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
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..
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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".
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!
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)
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 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
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
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
The subway guy on TikTok and RUclips is singlehandedly reviving subway. His videos deadass made me go to subway for dinner and im sure im not the only one
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 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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
When I was a kid, my family was struggling a lot that we couldn't eat in restaurants or fast foods outside our home because we had to save money as much as possible. My brother and I wanted to try Subway sandwiches but we couldn't afford them. Years later, when my dad got a job, he would buy sandwiches for us every month. Ever since then I've been very sentimental towards Subway sandwiches because it reminds me of my mum and dad's perseverance who both never gave up after hitting a low point in their life. I hope Subway lasts for a long time, my mum and I really loved their sauces too.
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.
@@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
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$
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
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
If you go to one McDonald's, you've been to every McDonald's. They are consistent if not good. Subway on the other hand varies widely between franchisees. Some of them are skimping on ingredients, or keeping ingredients past their freshness. This is dragging Subway down. The quality of their franchisees nowadays is bad. This wasn't the case twenty years ago.
Japan McDonald's apparently have higher quality than anywhere else, and they also have holiday specials. Downside is, their prices are high, if I recall correctly.
@@eveakane6563 just gave it a quick look, most meals are still under 1000 yen which is £6.50 roughly, pretty good considering, not the cheapest but not exactly the sort of expensive that its noticable over other places
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.
What's wrong with weighing the meat? That's pretty NORMAL in the restaurant industry; it's how restaurants make sure the sizes are consistent every time; which, believe it or not, most customers WANT.
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
@@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.
@@benthead The sandwich itself isn't, no. But then you have to consider transportation, utilities, various disposable items the restaurant goes through, paying workers, and lining Subway's pockets. That last one is the biggest issue, but it's the only one that could take a hit.
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-$14.00 for a sub. Ridiculous!
A-rod88 not really. I worked at subway and the amount of money they make on a footlong is at least twice the amount they pay for the ingredients for each one, sometimes more. Subway is being cheap asf, and it’s costing them.
@@brodyrund8751 bruh are you smokin.. in my country they charge around 8$ for 30cm/feetlong, and if you'd buy the ingredients yourself, it would cost you less than a dollar (assuming you could actually buy the small amount of stuff they even put in there) so for 8$ you'd be able to make like 9-10 sandwiches yourself. And that is from the store, they probably buy them for even cheaper
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.
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.
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
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
@@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
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.
I used to run a Subway restaurant in the mid-2010s. The issues mentioned in this video are basically correct, but there were larger institutional issues as well and some things behind the scenes that contributed to the problems. - Marketing the chain as a "healthy" fast food location really put Subway in a difficult spot. Sandwiches are not really diet food, they're carb-heavy and usually loaded with calorie-rich ingredients like meats and sauces. Submarine sandwiches in particular were designed to appeal to the laboring classes in the big industrial cities of yesteryear who needed something quick, cheap, and filling while on the job. So in order to make sandwiches a reasonable option for health-conscious consumers, you need to basically strip down a sandwich until it's as unappetizing as possible (the recommended flavor options for the listed calorie counts on our subs were basically just oil-and-vinegar and some salt), or really push the "fresh ingredients" angle, which they did. But the industrially-farmed produce that mass-market suppliers use (Hi Sysco! 👋 You still suck!) isn't really that fresh, and at a smaller, lower-volume shop like ours, we ended up throwing out a lot of veggies every week, try as we might. Stores that didn't keep their shipment schedule on point got a bad reputation with customers because they can see the food in front of them and if it doesn't look good, it won't sell. -The $5 footlong was basically the only thing bringing in customers in any serious amount. That campaign started sometime around 2007 or 2008, if memory serves, and lasted until 2015. Over that time, the price stayed the same, but food costs and operating costs went up substantially (pun intended) in the same period. So you end up with a situation where the most popular item on the menu is making you almost no money. So you expect to make it back on selling sides, right? But remember, Subway is marketing itself as "healthy", so customers are less interested in soda, chips, and cookies, which are the main sides they sell and which are all pretty unhealthy. So the loss leader isn't actually driving up profits elsewhere on location like it should. And once they finally quit the $5 footlongs, sales plummeted and they had no other ideas to offer. -The issue of location bloat is a real problem, not only for Subway but for other chains like Starbucks. However, there's a hidden driver for this - regional Subway markets became dominated by individual franchisees who would buy or open location after location and muscle out smaller, individually-run stores. Since the net profit from each store drops as the market gets saturated, it really only pays to operate in bulk. However this also means that each single store is being run remotely and so operating standards slipped and staff got sloppy, management stopped caring as much because each store is more disposable, etc. The stores with the most complaints were the ones being run by bulk operators, but Subway corporate didn't really care because they were still making their cut. This led to a widespread perception from the public that Subway was no longer a quality eatery, right at the moment when its competitors were catching up - which of course hurt the smaller operations even more by proxy. -On top of the above, Subway corporate staff were some of the most unimaginative and downright idiotic people I've ever had to deal with in a professional setting. They refused to develop new products even as franchisees were on our knees begging them. Their idea of a marketing campaign was to swap out an ingredient or two from an existing sandwich and then rename it like it was a completely new item. Customers can be kinda stupid, but not that stupid. Our main contact with corporate was the monthly inspections, which are basically an opportunity for corporate to try to charge us more fees for something pointless like a missing lightbulb. Which leads me to the most important takeaway: If you are planning to invest in a franchise business as an owner, regardless of what kind of business it is - DO YOUR HOMEWORK. Corporate is not your friend. They are there to extract profit from you. Make sure you have a good business plan and talk to other franchisees, and find out if the story that you're being told is actually the truth. Remember - in a franchise operation, all the fixed costs are on your side of the ledger. If you go out of business, you will end up eating the price of the location, the equipment, the labor, etc. Subway is just providing the brand and the advertising. Good luck to all the employees and operators out there. One of my favorite parts of the job were the employees, who were some of the most fun, hardworking and no-bullshit people I've gotten to work with, and who put up with a lot of crap they didn't deserve from rude, spoiled customers and indifferent higher-ups. I genuinely hope that this slump convinces Subway to get its head out from where it don't shine and actually improve their product, but I'm not holding my breath. Even in this video, you can see that they're focusing on revamping the look of their stores (which franchisees, not corporate, will have to pay for!), like anybody gives a shit what color the walls are. There's fundamentally a problem of vision with this company and that's not something that you can solve with a catchy slogan or new posters.
