Real Cost of Buying a Subway Franchise

Never Ever buy ANY Franchise.. EMPLOYEES SUCK.. Min wage people are morons.. They are full of drama, always late, never show up, Quit all the time. You would make more money working a job making 50,000 per year. He will NEVER Recover his money.. Stupid

You should hire Jared Fogel to work the register for you.

If it was any money, you got ripped off. They have been losing millions for almost 8 years now.

This video is a tad premature, wouldn't you agree? The jury is still out on the sustainable success of your new venture. I do wish you well, but waiting one full year seems to be more prudent here.

Can say this with confidence, no matter the state or city/town: I won't be a customer.

I wonder how you can be certain it can be turned around? It seems traffic and competition (from other options and other Subways) would be the headwinds. I did notice quality differences in different Subways, if the previous franchisee was giving people poorly made products that could be why there might be hope.

Trash food

Way to go. I did same with coffee news franchise back in the day. I knew the business and was an easy and fast fix.

Do one for 711

Why not sell it now then? If I turned it from 30k to 300k I’d sell it.

I really don’t eat at Subway or Jersey Mike’s, etc… The meats they use are really unhealthy ( ingredients). Same as the bread. And the cookies are very unhealthy. Sorry!! At age 51, I’m more concerned with my foods ingredients and makeup.

Privilege kid.

why did you eat all the subs?

Haven't eaten Subway for 30 years. Terrible food.

Subways sells cake bread. Yuk!

Most of the Subways I have visited over the last 5 years have been owned by the same group of people who own most of the motels, vape stores, etc. The food quality and amount of meat, toppings, etc. have diminished greatly to the point it felt like I was getting cheated. I have since quit eating fast food subs and just make my own at home. Congrats on turning your store around!

Subway has become so 3rd world. Best of luck

We owned 5 Subway locations up here in Canada over a 20 year period. 1994-2013. My wife and I would open every new store at lunch so guests would have first impressions with us, the owners. We were ALWAYS told “this is the friendliest subway Ive ever been to” which is so important because, as you know, SUBWAYs biggest competition is…….the SUBWAY Down the street!! because the idiot DA up here would give locations one mile apart to different owners. We kept a couple for a few years while keeping others for 10 years. When we sold we got 10X what you paid for yours! Some 12X. Good thing we got out when we did, as locations here go for about half of what we got 12 years ago…Congratulations on scoring such a low price, and doing your thing! That’s awesome! We should chat about our experiences. You would not believe what some of my employees had done in the early years…😂

Wow, I am shocked there is only three weeks of training. With things like food safety being something that can tank a while brand, I am surprised there isn’t more training.

Still spending that Phantom Menace money. Nice.

Great content!

Hey Brother I just sold my last two of my 55 Subway stores after 31 years.

If you ever need advice DM me.

Your store on worth what someone willing to pay for it , nice turn around

Why not rent a store and make own food,grinders?

Your making mistake. Just sell food grinders pizza both what ever

Do you do your own books? Or do you pay for a bookkeeper/CPA?

Why not just open up Joes Sub Shop??

You're brave buying a Subway. The brand is declining.

thanks for the info

Good luck to you 😊

Subways are total 🗑💩

Congrats of getting over 1000 subs!

Talk about employees. Are you and ur wife the employees or you hire them? What’s that like?

Congrats bro m rooting for you don’t feed into none of the negativity on here you’ll have 100 stores if you want I can feel your passion stay blessed

I'm sure you'll be successful! For me, a big quality issue would be hiring the right sandwich makers. Anyway, a question- how did you evaluate the location could be successful? Was data available, or did you simply spend time in the market area? Was it obvious?




Former Snap-On Tools Dealer (circa 1990). During that time, the unique Dealer Agreement was replaced by a true franchise agreement, which exists to this day. Of course, all the existing individual approx 5500 Dealer Agreements remained in place without question, but new Dealers were offered only the new franchise contract.

This is great, very interesting video

Great video, thank you for sharing your story! This is what makes America great. Best of luck to you!

i was looking into buying at one time i believe it was 80k at the time but business was booming and before Jared was exposed. They were also opening too many in condensed areas and why some went under. I’m sure you can still make money but i don’t think they will ever generate what they use to when the value was higher and now sandwiches costing twice and getting less just isn’t going to fly.

Very informative, thank you for your transparency

Fascinating video; thank you very much. I'm not wanting to invest because it looks like a lot of work, but it's a super interesting story.

Cold showers for 2 months? Y'all are amazing. That would be a no-go for me, surprised you're still married. Congratulations!

What part of the country or what state are you from

How many employees do you have on your payroll minus yourself?

In our area Jersey Mike’s is killing subway

Serious question: Their food tastes like plastic it is awful. Why would you think that bad tasting food would be a good Business???

Why in the world would you want to buy a Subway they're nasty there's nothing on them there's better places to go to.

He bought a sub..what? (Right? I haven’t gone to one since 2019)

You have that Haley Joel Osment money.

You can't find people to hire is the dealbreaker.

Should have just opened a sub shop .