How has Subway survived this long?

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FYI Quizno's pretty much committed suicide by constantly fucking with and trying to rip off its own franchisees. Turns out not to be a good long-term business plan
 
Maybe it's my memory fucking around with me, but I remember back in the 90s to around the early 2000s or so, they used to be pretty good. I've only been to Subway a handful of times in the past decade or so, and each time I regretted it.

Jersey Mike's is much better anyway.
 
Josh just gave Subway a cheerful plug on today's stream - that spicy Italian with tons of pickled banana peppers. His mom used to dis him over eating their bread because it contains a common ingredient with yoga mats.
 
It's customer dedication. Jussie Smollett liked Subway so much he kept ahold of his Subway bag even when he was being lynched.


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Not a fan of subway, each time I end up going I find myself wishing that I had spent the money on basically any other food. Jersey Mike's is much better, though I seldom go there because of the cost. There's also a regional grocery chain with actual footlong subs with boars Head meats for $5, those are money.

guccigash dijo:
edit - i was in a subway in boston once and wanted butter on my sandwich but they didn't get my accent, i had to write it down in the end and they did not have any butter :(
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I've seen butter on chicken sandwiches, on burgers, but on a sub? Is this a British thing?
 
I'm personally of the belief that most of Subway's customers are people who got confused and thought they were going to the underground train station, then realized their mistake and just got a sandwich since it was right there. If you have a local deli that can turn their cold cuts into sandwiches, that's almost certainly the better option.
 
Subway's lower cost of operations helped it gain ground against McDonald's, all you need is a walk-in fridge, freezer, sink, sandwich line, and enough space to store everything, and the fee to start one up is a third of McDonald's. A lot of the reason why it tastes so bad usually comes down to the following (I used to work at one of the restaurants):
  • The tomatoes, cucumbers, and onions all come in boxes and are sliced at the restaurant. The quality varies on this, tomatoes are the worse, they're either underripe or a few steps from rotten, and often rotten tomatoes do get in the box. Rarely do the tomatoes look good.
  • The "yoga mat material" was always highly disenginuous, but the bread isn't good, coming in as frozen sticks, thawed, and then allowed to rise somewhat, but it's not a good bread--it's too mushy when it's hot and quickly goes stale.
  • ALL the meats are packaged elsewhere. Reformulations in 2015 cheapened them further, with what was black forest ham going to thin, pitiful lunchmeat-type slices.
  • Almost no quality control, either it's a franchisee that doesn't know what the fuck he's doing, or a multiple-site franchisee that will keep loser stores open to maintain market share.
 
In Australia they're eeeeehh... But everywhere, and the fact that they consider themselves one of the healthiest alternatives and think tactically about their position. They shadow fast food joints and appeal to a guilty conscious. If there's a Macca's or a KFC, chances are a Subway hides menacingly in the shadows behind it.
 
It's been a while since I ate anything from there, but in university, I found it to be a very convenient fast food and a very good deal. They used to have some monthly specials on Spicy Italian or some other basic meat combo for something like 4.25 USD at one foot. So I would order the cheapest sandwich they had with whatever bread I preferred, but then I would instruct them to add every single one of the free toppings on top of it. The free toppings really made it more than the money's worth, because it was enough vegetable mass to double the weight of the plain sandwich with just bread and cheese and meat.

I didn't even really like all those extra peppers and jalapeno, but for the student budget, it was good to get as much free vegetable fiber as possible.
 
Jared was a part of one of the most memorable advertising campaign in recent memory. It kinda is miraculous he did not take Subway down with his own sinking ship.
 
Y've never seen a Subway until you've seen an interstate Subway. Lonely, desolate places. Far from any town of note, let alone proper civilization. "Eat Fresh" they promise. It's a promise like a kiss that turns into a vampire bite as you walk in the door and the stink hits you like the coveralls of a man who shovels nightsoil. You do a barrel roll and wind up with a moist sandwich in your hand and a receipt a mile long. Even before you reach the ol Haulen Pig Rig, you know that sammich was a mistake. Your guts are rumbling worsen two dogs with their tails tied together. Then you're squattin on the pot prayin to the Lord Above for some relief below and as the slosh in your guts is drained the smell reminds you of something. Then it hits you. Full cycle. Complete the cycle. Eat fresh. Eat fresh.

You turn, kneel, and lower your face to the toilet...
 
Quijibo69 dijo:
The same reason why there's still K-mart and Sears.
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for restaurant comparisons, the same reason there's still chili's and tgi friday's
certain parts of the country have literally nothing but chains and maybe like, one local diner

i live somewhere that has a lot of locally owned sub shops that also have pizza and other dinner plates like clam strips so consequently there's not a lot of subways, they primarily exist in food courts
 
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