I feel like Subway is going to be in a management textbook somewhere as a case study soon. A shame, as I have fond memories of them. Haven't been to one in years though so I might have to head in to one and see if the Australian stores have gotten bad.
I remember how happy that tuna sandwich with honey mustard and lettuce made me after going to a subway in the ghetto after losing a soccer game and my dad yelling at me in the rain and I was crying but that sandwich and the store made me feel safe and warm and happy I will never forget that mess of emotions memory
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)
Well, yes and no. I'm currently a regional in charge of 10 stores, so I'll be able to tell you exactly why. 1. Getting rid of the 5$ footlong is not causing the decline, because it didn't even jump start the initial success. Yes it definitely boosted the already climbing company, but think of the numbers we're losing now are the extra ones we gained from the 5$ footlong. Think of them as borrowed customers. Yes, we've lost a lot because if that, but we also gained many who got addicted to Subway or just found they enjoyed it. 2. The prices are high. But, they seem insanely high due to everyone being used to 5$. Now don't get me wrong: if I didn't get discounts, I'd almost never pay full price at subway. All the popular and good sandwiches like steak and cheese, rotisserie, strips, teriyaki, etc and near 9-10 dollars. A lot of people still pay it, but even I'll admit I'll see someone get two steak and cheese meals and have it be 24$, and I'll almost cringe at it. I also always expect them to be upset at the pricing, because I know I would be. 3. The quality depends on the store. All my stores get deliveries 3x a week instead of the once a week they said in the video (once is standard but you can do more if you pay more. Which I get my store managers to do so) and make sure every store is clean and with good employees. Quality of any restaurant depends on the managers and their control over employees. As they said In the video, subways tend to steal each other's business because they're so close, so a lot of stores are slow. This causes many employees to become lazy and slow since they're allowed to, which creates the terrible store quality. Not saying it's good, but that's why. Also what creates this is wages. I guarantee you, go into your local Subway and ask for a job. Most places will higher you at near minimum wage. I mean hell, most McDonald's and burger Kings around my area higher at 10$-12$ an hour now. Now again, due to stores stealing from each other and not bringing in much individually, paying employees is a huge chunk out of profits. However it still needs to be done, and of course the better your store, the more it will make, which means the more you pay your employees. It's a very hard thing to balance if a store is barely pulling in money. Now personally I start at 9 an hour and don't let my store managers control employee pay since they always short them. 9 is a high rate to start at subway, but people work better if they're paid better. And better employees bring in more customers, so then their pay isn't actually high anymore.
@@mariapagan1930 Companies flat out refuse to ever believe pricing is a problem. They'll squander $100 million dollars trying to "fix" everything else when lowering their prices a few cents would have solved the problem in the first place. American business is struggling so much because the people that run them nowadays are terrible at it.
allowing as many stores to open as people wanted was a stupid idea, yes they got more franchise fees, but at the end each store made less money so they closed anyway, and subway should have given each franchisee a designated AREA in the contract saying yes if you open here, we can guarantee for the next 5 yrs no new subway will open within say 5 blocks of your store, that way one store is making alot of profit and subway could benefit if they increased their royalty fee seeing how that one store is making a killing financially. just allowing hundreds of stores right next to each other was stupid
In 4th grade, we had to write about a famous person from our state and I, of course, chose Jared Fogle. A few weeks later, we heard a very amusing story on the radio...
@@jeffreyrogers8151 really low cost basic ingredients (iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, olives, peppers, cheese, etc.), basic bread, etc. They need to appeal to both the people who don't care about a higher quality sandwich and just want something decent enough and cheap and also people who don't mind spending more for better quality. Right now, they're not getting enough of either. The sandwiches have gotten pricier while the quality hasn't changed, besides the bread options.
My problem is the price. I can get everything at a super market for the same price and, due to the relative bulk buying of a pack of lunch meat and toppings, I can make several sandwiches, and I do.
