The Rise And Fall Of Subway
With thousands of store closures in the last three years and petitions against Subway from its franchise owners, the fast-food chain with the most locations globally seems to be on the rocks. We unpack what's going on and where Subway's headed from here.
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The Rise And Fall Of Subway
Their problem is they got cheap with their ingredients, and the prices got higher.
Exactly
Exactly and how fresh they keep the ingredients. Twice i went by the subway next to my work right at opening during the summer and it was boiling hot in there. They seem to keep the AC off at night while the ingredients are still in those stainless steel buckets in the serving counter. How gross.
👏👏👏
YEP
ACTUALLY they got sued for their deals and since their dying they need to raise prices to make what they used to yall dont know shit
Subway doesn’t need new menu ideas, they just need to increase the quality and appearance of their existing product.
They're so concerned about new menu items... how about instead they stop giving me diarrhea with their existing ones? God knows what sort of chemicals they put in that bread. I will say their ciabatta sandwich was actually pretty decent.
Yea their bread and meat is low quality, I think that’s the main problem
Their bread is horrible
True 😎🇱🇷✌️
Yeah, but at this point, they need something to pull people in. New stuff is the best for short term marketing
Almost 20 years ago, i was pregnant with our first child. My husband and I were living in a small apartment over a Subway. Every morning the smell of their bread would waft upward to our little place. When our baby was born, it was a cold winter, but that warm bread smell seemed to warm everything up until the baby and I would doze off. Their bread smell still reminds me of the start of our family life together.
sounds like the starting of a movie where the main character later goes to work over there but the store is about to close down so the main character does whatever it takes to keep it open an amazing meal is made and voila the most popular store it town now
youre the main character
Subway marketing department should have hired you instead of that Jared Fogle creep.
@@IAMMRONALD dead 🤣
@@DarkZerol Hindsight is 20/20.
I worked in a Subway and I cannot tell you how many times a customer would go nuts and cuss about not putting on enough WHATEVER and taking their frustration out on the person making the sandwich. The boss would get on your back about how much you put on the sandwiches and tell you to charge the customer more for extra veggies. It was the worst job I ever had.
I thought extra veggies were entirely free and it is just extra meat that costs more
And if a customer complains, then tell them to go to the competitor's restaurant down the road
@@aztec9651 Welp,yeah,meat costs a lot,but who said you cant he extra charged for veggies tho
@@johnfoltz8183 Manager not gonna be happy about it XD
@@skell6134 I still thought no matter how many veggies you get it’s free in a realistic way, not taking the entire stock of veggies lol
I remember Subway used to smell like fresh baked bread when you entered, now it smells like a mop bucket
robert lee haha this is so true!
Yeah its cause they're cleaning up the mess you made last time
Omg do we live in the same area lmaoo I remember walking in there wondering if they recently killed a family of rats..it smelled so bad 💀
Atleast in my closest subway it still smells like fresh bread.
robert lee cuz all the college kidz crapped themselves the night before on pbr and slum-way
It failed the day they took away the $5 footlong
That was a classic ad
Five.. five dollar footloooooong
5 dollar... 5 dollar...footlong.... that jingle is still stuck in my head
Facts lol
I'm pretty sure it was due to inflation, or the slip in sales...
After looking at the comment section, it seems like the only thing keeping this franchise alive is the sentiment and memories people have with Subway
They still make good food honestly, and it really depends on where you go. I order from Subways often, and I have zero complaints.
Subway in the last couple months lost its appeal to me because of the price. What used to be $9 for a foot long, chips, and a soda 2 years ago. Is now $12-$14 depending on the sandwiches that I liked to get. I haven’t gone to subway in forever, maybe I’ll see where they’re at price wise one of these days, but literally as a result of their prices increases, I began making my own sandwiches at home!
I go to subway only if I have a discount coupons.
That my friend is call inflation, happening everywhere and with covid and transportation issues these prices are going up even more.
use coupons. $5.99 for a footlong, then $1.99 for a drink and $1.49 for chips.
They need to bring back the 5 dollor foot long
Yeah now one in my city is 16 dollars for a meal for one and what i get is a steak wrap or a average sandwich
Here's an idea Subway: DON'T CHARGE 10 DOLLARS FOR A GODDAMN SANDWICH THAT ISNT AS GOOD OR AS BIG AS IT WAS 10 YEARS AGO. YA DONE GOOFED.
tbar123 that’s cheep
Cheap my ass ill stick with Lee's sandwiches , aka Vietnamese sandwitvhes
tbar123 you’re just being cheap af
A-rod88 not really. I worked at subway and the amount of money they make on a footlong is at least twice the amount they pay for the ingredients for each one, sometimes more. Subway is being cheap asf, and it’s costing them.
This was the comment I was looking for!!!
Rise: because they had $5 footlongs Fall: because they got rid of $5 footlongs
SIMPLY TRUE
What is true ? 😂
@Throngdorr Mighty 😂
That's the skinny of it.
BIG FACTS.
