No Subway $5 Footlongs In SF, 'Cost of Doing Business' Too High

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Posted: 3/29/2012 5:44:28 AM EDT

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.

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Apparently, the city's new minimum wage, raised to $10.24 as of Jan. 1, make $5 footlongs an impossible business model.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/No-Subway-5-Footlongs-In-SF-Cost-of-Doing-Business-Too-High-144709445.html

Posted: 3/29/2012 5:45:56 AM EDT

[#1]

No self-respecting ARFCOMMER would go to San Francisco, anyway.

Posted: 3/29/2012 5:46:11 AM EDT

[#2]

In before EXPcustom.

Posted: 3/29/2012 5:46:39 AM EDT

[#3]

Economics . . . how do they work?

Posted: 3/29/2012 5:46:47 AM EDT

[#4]

Damn, that minimum wage is impressive.

Posted: 3/29/2012 5:49:41 AM EDT

[#5]

12" tuna on cheese bread with spinach, tomatoes, jalapenos and spicy mustard. Thanks.

Posted: 3/29/2012 5:50:53 AM EDT

[#6]

Quoted:

In before EXPcustom.

And some fucking lame, limp wristed bareback joke....

Posted: 3/29/2012 5:51:02 AM EDT

[#7]

When the government requires that your employer pays you more, and due to that the companies have to raise their prices, that's called "inflation." Economics 101. Obviously 99% of government officials never got that far. Meh, what does it matter, it's fo da chillins.

Posted: 3/29/2012 5:51:17 AM EDT

[#8]

Quoted:

No self-respecting ARFCOMMER would go to San Francisco, anyway.

The SF Bay area is awesome...

Get rid of the overcrowding and crazy politics and it'd be the perfect place to live.

Posted: 3/29/2012 5:51:44 AM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:

Damn, that minimum wage is impressive.

Right? With my bills as they are right now, I could afford to work at McDonalds full time and stash some money away.

Posted: 3/29/2012 5:52:03 AM EDT

[#10]

Not like those footlongs had any decent amount of deli meat in the first place. You're basically paying $5 for a hoagie roll and a ton of veggies.

Posted: 3/29/2012 5:52:10 AM EDT

[#11]

Quoted:

12" tuna on cheese bread with spinach, tomatoes, jalapenos and spicy mustard. Thanks.

That'll be $17.50, plus the additional SF mandatory health care fee please.

Posted: 3/29/2012 5:55:36 AM EDT

[#12]

Quoted:

Quoted:

12" tuna on cheese bread with spinach, tomatoes, jalapenos and spicy mustard. Thanks.

That'll be $17.50, plus the additional SF mandatory health care fee please.

Balls.

Posted: 3/29/2012 5:57:27 AM EDT

[#13]

Quoted:
Not like those footlongs had any decent amount of deli meat in the first place. You're basically paying $5 for a hoagie roll and a ton of veggies.

+1
No bread sandwiches for me thank you.

Posted: 3/29/2012 5:59:15 AM EDT

[#14]

Quoted:
In before EXPcustom.

Channeling EXP: "I am more than happy to pay $600 for a subway foot long as long as they pay that money to the city, so the city can pay the homeless to have apartments, so I don't have to see the unwashed masses"

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:01:46 AM EDT

[#15]

Quoted:
Not like those footlongs had any decent amount of deli meat in the first place. You're basically paying $5 for a hoagie roll and a ton a small amount of veggies.

FIFY

They've been kinda light on veggies the last few times I've been to a Subway.

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:03:44 AM EDT

[#16]

So the people making minimum wage can't afford to go to Subway anymore. Rich people? They don't eat that shit anyway.

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:05:30 AM EDT

[#17]

Dunno about Subway, but McDonalds has had higher prices than their national ads in Manhattan since I was a kid.

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:06:29 AM EDT

[#18]

"NO FOOT LONG? MOTHERFUCK!"

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:06:58 AM EDT

[#19]

Man, who could see that coming? Going to need to raise the Min. wage to $20/hr so people can afford to eat damnit!

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:08:48 AM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
When the government requires that your employer pays you more, and due to that the companies have to raise their prices, that's called "inflation." Economics 101. Obviously 99% of government officials never got that far. Meh, what does it matter, it's fo da chillins.

Don't bring logic into the GD!

BigDozer66

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:09:06 AM EDT

[#21]

ARVT ain't cheap.

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Posted: 3/29/2012 6:09:57 AM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:

No self-respecting ARFCOMMER would go to San Francisco, anyway.

I will be flying into SFO Tuesday

...

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:17:37 AM EDT

[#23]

THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE WHY THE MINIMUM WAGE ARGUMENT MADE BY THE LEFT IS 100% PURE BULLSHIT!!

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:19:52 AM EDT

[#24]

Shit even in New York City / Manhattan, Subways sell the $5 footlongs.

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:21:13 AM EDT

[#25]

You'd think the biggest problem with $5 foot longs in Frisco would be making them fast enough... Half the population could probably swallow it in one bite.

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:21:55 AM EDT

[#26]

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:23:06 AM EDT

[#27]

Quoted:

Quoted:

In before EXPcustom.

And some fucking lame, limp wristed bareback joke....

Gentlemen, Let's lock it down.

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Posted: 3/29/2012 6:23:24 AM EDT

[#28]

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:26:25 AM EDT

[#29]

Surprised SF didn't outlaw fast food joints first.