@Girondins de Bordeaux You don’t have to cook cold cuts? It’s recommended for older folk but if you’ve got a healthy immune system the deli meat isn’t going to do you in
what? You compare supermarket with "restaurant"? you realize that in order for restaurant to have a business model you have to sell at least 5 times higher than the cost of products. What a stupid comparison. According to that you could say that EVERY restaurant is struggling because you can get products at supermarket at 20% of the price.
@@basedpatriotLT Economy of scale and profit margins? When I buy fries, it’s not just the cost of potatoes, but the hassle of needing to deal with a deep fry at home. When i get Indian curry, it’s so that I don’t need to go buy a dozen spices that I might only use once. Making in bulk is cheaper than making for one. Also, Subway doesn’t do anything transformative. They use bread, a cheap staple, cut up some produce, meat, and cheese, and serve it to you. You can make that in a few minutes, you can’t do that for other restaurants. And no, they really don’t need to massively overcharge on everything. The real profit margins in certain items, like drinks and rice. $2 for a fountain drinks or a side of white rice and it costs 10 cents.
Same, it shot up in such a short amount of time, and idk they hire young kids who barely know what they're doing. I could handle that but last time I went I was baffled by the person serving me, I ordered a toastie and he said it'd be cheaper to do something or other, but I said I didn't mind and the guy just started laughing. Not a small giggle either this guy was in a fit of laughter and wouldn't stop even as he made it and served me, I just don't know why? Quite peculiar tbh, idk if he knew me or something but it was a weird experience. Honestly all I really like is their cookies now and they're so much more expensive then they were a few years ago.
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.
It really makes me sad though. I used to love eating at subway when i was little. Have a lot of good memories with subway. Sad to see them going so far downhill.
I used to as well growing up, while still a student in high school and college. Now that I have a full time job (28 years old) my choices have changed. I look at Subway and I know its not good for me lol. Just more concious of what I eat now. Also it doesnt help that I live in NYC. Growing up, my friends and I ate at Subways sometimes. Its not a hangout spot in your late 20s. But Subway was is affordable. $5 footlong was filling as hell and sometimes you could buy half of it for lunch, and save the other for dinner.
extremely happy to see its fall. always disappointed me with ordinary food but expensive price ( as fast food) would celebrate when Subway is finally dead
@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
They got us all hooked with that $5 foot long tune but let’s be honest every time I go there a foot long cost me $12??? Tf add a drink and it’s legit like $15
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
@@fightfightfightfreedomisaright Yes, because then they wouldn't have to live with the memories of the sick things he did to them for the rest of their lives.
@@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
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
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?
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.
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.
Like 6 years ago I used to work in a Subway, just when the decline started. They changed the ingredients providers for cheaper ones, and on top of that, they made us slice the vegetables and meat super thin. Later, we had to move from one local to another one that was like half the size, much less centrical than the previous one and just a couple of hundred meters from another subway. There was a point when the manager had to delay our payments, and we couldn't argue... because there was no costumers!
Stores are dirty. Staff are rude and typically very short staffed. The food is INSANELY overpriced . Why would you go to Subway when you can go to Freshii for the same thing, but fresh unprocessed cheap dirty meat. Subway screwed themselves by allowing anyone and everyone to open a store with no oversight or quality control
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 used to be obsessed with Subway in the early 2000's, but I stopped going because their ingredients seemed to go down in quality. Not sure if it was because they were cutting costs, but you could really taste the difference.
Same. I used to love going there up until high school. Honestly, the subs just weren’t that good to me anymore. The employees there didn’t always prepare them the best either. I thought jersey mikes and firehouse were better. Quality of the food was much more up to par.
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.
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
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 didn’t mention when they got called out for there “footlong” only being 10 inches, then they fixed it to actually 12 inches -and canceled the $5 footlong
Really Seriously you got a point, I’m not going to argue that; especially because I’ve always felt that they were greedy with there meat. It just makes them look bad when they have Advertisements saying $5 foot long and the ads are literally showing graphics of the length of the sandwich being 12 inches long
#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.
@UC1cqpicMgCLPc4hE5o5Wh8A I have 2 subways equidistant from my house. One of them is really shitty and the bread there just feels like it's more than a week old, and the other location has all the ingredients which taste amazing and fresh and bread feels like it was made today only.
he probably can't because he would not really want to spend millions even billions. And even if he raised the money and he would buy subway that would be really dumb because his channel may die and less views less money and even if he just made money from subway and not social media he would go bankrupt i have traveled a lot in the us and when i go to subway there only 2-4 people inside. No hate i watch his vids.
Idk bout y’all but I’m addicted to the guy who makes subway sandwiches while telling us crazy stories Edit: You think I'm gonna thank u guys for the likes? Nahh think again
How come sushi better than a sandwich? In fact sushi should be cheap as its just a bunch of rice in seaweed with something little extra in each piece. Its cheap. Sandwich includes much more.
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
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
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.
@@IAMMRON dead 🤣
@@DarkZerol
Hindsight is 20/20.
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.
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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
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
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.
@@progressivemusicnepal Horse meat is real meat
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
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
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.
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 😂
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.
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
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
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...
