1: Big Dali's Deli 2 locales, locally owned 2: Casey's convenience store 4 locations also locally owned. 2 have pizza & homemade subs Tied for LAST PLACE QUIZNOS, JIMMY JOHN's & SUBWAY
+Giovanni Rain I worked there for 8 months. My god its good. Never ate so much steak and cheese in my life. Would work there again for the free food lol.
I work at Subway. I think one of the reasons the veggies aren't fresh is because Subway sends us the veggies, meaning we have to buy our veggies from them instead of buying locally. We are NOT allowed to buy from anyone else BUT Subway. So if we run out of something, we just out. If we were able to buy locally, veggies would be fresher. We get one truck load in each week. And all of the veggies have traveled a long way to get to us. Most of ours come from Mexico. Also they have had the same old boring stuff for years.... Like there is only so much you can do with ham, turkey and chicken. Also, most of the sammiches are just as bad as eating a cheeseburger. LOTS of sodium. Still not too good for you. I could go on and on about the many sins of Subway....
lol, i enjoy subway, i think its pretty damn tasty actually, more tasty than a sub i can pickup from the store tbh..i still dont get whats gross about subway to you, everything tastes good there to me
I stopped eating subway a LONG time ago, because they got to greedy. Prices to high, and they kept putting less and less ingredients. Plus service sucked.
Used to go there almost daily. Now maybe once every 2 years. Because you got four people that dont want any veggies in line. You ask for veggies and they sprinkle it on like a catholic priest
I once worked there at 16 and was a manager around 2012, and ot was aweful. They overworked me, tried to force me to work alone AND do prep work while busy or not. My Subway was robbed, had another manager embessle, and another manager stole subs then blamed employees for it. Worst job ever, and I was in the Army man...never work there or eat there...
They used to put out a good product. Then they cut every corner they could and they lived off the good name of their past. Lots of businesses start out well and sell the good name to corporations. The corporations run it into the ground.
@occams99 Tell Obama, that was put in place when HE was president, Trump inherited it. Cute how you people like to shift blame. Plus, you can bet that 99.9% of rich people were dodging the draft and I come from a military family that goes back to 1942 when my father joined with a permission slip from his mother (found it thought the Freedom of Information Act). Pretending that he was an exception, instead of the rule??? Details, details.
@occams99 so let me get this straight you are name calling the president because 1 of the things he said he was going to do...he hasn't done yet. Well shit you must HATE obama after all the stuff he said he was going to do and did not do.
THEY WENT ''HALAL'' AND I SAID SCREW THEM .... ITS BEEN YEARS AND NO ONE IN MY FAMILY GOES NEAR THEM ITS LIKE !!! .. '' H E L L BUT NO FRICKING WAY !!!! .... I HOPE THEY ARE HAPPY .... LOL
Agreed. My family owns a small subshop for 40 years , there is a subway axroos the street and it's been through 5 owners. We slice our meet on the spot
They're failing because every other sub chain has a superior product. Subway is one step above those shrink-wrapped subs you see at gas stations and party stores, and costs twice as much.
Longis Cadenotas they do bake their bread BUT the dough is premade and shipped frozen. As for their comments about the lettuce and tomatoes, there’s 2 types of tomatoes that they can order. “Red” or “pink”. Red being ripe and pink being ripe within a couple days. A lot in the NYC area order red and complain about them not lasting a full week. I’ve also seen some of my Subway customers (I’m a driver for a major food distributor) still have 2 week old lettuce in their fridge. So it’s not the distributors, it’s the franchisees.
I might still pay $5 for a Subway sandwich. But I would pay mare for actual quality product. Jimmy John's and Jersey Mike's are worth the price. In my experience.
@@JB-1138 Jimmy Johns and Firehouse Subs are the same company right? Don't have J.J. in Canada but Firehouse Subs is damned good. Agree that $2-3 extra is worth it for a proper lunch. Subway is cheap quality and they often skimp on toppings
Yeah, same story here in Australia... It's more straight forward to book a table at a restaurant or pub, too much hassle, having to bring a good book and a packed lunch, while waiting to buy a dodgy sandwich...
Lazy is right. But don't forget how slow they all seem to be. If there are two sandwiches ahead of mine and five people behind the counter it will still be 15 to 20 minutes until mine is A. Finished and B. I can actually pay for it.
@Lanna Jane Well that's awesome. But after the sandwich is made is someone there to ring up? That's a big issue usually. I have to wait at least 5 minutes just to pay and by then the sandwich is less than ideal. If I get a steak and cheese the point is that I'd like it hot. So before I can pay for it I get to watch as my sandwich goes cold.
@@calanthiarose The one by me not only has amazing customer service but decent quality food and they take expired coupons. Bread is always fresh and the staff are super friendly. I've definitely been to a few here in Colorado that are not good at all but the one close by is the exception and a very welcome one at that.
The local supermarket offered better subs than subway for less money and they were actually a foot long(13 inch rolls so they could have 1 inch of wiggle room)
When Subway raised their prices from the $5 foot long I stopped going. Why would I pay $6-9 for Subway when I can get a Publix Sub for the same price and the quality is 100% better???
I feel like we all thought subway was good because we didn't know any better, now that real sub shops have come in and we tasted their glory we realize how bad subway is.
The sandwich market for takeaways is over saturated and has been for many years. It has a limited number of customers who in most instances will opt for a burger and fries. A takeaway is a treat. If you wanted a real meal and a takeaway you will tend to opt for Chinese takeaway but that will be even a smaller market again. Sandwich is a convenience stack food and that is the way most people view it. Takeaways are not your everyday meal (for a small number it would be)>
Boy Who Not the exact same sub. A sweet onion Chicken Teriyaki one especially. If you could make 10 of those with the exact same recipe and the exact same HUGE Italian herbs and cheese bread, you're gonna have to provide a link or screenshot of the proof that this can be done.
You enter a Subway store, and it's empty, slightly too cool to be comfortable, slightly too damp to feel clean, and slightly too bright to be inviting. There is one lonely employee, who does their best not to look at you for those awkward 10 seconds while you walk to the counter before you're close enough to order. You know you interrupted them while they were doing something else. They give their greeting, ask you what you want, you begin scanning their workspace. The bins of raw ingredients are sitting askew, separated by steel walls, yet careless hands have dropped some of each on all the others. The preparation area is littered with crumbs and bits of lettuce, maybe the odd olive or onion piece here or there that has wedged itself into the crack between the food trays and the cutting board. This could have been cleaned up while nobody was there, but the employee doesn't care. For one second you wonder how it got messy in the first place given the lack of customers. Maybe it's staged, like those first few pennies in a homeless person's hat. Do you want it toasted? You do, but that would mean standing here for a minute with the stranger you disturbed waiting for the bread to be sanitized. You observe the employee assemble your sandwich, making sure to painstakingly put each ingredient on only one half of the sub. You ask for sauce and they squeeze it out of a disgusting rubber nipple, then toss the bottle back into its bin like they don't want to touch it either. Are they wearing those gloves to keep the food clean, or their hands? You pay, the sandwich heavily sags into a flimsy garbage bag it doesn't really seem to fit in and is handed to you. You walk out, into the light of the sun. The colors suddenly seem real again and you become aware of your breathing because the air feels rich and life giving somehow. The distant memory of tasty subs that brought you here lingers just beyond the edge of clear recollection, like an old acquaintance whose face you can't picture anymore. You carry your catch to the car. When did it get this bad?
I just take advantage of their weekly text special, wait till they do a buy one get one then go, taking GF with me or just alone and having enough food for an entire day+
*fun fact* Subway actually used to slice all their own meats. They were deli quality. They also baked fresh bread in store from scratch. I worked there a couple years ago. Everything is frozen except the tuna fish. Bread comes in frozen logs. Meat comes in pre sliced frozen blocks! Even the lettuce is frozen. It’s disgusting, the last thing Subway is, is fresh. *SubWay eat frozen!*
I'm not defending anything, I work at Subway and it's legit just what we're taught, I think it's because it makes it more appealing or what not. It's not workers fault, that's what Subway does
1. Their breads suck 2. Their cold cuts are subpar 3. Subs have more lettuce and tomatoes than meats 4. Most employees are hard to understand 5. The ghost of Jared Fogle still haunts the company
The reason subways closing is because it’s not cheap anymore. Almost all subs are overpriced and unhealthy. After they stopped doing the $5 footlong I stopped going there. It’s now about as equivalent as getting real food!
A lot of the problem is actually what is fed to the chicken when it's alive. They feed them soy, the meat gets filled with soy. Not 42% soy, that's crazy, but still Soy is shit and should be avoided whenever possible.
Look guys its not the amount of chicken its what part of the millions of ground up chem treated gmo chickens your getting in say the average chicken nugget. Now I don't know about you but I don't want to play "chicken innered rullete" eatting nuggets when the odds are 1-85% of eating warehouse raised chicken ass per nugget consumed. Eventually your going to get an 85% ass nugget.
when they say 100% chicken they mean the little bit of chicken in it is 100% lol. they use a lot of fillers like feathers and all the bits of the chicken that normaly gets thrown away. same with burgers. 100% beef burgers have only got about 50% beef in them. the rest is pork, horse and offel.
It is impossible to serve 100% chicken. The difference in percentage comes from what the chickens are fed. Skin uses the nutrients the body is fed in order to repair tissue. Skin, like muscle and blood, is tissue. 60 to 90% is the best percentage a person can get when it comes to pure chicken. The problem comes from the antibiotics chickens are subjected to when in slaughterhouses in order to avoid a number of diseases, both minor and lethal. So in order to get the most natural chicken possible, one would have to raise that chicken on the most natural diet possible. Unfortunately, farms do not have the time nor the profit to do this method.
It's cheaper and goes further. 99 per cent of takeout food is trash. People should quit being lazy and make their own healthy meals. Pack up a lunch box and take their lunch with them. There's heaps of online sandwich and lunchbox ideas.
You missed the most important issue, which was the shrinking of the portion size of the proteins they put on their sandwiches. Why pay $6 for a sandwich with a single slice of turkey?
honestly, I dont know how a location profits. The lease is pricey, then there is utilities, equip costs, labor costs, supplies, franchise fees. The avg cost for 1 customer is $10 to $12? They would need to sell thousands of subs every week to break even. Subway only makes money on franchise fees I think, no way a location is profitable in todays economy.
You can get a better, fresher, sandwich at any bodega. With fresh produce, and good meat because 9/10 the store owner is a nice Yemeni man and all the food is Halal so EVERYTHINGis prepared well and always clean. Probably wont spend more than $4.50 and you'd get a hero with plenty of whatever you asked for. Subway cant source fresh ingredients but my local bodega can? People dont even bother with subway anymore. They're always empty. The food there just isn't good and its overpriced.