Guessing no dolla-make-me-holla menu at McD.

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:27:43 AM EDT

[#30]

Politicians want to keep raising minimum wage, the company isn’t going to eat the cost… so you do.

All I can say is sucks for LA.

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:30:29 AM EDT

[#31]

Quoted:
Shit even in New York City / Manhattan, Subways sell the $5 footlongs.

NYC/Manhattan does not have such a high cost for labor.

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:30:30 AM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:

No self-respecting ARFCOMMER would go to San Francisco, anyway.

The Bay Area is a great place, not as great as San Diego but it's still a fantastic place to be.

I wouldn't live there though.

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:31:06 AM EDT

[#33]

Lol last year some progressive group was bitching that city McDonald's ditched the $1 menu and the homeless couldn't afford to eat. They wanted some law to be enacted to force price controls on fast food

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:31:56 AM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
"NO FOOT LONG? MOTHERFUCK!"

http://i967.photobucket.com/albums/ae159/draynes/6a0128773aba66970c01347fbb21c5970c-.jpg?t=1333029558

Potential avatar right there

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:34:37 AM EDT

[#35]

Quoted:

No self-respecting ARFCOMMER would go to San Francisco, anyway.

Growing up near there in the 1970s, it WAS a nice town. They even had a big shop downtown called the San Francisco Gun Exchange (long gone of course).

And the original Dirty Harry is still a great movie.

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:35:02 AM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
Man, who could see that coming? Going to need to raise the Min. wage to $20/hr so people can afford to eat damnit!

I wonder how many liberals would fail to realize the economic irony and actually think this is a good idea.

Posted: 3/29/2012 6:37:10 AM EDT

[#37]

WA has always had a really high minimum wage but it's only 9.04 an hour

Posted: 3/29/2012 7:02:01 AM EDT

[#38]

Quoted:

Quoted:

No self-respecting ARFCOMMER would go to San Francisco, anyway.

The SF Bay area is awesome...

Get rid of the overcrowding and crazy politics and it'd be the perfect place to live.

It certainly has it's good points.

Posted: 3/29/2012 7:04:17 AM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:

Quoted:

No self-respecting ARFCOMMER would go to San Francisco, anyway.

Growing up near there in the 1970s, it WAS a nice town. They even had a big shop downtown called the San Francisco Gun Exchange (long gone of course).

And the original Dirty Harry is still a great movie.

I went to Defense Language Institute for German at the old Marine Hospital on the south edge of the Presidio.
One Sat. I was wandering around town and found the SF Gun Exchange. I recall they had more Randal knives than I have ever seen in the rest of my life put together. They also had a small .22 LR Gatling gun in the window. It even had the large drum magazine on it instead of the vertical sticks. They wanted 5K for it.

Posted: 3/29/2012 7:07:23 AM EDT

[#40]

Just wait until they layoff everyone who isn't qualified to be a manager.

Posted: 3/29/2012 7:57:23 AM EDT

[#41]

Posted: 3/29/2012 8:03:40 AM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs40/f/2009/029/5/0/Barack_Obama_5_Dollar_Footlong_by_KruppSteel.jpg

That reminds of one of the aliens from MiB

Posted: 3/29/2012 8:13:04 AM EDT

[#43]

Yay for the minimum wage...again.

Posted: 3/29/2012 8:15:30 AM EDT

[#44]

Friend posted on his FB that a $6 Burger from Carl's Jr costs over $7 in SF.

Posted: 3/29/2012 8:19:00 AM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Damn, that minimum wage is impressive.

Right? With my bills as they are right now, I could afford to work at McDonalds full time and stash some money away.

Your bills in San Francisco proper would include $1000/mo for a one bedroom apartment. You'd have to work your first 100 sandwich making hours just to pay for the roof over your head.

Posted: 3/29/2012 8:21:25 AM EDT

[#46]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Damn, that minimum wage is impressive.

Right? With my bills as they are right now, I could afford to work at McDonalds full time and stash some money away.

Your bills in San Francisco proper would include $1000/mo for a one bedroom apartment. You'd have to work your first 100 sandwich making hours just to pay for the roof over your head.

If you make minimum wage, commute in or get a fucking roommate. Welcome to reality. Life in the big city, as they say.

Posted: 3/29/2012 8:26:04 AM EDT

[#47]

Quoted:

Quoted:
Damn, that minimum wage is impressive.

Right? With my bills as they are right now, I could afford to work at McDonalds full time and stash some money away.

Your bills in San Francisco proper would include $1000/mo for a one bedroom apartment. You'd have to work your first 100 sandwich making hours just to pay for the roof over your head.

Imagine how much cheaper it would be with less regulation and lower minimum wage.

ETA: Are the hookers still giving 5 dollar foot longs?

Posted: 3/29/2012 8:29:12 AM EDT

[#48]

The only $5 Subway footlong a guy in San Francisco is interested in is a... wait, does SF even have a subway system?

Posted: 3/29/2012 8:29:55 AM EDT

[#49]

Quoted:

Quoted:

Damn, that minimum wage is impressive.

Right? With my bills as they are right now, I could afford to work at McDonalds full time and stash some money away.

Your bills in San Francisco proper would include $1000/mo for a one bedroom apartment. You'd have to work your first 100 sandwich making hours just to pay for the roof over your head.

If you make minimum wage, commute in or get a fucking roommate. Welcome to reality. Life in the big city, as they say.

Most everyone making minimum wage is still living with his/her parents.