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
me: gets job at subway
RUclips recommended: the rise and fall of subway
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??
RUclips Fangurl the pfp
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
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
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
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
The subway guy on TikTok and RUclips is singlehandedly reviving subway. His videos deadass made me go to subway for dinner and im sure im not the only one
@@thelovingtolerantleft4165 thats not the point...
@@dkwhattouseasusername1012 its my point though😉
@@thelovingtolerantleft4165 ....
Spell realise correctly, you should know your spellings as an adult
@@stef9254 ...it’s a dialect of english
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.
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!
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
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
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?
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
RUclipsr get that Minecraft shit outta here
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.
When I was a kid, my family was struggling a lot that we couldn't eat in restaurants or fast foods outside our home because we had to save money as much as possible. My brother and I wanted to try Subway sandwiches but we couldn't afford them. Years later, when my dad got a job, he would buy sandwiches for us every month.
Ever since then I've been very sentimental towards Subway sandwiches because it reminds me of my mum and dad's perseverance who both never gave up after hitting a low point in their life. I hope Subway lasts for a long time, my mum and I really loved their sauces too.
that's beautiful man
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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.
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.
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
If you go to one McDonald's, you've been to every McDonald's. They are consistent if not good.
Subway on the other hand varies widely between franchisees. Some of them are skimping on ingredients, or keeping ingredients past their freshness. This is dragging Subway down. The quality of their franchisees nowadays is bad. This wasn't the case twenty years ago.
@ I said consistent, not good.
Japan McDonald's apparently have higher quality than anywhere else, and they also have holiday specials.
Downside is, their prices are high, if I recall correctly.
But McDonald's isn't healthy at all. Subway is healthier Alternative of McDonald's probably
I would prefer Subway, Mcdonalds is going downhill rn imo
@@eveakane6563 just gave it a quick look, most meals are still under 1000 yen which is £6.50 roughly, pretty good considering, not the cheapest but not exactly the sort of expensive that its noticable over other places
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.
Milad is basically carrying this company’s fate on his Phone 😂
So true but I love that RUclipsr he’s amazing
speaking facts right here
HE IS MY FAV RUclipsR
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@Bancho literally the only reason I clicked on this video
Just bring the $5 footlong back and everything will be just fine 🤷♀️
Oh and don't weigh the meat
What's wrong with weighing the meat? That's pretty NORMAL in the restaurant industry; it's how restaurants make sure the sizes are consistent every time; which, believe it or not, most customers WANT.
LordofFullmetal wtf are you so pressed about
Youre all painfully stupid.
What meat?
@@LordofFullmetal let people speak for themselves lol
"subway is failing."
Milad Mirg: "hold my sub"
Lol
I was just watching him lol
I was looking for this comment
@emes 🙄
@emes lol
Milad is carrying the whole company’s back! Lol.
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
Honestly the $5 footlongs were what brought me in. Almost every chain has $5 meals in my area
The sandwich is CERTAINLY not worth more than $5.00.
@@benthead The sandwich itself isn't, no. But then you have to consider transportation, utilities, various disposable items the restaurant goes through, paying workers, and lining Subway's pockets. That last one is the biggest issue, but it's the only one that could take a hit.
@@JazzyWaffles every other fast food restaurant has all those expenses yet they are still able to offer better value than Subway
in China,subway is ok but expensive than Mcdonald much
Here in cali footlong will cost u $9.25 which is expensive when u could make one like home only thing i cant replicate is their bread.
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
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-$14.00 for a sub. Ridiculous!
#2 you can blame on the public education system.
Here's an idea Subway: DON'T CHARGE 10 DOLLARS FOR A GODDAMN SANDWICH THAT ISNT AS GOOD OR AS BIG AS IT WAS 10 YEARS AGO. YA DONE GOOFED.
tbar123 that’s cheep
Cheap my ass ill stick with Lee's sandwiches , aka Vietnamese sandwitvhes
tbar123 you’re just being cheap af
A-rod88 not really. I worked at subway and the amount of money they make on a footlong is at least twice the amount they pay for the ingredients for each one, sometimes more. Subway is being cheap asf, and it’s costing them.
@@brodyrund8751 bruh are you smokin.. in my country they charge around 8$ for 30cm/feetlong, and if you'd buy the ingredients yourself, it would cost you less than a dollar (assuming you could actually buy the small amount of stuff they even put in there) so for 8$ you'd be able to make like 9-10 sandwiches yourself. And that is from the store, they probably buy them for even cheaper
Over price, under provide. Cutting corners on the quality and quantity of fillings.
Thats what happened to Quzzino's. They used to be so good.
@@cancel.lgbtq.6892 bruh I remember quiznos had the prime rib sub. That was banging. But then they changed a whole bunch then they closed :/
Can I say they’re scrapping the bottom of the barrel here?
@@cancel.lgbtq.6892 they were never good. Their bread tastes like garbage.
What else would you expect for 5 bucks?
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.
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can’t because inflation
I actually rarely went to subway but whenever I ate a sandwich from their menu, the sandwich was amazing 👌🏼
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 :)
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
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
@@helicopter2992 You're an idiot
Its 7-8.50 dollars for the footlong itself,but its 9.50-13.50 for the meal
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?