6 slices for a 6-in, 12 slices for a footlong. And that's not taking into count deluxe or double meat upgrades. What are you talking about? The only time you'd find a single slice of turkey on a sub is if the customer directly asks for it
Yes this is true. I use to be a store manager with them. I was going to be a district manager and went to meetings at corporate office and was told in 2015 that the decline of sales and franchise ownership profitability is because there was no standard zoning. There are way too many locations and franchise owners are competing with each other and not with fastfood. I left and make 35% more in fastfood then I did with subway. I also work less and make more. Subway Corporate tells franchise owners to change punch in and out times to save money and makes it clear to save old product and re date to save money. Subway corporation is a dirty company and is probably going to be gone by 2022.
@@amytheezel8747 I have heard stories from Subway employees saying they are forced to work off the clock otherwise they may lose their job... I worked for McDonald's and Dunkin' Franchises and although I'm not going to say I didn't check my time punches or didn't hear about abuses, to ask an employee to work off the clock??? I was a manager at McDonald's and NEVER did that happen! But the local Subway? Yes!!
@@DaviddeMouraCastro yes they would. I would work 60 hours a week and only get payed for 45 hours. When I would say I no longer was going to work 60 hours and only work 45 hours they would threatened to take my store and potion away.
I worked at subway for two years. The veggies go bad fast because they are from fresh farms and are not filled with preservatives. Honestly I was shocked at how everything was hand prepared. I think getting new veggies once or twice a week is a very fast rate. My veggies sit longer in my fridge at home. The real reason the businesses are failing is because the prices keep rising at insane rates. Young people arnt making enough money to afford $8 average 6 inch sandwiches. Plus each store is individually owned. Usually by greedy unskilled managers that try to overwork single employees and serve food even after it goes bad. They chase customers away with bad business practices.
phloridababe Subway has nothing to do with Jared's kiddie porn habit. It's not like he shared it with them and they said, "Oh, don't worry buddy, your secret is safe with us!"
If you go to subway, you get a bread sandwich, granted their bread is good but, their deli meats are pumped full of liquid, probably water or a nitrate , and the meat has no flavor, if you order one, pull a piece of meat off the sandwich, doesn't matter what meat, and taste it, because it has no flavor, the only taste is bread and and a flavored condiment, such as mayo, ranch, oil,& vinegar etc... big thumbs down for this chain
Steve Logan Usually if you toast the meat,it's got a taste. Probably because all the juice or whatever gets released by the heat and gives you some flavor.
Subway first skimped on meat, now they are also skimping on veggies, then let the leftover veggies rot and get thrown away. Smart economics? They focused so much on putting up so many franchises but lost focus on the quality of food. I prefer Which Which or Quiznos
The employees are to follow a set amount of veggies, and get yelled at for putting on more than allowed. It's all Bout the bottom line. If the managers keep their cost under 35% the higher the bonus. Unfortunately, they get paid crap, so rely on the bonuses.
I don't know where you guys live, but here in winter springs, Florida, at either location near me they pile the vegetables on and everthing is fresh and tasty. I eat lunch there whenever I'm out.
Last time I went to a subway was 2 years ago when they had the wraps. I went in and ordered the spicy chicken wrap and the guy behind the counter literally asked me how to make it. I tried my best to guide him through it, but it was my first time trying it so I wasn't sure either. Then he proceeded to fail to wrap it and ruined the whole thing and started over. Ontop of all that, the 2nd time he made it, it was considerably smaller than the first and I was still charged the same price. Never went back
I remember when you actually see employees cutting the lettuce, tomatoes and meat in the back. You always smelled the fresh bread baking and employees didn't "count" the pieces of meat and veggies they were putting on there subs. Subway in my humble opinion will go down like most brick and mortar businesses. Save your money and go to the grocery store and buy your own fixing for a really good sub. Everyone knows you never leave Subway just paying $5.00 for the infamous $5.00 foot long. I haven't eaten at a subway in over 6 years and I can make a really mean sub. Corporate greed killed Subway, a once fine institution .
Molldog One I think it used to be good 10+ years ago. I had been to a few "not good" locations. These days it seems like none of them are good. I hadn't been in a couple years until a few weeks ago. It wasn't good enough for me to want to go back. But there are worse places
Stopped eating there over 10 years ago. The quantity of the meat was reduced, veggies were not so fresh, overall experience is way down.. Compare Jersey Mike’s and Jimmy Johns and the Subway sandwich looks like something from 7/11’s chill box.
Jackson Daniels Hold on! Even 7/11 stepped up their sandwiches and salads! Plus they have fresh fruit and cheese. Heck people are even buying whole pizzas from 7/11 and they aren't losing money. ijs
Subway's biggest problem is too many stores. Within a 5 mile radius of my house there are I'd say six stores and within a 2 mile radius it's still 4 stores. My buddy owns several of them and to be honest they all still made decent money. It's actually kind of fascinating how similar the numbers are from store to store with regards to sales. Subway is easily fixable, it's whether corporate will actually do it is the question.
venom5809 where I used to live I would say there were 12 in a 4 mile radius. Edit:I looked it up... there's actually 14+ in a 4 mile radius around my old house...
I just want to put it out there, as someone who works at subway I agree that prices are ridiculous I hate serving that shit to customers and about the amount we put on it we have to go by guidelines when making a sandwich, employees have no say in the amount of toppings we put on the sandwiches or prices so if you ever get frustrated about that don't take it out on us we think exatly like the customer
Gluten intolerance is a fad, that's why... sure there are people with legitimate coeliac, but it wasn't till the entire planet suddenly was 'apparently' intolerant to gluten that this whole gluten free craze kicked into full swing
This is my main issue! I have a pretty firm rule in my life......fool me once etc. About 10 years ago Subway fooled me at a local shop. A lot of bread and very little ingredients. So, I didn't go back. No big deal really. Last month I was on my way home and needed some quick food after a double shift. I broke my rule and was fooled the second time. Extra pickles is not 6 slices. Extra green peppers are not 4 slices of small green peppers. I get a lot better at the local farmers market. I honestly don't care if Subway survives. They got me for a little over $10 in 10 years. I can live with that. However, if they had given me a good sub for the price I paid, I probably would have eaten from them a lot more. So might a lot of other people...….
Their subs are sub-par compared with most places these days... Tomatoes suck, toppings aren't fresh and everything tastes the same. Around here... Jimmy Johns, Jersey Mikes, Firehouse and even Cousins are always close by and always a WAY better option. If it wasn't for Subway being in like every Walmart now, they would be out of business.
I completely agree, though I don't find those places all that great - Which-wich, Potbelly, Pickleman's are far superior to Subway. Maybe it is a dollar or two more, not always, but I can actually enjoy what I'm eating at these places.
I've never heard of any of the sandwich places you mentioned, except Subway. My town is very small and all we have are local restaurants; which is a good thing.
Last time I went to Subway, sandwich had a very, very paper-thin layer of meat and the entire sandwich was basically lettuce. Said I wasn't paying for that, went to DiBella's instead, which for a chain has always blown Subway out of the water.
I stopped going because so expensive. Plus a lot of processed foods there. I stopped going to all fast foods actually. I used to spend about $30 per week on fast foods. So, in a year that is roughly $1,600 saved. Also, dropped a few pounds. Which came in handy. Took awhile, after some trial and error, I discovered recipes I make at home which taste much better than fast food
Well, you have to experiment a little. Through trial and error. I read a few books by Joel Fuhrman, etc... Heard about things like Steel Cut Oatmeal. Tried it first, didn't like it. Came back to it, mainly because I bought a whole tube and it was just sitting there. Added a few blackberries, then blueberries, a little more brown sugar, came out perfect. Makes a great breakfast and healthy beyond healthy, compared to a McDonald's Sausage McMuffin. What I was eating before. I also discovered Blueberry grunt. Love it. As good or better than blueberry pie, but much healthier. Baked apple is good also. A little cinnamon/sugar mix, with a teaspoon of butter on top. Only about 80-100 calories, makes a great snack. Way better than any snack you can get at Tim Hortons. I good smoothie is kale with a cup of chocolate milk, and a banana. I add other fruit sometimes, but overall it has a decent taste to it. Only way I can eat kale. Sometimes I freeze the banana, almost makes an ice cream type desert. I actually started some apples trees and blueberry bushes from seed last winter, have them planted in backyard of my property. They range about 1 foot to 2 feet high. Makes a nice looking bush plus will supply free fruit in a few years. Plan on planting more varieties in another year. I have Cortlands and MacIntoshs coming along, Honey Crisp I would like to try. Hope to venture into blackberry bushes. Something to play around with. It's fun
Subway is dying because it was built on lies and is ridiculously expensive. Nothing is fresh at Subway. I worked at Subway near their peak and I hated it. This was back when they still had the $5 Footlongs, but it was only February (Februany) and September (Subtember). Cookies were $5 a dozen and soup was $1 a bowl. The soup was a great deal, it was better than Mcdonalds and came in a larger bowl. I watched as prices went up, it seemed every other month the subs went up 25 cents or so in price. The soup went from $1 to like $4 overnight. I would not recommend working for Subway, at least not the franchises around here. You get paid minimum wage, and that's pretty much it unless you become the store manager. I worked at a total of 3 different Subways and 2 of them literally only had 2 positions, sandwich artist, and store manager. They, of course, had a "lead close" position too but it didn't pay anything extra, you basically got to have the responsibility of a manager but no extra pay. Also at these Subways I worked at there really was no sort of discount for employees on lunch. In fact, if you were a closer you didn't get a break at all. I remember when I first started they had like a free 6" sub for employees on break unless you were a closer of course. It didn't come with a drink or side though. The second one I worked at, owned by the same person mind you, had no type of discount at all. Also, you had to pay for the uniforms, they supply the hat and shirt, which they take out of your pay, then you buy the shoes and pants elsewhere. It sucked and I hope to see Subway crumble.
Subway used to be really fresh and good back in the 80s and 90s before they started trying to be the McDonald's of submarine sandwiches. You had to be there to understand how far they have fallen.
Closers were typically not alone, there would be the lead closer and basically an "assistant" Not saying things like that didn't happen, but it wasn't supposed to.
ikr. I heard that and thought "within a WEEK??" (And that's sitting at the end of the chain. Do you figure their corporate practices only go to shit once they hit the store level?)
I just want LUNCH>:O ~~~!!! how hard would it be for subway to just... export their food? Have it available in supermarkets like other franchises? Fast food is the key, home food is even better.
