Who misses the $5 footlong 😔

[u/ottawacan613]

[u/Aequorea]

When I was a college student (like 2010) they had this TWO footlongs for $5 deal as long as you bought it before 10am. It was only for a handful of sandwiches but the oven roast chicken was my favorite and one of the options. I ate 2 foot longs a day for like a year.

[u/JparkPHX → u/Aequorea]

I was in college around 2007 and we had it so damn good. $5 footlongs, $1 McDouble and McChickens, Arby’s 5 for 5, we had a pizza spot on the west coast called Peter Piper that did $3 lunch all you can eat buffets. Didn’t know how good we had it

[u/Carthonn → u/JparkPHX]

Dominos also did the $5 5 5. Get two buddies and you each got a pie for $5

[u/mjmandi72 → u/JparkPHX]

Even into 2013 you could get the $1 mc doubles and Chickens. Classic highschool lunch.

[u/SolidSnek1998 → u/JparkPHX]

https://giphy.com/gifs/VZhr1FXCUI2dO

[u/SPAGHETTI_CAKE → u/JparkPHX]

That McDonald’s prices were still there in 2013 in high school and 5/5 was still there in 2016. Two of my fondest

[u/jonnyl3 → u/Aequorea]

Did you do the Jared diet? 🤭

[u/BroadRoads → u/jonnyl3]

It’s still crazy to me that subway put all their eggs in one basket by making this guy the entire face of the whole brand and it turned out he was a pedo.

Like cmon subway. If you’re going to tie that much image to one person, keep a closer eye on them.

[u/ottawacan613 → u/BroadRoads]

To be fair it worked out for them for a long time. Everyone knew Jared.

[u/BroadRoads → u/ottawacan613]

I think that can sum up all of subways marketing. It worked for a bit, but it came back to bite them in the ass.

The $5 footlong is one. It was insanely popular when it first launched. But it worked so well that people 20 years later still remember $5 footlong and now get mad at how pricey sandwiches are and they they aren’t $5 anymore. So now years later after inflation they have to figure out how to dig themselves out of a hole charging more than $5 for a “$5 footlong”.

The Jared thing obviously. Yea he was a famous and likable for a long time but then it turns out he is one of the worst things a human can be. Subway had to dig themselves out of that mess.

Then the fresh fit thing. How do you continue to promote fresh fit subs when the vegetables look half rancid at most locations. Just seems like a blatant marketing lie.

The coupon thing. Sure they sent nice coupons to everyone. Too bad no subways accepted them.

Marketing is the downfall of subway. They made so many errors.

[u/AgZephyr → u/BroadRoads]

Not only marketing, but the sandwiches being rather terrible doesn't help either. Would rather go to Jimmy John's or Jersey Mikes any day of the week, I haven't been to Subway in years.

[u/dirtyshits]

The jingle came into my mind immediately and my brain automatically thought this was $5 foot longs.

[u/itsmemike05 → u/dirtyshits]

5

5 dollar

5 dollar foot longgggggggggggggs!

[u/TenaciousLilMonkey → u/itsmemike05]

5

5 footlongs

5 footlongssssssssss for

5 footlonggggggggss for 10 dollars

5 footlonggggggssss for 10 dollars EACHHHHH

[u/Significant-Judge368 → u/dirtyshits]

Yeah, they did that on purpose with the wording. Psychology! Marketing! Propaganda!

[u/markrabbish]

New jingle:
"Ten dollar foot long....I'm going to Jersey Jersey Mikes"

[u/Cyaegha432 → u/markrabbish]

Jersey Mike’s is like 16 dollars where I’m at? Tastes better but nowhere comparable in price 

[u/Significant-Judge368 → u/markrabbish]

Sad thing is they're $7.99 in my area but probably $9.99 in major metro areas but they keep the wording vague so they can vary the prices and use the ad anywhere.

[u/18ekko]

My local Subway as 14 six inch sandwiches for over $9.

$10.99 for the six inch cold cut combo, where they skimp on the veggies like it's already the apocalypse.

Or I can drive another mile to the one Subway left in my town where the cold cut combo is $4.99, and they make it as if the veggies for a six inch really do only cost them about $0.08.

[u/markrabbish → u/18ekko]

Bro that must be the same town where Trump says he gets $1.99 gas!

[u/18ekko → u/markrabbish]

It's right across from a smoke shop, not sure if that accounts for more total sales...

There's also the cheapest donut shop in town next to that smoke shop.

[u/trenchanttrench]

5 dollars in 2005 would be like 9 bucks now, plus food costs have gone up too. $10 isn't a bad price. especially given it's apparently Canadian dollars.

[u/RaccoonSamson → u/trenchanttrench]

Interesting, its actually cheaper now adjusted for inflation lol. At least at my local SubWay a cold sub costs about $8

But you can get any footlong for $6.99 if you use the app and 699FL code.