It should be called the rise and fall and rise of Subway. Thanks Milad.
"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
Dude help subscribe
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
I used to run a Subway restaurant in the mid-2010s. The issues mentioned in this video are basically correct, but there were larger institutional issues as well and some things behind the scenes that contributed to the problems.
- Marketing the chain as a "healthy" fast food location really put Subway in a difficult spot. Sandwiches are not really diet food, they're carb-heavy and usually loaded with calorie-rich ingredients like meats and sauces. Submarine sandwiches in particular were designed to appeal to the laboring classes in the big industrial cities of yesteryear who needed something quick, cheap, and filling while on the job. So in order to make sandwiches a reasonable option for health-conscious consumers, you need to basically strip down a sandwich until it's as unappetizing as possible (the recommended flavor options for the listed calorie counts on our subs were basically just oil-and-vinegar and some salt), or really push the "fresh ingredients" angle, which they did. But the industrially-farmed produce that mass-market suppliers use (Hi Sysco! 👋 You still suck!) isn't really that fresh, and at a smaller, lower-volume shop like ours, we ended up throwing out a lot of veggies every week, try as we might. Stores that didn't keep their shipment schedule on point got a bad reputation with customers because they can see the food in front of them and if it doesn't look good, it won't sell.
-The $5 footlong was basically the only thing bringing in customers in any serious amount. That campaign started sometime around 2007 or 2008, if memory serves, and lasted until 2015. Over that time, the price stayed the same, but food costs and operating costs went up substantially (pun intended) in the same period. So you end up with a situation where the most popular item on the menu is making you almost no money. So you expect to make it back on selling sides, right? But remember, Subway is marketing itself as "healthy", so customers are less interested in soda, chips, and cookies, which are the main sides they sell and which are all pretty unhealthy. So the loss leader isn't actually driving up profits elsewhere on location like it should. And once they finally quit the $5 footlongs, sales plummeted and they had no other ideas to offer.
-The issue of location bloat is a real problem, not only for Subway but for other chains like Starbucks. However, there's a hidden driver for this - regional Subway markets became dominated by individual franchisees who would buy or open location after location and muscle out smaller, individually-run stores. Since the net profit from each store drops as the market gets saturated, it really only pays to operate in bulk. However this also means that each single store is being run remotely and so operating standards slipped and staff got sloppy, management stopped caring as much because each store is more disposable, etc. The stores with the most complaints were the ones being run by bulk operators, but Subway corporate didn't really care because they were still making their cut. This led to a widespread perception from the public that Subway was no longer a quality eatery, right at the moment when its competitors were catching up - which of course hurt the smaller operations even more by proxy.
-On top of the above, Subway corporate staff were some of the most unimaginative and downright idiotic people I've ever had to deal with in a professional setting. They refused to develop new products even as franchisees were on our knees begging them. Their idea of a marketing campaign was to swap out an ingredient or two from an existing sandwich and then rename it like it was a completely new item. Customers can be kinda stupid, but not that stupid. Our main contact with corporate was the monthly inspections, which are basically an opportunity for corporate to try to charge us more fees for something pointless like a missing lightbulb. Which leads me to the most important takeaway: If you are planning to invest in a franchise business as an owner, regardless of what kind of business it is - DO YOUR HOMEWORK. Corporate is not your friend. They are there to extract profit from you. Make sure you have a good business plan and talk to other franchisees, and find out if the story that you're being told is actually the truth. Remember - in a franchise operation, all the fixed costs are on your side of the ledger. If you go out of business, you will end up eating the price of the location, the equipment, the labor, etc. Subway is just providing the brand and the advertising.
Good luck to all the employees and operators out there. One of my favorite parts of the job were the employees, who were some of the most fun, hardworking and no-bullshit people I've gotten to work with, and who put up with a lot of crap they didn't deserve from rude, spoiled customers and indifferent higher-ups. I genuinely hope that this slump convinces Subway to get its head out from where it don't shine and actually improve their product, but I'm not holding my breath. Even in this video, you can see that they're focusing on revamping the look of their stores (which franchisees, not corporate, will have to pay for!), like anybody gives a shit what color the walls are. There's fundamentally a problem of vision with this company and that's not something that you can solve with a catchy slogan or new posters.
wow this is the most fundamental post ive seen on ages on a ytcomment!
I feel like Subway is going to be in a management textbook somewhere as a case study soon. A shame, as I have fond memories of them. Haven't been to one in years though so I might have to head in to one and see if the Australian stores have gotten bad.
I remember how happy that tuna sandwich with honey mustard and lettuce made me after going to a subway in the ghetto after losing a soccer game and my dad yelling at me in the rain and I was crying but that sandwich and the store made me feel safe and warm and happy I will never forget that mess of emotions memory
This was such an enjoyable comment to read. Hopefully things are better in your world now.
That was so informative thanks for taking your time to write this comment
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)
I can't believe that fingers aren't pointed at the declining quality of the food. It just sucks now and it didn't suck before. The end.
So your telling me microwaved chicken teriyaki for 10.00 isnt delicious haha
That’s why I haven’t eaten there in years. Much better sub options out there. Subway isn’t quality food
It’s a shame too because Subway used to be awesome. It’s an obvious shift driven by corporate greed. Charge more, give less.