SadSynth I agree that if you get a footlong deli sandwich at subway, it's a ripoff because the ingredients are nasty and not fresh. So the 9 bucks isn't worth it. Stick to cheap cold sandwiches at subway
Beat me too it. Harris Teeter makes a great sub and they use Boars Head meats! Even Wal-Mart makes a better sandwich. Botttom line is Subway sucks and they either need to make real hoagies and subs or go by way of Blockbuster.
I’d lick Ur sandwich all day wait no Sorry what I meant to say is I would love to eat Ur sandwich all day no I mean....... umm I’m sure U have the juiciest sandwiches CRAP!!!!!
It pisses me off when they ask if you want the bread toasted. If you answer no.... they argue with you. I just want a sandwich... not an argument. The last time I was there a woman informed me the bread was doughy if not toasted. WTF? Why do they even ask then?
@@javiruiz4405 they serve salada but they are garbage as well and overpriced. You could get a much better salad just about anywhere, including the notorious McDonald's.
KingMaru - You realize the lawsuit where they were sued over the bread was thrown out. Btw, it’s actually 11 inches and is due to the bread expanding upwards due to baking. Anyone who has ever made bread knows this. You don’t get any less bread than if the loaf was actually 12 inches. The $5 foot longs also only apply to a handful of sandwiches and often depending on the day of the week. The chain is sinking because of none of the reasons you mentioned. It’s their lack of quality and change as the millennial shift the market to fresher, healthier ingredients.
@kingMary stop spreading false news. Their subs are the correct length and they now started measuring and if it's not the correct size they throw it out. Even if you are getting the same amount of bread.
I wish Quiznos still had more chains around because they knew how to make subs and treat customers. I had 3 Quiznos in my area vs 5 subways and they closed down all of the quiz shops. waiting in line for a sub at subway is cat scat in a litter box.
The $5 footlong is a scam. Barely 4 slices of the thinnest sliced meat Ive ever seen. My sub is never less than $9-10 depending on the location. And I only get a turkey foot long with a few toppings. Rip-off!!!!
not true，$5 footlong cold cut combo and $5 little caesar peperoni pizza are my favorites, you could feed the whole family for just $5, just $5, you did not pay more than $5 so don't complain you don't get $20 value service. I still remember over 10 years ago, I used to enjoy Subway's sale for certain days of the week for $5 foot long buy 1 and get 1 free deal! what a deal! eating subway daily you could lose over 10 pounds weight in a couple of months!
Southpark Mall, Colonial Heights, VA--There were three sub shops side by side. Two of them were traditional Philly sub shops where they chop up and fry the meat right in front of you. And in between them? A Subway...where they take the already portioned and cooked meat and throw it in the microwave. Guess which one got closed down.
Well, let's all do that! I can go to one half a dozen Subway location in roughly 15 minutes. OR...I can go to Jersey Mike's, with their closest location a mere 4 1/2 hour drive away. Jersey Mike's, here we come - heading for your convenient location.
Because their subs are 70% bread, 25% toppings, and maybe 5% meat. Where’s the meat? Oh yeah if you actually want meat on it, that will be $3 more.. Subway used to could charge whatever for their sorry ass meatless subs but now the competition is showing the world what a ripoff Subway is! It’s pretty sad when their $5 subs are still a bad deal!
Kenny aka TI I think what he means is you have to purchase all the bread, produce and other perishable ingredients to make one. If you don’t intend to make more afterwards, then the expense can be more than at Subway. Grocery shopping for ingredients is almost like an investment, and the value is determined by what you make with it
In UK a box for delivery has a cost plus a delivery charge per box not per delivery. Now they added a £25 charge on this so now we have 3 price increases in last 10 months so no more subway now it costs about £8 a time with a "deal"
I love going yo our local deli the meats are sliced how you want and so is the cheese and they have fresh homemade sourdough bread and huge local grown tomato's and the sweetest watermelonsits alot like an old country store they have big melons from just over the Blueridge ,from down in N.C. and pickeled eggs and real hoop cheese,in the summer I stop by there each week .they have homemade butter and plenty of fruit I love to smell all the fresh picked apples and Peaches and if you want to can your own food you can buy it by the Bushel .I keep about 10 pounds of october beans and several slabs of side meat in my pantry for when I get to wanting some fried taters and cornbread and beans and sometimes I get a sandwich made there and I will get a drink and stop somewere on the side of the mountain and have lunch out in the woods on my way home .
Subway is the same subway it's been for 2 decades. The problem is PRICE. Once the 5-dollar footlong went bye-bye, so did the patronage. Edit: I say this as someone that worked at Subway 20 years ago.
Quiznos is still there where I live (the Ottawa-Gatineau region), but it's down to five locations, with none in downtown Ottawa. That generally means a long bus commute for a sub. Firehouse Subs opened recently, and I prefer them. Subway is so-so, but it used to be cheaper, so places like Firehouse are better for the same money.
The Indians that own Subway stores need to work on customer skills and sanitary food handling. You will rarely hear a "thank you" and I once saw an employee go outside to move a shopping cart away from the door and then come back in to make a sandwich with the same plastic gloves on his hands. I walked out. It was the last straw for me. Never been back to any Subway.
For me, all they want to give you is a lot of bread and lettuce, and not much of anything else. When they first started, they operated on unlimited toppings until they got popular. Their food quality just continues to go down.
The reason why Subway's prospects are diminishing is that their bread is weird. They put hydrogen peroxide in their dough to make it rise quicker. A submarine sandwich shop shouldn't smell like a beauty parlor when the "bread" is baking. They may have a price/value proposition that is attractive to some, but when it comes to quality, just about anywhere else trumps them.
Surfview So thats why all 'Subways' have a weird smell around them. The one near me in a small shopping centre, stinks the place. I am in Scotland, is it the same world wide?
Robert, Thank you for the comment and insight. I don't know if they have the same bread ingredients in Scottland. But, it seems like what stores (in different states) that I've entered, it's the same smell - and puffy bread results.
Reasons I don’t do Subway anymore. 1. Fake chicken 2. Fake Bread 3. Does not serve hearty Italian bread anymore. 4. Deli meats are a leading cause of colon cancer. 5. They take forever to serve if more than one person is in line.
the serve part if because they train us to pass sandwiches down a line i can make 4 in the time it takes to make 1 down that stupid line got thank god i quit
ripppking Not sure about the leading cause of colon cancer, but processed meats have definitely been linked to cancer. The World Health Organization has equated them with tobacco. www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/
Greg b come to my subway friend. You get a six inch as long as the manager is not there take 15 napkins. Footlong meatball holy shit have the whole stack
I used to work for subway. They freak about everything. We could only give 2 napkins for a 12" and 1 for a 6" technically. My boss kept reminding us over and over not give more napkins than the recommended amount. Like... Cmon!
I just quit my job at Subway and 100% I recommend you give your money to Jimmy Johns or Firehouse subs. It’s a terrible place to work, workers are not treated right, and the prices are a bit ridiculous. Plus I definitely believe the chicken thing that’s some irregular looking chicken to me.
I worked at one while in college. At the time you didn't want to order the Meatball sandwich or anything with roast beef. The chicken was just fatty and rubbery tasting as well..I think I was there a few weeks before I couldn't take it anymore..a disgusting place indeed
If you ever have Jimmy John's, Firehouse, Jersey Mikes, Tubbies, Potbelly, or really any other place that makes a sub you will know why Subway is failing. It is the McDonald's of sub shops and not in any good way. There is nothing Fresh at all about Subway.
Here in America we have places like jersey mikes which slice your meat to order and they even slice their own veggies. Subways meats don’t come anywhere close to it. The first time you try Jersey Mike’s you’ll never go back to subway.
Jared had nothing to do with their mess. The micro slices of cheese and having to fight employees just to put a decent amount of mustard on a sub has more to do with the problem. Couple that with rude, brain dead employees and owners hovering over them constantly. Ask for extra napkins, You get ONE! What a mess! I used to love this place.
clearly sounds more of a problem with the area you live in, and/or the way you treat people. I ran many restaurant chains and do their hiring. The location of the store is 90% of how that store is going to run and be received. A shitty neighborhood will get shitty people applying for jobs compounded by the shitty customers who will literally come in drunk looking for fights. Another thing to consider is are you paying full price or not. When I have a custmer using deals never paying full price I will never go over food specs. Never extra toppings or cheese ever. If they nickle and dime us they will get it in return. When someone comes pays 40 dollars when they could go online and get it for 23 dollars they get more then specs and anything they want in the store for free practically. Subways here in Illinois are more then plenty and are high quality cheaper then all other sub shops.
Don't blame the employees so much, as Subway managers and franchise owners are always cracking down on the portions being put on the sandwiches. And even then, _they_ are merely enforcing the formulas handed down from corporate. As a single example: Do you know how many olives are to be put on a Subway sandwich? Only three on a 6-inch, and only six on a footlong. That's it. The same is true for pickles. Do you know how irate customers can become when you are forced to adhere to that ridiculous formula or risk losing your job? Working at any Subway is a soul-crushing experience because not only do you regularly get harassed by belligerent customers who think they're owed the whole damn world, but you get absolutely no respect or support from your higher ups. And you only ever get paid the absolute minimum wage and are gifted the most chaotic, inconsistent work schedule week to week. You accuse the workers at your local Subway for being brain dead? I suggest the next time you're in there, ask them in a cordial fashion when their last shift was, or how long they've been on their current shift, or even when they last had a day off.
Subway used to be FIRE!!!! You couldn’t keep customers out Now (July 2018) you can feel and see the buzz dying out Most subways are pretty empty now The menu never changes The ingredients aren’t fresh The bread is plastic The chicken is less than 50% chicken as it always tasted Pure mess $5 footlong promos are outdated and dragging it along too long causes people to not want to pay even $6 Tough times for franchise owners Corporate just cares about their franchise commissions Don’t care about subways on top of each other fighting for the same business
I'm proud to be a millennial and I have a strong business mind, thank you very much. The corporation AND franchisees should be aware of how their businesses are performing. It has nothing to do with fault.
