Posted on 09/03/2017 6:12:14 AM PDT by rstrahan
I haven’t eaten at Subway for years. I once saw the owner walk behind the food counter where they make the sandwiches holding a wet, filthy mop. He had just exited the rest room. The mop was stored behind a door just a few feet from the food. I’ll never eat at a Subway again.
I don’t recall there being a Subway in the Huntsville airport. There’s a restaurant on the second level and that’s about it. I will say the Huntsville airport is really nice for a smallish city, especially since they’ve remodeled it. I also like Charlotte. Atlanta is a hell hole. So is LA. Trump has a point when he says our major airports are an embarrassment.
“There are Subways everywhere, in every strip mall, often at the far end where there is little foot traffic. Contemplating this, I think Subway’s business model is to be the place where all the people who work in those various strip mall stores take their lunch breaks.”
We have more Subways than we have gasoline stations basically in every town/city north of San Francisco.
The basic law of economics deals with supply and demand.
With any business, “When the supply exceeds the demand,that business is in trouble.”
When I moved from Orlando, FL to Lexington, KY, I expected KFC to be the most popular restaurant chain in my new home. Instead, it’s Subway; there are at least 40 of them here, including the ones in each Wal-Mart. I figure it is because Lexington is an overgrown college town, and I ate the most at Subway during my college years.
I notice that, too.
Karma for
1) bludgeoning the nation with boring food
2) obnoxious marketing including the ubiquitous Jared who was a pedophile
3) ludicrous combinations eg Southwestern Ranch Chipolte Lime Cajun Sweet n Sour
4) Treating napkins like gold leaf to save paper costs
The huge posters of Michelle Obama on local Subway windows was the end of our patronage of this restaurant chain. Like Starbucks, they began jacking up sandwich prices and lost the competition for much better food at lower prices elsewhere.
Haven’t been there for while. It is a nice airport, nice state, nice people. Avoid Atlanta.
They offer flatbread for the sandwiches, but it’s not baked in the store.
You got that right. Having to ask for more than one napkin for a messy sub sandwich is ridiculous. Subway (all the ones everywhere I used to patronize) was mizerly with napkins. They also used to have a month of $5 specials with lots of choices. When a lunch sandwich alone costs close to a $10 bill, it shouldn't be at a Subway fast food place.
Jersey Mike's - A+
Jimmy Johns - A-
Firehouse - B
Subway - D+
5 to 10 years from now, your analysis will be one of the top discussed issues in the online business and MBA programs which replaced the brick and mortar Social Justice Warrior colleges and universities for the same reality. Included in those failures will be the NFL, ESPN, Macy's, Target and other corporations which committed seppuku to be SJW's!
sep·pu·ku ˈsepo͞oˌko͞o,səˈpo͞oko͞o/Submit noun another term for hara-kiri.
Yep - corner convenience store/gas station has one that does a decent lunch/dinner business. I prefer Lenny’s and we have one of them about 4 miles down the road (replaced a super-leftist Quiznos some years ago and thrives where Quiznos failed.
Blah- The quality of the stuff at subway is just plain bad. I can get a real sub someplace else for less money.
Oh, I do agree that there are five or six superior sub shops. On cost basis...just for a cheap menu lunch deal...they do a great job.
As a kid, I always thought the K-Mart folks had the best sub sandwich, but they lost their touch in the mid-1980s. One of the best sub-sandwiches I ever had was at some NY City shop called Faicco...great sauce and superior cheeses.
I can make that stuff at home, cheaper, with fresher food and healthier meat and cheese.
I wonder if Subway pulling their ads has anything to do with NASCAR’s decision to not hold its season-ending awards ceremony at the Trump National Doral Miami, and YouTube’s recent free speech policy change. NASCAR pulled out claiming they were disturbed by Trump’s comments after Charlottesville, and YouTube plans to cut down on hate speech...at least the hate speech that bothers them. That means videos from the Right. I know that Truth Factory had a problem posting a video or two, and had to do them over again, so they specifically complied with YouTube’s new rules. How anyone can find a problem with a talking cat is beyond me.
Their problem could be lack of money, but I’d like to think that maybe they did it for other reasons.
Yes, about the bread. They’re currently advertising wraps, so maybe less bread and carbs. Still, I’m not going to pay $7 on sale for a wrap.
What loses them money is people don’t want to get out of their cars and go inside. If Subway had drive thru windows, their business would increase.
A few years ago, despite their weight loss perv Jared, they had ads smacking down people who were overweight. It turned a lot of people against them.
Vegetarians get screwed on protein at subway and no one has ever explained why, to me. The sheer weight of the meat they allow on a sandwich (before calling it double meat) contrasts quite extremely with the amount of cheese allowed as the protein on a veggie sandwich. It’s insane. Even “double cheese” which costs extra isn’t as much protein as a regular meat sandwich, by weight.
I used to go to Subway a lot when I was still working. I’d pick up a Tuna Sub or BMT salad on my way to work. I worked in Corrections, and we couldn’t leave the facility, so most of us brought our own food. Sometimes we’d order out from the local pizza places, and have the food delivered to the front gate. The food would eventually get down to you inside the prison.
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