I used to eat subway all the time when i was in highschool, i lived off 5 dollar footlongs with a soda and bag of chips afterschool. i recently went back to subway after not having it for over 6 years and i spent 16 bucks for the same thing i used to order! It’s definitely the increase of prices that’s killing them
I work at a Subway and definitely the decline comes down to the franchisee. My town has four subways, three owned by one woman and the other owned by my boss. The woman's Subways are kinda notorious for low quality to the point where she's closed three. My Subway is known for being cleaner and friendlier, we make $100s every night.
She treated all of them the same way, like shit
There's hope! Seeing this video made me sad...I remember as a CHILD I'd tell others I loved subway, your brand must've be really good for kids to actually love that part about it.
What you mean $100s every night, daily revenue?
2012: "$5 foot long!" 2019:"$15 foot long! Why is our company doing poorly?"
Jason White it doesn’t cost that much your gassing it
@@hawkeyemihawkgettingmoneylord gassing..?
Kodiak Express if you don’t know just google it damn it why should I waste time explaining my words to you. If you asked politely then yea I would have cared to explain.
@@hawkeyemihawkgettingmoneylord you sound like a douchebag
@@jasonwhite2520 he used the wrong "your" and thinks "guessing" is "gassing" lmao. I hate the fact that these people can drive and vote.
As a Subway worker, customers still ask me if we have $5 footlongs, and it always sucks to tell them that we don't, and we end up charging them like $15 for two sandwiches.
I live where the Hoagie or Sub was ( disputed) but invented at. There are hoagie and sandwich shops everywhere here. The going rate for a Hoagie ( what everyone calls a sub) is about $9 at most places and some higher.
@@letsgonow5641 yeah but I bet they taste amazing... Subway has gone downhill with flavor. I'll gladly pay more for a good sandwich. Firehouse subs, jersey mike's, which wich.. love em. More expensive than subway but the flavors are THERE and that's what counts! If I want cheap crap there's the dollar menu at McDonald's. They need to up their food quality and quantity if they wanna stay in the game. If that means a little more cost... So be it. People will pay for food that tastes good
Yea i agree. What i was trying to say that people still want the deal from 10 years ago. Although they do have $5 foot longs if you buy two...The last time i went to a Subway is when i took my car for service an there was a subway nearby..I didnt care for it..
That’s why I stopped going
wait what damm that's ex in my country it's like 10 ish depends on what flavour u choose
The three reasons people stopped eating subway: 1. Ireland classified the subs as cake rather than bread due to the high sugar content. And the 2. Made WITH 100% chicken is highly suspicious. 3. The slop they refer to as tuna has never seen the ocean.
Rise: Jared got into smaller pants Fall: Jared liked getting into smaller pants so much, he continued doing so after eating at Subway
South Park will always remind me of Jared and many things lol I find myself doing a bunch of crap or thinking like South Park the creators obviously but it’s a South Park thing you gotta watch it or not to truly understand how people like me think of it.
Their fall is pretty simple to figure out. When quality goes down and the price goes up, people go elsewhere.
@Recruit Lucier I didn’t even buy much from subway when 5$ foot kings were a thing but they were still so iconic.
Not to mention the greed of the corporate offices wanting people to open up locations so they could get fees but not being able to support the business. Gee there's no way that would come back to bite you SMH
@Juful I mean that's not the point. You could get twice the amount of food at Firehouse or Jersey mikes or some local deli shop and it would taste way better too.
They use fake meat.
@@mrhacker19909 Horse meat is real meat
"subway is failing." Milad Mirg: "hold my sub"
Lol
I was just watching him lol
I was looking for this comment
@emes 🙄
@emes lol
Since around 2010, labor recruitment and retention has been an ever-increasing challenge, too. You started seeing more and more owners behind the counter...
It should be called the rise and fall and rise of Subway. Thanks Milad.
me: gets job at subway KZhead recommended: the rise and fall of subway
it does that a lot. corporations are always watching and listening and reading and transmitting what you are doing!
Omg same I just got a job at subway !!
😆 lol
Ellie Rhiannon u probably spit in people’s food when ur on ur period
@@heaney_s why would you think that??
The problem is they've gotten ridiculously expensive.
Little E Franklin yeah for an $8 sandwich I’d go to jersey mikes and get more bread, and more meat with better flavor.
Not in the UK. In the UK subway is the only of its type
Little E Franklin: Main decline began when they increased prices and taxes like. 5 dollar foot long gotten more expensive increased to 8 dollars plus tax is almost 10 dollars
Ok so the subway at my town is expensive and you get less but just 3 blocks down you can get a two foot longs for 7.85$ with better bread and fresh meat straight from local farms (real local farms lol)
BucketOfMayo yea, i think i was paying ~$6 back then for roast beef, now its closer to ~$9
Territory protection would have gone a long way for their franchise owners. Additionally, pressure to make sure the stores ran to the same standard. As others have stated, you could go to one that actually cared to throw away withered vegetables or another that served it up and your only option as a customer was just to leave.
