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NO $5 FOOTLONGS DUE TO $10 MINIMUM WAGE
Subway’s signature $5 foot-long sandwich is no more in San Francisco due to the high cost of doing business and the city’s rising minimum wage.
NBC in the Bay Area reports:
The sandwich-making chain stopped selling the five-dollar footlongs in San Francisco due to the “high cost of doing business,” according to SF Weekly.
Signs posted at Subway sandwich shops sadly inform San Francisco patrons — we hear Willie Brown is a big fan — that “all SUBWAY Restaurants in SF County DO NOT PARTICIPATE IN Subway National $5.00 Promotions,” according to the newspaper…
Apparently, the city’s new minimum wage, raised to $10.24 as of Jan. 1, make $5 footlongs an impossible business model.
Anonymous
March 30th, 2012
Make then 6″ and still charge $5. Isn’t that the going rate anyway in San Fran.
Dyrewulf
March 30th, 2012
I stopped going to Subway, period, about six weeks ago. The one next to the grocery store we shop at has some ‘different’ sales, it seems. The sign said “$5 Footlongs” and listed the types for the month. I picked one, and told the lady “I’ll have the $5 footlong (subtype)” She snapped back “That’s only on Thursdays,” which is NOT what the sign says.
Then I remembered – this B____ says something like that EVERY TIME I picked one of the specials. So I walked out, and haven’t been back, and I won’t go back. It isn’t even worth my time to snap a photo of the sale sign and email it to the district manager asking him/her to identify ‘where the hell does it say ‘on Thursdays only.’
I don’t need to argue with people over their own advertising.
reddecaesari
March 30th, 2012
that’s gonna piss off the footlong crowd.
John Bruno
March 30th, 2012
That’s going to put a real burden on Sandra Fluke’s “lifesyle.” But what’s an extra $5.24 when your having that much fun!!!
r3c0n
March 30th, 2012
http://youtu.be/ca8Z__o52sk
Stirrin the B.S.
March 30th, 2012
Hey, when you’re a congressman who makes $190,000 plus benes to die for, WHO CARES how much a footlong costs!
Jarhead Cracka
March 30th, 2012
When the “Occupy” people were calling for a higher min. wage last fall, my counter-argument was this: If everybody at Burger King is making $20.00 an hour, how much will your Whopper cost now?
Cracker-bitch, stfu
March 30th, 2012
Ha ha! They get what they deserve. Subway sucks anyway. They hardly put enough meat on the sandwich.
Noodengr
March 30th, 2012
SARCASM ON ” i think san fran should give folks a tax refund making up the difference between the actually cost of a Subway sub and the advertized cost the people of san fran see on their TVs it is not fair that they get misled and then have to pay more”
SARCASM OFF Isn’t there a verse in the Bible that says ” you reap what you sow”? go ahead and pay for your stupidity folks of sn fran i could not care less
Elmer
March 30th, 2012
How can this possibly be true? Raising the minimum wage only helps people and raises buying power. There must be a mistake.
Annie
March 30th, 2012
Minimum wage aside: you’d better be fluent in Spanish to get any kind of sub at my Subway.
Cliff Weismeyer
March 30th, 2012
“Ha ha! They get what they deserve. Subway sucks anyway. They hardly put enough meat on the sandwich.”
That’s always been my issue with Subway.
They basically make bread sandwiches.
That being said , the next step,of course, for the brain-dead lefties will be to pass a law that Subway still must price the sandwich at $5;price control.
Then Goodbye Subway.
TooMuchTime
March 30th, 2012
Or, as Thomas Sowell calls the minimum wage, The Black Youth Unemployment Act.
Nutjob
March 30th, 2012
When the “Occupy” people were calling for a higher min. wage last fall, my counter-argument was this: If everybody at Burger King is making $20.00 an hour, how much will your Whopper cost now?
@jarhead Cracka
well if they did the math $1.89.
Wonder if the next subway commercial will be, “10, $10 dollar, $10 dollar half a foot looooooooong”.
Cruisin' Cat
March 30th, 2012
SF?
If you’ll just step down this alley, there is an individual who would be happy to offer you a “$5.00 footlong deal.”
Noelegy
March 30th, 2012
And yet they’ll never understand this is the natural consequence of continuing to raise the minimum wage.
Noelegy
March 30th, 2012
For those of you soured on Subway, try Firehouse Subs. They put plenty of meat on their sandwiches, and they blow Jimmy John’s out of the water. AND the chain was started by firefighters, and they do good work for charitable causes for firefighters and their families.
muddjuice
March 30th, 2012
Don’t worry, the government will step in and take control of Subway, saving the day and bringing food to the masses…..
Lerxst
March 30th, 2012
Suck it San Fran…you reap what you sow.
$10.24 minimum wage…sheesh.
scr_north
March 30th, 2012
Kinda tells how thin the profit margins are at Subway. Even at thin margins their subs aren’t very good. Having said that I wish the franchisees luck as they are the ones that created jobs and gambled their fortunes, not like the city hall douchebags that constantly try to buy votes with taxpayor money. The city hall folks now have another great story to tell at the cocktail parties while businessmen are driven into a hiring freeze (which the progs will blame on them) or bankruptcy.
Cynic
March 30th, 2012
It shouldn’t hurt sales too much, Every guy there wants 6″ of beef anyways.