I’ve got no knocks about Subway. It remains the easiest franchise to buy into. Their products are always fresh. They have not gotten stupid with idiot menu options like McDonalds did. Their prices are fair. You know what you will get. You want better sandwich options? Sure. Plenty of choices.
But I believe they will stay the course.
My experience with Subway is it depends on the franchisers. The ones around here cut corners on the veggies, and it stops being a bargain.
Besides that, their bread has become a problem. Too many additives. No pure whole-grain option.
Their meats are ALL hallal, which frosts it for me! Hallal meats are processed by ragheads, wipe their butts with their bare hands and DO NOT have any federal or any other sanitary regulations. Welcome to Sharia, baby! I haven ‘t been to Subway since hallal was announced a year or more ago. No thanks. Not THAT hungry!
One of Subway’s problems (IMO) is that they’ve saturated many of their local markets. There are three Subways within a 1.5 mile radius of my house, and if you double the distance, so does the number of their outlets.
At one time, Subway was notorious for selling a franchise to a local owner, and (if the location proved successful), opening a company-owned restaurant a few blocks away so they could get in on the action as well.
I like their food, and it’s much healthier than most fast food joints. But I think the world could survive—and they could be just as profitable—with fewer stores.
I know a guy that used to have a couple of their franchises. He’s glad he got out. Corporate is a pain in the ass to deal with. They mat suck you in with easy to franchise terms, but that’s when the screws come out.