Well put, Alan.
Yeah it’s nasty
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
kemp10 chipotle happend
1:Removal of the 5$ footlong.
2:Unjust price rising.
3:Quality of the food went from fresh to junk McDonald's level.
No wonder Subway is dying.
Aparently Subway thinks the answer is remodeling the stores. Lmao
@@rustypudder8836
Companies are always out of touch with reality,no wonder they keep getting bankrupt.
Well, yes and no. I'm currently a regional in charge of 10 stores, so I'll be able to tell you exactly why.
1. Getting rid of the 5$ footlong is not causing the decline, because it didn't even jump start the initial success. Yes it definitely boosted the already climbing company, but think of the numbers we're losing now are the extra ones we gained from the 5$ footlong. Think of them as borrowed customers. Yes, we've lost a lot because if that, but we also gained many who got addicted to Subway or just found they enjoyed it.
2. The prices are high. But, they seem insanely high due to everyone being used to 5$. Now don't get me wrong: if I didn't get discounts, I'd almost never pay full price at subway. All the popular and good sandwiches like steak and cheese, rotisserie, strips, teriyaki, etc and near 9-10 dollars. A lot of people still pay it, but even I'll admit I'll see someone get two steak and cheese meals and have it be 24$, and I'll almost cringe at it. I also always expect them to be upset at the pricing, because I know I would be.
3. The quality depends on the store. All my stores get deliveries 3x a week instead of the once a week they said in the video (once is standard but you can do more if you pay more. Which I get my store managers to do so) and make sure every store is clean and with good employees. Quality of any restaurant depends on the managers and their control over employees. As they said In the video, subways tend to steal each other's business because they're so close, so a lot of stores are slow. This causes many employees to become lazy and slow since they're allowed to, which creates the terrible store quality. Not saying it's good, but that's why. Also what creates this is wages. I guarantee you, go into your local Subway and ask for a job. Most places will higher you at near minimum wage. I mean hell, most McDonald's and burger Kings around my area higher at 10$-12$ an hour now. Now again, due to stores stealing from each other and not bringing in much individually, paying employees is a huge chunk out of profits. However it still needs to be done, and of course the better your store, the more it will make, which means the more you pay your employees. It's a very hard thing to balance if a store is barely pulling in money. Now personally I start at 9 an hour and don't let my store managers control employee pay since they always short them. 9 is a high rate to start at subway, but people work better if they're paid better. And better employees bring in more customers, so then their pay isn't actually high anymore.
@@mariapagan1930 Companies flat out refuse to ever believe pricing is a problem. They'll squander $100 million dollars trying to "fix" everything else when lowering their prices a few cents would have solved the problem in the first place. American business is struggling so much because the people that run them nowadays are terrible at it.
@Bobby Shupinski well I live in Tennessee so not soon
allowing as many stores to open as people wanted was a stupid idea, yes they got more franchise fees, but at the end each store made less money so they closed anyway, and subway should have given each franchisee a designated AREA in the contract saying yes if you open here, we can guarantee for the next 5 yrs no new subway will open within say 5 blocks of your store, that way one store is making alot of profit and subway could benefit if they increased their royalty fee seeing how that one store is making a killing financially.
just allowing hundreds of stores right next to each other was stupid
In 4th grade, we had to write about a famous person from our state and I, of course, chose Jared Fogle.
A few weeks later, we heard a very amusing story on the radio...
Hahaha
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RUclipsninja23 a brave soul
Nilbog I just had to be quirky and different ig 10 year old me was on another level
@@TheQueerSpaghetti thats gotta suck
Simple answer:
Go back to $5 foot long for the OG sandwiches and charge more for more specialty foot long’s like Rueben’s, Cubans, etc.
Also have actual chicken not some filler crap mixed in with chicken
What is an og sandwich?
@@jeffreyrogers8151 if you don't know then are you a Tru subway fan?
Sarah Jennett agreed! ✅🙂
@@jeffreyrogers8151 really low cost basic ingredients (iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, olives, peppers, cheese, etc.), basic bread, etc. They need to appeal to both the people who don't care about a higher quality sandwich and just want something decent enough and cheap and also people who don't mind spending more for better quality. Right now, they're not getting enough of either. The sandwiches have gotten pricier while the quality hasn't changed, besides the bread options.
My dad loved eating at subway, he passed away 3 years ago. Every time it’s his birthday my family and I eat at subway.
That's a nice way to remember him. My dad was a huge Johnny Cash fan. I play Cash music whenever I want to remember him.
I feel so bad
Please tell me when he died...even I'll eat at subway that day
wow cool my dad died of kidney stones to remember him me and my family eat stones on his birthday
@Deep Johnny sorry to hear that may Allah forgive him.
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.
Bring back 5 dollar footlong and I’ll shop there 3 times a week
No u wont
fr a cold cut sub is like $8 and some change now where I live its ridiculous
I can get a footlong cold cut meal for like $6
Yes true. Stopped going there after they stopped the five dollar footlong. If I pay seven dollars for a sandwich, I have other options.
it was never a FOOT long
“At a time when obesity was rising rapidly in America ”
-Every year
Best 😂
😂😂
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
My problem is the price. I can get everything at a super market for the same price and, due to the relative bulk buying of a pack of lunch meat and toppings, I can make several sandwiches, and I do.