The magic of Subway (aside from simply being a good value back when the food quality was still intact and $5 footlongs were the norm) was always the degree of choice. You could dream up any sandwich you wanted-coming up with your own "themes" by combining toppings, sauces, meats, cheeses, and bread varieties-and never have to pay extra for it unless you wanted to swank out. If you wanted a foot-long Italian BMT with provolone, banana peppers, oregano, and a mountain of black olives after your high school football game, you got it-5 bucks. If you wanted a foot-long Turkey Breast sub, toasted, with melted pepper jack, tomato, cukes, red onion, and southwest sauce, and enough shredded lettuce to insulate your house, you got it-5 bucks, share it with your girlfriend, dinner for two. Jimmy John's, Jersey Mike's, Firehouse Subs and these other new kids on the block all do the same thing-charge you 9 or 10 bucks for a bland, puny sub that is 80% bread and only comes with lettuce/tomato/onion and a choice of mustard or mayo. You have to order off a numbered menu that offers nothing in the way of customization aside from one or two "premium" options that cost even more for some stupid shit like pickled peppers or replacing your mayo with canned guacamole. All while blowing smoke up your ass about how "high-quality" their subs are because they "slice their meats and cheeses freshly every day." Great, so you're paying some Napoleon Dynamite asshole to sit and since your cheap deli meats and cheeses off the block in the back room for no discernible difference in flavor, and passing the cost onto me, instead of harnessing the miraculous efficiency of automated factory production to have machines give me the exact same thing for less money. What a travesty. *Subway is dead. Long-live Subway.*
I'm partial to Togo's, myself. Never was too impressed by Jersey Mike's on account of prices 20-30% higher than their products really justify. And of course, a good local independent deli can blow them all away in price and quality.
Where does Subway fall in your ranking of national sub chains?
1.) Jersey Mikes
2.) Potbelly
3.) Jimmy Johns
4.) Subway
I haven't eaten at Firehouse subs or any other sub shops really in recent times.
It SUCKSSSSS ***
1: Big Dali's Deli 2 locales, locally owned
2: Casey's convenience store 4 locations also locally owned. 2 have pizza & homemade subs
Tied for LAST PLACE
QUIZNOS, JIMMY JOHN's & SUBWAY
Mashed I live in canada which only has mr Sub,Quiznos ,Subway,Louies sub
+Giovanni Rain
I worked there for 8 months. My god its good. Never ate so much steak and cheese in my life. Would work there again for the free food lol.
I work at Subway. I think one of the reasons the veggies aren't fresh is because Subway sends us the veggies, meaning we have to buy our veggies from them instead of buying locally. We are NOT allowed to buy from anyone else BUT Subway. So if we run out of something, we just out. If we were able to buy locally, veggies would be fresher. We get one truck load in each week. And all of the veggies have traveled a long way to get to us. Most of ours come from Mexico. Also they have had the same old boring stuff for years.... Like there is only so much you can do with ham, turkey and chicken. Also, most of the sammiches are just as bad as eating a cheeseburger. LOTS of sodium. Still not too good for you. I could go on and on about the many sins of Subway....
How come y’all never hired blacks at subway? It’s always West Indies and Hispanics or Ethiopian
Yup, thats how franchises work. Fuck subway.
Subways just sucks, I know because I got a sandwich there once Sassy Cat and it sucked.
Look how long Togo’s has been around and they are still great.
Togo haz the best subs period
@@dgstudioLLC cause black ppl never want to work ...
In short = Overpriced
But 5$ foot long though 🤤
hows a sub gross?
lol, i enjoy subway, i think its pretty damn tasty actually, more tasty than a sub i can pickup from the store tbh..i still dont get whats gross about subway to you, everything tastes good there to me
clearly the subway model suffers itself so it has to demand more from customers.
Bilbo Faggins the subway in my city is clean af and always fresh
Subway just isnt the sub giant anymore, their are so many sandwich shop now that are either cheaper, taste better, or are just overall better
Like ?
Sam Pickles Jimmie John's, Jersey Mike's, Wich Wich in my area
Potbelly is delicious also, way better than subway
I haven't seen a cheaper sub shop. Most are more expensive than subway.
Right
I stopped eating subway a LONG time ago, because they got to greedy. Prices to high, and they kept putting less and less ingredients. Plus service sucked.
This is so true, here in DR they are abusing
Robert Mitchell Where I live they got very sloppy.. Adding to much of one topping and less of the others.. lol. I’m never eating at subway again.
facts.
Dude same
Used to go there almost daily. Now maybe once every 2 years. Because you got four people that dont want any veggies in line. You ask for veggies and they sprinkle it on like a catholic priest
They're just WAY too expensive in the UK, I like them, but I could buy two, even three subs for the same price from a rival chain here.
Larry Bundy Jr Man, you are everywhere lol
Hello You
They took away the 5 dollar footlong and that is when most people I know stopped.
Not to mention all the halal chains with no bacon and *Turkey Ham*
+pandabear181:
Halal stuff is not good. They torture the animals in the name of religion.
I once worked there at 16 and was a manager around 2012, and ot was aweful.
They overworked me, tried to force me to work alone AND do prep work while busy or not.
My Subway was robbed, had another manager embessle, and another manager stole subs then blamed employees for it.
Worst job ever, and I was in the Army man...never work there or eat there...
ProtoMario yeahh i did all the same thing, and i wasnt even a manager. Every closer worked alone and i worked at one in a really sketchy part of town.
EmpireToys ?? What friend?
You are everywhere!
Hi proto love ur vids
Well well well that's saying something indeed
They used to put out a good product. Then they cut every corner they could and they lived off the good name of their past. Lots of businesses start out well and sell the good name to corporations. The corporations run it into the ground.
Lots of foreigners also started owning them and didn't upheld to the customers standards.
@occams99 Tell Obama, that was put in place when HE was president, Trump inherited it. Cute how you people like to shift blame. Plus, you can bet that 99.9% of rich people were dodging the draft and I come from a military family that goes back to 1942 when my father joined with a permission slip from his mother (found it thought the Freedom of Information Act). Pretending that he was an exception, instead of the rule??? Details, details.
@occams99 so let me get this straight you are name calling the president because 1 of the things he said he was going to do...he hasn't done yet. Well shit you must HATE obama after all the stuff he said he was going to do and did not do.
THEY WENT ''HALAL'' AND I SAID SCREW THEM .... ITS BEEN YEARS AND NO ONE IN MY FAMILY GOES NEAR THEM ITS LIKE !!! ..
'' H E L L BUT NO FRICKING WAY !!!! .... I HOPE THEY ARE HAPPY .... LOL
@@AlphaLeaderZ - I LUV YOUR COMMENT ... SPOT ON !!! ...
Subway leaves their meat out in the open air so it goes stale and tasteless. Jersey Mike slices for each sandwich. World of difference.
Agreed. My family owns a small subshop for 40 years , there is a subway axroos the street and it's been through 5 owners. We slice our meet on the spot
@@elgreeko6241 Yea-- Subway = Budget lunch.
the rolls taste like white bread
They're failing because every other sub chain has a superior product. Subway is one step above those shrink-wrapped subs you see at gas stations and party stores, and costs twice as much.
I have had better subs at. gas stations.
Because of their ridiculous prices. Only reason why they are dead to me. No reason to charge almost $8 for a damn sandwich
Scotty W its 12 dollars in Sweden
liam krantz you guys use the krona right? I’m not sure what the value is of that but that does seem high
my town is small so $5 us a lot
it costs 100kr wich is like 12 dollars
Scotty W For $7 you can get a superior Publix sub with an iced tea and chips.
It's simple. The food is not fresh. Cheap ingredients.
skliros absolutely right.
I thought for a long time that they actually baked they're bread old skool, but they don't.
Longis Cadenotas they do bake their bread BUT the dough is premade and shipped frozen. As for their comments about the lettuce and tomatoes, there’s 2 types of tomatoes that they can order. “Red” or “pink”. Red being ripe and pink being ripe within a couple days. A lot in the NYC area order red and complain about them not lasting a full week. I’ve also seen some of my Subway customers (I’m a driver for a major food distributor) still have 2 week old lettuce in their fridge. So it’s not the distributors, it’s the franchisees.
Yeah I had it once and it was nothing special.
skliros it’s simple we kill the batman
6:55 "Fresh has a different meaning than it did 20 years ago"
Only at Subway.
A. too expensive, for what it is B. Two slices of meat, 1 slice of cheese C. Never fresh D. Rude staff and ownership
What's funny is that subway actually charges customers more for salads instead of sandwiches.
Very rude staff
I agree they are bitches there!
maybe the staff just giving you a subtle hint to not eat there
I had a argument over some cookies one time and never went back 😂
I stopped going because the prices are ridiculous for a damn sandwich
I might still pay $5 for a Subway sandwich.
But I would pay mare for actual quality product.
Jimmy John's and Jersey Mike's are worth the price.
In my experience.
@@JB-1138 Jimmy Johns and Firehouse Subs are the same company right? Don't have J.J. in Canada but Firehouse Subs is damned good. Agree that $2-3 extra is worth it for a proper lunch. Subway is cheap quality and they often skimp on toppings
@@patrickm5217 they put as much toppimgs on as u ask for buddy
@@JB-1138 jersey mikes meats taste wayyyyyyyy better
It's cheaper compared to the subway's of the country i'm in.
I went to Subway last week and got a coke. It said "share a coke with Jared" and I nearly died laughing lol
Did you show the person behind the counter? Bet they found it HI-larious.
*cock
Sadly no! I didn't see it until I got home lol
Cosmic Kingdom That's just too funny lol !!!
Imagine the odds with all the names that are out there too! LoL :D I bet Jared's bum-hole could sure use a ice-cold Coke right about now!
Stale bread, lazy staff, questionable ingredients.
Papa John's.
Sorry. It was in how I read what you said. XD
Yeah, same story here in Australia... It's more straight forward to book a table at a restaurant or pub, too much hassle, having to bring a good book and a packed lunch, while waiting to buy a dodgy sandwich...
Lazy is right. But don't forget how slow they all seem to be. If there are two sandwiches ahead of mine and five people behind the counter it will still be 15 to 20 minutes until mine is A. Finished and B. I can actually pay for it.
@Lanna Jane Well that's awesome. But after the sandwich is made is someone there to ring up? That's a big issue usually. I have to wait at least 5 minutes just to pay and by then the sandwich is less than ideal. If I get a steak and cheese the point is that I'd like it hot. So before I can pay for it I get to watch as my sandwich goes cold.
@@calanthiarose The one by me not only has amazing customer service but decent quality food and they take expired coupons. Bread is always fresh and the staff are super friendly. I've definitely been to a few here in Colorado that are not good at all but the one close by is the exception and a very welcome one at that.
2 foot longs for $10...more like $15.63
The local supermarket offered better subs than subway for less money and they were actually a foot long(13 inch rolls so they could have 1 inch of wiggle room)
I work at subway and I can tell you two footlongs are normally $20-25
$9.50 for the cheapest foot long in New Zealand.
I can fix that.. (Really I can't) Like your profile picture. ((:
Whaat in my country its extremely cheap. Like u can get the largest size for about 5$
When Subway raised their prices from the $5 foot long I stopped going. Why would I pay $6-9 for Subway when I can get a Publix Sub for the same price and the quality is 100% better???
Aimee Gray I wish we had publix,Ive heard alot of good things about them,Im in Southern cali none here lol
Why would you go if the quality was bad even at 5 dollars, so that means it's worth it at 6-9 dollars for real meat and real good tasting sandwich.