I actually rarely went to subway but whenever I ate a sandwich from their menu, the sandwich was amazing 👌🏼
The problem is a drop in quality and it’s too damn expensive
Right as rain
$12 for a footlong in Canada.
5-6€ for a footlong in Germany I think thats a great deal.
Idk what y’all subways are doing but it’s not that bad shits good
From 5 dollars foot long to 10 dollars .. no brainier!! No wonder they loosing sales
Subway employee's are so chill, I'd go in and use a coupon I had to get a great deal and the guy just gave it back and was like "go ahead use it again, I don't care when it expires because I'm quitting in 2 weeks".
Hahahaha what a homie
chill, apathetic, immoral, what's the difference anyway, theyre only words.
@@paddington1670 ._. Oh
@@paddington1670 ok take care
Legit the same thing happened to me in my local subway, the guy wasn’t even quitting soon he was just nice 😂
Milad is carrying the whole company’s back! Lol.
Another problem for Subway is the franchising fee is like 12.5% of net sales. So for every dollar a subway franchisee owner gets, 12.5 cents of it gets put in corporates pockets regardless of if the franchisee is breaking even. And when sales are as low as they are at an average location (5-10k/wk) that 12.5 is brutal. (Also for clarification frnachise fee is 8% and advertising fee is 4.5% so it adds up to 12.5% as of 2019 when I left subway as a gm)
Milad is basically carrying this company’s fate on his Phone 😂
So true but I love that KZheadr he’s amazing
speaking facts right here
HE IS MY FAV KZheadR
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@Bancho literally the only reason I clicked on this video
The meat is so thin you can read the newspaper thru it.
LOL. 😂
Subway gets their meat faxed to the stores.
@Thomas Pynchon Truthfully, I've been using that line since the middle 1980's.
Their sliced meat just feels slimy. They need a meat slicer and cut it fresh every day. Has anyone figured out how they can offer a grilled chicken sandwich without actually having a grill?
Thomas Z Thank you. My first laugh for the day!
My experience of Subway franchises here in the Republic of Ireland is , ---freshly made sandwiches, made with stale fillings and not so fresh bread.
You are easily make this thing at home.
me and my family quit going to subway becuase they altered how they made their food. they began to skimp on ingredients and the food just isnt as good as it use to be. but then most the pizza places have done the same. we make our own pizzas now at home just like we make our own subs/sandwhiches. they think they cut costs and corners but only hurt themselves in the process.
Try Domino's, it's really good. Or just the good ole McDonald's.
When they got rid of the $5 footlong, it went downhill
Harrison Hunter 1000000% the reason
They were honestly a victim of their own catchy marketing campaign. I've still got that jingle in my head. Five! Five dollar! Five dollar foot loooong!
I actually just peeped the commercial again. They actually say something like "hurry! A deal this great won't last long!" in the original. Kinda funny
@@qrowing "ITS GOIN STRONG!!!"
Subway by my house still has 4 different $5 footlongs
This comment section does a better job of identifying the issues with Subway than the actual video
Cris. Hernandez. Lmao!!
Or maybe this video is just an attempt to get feedback of thousands of people in detail. Because the last part of the video seems like an advertisement.
0:35 *used to watch one of those; real good resolution for a small screen, and the sound was pretty cool for mono.
The comments sections are always better. Same can be said for news articles on any website. Dont even bother reading the article. Skim through it then go straight to the comments
@@jeffwhite5784 you're so right 😆. We learn way more from people than from Official stuffs for everything.
I don’t know if it’s just me, but delivery services have probably had an effect on this, I love subway, but having the option to order via an app, receiving the product and seeing it smushed, soggy, unable to actually see the product being prepared, etc. gave me an image of subway I don’t love. Now when I think of subway, I think of the delivered version, not the good, bought at store version
I can vouch for the franchisee's being next door to each other, the Detroit Medical Center had 2 within less than a 10 minute walk of each other on the campus... of course the caveat is that the line was out the door in BOTH locations around lunchtime because there are a lot of employees and students and the various hospitals' cafeterias were not very good (as is the case with a great many hospitals)
It’s simply because quality has gone down, oversaturation of locations, and prices increased. Why should I go to subway when I can get a better sub at my local pizza and sub shop for the same price?
EJR77 definitely over saturation of locations but...also the rise of other sandwich shops like jimmy Johns and firehouse subs that now take a good deal of revenue
EJR77 same price or way less
Facts, every shop I know makes better sandwiches than subway. Blimpie is king but they loosing locations fast smh
And more interesting ingredients too.
Its funny when theres a subway on every corner 5 stores every mile
1. No one wants to spend $10 on a sandwich 2. They barely put any meat in it 3. They use fake chicken 4. The only side options are a bag of chips or cookie 5. You can get more for less somewhere else
@Gloria Borger the "chicken" they use is made of half soy, half chicken, formed into a patty. Most people don't know this
Black Wolf The texture of that chicken fillet lol, the look and the taste. How people think this is an actual piece of chicken astounds me
@@Blackw0lff To call it fake chicken - when is has real chicken as a part of it - is sort of odd. However, half soy definitely doesn't help things. It's not fake chicken, but it's not great.
