Subway Kills Five-Dollar Footlongs in S.F. Due to 'Higher Cost of Doing Business'

Fuk10inchfootlongs

Fuk10inchfootlongs...A lawsuit about short sub caused us all to pay another dollar for a bullsh*t sandwich worth about a $1.46 worth of bread and processed meat. Thank you EPA...!;~{{

alyciamoore

Fine by me. If they're not willing to pay their employees a "liveable" wage and still offer reasonable deals to the public as they do for the rest of the nation - then I won't be a continued customer. There's too much good food in San Francisco anyways, Subway is only a last minute desperate attempt when there's nothing else in the vicinity.

They really should be paying their employees $14-$15 an hour to compensate for the ridiculously high cost of living. And for those that are like "But they're just making sandwiches!!1" - take a look at In N' Out [California fast food chain]. Delicious burgers that are under $5 and they start all of their employees at $15 an hour (Even the burger flippers) and gives full health benefits. The better you treat and pay your employees the happier they'll be and the more productive they'll be.

Adamhanson90

How did this go from talking about subway to all of you retards arguing over the dumbest shit. All of you are just as dumb as the ones your trying to insult and you all need to stfu cuz internet fights are for panzy bitches who only have the balls to say something when the other is miles away.

In the last 18 months, the minimum wage in SF has increased 3%. Commercial rents in SF have increased 30%. Which of these is doing more to drive up the cost of doing business?

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but the 5 dollar sucky sucky in Chinatown is still available ... right???

Elizabethfrantes

When I moved to SF there were less than a dozen fast food places total in the entire city. We had lots of great food from delis and we didn't eat out of trucks. Everyone could afford to sit down and eat off china.

jdubya_az

Ha ha San Fran! Your stupid socialist ideals, Orwellian-Nanny state control of businesses to satiate your foolish socialist ideals, and you morally bankrupt concept of sanctuary to people who could care less for the life of other individuals has now left you to this:

Control of minimum wage for your precious crap infested jungle of transients and drug infused maggot bags.

Stay classey! I will not visit that fecal smear ever again.

bigg b

It seems like you might have some problems with emotional development. Like, that it's been stunted.

<< Work at home, $55/h, link

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled

joseph wysocki

I LEFT CALIFORNIA YEARS AGO, THE PEOPLE ARE SHEEP TO MANY LIBS RUNNING THE JOINT AND TO MANY SHEEP JUST FOLLOW THEY GET WHAT THEY PAY FOR.,FLORIDA IS THE PLACE TO BE.

The_Pony

You and Florida deserve each other. - ex-Floridian living in SF for 15 years now.

bigg b

I take you more seriously because you write in all caps.

skisly

florida?

skisly

Florida, where innocent 8 y.o.black kids are shot on their front porch by marauding bands of hyper armed white men! I don't think so!

skisly

I was just excited to use "hyper".

Here's a real question? Is it probable that the MSM is truthful in all else?

CanofSand

Forgive us if Leftist-mocking sarcasm is hard to detect. They're self-parodying these days; it's hard to tell the difference.

skisly

Yes, Martin case.

Sarcasm. My version only slightly worse than the professionals, seen this weeks People magazine? Think "Duke LaCross".

Silly

Seriously? Are you talking about the Martin case? If so, you are horribly uninformed. Not 8 years old, not shot on front porch, no "marauding bands", not "hyper armed (unless you consider a single pistol registered for CC to be CRAZY DANGEROUS), not a white man, etc.

Please tell me you were speaking of another case that only you know about.

LuisArroyo

Typical liberal San Fran. Make it impossible to open, let alone run a business without having to charge high prices to break even.I think the next step will be Subway closings all over San Francisco.Or even a complete exit. Of course THAT is'nt likely. They'll keep the most busy ones.

smmmmg

Your an idiot

The_Pony

Yay! Screw Subway if they can;t pay a living wage in SF.

Charles Martel

San Francisco is a shit-hole anyway.

the_dude

Frisco is for gays anyways. Would you want some gay making your $5 sandwich??? I know I wouldn't....might catch some gay disease like gay bowles syndrome or something. Yuk!

davboz

How is this a slam on Subway? Of course it isn't. To the intelligent it shows the price paid by fascist liberals for being in denial of free(er) market concepts and that we are in a fight to allow them to regain dominance in this looney-run, New-Democratic attempt at imposed "utopia".

Kevin Kwok

If they get rid of the $5 foot longs they will see a major decrease in sales then they will REALLY have a much LARGER problem in paying wages.

Noah Zark

Are you advising Subway that what they would lose selling footlongs for $5 they will make up in volume?

If so...you're a typical moonbat!!

Ya see....if they have a larger problem in paying wages, Subway will lay off people. Or maybe close up shop entirely. They are not in business to ensure that anyone holds a job, at any wage. They're in business to make money, not lose it.

Get it?

The_Pony

Can't you comment on the weekly in your town? Oh yeah, there isn't one.

CanofSand

People who go to Subway usually buy one sandwich. ONE. You can't even argue that the $5 footlong would be a loss leader -- if you even know what that is, and I've no reason to believe a business illiterate like you does (unless you Wikipedia'd it just now). If they aren't making a profit, then IT'S NOT WORTH SELLING. If that means they attract fewer customers, I guess that's just how it's going to have to be and maybe they'll have to FIRE SOMEONE because you IDIOT SAN FRANCISCANS don't know anything about economics.

