Will some fast food chains become the next Blockbuster?

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Idiotron said:
Subway is definitely going away.
You want to know how well they're doing?
Here's how many restaurants they closed over the last few years:
2016 - 357 locations
2017 - 866 locations
2018 - 1108 locations
2019 - 996 locations
2020 - 1601 locations
2021 - 1043 locations
2022 - 571 locations
2023 - 443 locations
2024 - 600 locations

They'll keep this trajectory up for another few years and they'll go bankrupt.
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5 dollar footlongs were both the best and worst idea they ever had. They sold like crazy from 2008 - 2012 or so, and kept the ship afloat, but when food costs made a small loss leader into a huge loss, they jacked up their prices, and now the same sandwich is $15, and people simply won't pay that for a shitty sub, especially when there are far superior options at the same price point. People got used to a $5 footlong, and even though it's closing in on 20 years since they started that promotion, everyone got used to that being the price, and now asking them to pay 3x a much just won't fly.

Hiring and protecting a literal pedophile probably didn't help matters either...
 
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Idiotron said:
Subway is definitely going away.
You want to know how well they're doing?
Here's how many restaurants they closed over the last few years:
2016 - 357 locations
2017 - 866 locations
2018 - 1108 locations
2019 - 996 locations
2020 - 1601 locations
2021 - 1043 locations
2022 - 571 locations
2023 - 443 locations
2024 - 600 locations

They'll keep this trajectory up for another few years and they'll go bankrupt.
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Subway hasn't been a serious chain in years. They only exist to allow jeets to maximize the importation of more jeets. I stopped considering them a meal option when I went years back and was told they don't have spicy deli mustard. Apparently the jeet owners are too cheap to offer it in their deli.
 
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Tablet County said:
Star Trek replicators will destroy the fast food industry.
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That tv sci fi series Lexx had a weird workaround that. The ship (a living organism) could produce some foodstuffs but it looked like disgusting glop although it might taste like the fastfood you liked. I'm assuming before we get Star Trek levels of food replication we'll get Soyalent Green versions especially for the poorer classes of us for a long while.
 
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Block Buster went out of business because of changes in the world and technology. Netflix was beating Blockbuster by shipping DVD's to people's houses. Then came Red Box with the rent any movie you want for $1. Block Buster just couldn't keep up. By the time the streaming started they were done. Matter of fact I don't think they ever survived till the early days of streaming. There was no way they would make it now. Especially since many of the movies are garbage.
 
Idiotron said:
Subway is definitely going away.
You want to know how well they're doing?
Here's how many restaurants they closed over the last few years:
2016 - 357 locations
2017 - 866 locations
2018 - 1108 locations
2019 - 996 locations
2020 - 1601 locations
2021 - 1043 locations
2022 - 571 locations
2023 - 443 locations
2024 - 600 locations

They'll keep this trajectory up for another few years and they'll go bankrupt.
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Yeah, i've noticed quite a few subways shutting down where im at, even the long john silvers in town have manage to out live them.
Racist Parrot said:
Maybe they should stop charging restaurant prices for fast food.
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This, if i can pay the exact same price for a sub-par sandwich at subway as I can for one at nice sandwich shop in town, why the hell would I bother. Half the reason anyone would go to fast food restaurants was for the value and now that shit is long gone.
 
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my first guess was white castle, still think it is, but golden corral and long john silver's are very close seconds/could out slop it.
 
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Daily Affirmation said:
Subway hasn't been a serious chain in years. They only exist to allow jeets to maximize the importation of more jeets. I stopped considering them a meal option when I went years back and was told they don't have spicy deli mustard. Apparently the jeet owners are too cheap to offer it in their deli.
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Now that I can buy their sauces, I have no reason to go to Subway. Only went there for the chipotle sauce.
 
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Daily Affirmation said:
Subway hasn't been a serious chain in years. They only exist to allow jeets to maximize the importation of more jeets. I stopped considering them a meal option when I went years back and was told they don't have spicy deli mustard. Apparently the jeet owners are too cheap to offer it in their deli.
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Subway "eat fresh." Except they have pre sliced deli meat delivered. How expensive is it to have a meat slicer, and cut that shit in the resturant? There is nothing you can get at Subway that you just couldn't assemble your self at home for half the cost. No cooking required.