You cant add soup as a side?
Totally agreed. Their meat quality is getting shittier every year because the meat choices are getting a lot
I was at a Subway yesterday and the guy making me sub told me “Cucumbers have been discontinued” such a weird thing to discontinue but it makes sense as to one of the reasons why Subway is on the decline if Cucumbers of all things get discounted Edit: I was in Canada for a school trip a couple of months ago and I paid 10.50 CAN (~$8.00 US) for a 6 inch sub and drink so those prices don’t help either.
I used to really like subway in fact I lived in a small town with 3 of them. Recently I went back to one and the sandwich was made sloppily, ingredients were not fresh, they were out of several toppings, and with this whole menu revamp they reformulated the chipotle sauce which used to be my favorite part and now sucks 😞
The sandwich has gotten smaller and more expensive.
Only by about a 1/2 inch. The 12 inch is about 11 1/2 inches. But the reason why its more expensive is pretty much common sense. The cost of living. Btw you also get paid more nowadays. So who cares about that?
@@manuelruen just stop with that agrument u can also say everything is more exspensive which makes the more money u make null no one likes paying more for less no one
Blame taxes.
Erin good i do not fund Halal meat
It’s so you eat less, fatty
Saw this post on reddit once that perfectly sums up why Subway is failing: You enter a Subway store, and it's deserted, 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 sheepishly pockets their tiny electronic escape window as the sound of the door drags them back to reality. They do 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. 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 here, but minimum wage buys minimum effort. 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, so you spend a minute in silence with the stranger you disturbed, waiting for the bread to be sanitized. You feign interest in the cookies while the infrasound hum of some overworked piece of machinery builds to an unscratchable itch just behind your forehead. The toaster mercifully releases its hostage, and it is splayed open before you while you call out soggy vegetables to abuse it with. You observe as the employee assembles 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. It weezingly inhales the kitchen scraps and windex aroma that permeates the store. 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 into the light of the sun. The colors suddenly seem real again and you become aware of your breathing because the air outside 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 that your bank owns. When did it get this bad?
You sit there in your bed, contemplating what led up to this. Another 8 hour shift at an understaffed, cold, eye blinding building. You live 10 minutes away, and you make sure you can stay home as long as you can before you have to leave. All too soon, you grab your visor and apron, the stench is the same one from the first day after the interview. You are a minute early, you happily wait in your car, savoring each second. As you get out of your car and walk up to the door, there is a split second, just enough for you to get a last bit of fresh air. Opening the door releases that same aroma that has plagued your nose for too long. As fast as it came, the air becomes stale, as your nose has become numb to the smell of Subway. Just like your house, your mind has discarded the smell of familiar surroundings. Your coworker walks past you, says their greetings and is out the door, Lucky them. After clocking in, everything becomes a blur. You count bread, like you did yesterday, you finish the dishes, like you did yesterday, you sweep the hall, like you did yesterday, you wipe the tables, like you did yest- someone comes in. You quickly run to the sink, cleaning the sanitizer from your dry chemical covered hands. You can feel her eyes, burning holes in the back of you neck. Putting on the gloves that were always too big, and repeating the same “Welcome to Subway, what can I get you?” You begin the slow process of throwing cold meat and wet, slimy cheese on the footlong of what would seem to be bread. Wanting all the vegetables, you grab olives, tomatoes, lettuce, green peppers, onions, and mayo. Several olives and some lettuce fall out of your hand into the tomatoes, but the pressure is on you and you don’t want to seem like you are trying to waste their time. Closing the bread and sealing the sad sandwich, you grab a bag and begin the worst part, the end. As they put their card into the reader to pay for their overpriced steak and cheese, you remember that the entire sub is more money than what you make in an hour. You look up and make awkward eye contact with the customer, and then quickly look away. Sitting there, waiting for the card to go through is the most painstaking long process in your entire life. Like a wish come true, the receipt slowly exits through the machine. You hand over the flimsy bag and receipt, and say the usual, “Have a nice day.” That was it, that was the only customer you will have for the next hour or two. Each hour goes by, slower than the last. You clean the same thing for the 3rd time, quickly go the bathroom, or the more common option is to go in your phone. Finally, after 480 minutes have passed, you can finally just count the money and go home. As you finish up, you set the alarm, make sure that you have done what you need, and lock the store. As you walk to your car, you look back. The restaurant sits there quietly, with the damn Open sign still on. You know that you will be yelled at by your manager tomorrow. But for now, you are just happy to go home.
Wow, you need a life lol
Rowdy PolishBear well, it seems they’ve served their sentence working at subway. writing this looks better to me then sitting in subway all day with nothing to do getting paid minimum wage.
Well said. Most subway stores I visited is sub-par and quality is lacking. Particularly veggies looked like they were bought a week ago. I was even afraid that I might catch a disease by the look of the veggies...
DonovanPlays no wonder they call you sandwich artists.