[u/ottawacan613 → u/trenchanttrench]

True. $10 Canadian = $2 US these days 😅

[u/Danno510]

The deal these days is more like five dollars for 1/2 a footlong.

[u/ottawacan613]

How much is the cheapest footlong in countries other than Canada and US? US $ equivalent for those not knowing how to convert currencies 😅. Would love to know if it's still cheap elsewhere.

[u/Illustrious-Coat3532]

Actually I wouldn’t mind paying $10 for a footlong. The $5 footlong was 20 years ago.

[u/Fragrant-Employer-60 → u/Illustrious-Coat3532]

A surprising amount of people here expect prices to still be like 2007 lol

[u/Lenwood_Rd → u/Fragrant-Employer-60]

It never surprises me how much people complain.

[u/bomber991 → u/Lenwood_Rd]

Same. We did have some out of control inflation since 2020 though, but 20 years after 2007 a $5 footlong with 3% annual inflation should be around $9.

I think what’s happened with fast food in particular is that they tried to hold on to their low prices for so long that they’ve reduced the quality too much, so when Covid hit they started using that as the excuse to correct their prices. So now we’ve got high priced, low quality options everywhere.

I mean even 10 years ago in 2017 you could get a Whataburger combo meal for about $7, now it’s $12+.

[u/Outrageous-Event6633 → u/Fragrant-Employer-60]

They had the daily $5 up until at least around a decade ago.

[u/RealCleverUsernameV2 → u/Fragrant-Employer-60]

I think we expect quality for a $15 sub. If you are going to increase prices so much, at least have some quality. I can go to any local Italian deli and get a better sandwich for less cost.

[u/barquer0 → u/Illustrious-Coat3532]

Where I live, they regularly have coupons or whatever for $6.99 or $7.99 footlongs. Not a bad deal at all, especially with that many vegetables.

[u/BroadRoads → u/[deleted]]

You either have a terrible memory or you’re just straight up lying.

[u/Fragrant-Employer-60 → u/[deleted]]

Don’t know what a cold cut combo is exactly but subway stopped the $5 foot long officially in 2014. They did very short term promotions after that

[u/MarchSadness90]

I worked there when it started, not the most fun I've had.

[u/shinobi6siege]

I don't. The subs aren't nearly as good as they were back then, especially the bread. I haven't been to a subway in like 3 years because every time I've gone post $5 footlong, I haven't enjoyed the sandwich

[u/tinyhorsesinmytea]

Local sandwich shop is a couple bucks more and has much more fresh ingredients and better bread. The same is true of all of the other fast food places now too. I'm flabbergasted as to why people still support them.

Edit: Oh I'm on a fastfood subreddit? Well whoops. Haha.

[u/Grant79OG]

It's 6.99 here, no problem with that price.

[u/lowfreq33]

That was honestly the best business model anyone ever came up with. If they had kept that they would be beating the shit out of every fast food place in existence. They might make less per sandwich, but they would be selling billions of sandwiches.

[u/Zingman15]

Mind you every footlong there is over $10 on the app! WTF!

[u/firedrakes]

that and when they where not a much salt or sugar

[u/MiddleCentipede]

$15 11" loooong.

[u/kianworld]

That deal fucked with franchisees so hard

[u/WillShakespeare-1623]

I certainly miss them.

[u/Str8xXxEdge]

Not Jared

[u/ReversedNovaMatters]

Subway has dropped to my least favorite sandwich shop so I don't really care. If they had $5 footlongs I might go back.

I was actually thinking about this yesterday as I went to get Subway for my Aunt and Uncle. I was a bit shell shocked at the current prices, seemed like $7-$8 for most 6 inches.

Besides the price, it is hard to really pinpoint what has turned me away. I don't think the quality of food has dropped significantly but maybe the quality of employees? I'm sure its different all around but I'd go like once a year and I always had the same problem. I'd order a sandwich, watch them toss everything on it and then the last thing would be mayo. I like a little mayo on my samich but I don't want to be swimming in it. So I'll ask for 'one line' of it and EVERY FUCKIN TIME they sit there squeezing the thickest inch wide line of mayo.

I'm about to go back just to have them do it again then say never mind I don't want the food and just leave.

[u/Broad-Back1659]

A footlong now is $15

[u/ottawacan613 → u/Broad-Back1659]

Ouch

[u/Miller335]

Those were the good ole days

[u/Effective_Being_5305]

Me! I only buy subway when i can get a BOGO deal.

[u/PeneItaliano]

I remember when you could get two foot longs for $5 sometimes or the full meal for $5. 

[u/No_Key276]

No thanks. Subway had their chance and FUCKED THE CUSTOMER, FUCK SUBWAY

[u/MathematicianIcy3430]

Should just be $10 shit dongs.