No Subway $5 Footlongs In SF, 'Cost of Doing Business' Too High
Chris Roberts NBCBayArea.com Thursday, Mar 29, 2012
The catchy Subway sandwich shop jingle involving a variety of foot-long sandwiches available for $5 doesn't apply in San Francisco.
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.
Customers can still buy the sub of the month for $5, according to an employee at Subway on Market and Castro streets.
Apparently, the city's new minimum wage, raised to $10.24 as of Jan. 1, make $5 footlongs an impossible business model.
Unless you want tuna fish, which is the sub of the month. Yum.
#3738731 - 03/30/1209:43 PMRe: No Subway $5 Footlongs In SF, 'Cost of Doing Business' Too High
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I'm so very glad you qualified this post with words like "Subway" and "sandwiches"...from what I hear, in SF there are plenty of folks willing to give you a foot-long for nothing at all.
I'm so very glad you qualified this post with words like "Subway" and "sandwiches"...from what I hear, in SF there are plenty of folks willing to give you a foot-long for nothing at all.
Actually, as a percentage of state population, you're about as likely to find someone willing to do you for free in Minnesota as you are in CA.
Rank State GLB Population Percentage of State Population population 1 District of Columbia 8.1% 47,651 2 New Hampshire 6.6% 81,561 3 Washington 5.7% 335,964 4 Massachusetts 5.7% 361,898 5 Maine 5.2% 66,295 6 California 5.2% 1,895,792 7 Colorado 5.1% 219,364 8 Vermont 5.1% 31,050 9 New Mexico 4.9% 99,085 10 Minnesota 4.7% 231,215
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#3739072 - 03/31/1201:32 AMRe: No Subway $5 Footlongs In SF, 'Cost of Doing Business' Too High
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that is so retarded. They are still $5 in NYC. And NYC has the highest rental rates. Though you wont find McDonalds dollar menus except for stuff like applepies.
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#3739076 - 03/31/1201:38 AMRe: No Subway $5 Footlongs In SF, 'Cost of Doing Business' Too High
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Originally Posted By: tgas2010
Originally Posted By: Feral
I'm so very glad you qualified this post with words like "Subway" and "sandwiches"...from what I hear, in SF there are plenty of folks willing to give you a foot-long for nothing at all.
Actually, as a percentage of state population, you're about as likely to find someone willing to do you for free in Minnesota as you are in CA.
Rank City "Percentage of City Population" "GLB Population" "population rank" 1 San Francisco 15.4% 94,234 4 2 Seattle 12.9% 57,993 9 3 Atlanta 12.8% 39,805 12 4 Minneapolis 12.5% 34,295 16 5 Boston 12.3% 50,540 10 6 Sacramento 9.8% 32,108 20 7 Portland 8.8% 35,413 14 8 Denver 8.2% 33,698 17 9 Washington 8.1% 32,599 18 10 Orlando 7.7% 12,508 36
Although I'm surprised Miami isn't listed.
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