On topic, Blockbuster provided a service of it's time. You can buy a movie for 20 dollars, or rent it for 3. If it sucked you were only out three bucks.

Fast food WAS cheap, fast, and decent. It is neither of those things now. Paying 15 bucks for a big mac the size of my fist, that is full of soy, and I have to wait 20 minutes in the drive through is just embarassing.
 
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Arby's. Their roast beef sandwich actually taste like vomit.
 
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Idiotron said:
Subway is definitely going away.
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I stopped going to Subway when they stopped accepting coupons I would get in the mail. Their stores are suffering so bad they can't even afford $2 off a sandwich.
Town Drunk said:
Fast food WAS cheap, fast, and decent. It is neither of those things now. Paying 15 bucks for a big mac the size of my fist, that is full of soy, and I have to wait 20 minutes in the drive through is just embarassing.
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Online ordering is the best and worst thing for restaurants. Sure, they get more business now, but now there's no way to control the quantity of orders. Orders that come from a person at a register take about a minute (maybe two for bigger or more complicated orders), allowing time for the previous order to be made. It moves in sync - one order comes in as one is being worked on as another is coming out.

Online orders disrupt that sync. Twenty orders could come in around the same time, so now the poor bastards in the back have to make 20 online orders on top of the present customer's order (who now has to wait potentially up to an extra five minutes for their order, a long time if you only have 30 minutes for lunch and already spent 5-10 minutes in line). The system becomes bloated (like this reply) and bogged down, fewer people will want to go to that location even outside of the busy lunch/dinner rush, and maybe even staff quit because of being overworked and/or punished for "poor metrics" due to said volume surge.

Forced minimum wage increases have also caused a lot of problems for fast food places. Franchise owners either need to increase prices (which piss off customers), cut hours for staff (which piss off staff), or they simply can't afford to hire more staff to handle the increased business from online orders (which pisses off everyone).
 
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Idiotron said:
Subway is definitely going away.
You want to know how well they're doing?
Here's how many restaurants they closed over the last few years:
2016 - 357 locations
2017 - 866 locations
2018 - 1108 locations
2019 - 996 locations
2020 - 1601 locations
2021 - 1043 locations
2022 - 571 locations
2023 - 443 locations
2024 - 600 locations

They'll keep this trajectory up for another few years and they'll go bankrupt.
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Powerleveling but I don't know how Subway stays afloat in Florida, Georgia, or anywhere that Publix has a significant presence. Publix runs circles around them quality-wise, it's a grocery store so locations are abundant and you're more likely to be there anyway, and they have certified cult status. No one of sound mind goes to Subway around here.
Ravier Xavenblood said:
I still can’t get over Subway price gouging as hard as they are when Jersey Mike’s, Jimmy John’s and Firehouse Subs exist and have way better food for not much more. If they keep this up they’re going the way of Quizno’s.
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There was a Firehouse by me that I think lasted less than a year. I went 3-4 times and I was the only customer there every time. Food was fine I guess, I didn't dislike it.
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What does mcdicks offer? Food is meh. Options are limited. Dining in experience is shit, prices aren't much cheaper than elsewhere. All it really has is drive-throughs and decent parking, only convenience and location, That really doesn't matter in a world with delivery apps, now everywhere is just as convenient.

Like I said I dunno how it is in the US but anywhere large enough to have a mcdicks here will probably also have 40-50 independent places offering delivery.
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A place for the mentally ill (like me) to go at 2-3am and get two McChickens, which is really just a vehicle for the fries and coke. Also if you have the app you can money glitch a free McChicken (don't you dare three4free me) with every order since the rewards points for that cost less than whatever you earn from your actual order. McDick's is the only place with a drive-thru that I'll patronize from time to time.
 
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Tablet County said:
I meant because you only keep it until you shit it out.
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You didn't pay last week's interest on your $50 cockroach burger, we are now authorized to evict you from your home and repossess your vehicle. Remember to download the app for a free small order of fries!
 
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