I LOVED Subway sandwiches. Used to be 3 locations really close to where I live. Used to stop by 4 nights/week to get a foot long on the way home from work. Eat half for dinner and take the other half to work the next day for lunch. Then one by one they all started closing and now there’s none anywhere near I live. Wish they would come back.
I remember when we first started going there. It was exactly $4.27 for a footlong turkey. I went there a year ago and ordered a footlong turkey, a drink, and a small bag of chips... it was over $15! I felt kinda old because I legit asked her to "repeat my order" before I paid.
Bro it’s $16 just for the sandwich here
The problem is quality control. So many private families buying a store, and selling two day old bread/cookies/etc.
Dale Check Agreed. Service and quality so very inconsistent even in the same town.
the stale bread was a definite turn off, especially if ordered on line or doordash, even if you request fresh bread. I just can't trust them anymore.
Indeed, where the meat is green, and lettuce is brown.
I've got food poisoning from their mayo 4 times..screw them
@@jimtart4271 the fact you got food poisoning from their mayo 3 times and went back makes this a you problem
Subway lost my business when they let the quality of their ingredients slide, while also reducing the amount of meats & cheese in each sandwich.
Yuppp smh..
This comment section is food connoisseur central
@@shorx9199 well considering that the average Joe is the person that would order at subways... Which is also who is commenting... This would be a good place for them to look for customer feedback and try to see what they need to do to win people back. Used to love subway. Spicy italian with swiss, lettuce, onion, green peppers, and olives. Then I started noticing that even with all that there was still more bread than sandwich.... That's when I said to hell with it I'll go somewhere else
TC NY you can say that again
Depends on the store. We have this good one in downtown that's like always empty so they hook it up.
In my country there's only one subway left. Foot long sandwich is about $10 and they put very small amount of ingredients, if you want some more, you have to pay about $1 for every option.
Its crazy that subs use to be $5. im looking at my receipt now and it's $14.92
One day at subways the guy put olives on my sandwich even when I said I didn’t want olives and he looked at me and said: sorry I don’t get paid enough Felt that
poor dude
What a shithead. Something tells me that he never got a better job.
Whoa WTF!!! He must’ve had a super shit day.
r/thatHappened
@@vapecatgaming476 r/nothingeverhappens
Fogle ended his career the way he began it: trying to get into smaller pants.
oh no
GG Respect
And I oop
:-[
Loooooooooool
Im one of the few who loves going to subway still. Theres one right next door from my gym. Its always sad to see how dead and quiet it is everytime i go. I also never see the same workers either.
There's a small subway retail stores near my place. Always when someone put onions in their subs my eyes would hurt. The workers just cut the subs with the onions, ugh.
Just bring back the 5 dollar footlong deals and everyone will be satisfied
mani singh they can’t because the 5 dollar deal was over ten years ago and prices have inflated a lot.
jason le I call bullshit, Arby’s have the same deals from like 50 years ago. I think they like their profits margins and don’t want to go back down and make less. It’s like when there was a chicken shortage a couple years ago and wing stop had to change their combos by removing 1 wing out of the usual 5 and selling it at the same price. Once the shortage was gone they never reverted it.
@@Nyandere_the_Bakeneko Arby's isn't _that_ great a value though... they take a bun, fill it with 10 cents of deli meat, and then sell it as a slider for $1.50. In the end, there's about 4x as much bread as meat. Granted, I've been a sucker for their 2 for $6 gyros.
Sandwich that has quality of subway. Period.
They will have many losses as the fast food chains
"Subway says food is its next priority" *maybe start there instead*
Adam Johnson lol that’s what I thought
Tbf, what they’re doing is smart. They need to make their stores more appealing so people are more likely to see it and stop by. Their food is as good as it needs to be at the minute even if it has a long way to go. People may not agree with the priority but it’s definitely the best way to go about it in terms of business
@@ryzacraft But I don't go into Subway very often anymore because of price and crappy food; not because I find their stores unappealing.
@@shaunpearson7905 their food isn't the freshest but it's definitely not the worst either, if they focused on getting bed food items the prices would likely increase
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In Poland it failed becouse of price you pay per portion. 30 PLN is not a lot, but for that price you can get 3 small KFC buckets from which one fills you as much as a foot long.
1:12 : I love how this guy has a poster of castle 't Steen in Antwerp (Flanders) in his background. Makes me proud to be Flemish! 😁
There is something wrong when your cookies taste better than the sandwiches. Lol.
I totally agree with you. I love subway cookies more than sub.
Just wish they were not burnt all the time.
you ain't lying 😂😂
What? You cant compare a cookie to a sandwich that you yourself choose what goes on it. Thats like me saying a bowl of cereal taste better than pizza
Ur opinion.
It all started when they lied about their footlongs not being a foot long.
Don Cheadle bruh I Measure this shit it’s 11”
Ziggy Doom people want too much on they sandwich so when they wrapped it up and open it’s all smushed and small size . their actually 12 inches 😂😂
@@nyeshabryant1575 Subway admitted their subs were not 12 inches long.
