why the FUCK is subway so expensive?

>20 dollars is too much for me so I gotta make a thread about my feigned outrage even though I am well off.

because you're at an airport or some other retarded place where they markup the food 100% because they have a captive consumer base. waddle down to the mcd's and take a picture of that menu too.

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>>21417816
you’re a living retard. these specialty named sandwiches from subway are actually this price. they are trying to compete against real sandwich shops that charge prices like this. but it’s subway

everything is more expensive after bidenflation
were you asleep like he was the past several years

>>21417826
>nondescript blubbering
no dude. I live in one of the highest cost-of-living areas in the US, these are not prices that exist outside of special locations (airport, events, and such).
>b-but
but nothing, jiggle yourself to the mcdonalds and get me that menu pic

>>21417804 (OP)
Why would you ever go to subway anymore? You basically get 90% bread and when you ask for more veggies they don't give you shit

>>21417804 (OP)
its the dying scream of a dying chain that has lost relevance. mark my words in the next decade jimmy johns will take over and subway will be a thing of the past. they have already opened up like 3 in my area recently and a bunch of subways have shut down.

>>21417863
I’ve never seen someone younger than 50 go to a jimmy johns.

>>21417867
where the fuck do you live, boca raton?
I live in a college town and jimmy johns is the only place the students go to

>>21417826
yeah i havent been in Subway in like a decade and i was considering it recently (thanks ck shills) but then i saw the menu has "numbered" sandwiches now, with funny names like a local deli.... uh huh nobodys buying that bullshit. and my old goto sandwich isnt even on the menu anymore

it all ended with the end of 5 dollar footlong, its over

>>21417867
Ok boomoid

I like subway because it's fresh and I support Jared.

Subway: eat fresh!

>>21417804 (OP)
>rely heavily on a $5 deal for decades
>have a literal pedophile as their spokesperson
>all goes to shit when inflation hits and their spokesperson goes to prison
subway is the corporate embodiment of JUST

>>21417896
They don't sell sandwiches, they sell franchising licenses.

>>21417903
And the franchising licenses are just paid H1B slots.

>>21417863
>jimmy johns
jersey mike shits on yimmy yohn

because i do in fact already own bread and i can already put other food on top of my bread without paying an indian to scratch his asshole while he makes it for me

>>21417925
we'll see for how long since they were bought out by private equity which will likely cut costs across the board

>>21417942
jimmy johns is not bad either. my main gripe with them is the sandwiches have stupid ass names.
i want to order an italian cold cut sub, not a fucking Joey's Homewrecker or whatever the fuck they decided to call it.

>>21417951
#9

>>21417925
Jersey Mike's has a buy one get one free deal in perpetuity near me but whenever I order it, they just cancel the order

All fast food is expensive which makes it not worth it now. It was always unhealthy slop that won't blow you away flavour wise but the appeal was it was cheap and quick. Now they're not cheap, and they take forever as the outlets now have to deal with making orders for delivery at the same time, doubling the work load with now half the shift workers they had 10 years ago.

So yeah, fast food isn't worth it, may as well get something decent for the same price.

>>21417804 (OP)
They're at the stage of corporate businesses where admin, mangement and HR costs are more than actual product costs. So suddenly your sandwitch costs double because HR women, fat incompetent balding middle management and "sorry we don't have enough chairs" admin have to raise their families
Only an organisational culling can save them now

>>21417925
it did until (((blackrock))) bought them out

jimmy john's is crazy expensive too

I had no idea how good I hate it like 10-15 years ago

$10,000/y for food.
That's more than my entire living expenses.

for less than the cost of a footlong "The Beast" you could get 21 McChickens which you will enjoy more

subway has always been disgusting and im 33. even in its heyday in the 2000s, it always tasted like shit, shitty bread with a shit ton of shitty vegetables to cover up the lack of meat. always liked quiznos infinitely more. and now with chains like jimmy johns and jersey mikes, i like them way more than i ever liked subway too. never understood how it got so popular.

>>21417951
You're thinking of Moes, the burrito place. Jimmy John's has a sub called the Pepe which is pretty based. Also just order on the app and you don't have to say anything.

>>21417804 (OP)
GO BACK

>>21417804 (OP)
Two reasons:
1. Bidenflation
2. Private Equity owners trying to squeeze last bits of profit from chain before it's eventual death.

The 2nd is why fast food in general is up compared to the market. Private equity is trying to squeeze as much profit out of the chains before the chains go tits up thanks to private equity fucking everyone over.

>>21417840
America used to mean something...

>>21417804 (OP)
All fast food got more expensive at an accelerated rate in the past 5 years due to the mass-adoption of delivery apps (Doordash, GrubHub, etc.)
The apps charge a percentage of all food sales delivered through them, so companies had to increase their prices to maintain their margins.
And they're contractually barred from charging differently through the apps than in store, so even if you walk inside or go through the Drive-Thru, you're subsidizing the Silicon Valley rentseekers.
>inb4 some troglodytic fucking subhuman says "yeah well I don't use the apps" because they can't fucking Read

>>21420349
>Bidenflation
>t. 47 years old with a penchant for drinking three beers for breakfast

>>21420349
ok but CornPop was Real tho

>>21417804 (OP)
You have to use the app or coupons they mail you. Three footlongs for $24 isn't that bad.

>>21417804 (OP)
Have you tried making a sandwich? Half a pound of deli meat is $5 or $6, that's packaged store brand.

>>21417867
The last time I went to Jimmy John's was when they had the yearly free sandwich day (I wouldn't have been older then about 25), and it wasn't worth much more than what they charged me. For me, it's either Potbelly or Firehouse.

>>21421205
>Muh private equity
I've been seeing this buzzword a lot the past year or so. Who do you think funded these businesses before "private equity?" They have always answered to shareholders and money lenders and other interested parties. Fo you think those people are any more generous than your private equity boogeyman?

>>21418415
Nah they just keep raising prices because wall street would throw a fit if they miss the 5% growth target.

>>21417834
So when is Trump gonna lower the prices since the president can apparently change them

>>21417863
The Jimmy Johns in my town closed but we have 4 Subways, make it make sense

>>21421372
He already is.
Fast food went down a few $, I can get 30 eggs for the price of 18 from just last year.

Zion dion's economic rape fest..part one

>>21418415
Yeah that's not a thing
Name 1 major company that actually had this happen and provide a source
Come on business boy

>>21421318
"private equity" is a name for specific kind of "investors" that keep buying up companies, cutting costs, loading them up with debt and then dumping them to crash and burn