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2024-06-26 Economy

48 Subway restaurants are at risk as franchisee files for bankruptcy - after grim incident at one location

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Posted by Skidmark 2024-06-26 05:50|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top

#1 Her family filed a lawsuit in a Texas court in 2021, which claimed that River Subs failed to provide her with a safe place to work despite knowledge of a substantial risk of violence against her.

I believe numerous Donk city and state administrations are guilty of that immediately when they invoke 'gun control' that basically disarms the law abiding at the hands of criminals.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-06-26 07:01|| 2024-06-26 07:01|| Front Page Top

#2

Use to eat at a Subway 2x a month.
However, 2x in the last 6 months so far.
Mainly because of cost, less meat in the sandwich, and ingredients taste different and less fresh lately.

Which might explain the new encloses popping up in the shops. Which have stainless steel covers now. Thus, hiding the customer view of the ingredients.

One of the best in the area that was usually standing room only at meal times. It closed down due to the new post COVID-19-21 student age staff that were plain rude to certain customers.

Posted by NN2N1 2024-06-26 07:06|| 2024-06-26 07:06|| Front Page Top

#3 I had two bites of a Subway sandwich once. Put the rest in the trash. Haven't been back since.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-26 07:08|| 2024-06-26 07:08|| Front Page Top

#4 Some of the franchisees do a really good job, clean restaurants, good sandwiches and have good people working there.

The operative word here is 'some'.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2024-06-26 07:14|| 2024-06-26 07:14|| Front Page Top

#5 Just like pizza, you are better off at a mom n pop store than a chain outfit.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-26 07:30|| 2024-06-26 07:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Subway is my last option and only if starvation is the alternative.

Posted by EMS Artifact 2024-06-26 09:10|| 2024-06-26 09:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Sonic is even worse.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-26 09:28|| 2024-06-26 09:28|| Front Page Top

#8 I've been to a Subway once in my life. Never liked it.

Posted by Raj 2024-06-26 09:38|| 2024-06-26 09:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Seems a bit harsh without other information. At what point is the business not responsible for the employees not-at-work life? Maybe its a shitty parking lot?

Shows how tight cash is right now. Except I wouldn't reorganize I'd GTFO, especially after this ruling, people losing their shit and shooting employees because a large fry comes with only a medium amount of product at twice the price, and this case sets and confirms precedent.

Cost of turning your employee hub into a bank teller vs. sandwich robot vending machine vs. hitting the beach stress free. Of course, if there are investors wanting to get into the business.

DM finally gets past itself and notices that there is a disturbing trend of chain restaurants closing shop.

Makes me wonder how many mom and pops are on the rocks; the only reason IMHO that coffee shop chain in Philly was mentioned is to shame any owners have the guts to say "I'm not playing this stupid game. I'm out." Seriously, the tone of the article, they way the unionize campaign was described and commented, you know the store were chock full of self-anointed kool-aid haired tackle faces who made customers play Jeopardy, pronouns for $1000.

Honestly given the choice, I'd rather have a robot make my fast food than some tatted'd up snotty crew who can't be bothered to have the lunch rush trash taken out at three in the afternoon.

So. Buy the chain not for its restaurants but for their location. Raze the buildings. In their place, a sandwich making vending machine. One side is pre-order pickup via web, phone, whatever, sign in when entering, pick up sandwich at window via teller box, off you go. Other side is drive up ordering. ChatBox takes your order, its made and ready at the window.

Now here's the hook. Get the rights to Buck Rogers or something, have a little kabuki theater for the drive up customers while waiting on their sandwich, like Twiki is back there making sandwiches. "Give me a Kane, swiss, extra smoked turkey, and easy on the hot sauce." "Be de be de beep, pull on up!"

All systems monitored remotely. At one end is a garage large enough for a service vehicle to pull into and close behind so employee is not exposed, and can be ported so a refer penske or whatever can back up to the entrance and delivery larger resupplies or equipment without outside exposure. Put a turn table in the garage so employee doesn't have to back out, maybe even South Africa Courier the vehicle a bit, and its good until the neighborhood requires a gun truck escort or worse, government has another tax revenue idea.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-06-26 11:14|| 2024-06-26 11:14|| Front Page Top

#10 The franchisee has been running on a razor thin margin, had to close 1/3 of it's shops during covid, and got this judgement, and threw in the towel.
Personally, I think it's a bull$hit judgement.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-06-26 12:58|| 2024-06-26 12:58|| Front Page Top

#11 Yes. Why knock yourself out just to be identified as the "deep pocket?"

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-26 13:06|| 2024-06-26 13:06|| Front Page Top

#12 Which might explain the new encloses popping up in the shops. Which have stainless steel covers now. Thus, hiding the customer view of the ingredients.

Can't argue that.

Also for consideration with today's culture trend, of the "Impulse Control Retarded" of losing their shit and breaking the glass, which would require dumping all the ingredients on account of display glass/plexi/whatever shards. I'm just saying I haven't seen that around -where I live-.

Now I was told, assured, that a business would not suffer because Covid Protocols. No sir re bob.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-06-26 21:13|| 2024-06-26 21:13|| Front Page Top

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