Aimee Gray Publix makes excellent subs.
Dnice Roberson And it's all true. Publix fried chicken is a staple in the southeast.
Publix forever
I feel like we all thought subway was good because we didn't know any better, now that real sub shops have come in and we tasted their glory we realize how bad subway is.
95TurboSol very true
This right here is the reason
"Fesh has a different meaning than it did 20 years ago." So what did "fresh" mean 20 years ago?
Exactly
The sandwich market for takeaways is over saturated and has been for many years. It has a limited number of customers who in most instances will opt for a burger and fries.
A takeaway is a treat. If you wanted a real meal and a takeaway you will tend to opt for Chinese takeaway but that will be even a smaller market again.
Sandwich is a convenience stack food and that is the way most people view it. Takeaways are not your everyday meal (for a small number it would be)>
The last time I checked, Subway was now bigger than McDonald's. I haven't noticed any closures in the city where I live.
Turn the music down so we can pay attention to the content.
Clean With Confidence content.
Consent
Why are they mumbling! All the new actors always Mumble!
I am Jared.
It sounds like Rick Astley, but I am sitting next to a fan so its a little muffled
The real reason: $8.00 for a sub you can make yourself for $3.00.
TheSameDufus you can actually make like 10 for the same price
Not the exact same sub.
Where can I find all the ingredients for a foot long spicy Italian for only $3?...
Boy Who Not the exact same sub. A sweet onion Chicken Teriyaki one especially. If you could make 10 of those with the exact same recipe and the exact same HUGE Italian herbs and cheese bread, you're gonna have to provide a link or screenshot of the proof that this can be done.
Ravens Mine too. All I ever get from Subway when it's $5.00. Which is, NEVER.
I worked at Subway for 3 months and I can't imagine how a franchise of subway is profitable
You enter a Subway store, and it's empty, slightly too cool to be comfortable, slightly too damp to feel clean, and slightly too bright to be inviting. There is one lonely employee, who does their best not to look at you for those awkward 10 seconds while you walk to the counter before you're close enough to order. You know you interrupted them while they were doing something else. They give their greeting, ask you what you want, you begin scanning their workspace. The bins of raw ingredients are sitting askew, separated by steel walls, yet careless hands have dropped some of each on all the others. The preparation area is littered with crumbs and bits of lettuce, maybe the odd olive or onion piece here or there that has wedged itself into the crack between the food trays and the cutting board. This could have been cleaned up while nobody was there, but the employee doesn't care. For one second you wonder how it got messy in the first place given the lack of customers. Maybe it's staged, like those first few pennies in a homeless person's hat. Do you want it toasted? You do, but that would mean standing here for a minute with the stranger you disturbed waiting for the bread to be sanitized. You observe the employee assemble your sandwich, making sure to painstakingly put each ingredient on only one half of the sub. You ask for sauce and they squeeze it out of a disgusting rubber nipple, then toss the bottle back into its bin like they don't want to touch it either. Are they wearing those gloves to keep the food clean, or their hands? You pay, the sandwich heavily sags into a flimsy garbage bag it doesn't really seem to fit in and is handed to you. You walk out, into the light of the sun. The colors suddenly seem real again and you become aware of your breathing because the air feels rich and life giving somehow. The distant memory of tasty subs that brought you here lingers just beyond the edge of clear recollection, like an old acquaintance whose face you can't picture anymore. You carry your catch to the car. When did it get this bad?
5 dollar footlongs man...those were the friggin days.
I go in expecting a $5 footlong and it comes out to about $8. Thats why I dont go back anymore.
Jon Mantooth 💀
mhm i just posted a comment like this. wasted 10 dollars on something i didnt even like subway is for normies
8 dollars for a SANDWICH now talking about overpriced...
Sorry that inflation is a thing.
Inflation? Soy bean prices are way down, ha ha.
I would go more often to Subway if it was cheaper. I don't know about America but here in Germany it's really expensive.
jjycxsdhkkbcxzzaaszxcghvxddc nah its expensive over here bro
It's not expensive in America. You can get a 6 inch, chips, and a drink for like $5
Doctor Jew everytime I go to Subway I want a footlong. that's going to cost $7. 9 if you want to drink and cookie.
Its fkn expensive here as well definitely
I just take advantage of their weekly text special, wait till they do a buy one get one then go, taking GF with me or just alone and having enough food for an entire day+
*fun fact* Subway actually used to slice all their own meats. They were deli quality. They also baked fresh bread in store from scratch. I worked there a couple years ago. Everything is frozen except the tuna fish. Bread comes in frozen logs. Meat comes in pre sliced frozen blocks! Even the lettuce is frozen. It’s disgusting, the last thing Subway is, is fresh. *SubWay eat frozen!*
I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. FOLDING A SLICE OF HAM DOES NOT DOUBLE IT
Loaded Leo ahaha
worst is when they just stack the meat without peeling the meat and making it fluffy, lazy
Loaded Leo . Exactly and small amount of cheese and charging for extra does not set well with me.
Loaded Leo lmaooo
I'm not defending anything, I work at Subway and it's legit just what we're taught, I think it's because it makes it more appealing or what not. It's not workers fault, that's what Subway does
Time for chef Ramsey to save the restaurants😂
Daniel Ceballos No need for him. They just have to fix their supply problems and thos mysterious chemical add ons.
Dhan Flores always one of these guys em I right
"Is this chicken fresh"
"It's not chicken, chef"
*"Fucking hell"*
The meatball sub is FUCKING RAW
Dhan Flores take a joke will ya
1. Their breads suck
2. Their cold cuts are subpar
3. Subs have more lettuce and tomatoes than meats
4. Most employees are hard to understand
5. The ghost of Jared Fogle still haunts the company
I can argue with everything except the cold cuts. I hate the cold cuts...
I don't get this one "Most employees are hard to understand." I know they are mostly kids but, hard to understand?
Most of them are indian that barely speak English.
Who do you expect to work for those shitty wages!? 😂
ImmortalDraylo and they feed you like your a little skinny Indian to
The reason subways closing is because it’s not cheap anymore. Almost all subs are overpriced and unhealthy. After they stopped doing the $5 footlong I stopped going there. It’s now about as equivalent as getting real food!
85 percent chicken
More soy than chicken
How about all restaurants stay serving....
100 percent chicken.... ?
A lot of the problem is actually what is fed to the chicken when it's alive. They feed them soy, the meat gets filled with soy. Not 42% soy, that's crazy, but still Soy is shit and should be avoided whenever possible.
Look guys its not the amount of chicken its what part of the millions of ground up chem treated gmo chickens your getting in say the average chicken nugget. Now I don't know about you but I don't want to play "chicken innered rullete" eatting nuggets when the odds are 1-85% of eating warehouse raised chicken ass per nugget consumed. Eventually your going to get an 85% ass nugget.
when they say 100% chicken they mean the little bit of chicken in it is 100% lol. they use a lot of fillers like feathers and all the bits of the chicken that normaly gets thrown away. same with burgers. 100% beef burgers have only got about 50% beef in them. the rest is pork, horse and offel.
It is impossible to serve 100% chicken. The difference in percentage comes from what the chickens are fed. Skin uses the nutrients the body is fed in order to repair tissue. Skin, like muscle and blood, is tissue. 60 to 90% is the best percentage a person can get when it comes to pure chicken. The problem comes from the antibiotics chickens are subjected to when in slaughterhouses in order to avoid a number of diseases, both minor and lethal. So in order to get the most natural chicken possible, one would have to raise that chicken on the most natural diet possible. Unfortunately, farms do not have the time nor the profit to do this method.
It's cheaper and goes further. 99 per cent of takeout food is trash. People should quit being lazy and make their own healthy meals. Pack up a lunch box and take their lunch with them. There's heaps of online sandwich and lunchbox ideas.
You missed the most important issue, which was the shrinking of the portion size of the proteins they put on their sandwiches. Why pay $6 for a sandwich with a single slice of turkey?
That’s also because of inflation. Businesses get higher expenses so either have to raise the price or reduce the amount.
honestly, I dont know how a location profits. The lease is pricey, then there is utilities, equip costs, labor costs, supplies, franchise fees. The avg cost for 1 customer is $10 to $12? They would need to sell thousands of subs every week to break even. Subway only makes money on franchise fees I think, no way a location is profitable in todays economy.
You can get a better, fresher, sandwich at any bodega. With fresh produce, and good meat because 9/10 the store owner is a nice Yemeni man and all the food is Halal so EVERYTHINGis prepared well and always clean. Probably wont spend more than $4.50 and you'd get a hero with plenty of whatever you asked for. Subway cant source fresh ingredients but my local bodega can? People dont even bother with subway anymore. They're always empty. The food there just isn't good and its overpriced.
People wanted raised minimum wage! This is what the result is!!! DUH!!! WE TOLD YOU ALL this would happen ... DUH !!!!
6 slices for a 6-in, 12 slices for a footlong. And that's not taking into count deluxe or double meat upgrades. What are you talking about? The only time you'd find a single slice of turkey on a sub is if the customer directly asks for it
They made the big error of over saturating the country with Subway franchises.
There are 4 subways by my house all with in a 15 min drive. It's silly to have them that close. Way to many is right.
@ ted yancey: Greed has no limits.
Yes this is true. I use to be a store manager with them. I was going to be a district manager and went to meetings at corporate office and was told in 2015 that the decline of sales and franchise ownership profitability is because there was no standard zoning. There are way too many locations and franchise owners are competing with each other and not with fastfood. I left and make 35% more in fastfood then I did with subway. I also work less and make more. Subway Corporate tells franchise owners to change punch in and out times to save money and makes it clear to save old product and re date to save money. Subway corporation is a dirty company and is probably going to be gone by 2022.
@@amytheezel8747 I have heard stories from Subway employees saying they are forced to work off the clock otherwise they may lose their job... I worked for McDonald's and Dunkin' Franchises and although I'm not going to say I didn't check my time punches or didn't hear about abuses, to ask an employee to work off the clock??? I was a manager at McDonald's and NEVER did that happen! But the local Subway? Yes!!
@@DaviddeMouraCastro yes they would. I would work 60 hours a week and only get payed for 45 hours. When I would say I no longer was going to work 60 hours and only work 45 hours they would threatened to take my store and potion away.
Our subway disapeared this past year. No warning. Just pulled into the parking lot and saw the "for rent" sign in the empty shop.
I worked at subway for two years. The veggies go bad fast because they are from fresh farms and are not filled with preservatives. Honestly I was shocked at how everything was hand prepared. I think getting new veggies once or twice a week is a very fast rate. My veggies sit longer in my fridge at home.
