publix has good subs too.
How can a video, that claims to report about a world wide operating franchise chain, so US centered? All the reasons mentioned has nothing to do with the fall of subways outside US!
There was a subway 2 minutes from a place I lived at for 5 years, I went once, the day before I moved out because all my pots and pans were packed. Subway is pretty bad.
Keep going, really great video
The same happened in Brazil too. Lots of stores closed, around 10 years after the start of a huge expansion. The main problem, in my opinion, is what they did to their pricing strategy. They used to be a healthier and more affordable alternative to other chains, but nowadays it is perceived as a little overpriced (so people feel more tempted to go to other chains and get a hamburger combo or something like that). I used to love it, especially as a place to eat late at night, on the way home - but now I can barely remember the last time I got a sandwich there, maybe 8 months ago.
I buy my subs at my favorite pizza shop. Much more ingredients,same price.
While the factors mentioned did play a part, I dont think those 2 factors could souly be responsible. The quality of ingredients went down and there were multiple articles about how Subway's frozen veggies weren't as healthy as people thought.
I don't dislike Subway, and honestly some of their sandwiches are solid for what they are. When they had 5 dollar footlongs, I was probably there 3+ times a week because it was so much reasonably not bad food for such a great price. I went there the other day after not having gone for a while, and here in NY the prices for a footlong were astounding compared to what they used to be. We have real delis here in NY who will make gigantic and stacked heroes (subs) with Boars Head meat for similar prices. If Subway introduced a new deal (say, 7 dollars for most footlongs) I'd be right back there often
They advertise new sandwiches that they don’t know how to make !!
Multiple times I went in and asked for the sandwich in the windows and they ask me what I want on it ! Ahh I want whatever comes on the sandwich I’m not the one working there they should know how to make it not me!
When I was a kid through most of my teenage years they had diced green peppers in with the steak. That with the white american cheese on the top cut bread was delicious! But like most people have stated the quality of ingredients took a nose dive and prices went way up. Last time I went I think I paid about 12bux for a 6in with a drink and chips and the best part about it was the chips. I don’t bother anymore.
I can see subway out of my living room window right across the street from my apartment. I’ve lived here three years and haven’t even given it a thought about eating it. It wasn’t that great the last time I had it about 10 years ago and was way too expensive back then I can only imagine what it is now.
It's nearly $20 for a sandwich, drink, and chips.
for an average sandwich*
Half the problem is the price, especially in the uk. You used to be able to get a 6 inch sub and a drink for £3, and upgrade to a foot long for an extra £2. Now to get a 6 inch sub, a drink and a cookie it’s £5.49. In the same time period, Tesco meal deals have gone up 40p. If they hadn’t have raised their prices so much, they would be doing better
Using an ice cream scoop to distribute "steak meat" onto a bun tells you a lot about the quality of the food, not to mention the bitchy and lazy staff I've encountered and the fact they come up with excuses Not to honor discount coupons. Subway is Sh!t is why Subway is losing business.
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Thanks, will do!
Eat Fresh! How fresh can it be when they're taking the meats & cheeses out of plastic cling wrap instead of slicing it right in front of you? How long has that stuff been wrapped up? That's exactly why I walked out the first time I went there & haven't been back ever since.
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I still remember Subway's European boom in 2008: really liked their sandwich combinations back then...