@@hmagnumdongatron3663 omg omg one inch less ohhhh noooooooo
KZheadr get that Minecraft shit outta here
I was a homeless alcoholic for a long time many years ago and sometimes I would get enough money together to buy a $5 foot-long (with as many ingredients as possible!) I would go to the local library where it was warm and eat it out of sight and it felt like I was in heaven!
If you're going to troll and lie on the Internet for attention, make sure you don't call yourself something like "@phatheffer3439" -- you're being *kinda* obvious.
i recently discovered subways just a few months ago and although they are a bit expensive then i've thought, the food's delicious
Why Subway is falling, basically: 1. All subways beings independently owned 2. Too many opened in the same location 3. Not keeping up with trends in the food industry 4. Jared
Way to go, Jaaaaareeed!
“Jared” 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
You forgot Greedy Headquarter.....All they care about is collecting that Royalty Fee...No matter what.
YOU HAD ONE JOB JARED
@@haihai9022 lol
What people want: quality food at a fair price. Now they have neither.
@@MitchMitch77-77 I remember Blimpies from Oklahoma. I think there’s like one left by me. I’m going haha
@@MitchMitch77-77 I remember being really excited to eat there when I was a kid. In fact we did right before we started the drive to move. I actually had it once again like 5 years ago and it tasted similar enough to bring back memories. I’m gonna make the trip soon haha
@@MitchMitch77-77 I’m in Utah now btw so it’s crazy it’s still all across the country
Yep. When there are too may Subways, fast produced foods become like paper, tasteless, and money becomes credit cards, only knows how to say goodbye.
Did they ever? a lot of these types of places lose sight of their main product. At the end of the day its a sandwich! and has always been an expensive one
In India, the Footlong stills costs around $5.
I knew the Deluca Family and had coffee with Fred who was the founder. When his sister took over she was an ultra conservative CEO and should never have been placed in that position, in real life she was cheap. Subway did not change with the times and should have offered a different type of bread roll to keep up with competition, they also allowed too many Subways in a particular area. Their growth in the beginning was mainly due to their cheap entry franchise fees. In my book they still need major change to survive. All subways shops have high labor costs when you consider the cost per sub sale.
“At a time when obesity was rising rapidly in America ” -Every year
Best 😂
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Forreals
Bread that doesn’t taste like styrofoam? Chicken breast that doesn’t make u shit water , fresher cuts of meats
Rising and rapidly are the operative words
Subway’s Rise: Jared Fogel Subway’s Fall: Jared Fogel Subway’s Future: Milad
Hehehe 😂
Yep
They eliminated roast beef!
I live here in Indy and I remember when they raided his home. There wasn't any reporting on the child porn issues then that weekend I was at a Harley Davidson dealership and they had a state police display complete with a k-9 dog. The dog handler was talking and we asked what kind of drugs the dog is trained to sniff for and he said he wasn't a drug or bomb dog, he is a computer technology sniffer. What's that we asked. Well, he sniffs out hidden hard drives and thumb drives like the one he found at Jared's house that was loaded with child porn. The trooper realized he just said something that wasn't supposed to be made public and asked us to forget what he said. And we did, but we instantly knew, Jared was going to be getting free footlongs for quite a long time but he probably wouldn't have the same admiration for them like the Subway footlongs.
@@daf62757 What a nice fictional story
Subway is sentimental to me because me and my older sis would go there to eat like around dinner time, then go get some ice cream. We don’t do that anymore lol.
I think simplicity is why I like subway
As someone who works at subway, every time they test a new menu item they pull it back off a month later. Which only further pisses off customers.
As a fellow subway employee I don’t understand the specialty sandwiches like it’s the same thing as any normal sub but with some specialty topping that would cost an extra 3$
Doesnt tacobell do that too?
I just hate how they had white and wheat flatbread and now they only have artesian which doesn't taste as good. I go to subway for an unhealthy 1000 calorie sub so I expect my white flatbread. its been debunked that subway is naturally healthy so they should make it like any other fast food restaurant and cater to the people too busy to make their own sub. everyone sticks to the same sandwich or rotates between a couple and no one is looking for a new one. everyone has "their" sandwich so new items shouldnt even be a consideration. just makes whats already there better or cheaper
Chase H. McD's has done that so much to over the years.
Mfw they recently introduced the texmex styled sub near me and two weeks later they removed the sour cream and salsa sauces I don't even know what to say
Subway's biggest downfall is obviously theodd1sout leaving
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The odd 1’s out never worked at subway he worked at SOOUBWAY duh 😂😂😂
Alexi Felton true that
Subway meatball subs were my favorite. Some time ago a viral video came out with a subway employee who did a video of himself walking over the food and stepping on it. Animal!
Recently went to a Subway for lunch for old times sake. 10 bucks for a footlong (no sides, no drink) with bare minimum meat. Sure they stuff it with lettuce and tomatoes (to fill it out and make it look bigger) and everything but for 10 bucks the actual meat you get is laughable. Oh but you can pay 3 dollars more to double the meat! At that point you're spending 15 dollars for a sub when you could just go to a sit-down restaurant. Nah.