The real reason the businesses are failing is because the prices keep rising at insane rates. Young people arnt making enough money to afford $8 average 6 inch sandwiches. Plus each store is individually owned. Usually by greedy unskilled managers that try to overwork single employees and serve food even after it goes bad. They chase customers away with bad business practices.
Lunafae
I bet you were an amazing sandwich artist.
Well said!
phloridababe
Subway has nothing to do with Jared's kiddie porn habit. It's not like he shared it with them and they said, "Oh, don't worry buddy, your secret is safe with us!"
Lunafae well said i work here for 2 years and everyone is overworked and customers demand more and more to the point were sandwiches explode lol
Lunafae oh and now the greedy manager removed certain items employee discounts and others only 20%
If you go to subway, you get a bread sandwich, granted their bread is good but, their deli meats are pumped full of liquid, probably water or a nitrate , and the meat has no flavor, if you order one, pull a piece of meat off the sandwich, doesn't matter what meat, and taste it, because it has no flavor, the only taste is bread and and a flavored condiment, such as mayo, ranch, oil,& vinegar etc... big thumbs down for this chain
Steve Logan Usually if you toast the meat,it's got a taste.
Probably because all the juice or whatever gets released by the heat and gives you some flavor.
TheSyndicalistDragon ty for the info
I don't even get fake meat, I get nothing but bread!!!
yeah you better take the pickles or onions, because the tomatoes and cheese have zero flavor either
nicholascremato i hear you friend
Subway first skimped on meat, now they are also skimping on veggies, then let the leftover veggies rot and get thrown away. Smart economics? They focused so much on putting up so many franchises but lost focus on the quality of food. I prefer Which Which or Quiznos
The employees are to follow a set amount of veggies, and get yelled at for putting on more than allowed. It's all Bout the bottom line. If the managers keep their cost under 35% the higher the bonus. Unfortunately, they get paid crap, so rely on the bonuses.
@@FluffballKitties like I said, not so smart economics. They pay their employees crap then waste so much food.
I don't know where you guys live, but here in winter springs, Florida, at either location near me they pile the vegetables on and everthing is fresh and tasty. I eat lunch there whenever I'm out.
jerrinfla well you got a good one outta a 100
Wow I’ve never seen a Quiznos in real life ? 🤔
Last time I went to a subway was 2 years ago when they had the wraps. I went in and ordered the spicy chicken wrap and the guy behind the counter literally asked me how to make it. I tried my best to guide him through it, but it was my first time trying it so I wasn't sure either. Then he proceeded to fail to wrap it and ruined the whole thing and started over. Ontop of all that, the 2nd time he made it, it was considerably smaller than the first and I was still charged the same price. Never went back
I remember when you actually see employees cutting the lettuce, tomatoes and meat in the back. You always smelled the fresh bread baking and employees didn't "count" the pieces of meat and veggies they were putting on there subs. Subway in my humble opinion will go down like most brick and mortar businesses. Save your money and go to the grocery store and buy your own fixing for a really good sub. Everyone knows you never leave Subway just paying $5.00 for the infamous $5.00 foot long. I haven't eaten at a subway in over 6 years and I can make a really mean sub. Corporate greed killed Subway, a once fine institution .
Molldog One I think it used to be good 10+ years ago. I had been to a few "not good" locations. These days it seems like none of them are good. I hadn't been in a couple years until a few weeks ago. It wasn't good enough for me to want to go back.
But there are worse places
Molldog One you have to beg to get extra onions
saw* employees
Steve Giardini
Stopped eating there over 10 years ago. The quantity of the meat was reduced, veggies were not so fresh, overall experience is way down.. Compare Jersey Mike’s and Jimmy Johns and the Subway sandwich looks like something from 7/11’s chill box.
Jackson Daniels
Hold on! Even 7/11 stepped up their sandwiches and salads! Plus they have fresh fruit and cheese. Heck people are even buying whole pizzas from 7/11 and they aren't losing money. ijs
Sad thing is in my area it’s subway or nothing and the subways here either are broken or worse
Jersey mikes is great
Jimmy John's is delicious! 😋
Jackson Daniels Mc Donald's should go down hill to I don't believe in Magic so should U
Subway's biggest problem is too many stores. Within a 5 mile radius of my house there are I'd say six stores and within a 2 mile radius it's still 4 stores. My buddy owns several of them and to be honest they all still made decent money. It's actually kind of fascinating how similar the numbers are from store to store with regards to sales. Subway is easily fixable, it's whether corporate will actually do it is the question.
A scoop of guac is 75 cents a pop
same here within about 5 miles of my house is probably 4 or 5 stores and thats the biggest problem... there is just too many
You think that's bad you should see Tim Hortons in Canada. The town I live in has 9 of them within a 4 km radius.
Bacon dude same here i live in NB and there 5 within a five minute drive of my place its crazy
venom5809 where I used to live I would say there were 12 in a 4 mile radius. Edit:I looked it up... there's actually 14+ in a 4 mile radius around my old house...
The funny thing is they kept the whole 12 inch motto but the width was decreased by at least 35% since 1995
Pretty dang simple. Lots of bread and nothing in between and a high price at that.!
Take note upper management and wise up!
I just want to put it out there, as someone who works at subway I agree that prices are ridiculous I hate serving that shit to customers and about the amount we put on it we have to go by guidelines when making a sandwich, employees have no say in the amount of toppings we put on the sandwiches or prices so if you ever get frustrated about that don't take it out on us we think exatly like the customer
Gluten intolerance is a fad, that's why... sure there are people with legitimate coeliac, but it wasn't till the entire planet suddenly was 'apparently' intolerant to gluten that this whole gluten free craze kicked into full swing
Dan Maynard meat will change the Game for them
This is my main issue! I have a pretty firm rule in my life......fool me once etc. About 10 years ago Subway fooled me at a local shop. A lot of bread and very little ingredients. So, I didn't go back. No big deal really. Last month I was on my way home and needed some quick food after a double shift. I broke my rule and was fooled the second time. Extra pickles is not 6 slices. Extra green peppers are not 4 slices of small green peppers. I get a lot better at the local farmers market. I honestly don't care if Subway survives. They got me for a little over $10 in 10 years. I can live with that.
However, if they had given me a good sub for the price I paid, I probably would have eaten from them a lot more. So might a lot of other people...….
Their subs are sub-par compared with most places these days... Tomatoes suck, toppings aren't fresh and everything tastes the same. Around here... Jimmy Johns, Jersey Mikes, Firehouse and even Cousins are always close by and always a WAY better option. If it wasn't for Subway being in like every Walmart now, they would be out of business.
Dynamic Prepper only produce they got that's trash is the lettuce everything else is good
I completely agree, though I don't find those places all that great - Which-wich, Potbelly, Pickleman's are far superior to Subway. Maybe it is a dollar or two more, not always, but I can actually enjoy what I'm eating at these places.
I've never heard of any of the sandwich places you mentioned, except Subway. My town is very small and all we have are local restaurants; which is a good thing.
Dynamic Prepper Jimmy Johns is the worst. They have no flavor and put no meat on the sandwich. Just bland bread.
VenatorForti agreed. Shit sucks.
I wish Quizno's would make a comeback to their early 2000s glory.
epiphoney2 they were good
Still have one here less than a mile from my office. Only one in whole area though.
Last time I went to Subway, sandwich had a very, very paper-thin layer of meat and the entire sandwich was basically lettuce. Said I wasn't paying for that, went to DiBella's instead, which for a chain has always blown Subway out of the water.
Shit man, you're right that's why Subways revenue is light years ahead of theirs
I stopped going because so expensive. Plus a lot of processed foods there. I stopped going to all fast foods actually. I used to spend about $30 per week on fast foods. So, in a year that is roughly $1,600 saved. Also, dropped a few pounds. Which came in handy. Took awhile, after some trial and error, I discovered recipes I make at home which taste much better than fast food
HabsGeorge Mind sharing the few recipe's?
Well, you have to experiment a little. Through trial and error. I read a few books by Joel Fuhrman, etc... Heard about things like Steel Cut Oatmeal. Tried it first, didn't like it. Came back to it, mainly because I bought a whole tube and it was just sitting there. Added a few blackberries, then blueberries, a little more brown sugar, came out perfect. Makes a great breakfast and healthy beyond healthy, compared to a McDonald's Sausage McMuffin. What I was eating before.
I also discovered Blueberry grunt. Love it. As good or better than blueberry pie, but much healthier. Baked apple is good also. A little cinnamon/sugar mix, with a teaspoon of butter on top. Only about 80-100 calories, makes a great snack. Way better than any snack you can get at Tim Hortons. I good smoothie is kale with a cup of chocolate milk, and a banana. I add other fruit sometimes, but overall it has a decent taste to it. Only way I can eat kale. Sometimes I freeze the banana, almost makes an ice cream type desert.
I actually started some apples trees and blueberry bushes from seed last winter, have them planted in backyard of my property. They range about 1 foot to 2 feet high. Makes a nice looking bush plus will supply free fruit in a few years. Plan on planting more varieties in another year. I have Cortlands and MacIntoshs coming along, Honey Crisp I would like to try. Hope to venture into blackberry bushes. Something to play around with. It's fun
HabsGeorge. Spill your recipes please😝😁
Kermit of Rivia gee chill here, have a snickers!
nala is the cat in the bubble, or you can say..
*Spill the beans!*
Air bread + tasteless cold cuts + old vegetables
Odd (in the UK) the subway I most often go to does fairly good bread with good enough meat and fairly fresh vegetables (as far as the ones I like go)
Tasteless sandwich that needs some nasty sauce to get through it!
In California
I can’t even imagine what you’re talking about
never been to a subway
That didn’t have everything fresh
Subway is dying because it was built on lies and is ridiculously expensive. Nothing is fresh at Subway. I worked at Subway near their peak and I hated it. This was back when they still had the $5 Footlongs, but it was only February (Februany) and September (Subtember). Cookies were $5 a dozen and soup was $1 a bowl. The soup was a great deal, it was better than Mcdonalds and came in a larger bowl. I watched as prices went up, it seemed every other month the subs went up 25 cents or so in price. The soup went from $1 to like $4 overnight.
I would not recommend working for Subway, at least not the franchises around here. You get paid minimum wage, and that's pretty much it unless you become the store manager. I worked at a total of 3 different Subways and 2 of them literally only had 2 positions, sandwich artist, and store manager. They, of course, had a "lead close" position too but it didn't pay anything extra, you basically got to have the responsibility of a manager but no extra pay.
