Quiznos really went under fast. I worked with a guy who had a side hustle of 5 franchise stores, and he took it in the shorts hard dealing with Quiznos corporate as they went under. It ruined him.
On another note, Cali seems to be able to support a million taco shops and can export them. I was in all over the Grand Canyon and Sedona areas a few weeks ago and it was littered with Filiberto’s taco shops.
Their marketing department was terrible, and their mascot was disgusting. I wasn't surprised at all by that crash and burn.
For a while, about 15 years ago, Quizno’s had a “prime rib” sandwich that I really liked. I was always skeptical that the meat used truly fell within the standard definition of “prime rib,” but the sandwich, which had a garlicky sort of special sauce, actually quite tasty. After a couple years, they reclassified it as their “prime style steak sandwich” or somesuch marketing mumbo-jumbo and downgraded the meat quality to something nearly inedible. I stopped going. And then by 7 or 8 year ago, nearly all of the Quiznos around here had shut down.