Bring back the $5 foot long and get people to stop making dry sandwiches.
#1 they don't have toilets. #2 The people that were eating the healthier take aways hate the zombies that live in the city and finally saved up enough to buy a house in the bush. #3 Those same good people learnt great cooking skills and now almost never eat out. #4 While waiting in line no man wants a zombie practically half way up his backside. It was not respectung its true owners the people. So I hope it goes.
@@timothycurnock9162 huh?
@@timothycurnock9162 wat
@@timothycurnock9162 I- Mines has toilets but the rest makes no sense
I got the soggiest bread
It's not the furniture, it's not the music, it's not the wifi, it's not the milkshakes, it's not the condiments it's the price lower the price, it's too expensive
Seriously. I think it's tastes great. Although I found out that their grilled chicken is mostly filler ingredients.
I dunno if it's just the owners of the specific subway near me, but they sell a footlong for £4 and a 6 inch for £2.
Emil Elander no offence, but business is more than price. all those things are used to help justify the higher price. food is most successful at the moment with fast casual.
They can't, it's called inflation lol
creativityfails and bcz of that they will be lost in the game, I ain’t payin no money for such high price, LOWER THE GODDAM PRICE
Just gotta fix that problem of all the sugar in their roles, it's so high their bread is considered a confectionery
You guys should do rise and fall of confetti 😲👌
1. Lessen locations, at least in big cities 2. Bring back $5 footlong
That’s what I’m saying easy fix
I mean they're £5 for a foot long where I love in the UK still ($6.16)
They've started selling Tortilla wraps in my city in India and it sucks. The good old sub was way bettet than this wrapped sh*t.
RJSx p
can’t because inflation
Dude bring the 5 dollar foot longs back and I’ll go there
That really hurts franchise owners.
TC takes money to make money. Franchise owners need to stop being so greedy. Whatever money they lost will be made up for when more people come in.
@@joshyjosh1990 "We lose $1.00 on every sale. How do we make it up? Volume!"
TC then have fun losing customers and operating in the red. If a product is going to be upped in price at least justify it by making it worth the customer’s while. This is why places like Jimmy John’s and Firehouse will become top dog.
@@MuzixMaker lol that made me laugh thanks :)
I live in KC and the subway still has a ton of locations and I enjoy their subs for their bread. Best bread in sub fast food imo
I have been eating subway for a LLLLOOOONNNNNGGGG time and I still like them. One thing I really like about subway compared to other chains like McDonald's is. When you go to a different country for some reason McDonald's food has calorie count and size of the menu and even price changes and in many ways flavor of the food itself is different. Subway on the other hand look and taste exactly the same no matter where you get your sub.
$30 for 3 sandwiches. Casual restaurant prices for fast food.
Dam what the heck are you buying for $30?
MCD0И4LD TЯUMP3T 3 sandwich’s
thats rubbish. what casual restaurant are you spending 10 bucks at that isn't fast food?tardo gamer lol
I can eat 3 times a day for whole week for that much.
in here estonia 3 subs is like 8.50€
You pay more and get little. That's why they're failing.
Ian Hillman Agreed
Earla Weese Na that’s trumps fault
lets delete this comment before we get political
They are very stingy with the meat and Nicole and dime you
My problem with subway was the quality went way down while the prices went way up in my area.
After decades of doing my best to avoid Subway, I have just recently become a happy customer again 🤷🏻♂️ The Boss is friggin good, man
I love how they completely avoided talking about prices yet that's all the comment section is talking about.
Because all chains are inflating prices and they don't want to say that is a problem.
We can all agree that the cookies are the ones that are carrying this dying fast food restaurant
I have to wait 90 days to change my name lol ur right
I like them sandwiches tho D:
I've never been into subway cookies.
The sugar cookies are the best!
raspberry cheesecake cookies!
I think that one of the main problems is that the quallity is not the same in all their stores, for example, here where i live there are 2 subway stores, one on the Beach and one on the mall, the quallity of the food of the subway on the mall is WAY superior then the other one.
my main problem w subway is that stuff tends to taste sour now.
Why didn’t they talk about the fact that it’s so expensive and customers aren’t happy with the prices...
And subs are dangerously close to bread stick thin. Why would anyone pay subway's overpriced glorified bread stick plus when they can get a much bigger hogie at a lower price from anywhere else?
You eat a sandwich, you are still hungry. I payed so much and my hunger is still there...
Because Mcdonalds have the same issue but they're doing great.
Tasos Tsakiris i can get 3 mcdoubles and fries for like 8-9 bucks. A lot of shitty food to fill me up, but I am still filled up. The issue with people today is we are lazy, and can eat more, so subway wont work cause we dont get filled up, and mcdonalds prospers cause its quick, cheep, and fills us up
@@sethlastname6670 I can fill myself up with food cooked at home, 3 times as good and so easy there's no excuse not to cook, unless you don't have an oven, then you have an excuse.
Always loved that meme about how Subway convinced America that eating a loaf of bread was a healthy choice.