Also at these Subways I worked at there really was no sort of discount for employees on lunch. In fact, if you were a closer you didn't get a break at all. I remember when I first started they had like a free 6" sub for employees on break unless you were a closer of course. It didn't come with a drink or side though. The second one I worked at, owned by the same person mind you, had no type of discount at all. Also, you had to pay for the uniforms, they supply the hat and shirt, which they take out of your pay, then you buy the shoes and pants elsewhere.
It sucked and I hope to see Subway crumble.
Brandon Scheuvront ......so if ur a closer and alone how would they know if you had a drink and bag of shits, I mean chips, on a "break"?
Subway used to be really fresh and good back in the 80s and 90s before they started trying to be the McDonald's of submarine sandwiches. You had to be there to understand how far they have fallen.
Closers were typically not alone, there would be the lead closer and basically an "assistant" Not saying things like that didn't happen, but it wasn't supposed to.
Brandon Scheuvront ....I feel you.
Subway sucks. No more $5 footlong, they hardly put any meat on their sandwiches and they are stale. I quit eating there years ago.
"Within a week of receiving a delivery of tomatoes they are mushy and rotting." Of course they are! Fresh food is supposed to rot.
82Doogie I grow tomatoes and can tell you they last a lot longer than a week after they're picked. 1-2 months is usually how long I have them for
not in a week....
ikr. I heard that and thought "within a WEEK??" (And that's sitting at the end of the chain. Do you figure their corporate practices only go to shit once they hit the store level?)
Easy fix: get a drive thru
spllitz no the subway I work in has drive thru ......Its actuall Hell
Some already do.
I just want LUNCH>:O ~~~!!! how hard would it be for subway to just... export their food? Have it available in supermarkets like other franchises? Fast food is the key, home food is even better.
Gamers In Hell yeah but then it would have to be premade.
Most Subways are in strip malls.
The product sucks
Man, no more $5 foot long subs More like nearly 7$ !!!
They aren’t real deli sandwiches, aren’t fresh, and are way overpriced.
"deli meat" isnt fresh anyway
Metanoia deli sandwiches taste better than subways, especially in Manhattan or Bronx.
i remember the first 5 dollar footlong ads, that was way higher than it was normally. i haven't had subway in 10 years.
SadSynth
I agree that if you get a footlong deli sandwich at subway, it's a ripoff because the ingredients are nasty and not fresh. So the 9 bucks isn't worth it. Stick to cheap cold sandwiches at subway
Yes
Local shops offer better subs usually . Subway was built on hype . Great commercials but subpar food . It caught up with them .
machia0705 completely disagree
Aaron Tinco tastelet.
I eat at this family owned sandwich shop that is better than subway
Their sandwiches just suck. I can go to a local market or deli and get an amazing sandwich for cheaper.
Starter Bros. makes a pretty good roast beef sandwich at least better than Subway.
Yes, O briens sándwiches are awsome
I’ve been working in a loading bay in a shopping centre and I saw subways freezer. The food looked revolting. Haven’t gone back since
Beat me too it. Harris Teeter makes a great sub and they use Boars Head meats! Even Wal-Mart makes a better sandwich. Botttom line is Subway sucks and they either need to make real hoagies and subs or go by way of Blockbuster.
True statement. SUBWAY SUCKS, employees act like they hate their job. food sucks......went there once......never went back.
There’s a world of difference between bagged lettuce and fresh cut.
85% and 42% chicken? The hell you feeding us? Why i will never eat at a fast food place again.
Their sandwiches are not worth their cost.
So, how much do you think a foot long hoagie should cost? I think 7-8 dollars is pretty reasonable.
James Edmond naw you just that broke and can’t afford a sandwich that’s literally under 10 dollars 😐😐
James Edmond I disagree
In England they used to do A footlong and a drink for £5 , they took that deal off and I ain't been there since
Here in London it costs around £8 ($10) for a footlong with a drink and small cookie. Sandwich is nice but not worth the money
I can make my own sandwiches and they taste way better.
Brittney Young can i order one pls? Send it via Post?
I’d lick Ur sandwich all day wait no Sorry what I meant to say is I would love to eat Ur sandwich all day no I mean....... umm I’m sure U have the juiciest sandwiches CRAP!!!!!
Brittney Young but it tastes better when it's from someone else
Hell yeah
Less expensive too
It pisses me off when they ask if you want the bread toasted. If you answer no.... they argue with you. I just want a sandwich... not an argument. The last time I was there a woman informed me the bread was doughy if not toasted. WTF? Why do they even ask then?
People started making their own damn sandwiches....
Xerdar36 this is why I got myself a girlfriend
Justin Myhan That was evil.... well done sir!!
This is an American problem not globally, love eating fresh subs in my country
I don't eat sandwiches! I eat salads
@@javiruiz4405 they serve salada but they are garbage as well and overpriced. You could get a much better salad just about anywhere, including the notorious McDonald's.
Maybe because they claim to have 5$ foot longs which really aren’t foot long (only 10 inches) and it’s not 5$ it’s nearly 8$ unincluding tax :(
KingMaru - You realize the lawsuit where they were sued over the bread was thrown out. Btw, it’s actually 11 inches and is due to the bread expanding upwards due to baking.
Anyone who has ever made bread knows this. You don’t get any less bread than if the loaf was actually 12 inches.
The $5 foot longs also only apply to a handful of sandwiches and often depending on the day of the week.
The chain is sinking because of none of the reasons you mentioned. It’s their lack of quality and change as the millennial shift the market to fresher, healthier ingredients.
KingMaru the subs where $5 years ago. They dont advertise $5 footlongs anymore.
Prakriti well they upped it to 6$ and it’s still (sandwich alone) 8$ and some change
KingMaru ikr
@kingMary stop spreading false news. Their subs are the correct length and they now started measuring and if it's not the correct size they throw it out. Even if you are getting the same amount of bread.
I wish Quiznos still had more chains around because they knew how to make subs and treat customers. I had 3 Quiznos in my area vs 5 subways and they closed down all of the quiz shops. waiting in line for a sub at subway is cat scat in a litter box.
2 words. *YOGA MATS.*
The bread is disgusting, crumbly and dry, they barely give you any meat and they are way over priced for non quality ingredients
Akeya Johnson
Simply asking for some bacon costs you close to 3 dollars! Its ridiculous.
Dude, I love subway...
Akeya Johnson which subways do up go to?
barley...hehe...punny
Element Creator soo, r we supposed to care random guy on the internet but seriously subway is just overpriced
It’s because I can spend less at Publix and get twice the sub.
pubelicks?
Pubics?
Publix is way better. Where i live theyre right next to each other too.. Its a no brainer which one to get. Plus u can order online
Mmm publix chicken tender sub w buffalo sauce 🐃👌👌😋 and you get so much chicken and like 2 huge half parts of a sandwich for like $8 it's so good
Yes omgggg
The $5 footlong is a scam. Barely 4 slices of the thinnest sliced meat Ive ever seen. My sub is never less than $9-10 depending on the location. And I only get a turkey foot long with a few toppings. Rip-off!!!!
The secret is this. Every subway is different. The one I go to is generous. Not all of them are. Try different ones in your area.
here in australia we pay 10 dlrs for a subway
@@fivestring65ify you shouldn't have to go to more than one. All restaurants under the same name and country should work the same
Alec Moriarty Add chips and drink it's 20$ for the meal
not true，$5 footlong cold cut combo and $5 little caesar peperoni pizza are my favorites, you could feed the whole family for just $5, just $5, you did not pay more than $5 so don't complain you don't get $20 value service. I still remember over 10 years ago, I used to enjoy Subway's sale for certain days of the week for $5 foot long buy 1 and get 1 free deal! what a deal! eating subway daily you could lose over 10 pounds weight in a couple of months!
Southpark Mall, Colonial Heights, VA--There were three sub shops side by side. Two of them were traditional Philly sub shops where they chop up and fry the meat right in front of you. And in between them? A Subway...where they take the already portioned and cooked meat and throw it in the microwave. Guess which one got closed down.
Used to eat subway. They’re good started to taste like shit. Switched to Jersey Mike’s sub and ingredients are fresher and better.
Well, let's all do that! I can go to one half a dozen Subway location in roughly 15 minutes. OR...I can go to Jersey Mike's, with their closest location a mere 4 1/2 hour drive away. Jersey Mike's, here we come - heading for your convenient location.
Jersey Mikes is 2.8 miles away from my home. Lol We love that place!!🤙👍
Lorenzo Cordero Jersey Mike’s is a joke, I’d rather make my own sandwich then eat at a sandwich shop, unless it’s a mom n pop from the north east
But we aren’t all pretentious assholes like yourself lol. “I only eat at mom n pops shops” 🤨 ok 👌 dick HaHa!
There is nothing special about Jersey Mike's other than a hiked up price for average taste. Jimmy John's tastes better and Firehouse Subs are bigger.
Because their subs are 70% bread, 25% toppings, and maybe 5% meat. Where’s the meat? Oh yeah if you actually want meat on it, that will be $3 more.. Subway used to could charge whatever for their sorry ass meatless subs but now the competition is showing the world what a ripoff Subway is! It’s pretty sad when their $5 subs are still a bad deal!
Boom
Illuminated Crosshairs
Go to jimmy John’s get gargantuan full size! Just saying
steve moorman already did and love it! JJ’s, Jersey Mike’s and Firehouse are all 10 times better than Subway.
Make your own sandwiches. It's a fact all these fast food chains sell you garbage as food. Cooking for yourself is less expensive and much healthier.
gregshock Take my upvote and get out of here with your logic!
it's not less expensive if you just want one sandwich.
Nicholas Brown Yes it is less expensive
Kenny aka TI I think what he means is you have to purchase all the bread, produce and other perishable ingredients to make one. If you don’t intend to make more afterwards, then the expense can be more than at Subway. Grocery shopping for ingredients is almost like an investment, and the value is determined by what you make with it
novembrine29 spending 5 to 8 dollars for half a sub will always be more expensive
In UK a box for delivery has a cost plus a delivery charge per box not per delivery. Now they added a £25 charge on this so now we have 3 price increases in last 10 months so no more subway now it costs about £8 a time with a "deal"
TRY A GROCERY STORE FOR A DELI SANDWICH.
I love going yo our local deli the meats are sliced how you want and so is the cheese and they have fresh homemade sourdough bread and huge local grown tomato's and the sweetest watermelonsits alot like an old country store they have big melons from just over the Blueridge ,from down in N.C. and pickeled eggs and real hoop cheese,in the summer I stop by there each week .they have homemade butter and plenty of fruit I love to smell all the fresh picked apples and Peaches and if you want to can your own food you can buy it by the Bushel .I keep about 10 pounds of october beans and several slabs of side meat in my pantry for when I get to wanting some fried taters and cornbread and beans and sometimes I get a sandwich made there and I will get a drink and stop somewere on the side of the mountain and have lunch out in the woods on my way home .