The_Pony

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Aaron Mueller

First sentence. Logic fail.

jeromy6979

http://www.newcheapmagazines.c... has 5 dollar magazines

Anon

The first sentence in this article i read and I saw that the person who wrote it needs fired.

"It seems you can have the nation's highest minimum wage and a $5 footlong -- but you can't have them both. "

Replace the "and" with an "or".

Joe Eskenazi

Anonymous pedant --

Your sentence would have worked better than mine. Mine depends on a loose definition of the word "you."

When railing for my firing over poor grammar, it'd be better if you didn't structure your sentences like Yoda while leaving out a verb or two.

Best,

bigg b

He's right, though. The sentence makes no sense. And I can't figure out what the "you" has to do with anything.

Joe Eskenazi

Anonymous pedant --

Your sentence would have worked better than mine. Mine depends on a loose definition of the word "you."

When railing for my firing over poor grammar, it'd be better if you didn't structure your sentences like Yoda while leaving out a verb or two.

Best,

Joe Eskenazi

Anonymous pedant --

Your sentence would have worked better than mine. Mine depends on a loose definition of the word "you."

When railing for my firing over poor grammar, it'd be better if you didn't structure your sentences like Yoda and leaving out a verb or two.

Best,

jobewan

Good business is where you find it, which for Subway is apparently, not in SF.

Darkproduct9962

who cares wahhh now all the gays cant get a footlong get over it

Kevin Kwok

This is horrible! =(

Denis Drew

The $10/hr minimum wage hurts San Francisco fast food stores -- only -- because San Francisco is so affluent that raising the minimum wage doesn't raise demand at the same time. In my more typical Chicago middle class neighborhood a few years back, a quick rise from $5.15/hr to $8.00/hr saw business in my local McDonald's visibly pick up (others agreed with me) mostly in the Mexican end.

A nationwide jump to $15/hr (doubling!) would add all of 3 1/2% inflation* (about what we grow every two years, normally!) and give half the country a raise -- a good time to invest in McDonald's.

http://ontodayspagelinks.blogs...

Anon

You cannot create demand where there is none. I think it breaks down to somewhere around 95% of the US population works above their local minimum wage. Wages are naturally rising as the dollar becomes worth less and the demand for labor increases.

All increasing the minimum wage does is cause the young to lose their jobs (if they get one at all) and make the poor feel less impoverished even if, ultimately, their financial situation didn't change.

Another way to look at it. I have $900. You have $100. The wages are artificially increased. Now I have $1800 and you have $200. Did the situation really change? No. Now that first $100 is simply worth half of its original value.

Ianbiassed

This is a gimmick to cry and moan about the "highest minimum wage." Yes, it's higher than say, Peoria, IL, but guess what? This is the most expensive city to live in, has the highest rents, and so on. EVERYTHING is going to be pricier here, and it's not like people are living like kings on the "highest minimum wage." Also, McDonalds still has the dollar menu, so clearly they figured out a better way to do business and keep the discounted goods. Hmm.

Jangoonow

If you can't afford to live there, then you can't afford to live there. Move out to somewhere with better opportunities. My great grandparents came over from Europe a hundred years ago; my grampa moved halfway across the country with seven children. And John Steinbeck's Okies moved to California and made the state what it used to be, before the socialists took control. There are neighborhoods in my area in DC I'd like to live in, but I'm not complaining that I don't have enough wealth to live there. So what I have to say is work hard/ smart, make a living , and move up like the Jeffersons. Enough said. And I know that DC has a high cost of living. When I worked for DC Parks and Rec, I had co-workers with children who were making out just fine on a $9.50 an hour lifeguard jobs- live with boyfriend/girlfriend/ parents/ roommate. And they have disposable income to boot- order out for lunch, new phones, etc! So if you're able-bodied, get moving. Work harder, if you need to. Make smart choices with your money.

Eric Krietlow

Would we all live like kings if we were granted a deliciously cool $1M/hour?

If you can answer that with any sort of intellectual honesty, you'll know why you're digging your own hole with any sort of minimum wage, much less a 25% higher one.

backwater83

I am actually writing from Peoria, Il., and am amazed that you can't see the connection that you've just made here. Why do you suppose that the cost of living is so high in S.F.? It's because you ass holes are inflating your own economy by voting your minimum wage to over ten dollars per hour. Seriously? 10 dollars per hour...to put french fries in a grease vat? You people get everything you deserve. I can see the mentality of S.F. every time I look at what's going on on Capitol Hill. You are the one's responsible for continually infecting the rest of this country with Nancy Pelosi.

bigg b

But who are the "one's" responsible for the army of enraged right-wingers constantly commenting on every Web site on Earth with bad spelling and grammar?

There are valid arguments to be made against the minimum wage (and for it, too). Why not just make those arguments like sane people? Why do you have to get all emotional and upset about it and call everyone who disagrees with you a "socialist" and "libtard" and so forth, like children? Why do you not have any control over yourselves?

WOSG

This is what the culture of greed of the working class has done, and the politicians who cater to them has done. Who does this hurt? The homeless and poor, whose food stamps can't be stretched as far during the month, when spent here. That's right, 99% EXCEPT the homeless... or it's not the job of the working class to care about the homeless. Stick that social concern, along with the taxes and every other burden on the middle class.

Subway should've refused to open there. Let that nasty place be the hell hole it wants to be.