That’s exactly what I’m thinking throughout this video
Think some people caught on to that, that’s why they kinda started pushing their salads and added flat bread
Rusty James Lmao Us Americans thinking “Oh yeah eating a loaf of white bread is really healthy”
To be fair, it’s a lot healthier than a Burger and Fries. A sub with chicken and a bunch of veggies is a decent meal.
Eating a loaf of bread is not unhealthy.
I used to love going to Subway, but it's not the same anymore and hasn't been for a long time. The main issues that make Subway suck now: 1) No five-dollar footlongs! That made it easy to go to Subway, especially after a long, tiring work day! 2) Bottom of the barrel staff. They went from having happy, trained staff to mindless drones with no idea how customer service works. 3) Ingredients. The tuna isn't tuna anymore, the veggies look stale, and the bread is rubbery. 4) PRICES. I'm not interested in paying $12.00-$14.00 for a sub. Ridiculous!
#2 you can blame on the public education system.
When I used to go to subway I always noticed these little flyers by the register for an ebook to read. Well the last time I went in to my local subway I looked at the tiny flyer as usual.. and it was for L. Ron Hubbard's dianetics. I haven't been back since.
I didn't even know subway was doing badly. In asia theres literally no other sandwich fastfood chains. Subway is thriving here lol
True although there's indirect competition from local street food, which is often even cheaper. I also know in my country (in Asia) there was a backlash last year when Subway applied for _halal_ certification (because that meant removing pork from the menu). From anecdotal observations the possible resulting drop in patronage doesn't seem to have been outweighed by the additional Muslim customers Subway was probably trying to gain via that certification
@@lzh4950 i wouldn't because i live in Singapore
Isidro Slabs it depends on the location. Fast foods in Asia usually have better menus and options
idk man, i live in asia and subways arent doing so well, mcdonalds is booming tho
oh sehun you know that there are different countries in Asia right?
9...9 dollar... 9 dollar foot looongs... That'll be another 3.00 for a drink and a bag of chips sir.
I work at a subway and I can tell you that's basically true
@DaJanae Williams Yeah that takes me back to that era, kinda funny how Subway was a big thing back then when I was in college, a lot of kids survived on those $5 footlongs
Where I live, it costed me fourty dollars for 2 sandwiches, one bag of chips, and two small drinks for my brother and I’s lunch. Ridiculous.
Bag of air*
9 DOLLAR FOOTLONG IT ISN'T CATCHING ON
The one time I went into a subway where they had music playing it was so loud that when combined with a single elderly couples conversation in the background I couldn't even hear what the server lady was even saying
The problem currently is 100% the prices. It isn’t their menu innovation. Fast food places don’t actually rely on heavy menu innovation. They rely on value, familiarity, and obviously enjoyment/satisfaction. The food itself is already enjoyable/satisfying. It’s, also, food you can eat consistently since it’s just meat and bread. So in itself, the concept should still be very good. But their quality has definitely gone down over the years. And when other competitors offer similar pricing but significantly higher quality execution, you’ll see a fall off. If the quality is worse, and portions aren’t way larger, you have to be cheaper. But subway’s prices have just gotten worse obviously. As they’ve refused to take a step back. Which shows a lack of urgency in their finances and long term plans. So it’s an overall value thing, more than anything else. New tastes you didn’t have before isn’t fixing the value proposition. Either make prices better, or make the execution better. Really simple, and they get that. But again that just shows they don’t care or are experimenting for whatever their long term plan is.
Their quality dropped thru the floor and their prices went thru the roof. Hmmm what could've happened🤔🤔
Yes. Quite the mystery! I think we'll need Sherlock Holmes for this one. Or perhaps Scooby Doo.
Where were you eating?
In Australia after an investigation and staff witnesses Subway was caught underpaying their staff, using many expired ingredients and frozen meats?
@@woah7167 subway
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@Cayden Anderson theyre talking about the rise and fall of their own company and then they realize that it fell.
I love subway! I really think its great for the volume of food you get, as fast food like McDonald’s don’t have that same volume in nutrition in one serving. What I don’t like are the prices… I value their product, but I feel like they charge a bit too much for some of the sandwiches. Its the reason why I end up going to tesco’s or sainsbury’s: I can get ‘healthier’ fast or ready made foods for much less. LITERALLY half the price. They should definitely market to the health conscious I think. I’m quite health conscious about my food and I’m aware that subway still is unhealthy compared to a balanced home cooked meal; but its still a better option than KFC and McD’s because of the warm healthIER options and much more satisfying than the cold £3 meal deal sandwich!
Yeah…don’t eat or work at subway. This coming from a former employee. Veggies are usually fine but we were ordered to serve customers green peppers that were turning brown. Unpopular meats and cheese are shuffled between the baine and the freezer for days at a time, at the very least. We had a fruit fly problem that no one ever mentioned. Finally, I was fired over their intentionally unclear sandwich take-home policy (meaning I was not the first person to fall prey to it at my store), and even worse, very next day they asked me to come back. Stay far away from subway and their management.