Even better! JC ... anything's better than Subway!
Publix❤️
Wawa hoagies!! Yumm
Specifically, Publix!
Subway is the same subway it's been for 2 decades. The problem is PRICE. Once the 5-dollar footlong went bye-bye, so did the patronage. Edit: I say this as someone that worked at Subway 20 years ago.
jovalleau yeah 8 dollars for a sandwich is bullshit!
I loved Quiznos. Miss them. Subway always sucked.
DN 13 Same here, I miss that place. Had some good times eating there when I was seven.
Quiznos was real good!!!
¤T'CHALLA¤ the best
Quiznos is still there where I live (the Ottawa-Gatineau region), but it's down to five locations, with none in downtown Ottawa. That generally means a long bus commute for a sub. Firehouse Subs opened recently, and I prefer them. Subway is so-so, but it used to be cheaper, so places like Firehouse are better for the same money.
DN 13 that old as was cringe af tho
The Indians that own Subway stores need to work on customer skills and sanitary food handling. You will rarely hear a "thank you" and I once saw an employee go outside to move a shopping cart away from the door and then come back in to make a sandwich with the same plastic gloves on his hands. I walked out. It was the last straw for me. Never been back to any Subway.
thats gross
For me, all they want to give you is a lot of bread and lettuce, and not much of anything else. When they first started, they operated on unlimited toppings until they got popular. Their food quality just continues to go down.
The reason why Subway's prospects are diminishing is that their bread is weird. They put hydrogen peroxide in their dough to make it rise quicker. A submarine sandwich shop shouldn't smell like a beauty parlor when the "bread" is baking. They may have a price/value proposition that is attractive to some, but when it comes to quality, just about anywhere else trumps them.
Surfview So thats why all 'Subways' have a weird smell around them. The one near me in a small shopping centre, stinks the place. I am in Scotland, is it the same world wide?
Surfview as long as the H2O is food grade- lol
That smell comes from heating sandwiches with pickles on them. I hate canning pickles - same smell.
Robert, Thank you for the comment and insight. I don't know if they have the same bread ingredients in Scottland. But, it seems like what stores (in different states) that I've entered, it's the same smell - and puffy bread results.
Because of Jared
guess he's enjoying his "foot long" in prison now . . .
Wonder if he got his five dollars worth.
Surreal Boy He definitely did "eat fresh"
Subway was bad even before the pedophile had anything to do with it. They should've checked the chicken he was eating?
sitdowndogbreath You really took the time to type that out. LMAO. Sensitive ass.😂
Publix sandwiches are 💣
Reasons I don’t do Subway anymore.
1. Fake chicken
2. Fake Bread
3. Does not serve hearty Italian bread anymore.
4. Deli meats are a leading cause of colon cancer.
5. They take forever to serve if more than one person is in line.
the serve part if because they train us to pass sandwiches down a line i can make 4 in the time it takes to make 1 down that stupid line got thank god i quit
Deli meats are a leading cause of colon cancer?? Lol yeah right prove it ??
ripppking Not sure about the leading cause of colon cancer, but processed meats have definitely been linked to cancer. The World Health Organization has equated them with tobacco. www.who.int/features/qa/cancer-red-meat/en/
They don't let me have any napkins. Everytime by the end of the meal I'm folding and trying to reuse an obviously worn out napkin
Greg b come to my subway friend. You get a six inch as long as the manager is not there take 15 napkins. Footlong meatball holy shit have the whole stack
I used to work for subway. They freak about everything. We could only give 2 napkins for a 12" and 1 for a 6" technically. My boss kept reminding us over and over not give more napkins than the recommended amount. Like... Cmon!
MrFrenglish wtf why do they care so much about napkins? I always noticed this
Sina H cost them money to pay for more
Lol
I want to like subway so bad but everything there just feels old, dirty, and nasty
Julia_aaa Here in Brazil. Same thing. Is not fresh!
Would you like that toasted? Ok that'll be $4000
I just quit my job at Subway and 100% I recommend you give your money to Jimmy Johns or Firehouse subs. It’s a terrible place to work, workers are not treated right, and the prices are a bit ridiculous. Plus I definitely believe the chicken thing that’s some irregular looking chicken to me.
I worked at one while in college. At the time you didn't want to order the Meatball sandwich or anything with roast beef. The chicken was just fatty and rubbery tasting as well..I think I was there a few weeks before I couldn't take it anymore..a disgusting place indeed
I HAVE WORKED FOR JIMMY JOHNS AND FIREHOUSE. I STILL GET FREE JIMMY JOHNS SANDWICHES FOR FREE EVEN THOUGH I QUIT BUT SUBWAY IS BETTER IN MY OPINION
both chains are good.
There’s subway everywhere here in Canada and they’re always busy. Is this some kind of sponsored content? Reverse psychology ads?
Coouge this is in the usa
Subway in Canada are more expensive and have more boring choices, you Americans are certainly way too spoiled.
If you ever have Jimmy John's, Firehouse, Jersey Mikes, Tubbies, Potbelly, or really any other place that makes a sub you will know why Subway is failing. It is the McDonald's of sub shops and not in any good way. There is nothing Fresh at all about Subway.
Here in America we have places like jersey mikes which slice your meat to order and they even slice their own veggies. Subways meats don’t come anywhere close to it. The first time you try Jersey Mike’s you’ll never go back to subway.
They're booming here lmao
Their sandwiches are mushy.No flavor.
the last time i went to subway was in early 2018, they still tasted good, but i realized that the prices were going higher every time i go there.
Jared had nothing to do with their mess. The micro slices of cheese and having to fight employees just to put a decent amount of mustard on a sub has more to do with the problem. Couple that with rude, brain dead employees and owners hovering over them constantly. Ask for extra napkins, You get ONE! What a mess!
I used to love this place.
Mustard sucks!
What if you want more mustard ask for more lol
clearly sounds more of a problem with the area you live in, and/or the way you treat people. I ran many restaurant chains and do their hiring. The location of the store is 90% of how that store is going to run and be received. A shitty neighborhood will get shitty people applying for jobs compounded by the shitty customers who will literally come in drunk looking for fights. Another thing to consider is are you paying full price or not. When I have a custmer using deals never paying full price I will never go over food specs. Never extra toppings or cheese ever. If they nickle and dime us they will get it in return. When someone comes pays 40 dollars when they could go online and get it for 23 dollars they get more then specs and anything they want in the store for free practically. Subways here in Illinois are more then plenty and are high quality cheaper then all other sub shops.
Don't blame the employees so much, as Subway managers and franchise owners are always cracking down on the portions being put on the sandwiches. And even then, _they_ are merely enforcing the formulas handed down from corporate.
As a single example: Do you know how many olives are to be put on a Subway sandwich? Only three on a 6-inch, and only six on a footlong. That's it. The same is true for pickles.
Do you know how irate customers can become when you are forced to adhere to that ridiculous formula or risk losing your job?
Working at any Subway is a soul-crushing experience because not only do you regularly get harassed by belligerent customers who think they're owed the whole damn world, but you get absolutely no respect or support from your higher ups. And you only ever get paid the absolute minimum wage and are gifted the most chaotic, inconsistent work schedule week to week.
You accuse the workers at your local Subway for being brain dead? I suggest the next time you're in there, ask them in a cordial fashion when their last shift was, or how long they've been on their current shift, or even when they last had a day off.
E30 M3 false. Anyone who owns a chain such as myself knows Jareds arrest destroyed this franchise.
Subway used to be FIRE!!!!
You couldn’t keep customers out
Now (July 2018) you can feel and see the buzz dying out
Most subways are pretty empty now
The menu never changes
The ingredients aren’t fresh
The bread is plastic
The chicken is less than 50% chicken as it always tasted
Pure mess
$5 footlong promos are outdated and dragging it along too long causes people to not want to pay even $6
Tough times for franchise owners
Corporate just cares about their franchise commissions
Don’t care about subways on top of each other fighting for the same business
"it was only in late 2017 that franchisees found out that business had fallen 25% since 2012" Sounds like some ignorant ass franchise owners to me.
I'm proud to be a millennial and I have a strong business mind, thank you very much. The corporation AND franchisees should be aware of how their businesses are performing. It has nothing to do with fault.
Oh Betty, go find someone your own age to pick on.
SoTweetie - Good God, what is it with these old people?
SoTweetie Am I not allowed to have an argument with people younger then I am then?
You can do anything you like
The magic of Subway (aside from simply being a good value back when the food quality was still intact and $5 footlongs were the norm) was always the degree of choice. You could dream up any sandwich you wanted-coming up with your own "themes" by combining toppings, sauces, meats, cheeses, and bread varieties-and never have to pay extra for it unless you wanted to swank out. If you wanted a foot-long Italian BMT with provolone, banana peppers, oregano, and a mountain of black olives after your high school football game, you got it-5 bucks. If you wanted a foot-long Turkey Breast sub, toasted, with melted pepper jack, tomato, cukes, red onion, and southwest sauce, and enough shredded lettuce to insulate your house, you got it-5 bucks, share it with your girlfriend, dinner for two.
Jimmy John's, Jersey Mike's, Firehouse Subs and these other new kids on the block all do the same thing-charge you 9 or 10 bucks for a bland, puny sub that is 80% bread and only comes with lettuce/tomato/onion and a choice of mustard or mayo. You have to order off a numbered menu that offers nothing in the way of customization aside from one or two "premium" options that cost even more for some stupid shit like pickled peppers or replacing your mayo with canned guacamole. All while blowing smoke up your ass about how "high-quality" their subs are because they "slice their meats and cheeses freshly every day." Great, so you're paying some Napoleon Dynamite asshole to sit and since your cheap deli meats and cheeses off the block in the back room for no discernible difference in flavor, and passing the cost onto me, instead of harnessing the miraculous efficiency of automated factory production to have machines give me the exact same thing for less money. What a travesty. *Subway is dead. Long-live Subway.*
"Eat Fresh"
40 year old meat in 9 year old buns.....nevermind, that was Jared.
Chasing Embers holy shit
Lmao
Couldn’t have said it better
DANM...... u Savage
Lmfao
They're disappearing because having a store every 4 blocks isn't a sustainable business model.
bmo true but McDonalds and Starbucks are kinda the same way and they are doing fine. It’s more than that
Nate no its actually McDonalds & Dunkin
Not Starbucks & McDonald's
I don't mind paying more for quality ingredients at Jersey Mike's
Have you ever made direct eye contact with a tomato in jersey mikes? Dont.
I'm partial to Togo's, myself. Never was too impressed by Jersey Mike's on account of prices 20-30% higher than their products really justify. And of course, a good local independent deli can blow them all away in price and quality.