And it tastes better more often than not. subway meats often taste soulless. I could see getting good soft loafs as a bit harder for some, though.
@Girondins de Bordeaux You don’t have to cook cold cuts? It’s recommended for older folk but if you’ve got a healthy immune system the deli meat isn’t going to do you in
what? You compare supermarket with "restaurant"? you realize that in order for restaurant to have a business model you have to sell at least 5 times higher than the cost of products. What a stupid comparison. According to that you could say that EVERY restaurant is struggling because you can get products at supermarket at 20% of the price.
@@basedpatriotLT Economy of scale and profit margins? When I buy fries, it’s not just the cost of potatoes, but the hassle of needing to deal with a deep fry at home. When i get Indian curry, it’s so that I don’t need to go buy a dozen spices that I might only use once. Making in bulk is cheaper than making for one. Also, Subway doesn’t do anything transformative. They use bread, a cheap staple, cut up some produce, meat, and cheese, and serve it to you. You can make that in a few minutes, you can’t do that for other restaurants.
And no, they really don’t need to massively overcharge on everything. The real profit margins in certain items, like drinks and rice. $2 for a fountain drinks or a side of white rice and it costs 10 cents.
Same, it shot up in such a short amount of time, and idk they hire young kids who barely know what they're doing. I could handle that but last time I went I was baffled by the person serving me, I ordered a toastie and he said it'd be cheaper to do something or other, but I said I didn't mind and the guy just started laughing. Not a small giggle either this guy was in a fit of laughter and wouldn't stop even as he made it and served me, I just don't know why? Quite peculiar tbh, idk if he knew me or something but it was a weird experience. Honestly all I really like is their cookies now and they're so much more expensive then they were a few years ago.
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.
It really makes me sad though.
I used to love eating at subway when i was little.
Have a lot of good memories with subway.
Sad to see them going so far downhill.
I used to as well growing up, while still a student in high school and college. Now that I have a full time job (28 years old) my choices have changed. I look at Subway and I know its not good for me lol. Just more concious of what I eat now. Also it doesnt help that I live in NYC. Growing up, my friends and I ate at Subways sometimes. Its not a hangout spot in your late 20s.
But Subway was is affordable. $5 footlong was filling as hell and sometimes you could buy half of it for lunch, and save the other for dinner.
extremely happy to see its fall. always disappointed me with ordinary food but expensive price ( as fast food)
would celebrate when Subway is finally dead
The Ultimate Slayer still bomb ass
The Ultimate Slayer same here
@@sebastianvette1 stop being a hater
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
They got us all hooked with that $5 foot long tune but let’s be honest every time I go there a foot long cost me $12??? Tf add a drink and it’s legit like $15
Robbie Starduzt 😂
Stacy Vega it’s so damn true it’s almost as much as a steak 😂😂😂😂
Robbie Starduzt facts lmao
Because the $5 footlong doesn't exist anymore
s oh really? 🙄🙄🙄 I guess I should look back and see where I said it was still $5 just comparing the price Jump numbnuts!
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
One can put a little bit of the blame on Jared.
what a perv he is
@@fightfightfightfreedomisaright Almost undoubtedly, yes.
Don't let jared near your foot long!!! He graduated from cosby university!!
@@fightfightfightfreedomisaright Yes, because then they wouldn't have to live with the memories of the sick things he did to them for the rest of their lives.
@@fightfightfightfreedomisaright possibly
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
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.
In India, the Footlong stills costs around $5.
Fogle ended his career the way he began it: trying to get into smaller pants.
oh no
GG Respect
And I oop
:-[
Loooooooooool
Everyone really knows the reason is when they stopped selling the $5 foot long. Went from $5 to like $8 in a year, put me of real quick.
Same. I went in one day and realized they didn't do the $5 footlong, I immediately turned around and left.
Where I live the 6-inches are like $5.50 now lol
@FINN ROLSTAD Thank the liberals. Its called inflation, soon a bottle of water will cost 5 dollars.
@@Pax_Mayn3
"LiBaTaRDs ePiC OwNEd!!!1! 😂😂😂😂🤩"
Thank you Mr. Politics for bringing shit up where it doesn't make really need to be.
I use to eat subway most day at work then when the prices went up i was like what... Now I only buy it once in a blue moon and I'm from Australia
I like subway but 10 bucks for a sub is ridiculous.
Fun fact: subway on third world countries is actually cheaper than in the US
It costs around 3 dollars in Brazil :)
@@lucascarvalhodeaquino4147 Oh wow, that's awesome.
However I live in Canada and it's like $10-15 a sub
Lucas Carvalho de Aquino verdade! Mas isso seria uns 8 reais
@@lucascarvalhodeaquino4147 eu nem sabia que o subway era caro nos outros países ksks
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.
IS it just me, or does subway today taste less good than it did in like 2010. I swear to god something changed
I totally agree. There is something off.
They changed their bread recipe...
