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Remember when xo dream was to own some Subway franchises?

Indians were probably lurking here 20 years ago, and took th...
Mint Tank Deer Antler
  12/26/25
and what a huge boon that has been for the subway brand over...
heady church building
  12/26/25
If only they would have been scooped up by posters instead, ...
Mint Tank Deer Antler
  12/26/25
cr.
heady church building
  12/26/25
Been spending most our lives living in a sandwich paradise
Passionate Sweet Tailpipe Gas Station
  12/27/25
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splenetic arousing native chad
  12/27/25
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splenetic arousing native chad
  12/27/25
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concupiscible deranged institution
  12/27/25
if you had managed to buy 3 or 4 subways franchises 15 years...
Harsh Lay
  12/26/25
Subway has been struggling for the past 15 years. If you bou...
bearded doctorate
  12/26/25
idk man even shit locations that manage to stay open have to...
Harsh Lay
  12/26/25
My understanding is that the big problem with Subway is that...
Thriller Mahogany Hissy Fit
  12/27/25
that may be the case with subway in particular, but we repre...
Harsh Lay
  12/27/25
Yeah, most franchise restaurants won't let you open a new fr...
Thriller Mahogany Hissy Fit
  12/27/25
TINTCR, Subway has been in severe decline for two decades no...
motley cordovan range french chef
  12/27/25
Can you do it now? Seems better than buying rental propertie...
painfully honest field
  12/26/25
still is just different sub places
unhinged ceo
  12/26/25
we've moved on to Pandas Express
confused skinny woman pocket flask
  12/27/25
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hyperactive lascivious property jap
  12/27/25
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confused skinny woman pocket flask
  12/27/25
Guys, I know we love to joke around here but stay the fuck a...
comical sandwich
  12/27/25
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motley cordovan range french chef
  12/27/25


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Date: December 26th, 2025 11:20 PM
Author: Mint Tank Deer Antler

Indians were probably lurking here 20 years ago, and took that lucrative career opportunity from you.

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Date: December 26th, 2025 11:22 PM
Author: heady church building

and what a huge boon that has been for the subway brand over that timeframe.

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Date: December 26th, 2025 11:23 PM
Author: Mint Tank Deer Antler

If only they would have been scooped up by posters instead, we'd be living in a sandwich paradise rn

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Date: December 26th, 2025 11:26 PM
Author: heady church building

cr.

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Date: December 27th, 2025 12:52 PM
Author: Passionate Sweet Tailpipe Gas Station

Been spending most our lives living in a sandwich paradise

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Date: December 27th, 2025 2:47 PM
Author: splenetic arousing native chad



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Date: December 27th, 2025 2:47 PM
Author: splenetic arousing native chad



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Date: December 27th, 2025 2:50 PM
Author: concupiscible deranged institution



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Date: December 26th, 2025 11:27 PM
Author: Harsh Lay

if you had managed to buy 3 or 4 subways franchises 15 years ago I think you'd probably be sitting pretty, it's six figures of pretty reliable income for sitting on your ass if it isn't in a terrible location doomed to fail

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Date: December 26th, 2025 11:29 PM
Author: bearded doctorate

Subway has been struggling for the past 15 years. If you bought 15 years ago, you likely also struggled more or less.

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Date: December 26th, 2025 11:47 PM
Author: Harsh Lay

idk man even shit locations that manage to stay open have to be producing 100k, the franchise expanded massively into a million markets where you could add up the failure and it would hurt corporate, but subways in expected places seem to keep going

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Date: December 27th, 2025 12:21 AM
Author: Thriller Mahogany Hissy Fit

My understanding is that the big problem with Subway is that they were so desperate for additional franchise revenue that they let new franchises open up anywhere, including right next door to existing franchises. If you're in a good location with no other franchises nearby, you're probably doing okay. But most Subway franchises have 3-4 other Subway franchises within a two-block radius.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5814450&forum_id=2...id.#49542155)



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Date: December 27th, 2025 1:45 AM
Author: Harsh Lay

that may be the case with subway in particular, but we represented a franchisee lender many years ago and had to review an enormous amount of bullshit as a junior associate and at that time you almost couldn't lose money, a bad fast food place was still netting you a fair bit of money and the owners don't manage shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5814450&forum_id=2...id.#49542200)



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Date: December 27th, 2025 12:45 PM
Author: Thriller Mahogany Hissy Fit

Yeah, most franchise restaurants won't let you open a new franchise within a close proximity of an existing franchise because they want to protect the existing franchise owners. But Subway lets you open anywhere that you want, so the different franchise owners all end up cannibalizing each other's sales.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5814450&forum_id=2...id.#49542786)



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Date: December 27th, 2025 12:23 AM
Author: motley cordovan range french chef

TINTCR, Subway has been in severe decline for two decades now, as usual XO encouraged buying at the top. That same money in broad base index funds would have been much better, without the hassle of managing a fucking Subway (let alone 3 or 4 of them)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5814450&forum_id=2...id.#49542156)



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Date: December 26th, 2025 11:28 PM
Author: painfully honest field

Can you do it now? Seems better than buying rental properties.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5814450&forum_id=2...id.#49542097)



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Date: December 26th, 2025 11:29 PM
Author: unhinged ceo

still is

just different sub places

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Date: December 27th, 2025 12:28 AM
Author: confused skinny woman pocket flask

we've moved on to Pandas Express

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Date: December 27th, 2025 12:56 AM
Author: hyperactive lascivious property jap



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Date: December 27th, 2025 1:49 AM
Author: confused skinny woman pocket flask



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Date: December 27th, 2025 8:03 AM
Author: comical sandwich

Guys, I know we love to joke around here but stay the fuck away from Subway franchises. They are horrible businesses where you put in 250k to make 45k as a fucking owner operator. In the post Covid world, people don't want to work for $8 an hour any more and their business model collapsed. Tons of these "long time" locations are closing.

I looked at being a franchisee years ago and it was lol what a bad deal it was. Also represented one of these franchisees who managed to scrape together a chain of locations, only to have his company disintegrate in his hands when labor costs rose. He sold his whole chain of like 8 locations for the price of a fucking car.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5814450&forum_id=2...id.#49542346)



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Date: December 27th, 2025 8:12 AM
Author: motley cordovan range french chef



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