Like 6 years ago I used to work in a Subway, just when the decline started. They changed the ingredients providers for cheaper ones, and on top of that, they made us slice the vegetables and meat super thin. Later, we had to move from one local to another one that was like half the size, much less centrical than the previous one and just a couple of hundred meters from another subway. There was a point when the manager had to delay our payments, and we couldn't argue... because there was no costumers!
The Quality changed most definitely
It does. Back then, the sandwiches tasted fantastic. Nowadays they are dry and bland, not to mention they don't offer honey oat bread anymore.
Stores are dirty. Staff are rude and typically very short staffed. The food is INSANELY overpriced . Why would you go to Subway when you can go to Freshii for the same thing, but fresh unprocessed cheap dirty meat.
Subway screwed themselves by allowing anyone and everyone to open a store with no oversight or quality control
Agree there's certainly a whole lot of dirty scumbags working in and owning them
@Mario Lisa theres a certain group who have predominantly flocked to be subway franchisees. Look it up.
@Mario Lisa yea same. The problem for me would be the price
@@johnsmith-wx5fb Can you please tell me what to search up exactly? I'm interested.
Cuz the one time I had freshii I got food poisoning:((
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 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 used to be obsessed with Subway in the early 2000's, but I stopped going because their ingredients seemed to go down in quality. Not sure if it was because they were cutting costs, but you could really taste the difference.
That was a big problem with the $5 footlong - there's been a lot of inflation since the 2000s, but the price stayed the same
I think it's all the other chains that improved the quality of their ingredients. Subway just stayed the same.
They also started cutting how much cheese they added and severely cut how much ingredients they added before they started charging extra.
Subway has the cheapest ingredients around
Same. I used to love going there up until high school. Honestly, the subs just weren’t that good to me anymore. The employees there didn’t always prepare them the best either. I thought jersey mikes and firehouse were better. Quality of the food was much more up to par.
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.
They became greedy, got rid of most of their deals, and lost a lot of customers.
Mikhael they’re are so expensive and it’s not even worth it in the end.
It’s not that easy though
can make your own footlong for a 1/5th of the price
exactly
@@chubeviewer actually, yeah.. in the long run it would be cheaper to buy the ingredients from the store.
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
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
They didn’t mention when they got called out for there “footlong” only being 10 inches, then they fixed it to actually 12 inches -and canceled the $5 footlong
Lol that's not true at all
Who cares in the bread is short and wide you get the same amount of toppings regardless.
Really Seriously you got a point, I’m not going to argue that; especially because I’ve always felt that they were greedy with there meat. It just makes them look bad when they have Advertisements saying $5 foot long and the ads are literally showing graphics of the length of the sandwich being 12 inches long
Hugh Jaboner what do you mean ? This actually happened sir
I don't go to subway at all right now. Even if they brought back 10in 5 dollar subs, I'd be their number one fan.
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
I think simplicity is why I like subway
I haven’t craved the taste of cardboard in a while and honestly forget they even existed.
Daniel Iles - Small Business same. 🤢
Haha
Keto diet?
@UC1cqpicMgCLPc4hE5o5Wh8A I have 2 subways equidistant from my house. One of them is really shitty and the bread there just feels like it's more than a week old, and the other location has all the ingredients which taste amazing and fresh and bread feels like it was made today only.
@theytoookourjobs subway suppository..😂😂😂 id get on board with that..
2030: Milad, Subway CEO.
Milad better not do anything to kids
@@varunsrivastava9748 wdym
@@zuhairmustafa8234 watch the vid
@@amirnuriev9092 Nhai
he probably can't because he would not really want to spend millions even billions. And even if he raised the money and he would buy subway that would be really dumb because his channel may die and less views less money and even if he just made money from subway and not social media he would go bankrupt i have traveled a lot in the us and when i go to subway there only 2-4 people inside. No hate i watch his vids.
$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€
This was a very "well- done" video, no pun intended. 😆
Idk bout y’all but I’m addicted to the guy who makes subway sandwiches while telling us crazy stories
Edit: You think I'm gonna thank u guys for the likes? Nahh think again
@Kim Jong-un Yep him...The only reason I am even watching this video
Honestly he makes me want a sandwich from subway-
You mean Milad mirg
ahhh and dylan lemay
😂 y'all
Sandwich $6.99, hey would you like a cookie and Coke? Yes Please. Your total $17.99
Hahahah
So true
Is this only in the US. Cause in the UK its the equivelent of $10 for everything.
Exactly! I’d never eat there again
lmaooooo
Exactly...
They sell you a homemade sandwich at the price of a sushi dinner.
@J. C. thats cause they micro-wave it and tell you its toasted
How come sushi better than a sandwich? In fact sushi should be cheap as its just a bunch of rice in seaweed with something little extra in each piece. Its cheap. Sandwich includes much more.
I pay £5 for a footlong, granted its like a 25/7 deal it's not bad at all.
@@unoriginalhazard I'll try to make my own sub sandwich at home for the same price and see how it tastes like compared to subways own
@J. C. The additive ada was in most breads and pastas. Subway stopped using it in 2014 due to public pressure.
Subway is now the same cost as places like Jersey Mike’s. As a customer if I’m paying almost $10 for a sandwich I’m not getting it at subway.