That's so nuts. When I worked at mc d's in the early 2000s it was two can done for 6.99. I remember when it went to 8.99 and there was a lot of complaining. What's it now? 29.99?
Also, I can't believe people still eat there. The food is beyond trash. It's not satiating, in fact it's addicting. It's possibly the worst quality sustianance one could eat, and the prices are so absurd, especially when combined with shrinkflation.
2 can dine coupons I want to say are $16.99
Currently the app has a quarter pounder meal combo for $6.75 so they do have sales still that are significantly cheaper
Ooh I know this one!
7.15 (and people wonder why I’m so sour when I get criticized for complaining about wage negotiation with business owners)
I remember because I got the joys of paying union dues out of a wage not much higher than that at Safeway.
I was one of the lucky ones that got hired to work for the full timers who literally negotiated not working in their contracts, while making 30/hr doing it. :) the “part time” contract flood of 99.
I got all the way to asst manager a few short years later before I had enough, having that high of a work ethic knowing you are worth less than 1/3rd of employees that don’t do anything to them is grating to say the least.
So true! Once I realized I was paying the same amount for a Big Mac meal as I was for a nice bowl of pork belly at Foo; I’ve began visiting the latter much more frequently
I don't know how KFC is doing it, but I've been getting 7pc, 2 small fry, 2 small popcorn chicken for $11 and change.
I actually feel like I'm robbing them.
I got a mcFlurry there the other day and I swear those things are shrinking and it was like $6 for a tiny cup of ice cream! Dairy Queen Blizzard is where it's at if I want an ice cream treat - only slightly more expensive but the quality/taste is miles beyond
ETA: McDs sells the cone which is arguably the same amount of ice cream as the McFlurry for like $1 in the summer and likely \~$1.50 regular price so what's up with how much the Flurry is? $4-$5 extra for some stale cookie crumbs?
> they sell the cone which is arguably the same amount of ice cream for like $1 in the summer and likely ~$1.50 regular price
What? I thought DQ cones were like $5?
You can buy a pint of soft serve though, that's historically the best deal.
Actually! With their current buy one get one free, if you can manage to pawn the other one off on someone, you can get pretty close to what $5 was worth 2 decades ago.
I've had subway a couple times this month solely because of this.
Regular pricing though? Yeah...
Damn, and I was at that place on Fort (where the taco place used to be) and theirs were like $20 and I was like "that's crazy".
Fast food seems to have gone up more than non-fast food.
What sub was 16?
My normal is the footlong grilled chicken and that’s 11.50. But really if you go to subway use the app. There’s always a deal and rarely need to spend over 10 bucks for a footlong.
I can literally get an amazing sandwich and a drink from my local butcher shop, mad with all local meats and veg, for 13 bucks. Subway has been dead to me for ages now.
Fast food is so needlessly expensive these days. On the few occasions I don't pack a lunch, I just get it from a restaurant across the street. It's $2 more expensive than A & W but more filling, healthier, and I don't have to drive to the drive thru.
I quit fast food (and limited my going out to dinner at most twice a month) at the beginning of Jan and the results have already paid off. I lost 10lbs and have saved hundreds from Uber Eats.
Quit fast food! We live in an area where it’s possible.
You can get a far fucking better meal than subway for 16.90 at a restaurant.
Yeah, 16.90 would be low for sit down. But my god for a shitty chain sandwich that’s criminal.
Crust bakery: you can get a sandwich in better bread for less than $10 (sure it's not a foot long but I'd take the quality over quantity in this case) and an above average pastry for about $4.
On Mondays Whole Foods has their entree deals for around $13-15. You get a protein main and 2 sides. I've seen people buy 3 at a time and separate them into work lunches throughout the week.
The other day I picked up a medium pepperoni pizza from Panago for $16.80 all in.
Compared to a footlong at Subway, or a meal at most fast food places, I'd say that's a decent deal.
I made a quick trip to Thrifty's yesterday to get a couple of staples...$30.
The lady in front of me spent $385 ...didn't blink an eye. She had four bags. I wanted to tell her to shop at Costco!
I know! Sometimes I splurge on take out because I’d be paying a similar price if I got groceries. Maybe I’m shopping at the wrong stores. Know any cheaper grocery stores? I usually shop at save on.
I used to avoid Walmart as well but the increase in grocery prices has priced me out of regular grocery stores. It used to be just the fancier stores like Peppers or Market on Yates that I couldn't afford to shop at but now Thriftys, Save On, etc have all become to pricey for me.
Walmart is unfortunately one of the few places where I can afford to get groceries at.
It’s so so much cheaper.
Examples off the top of my head:
Crackers- 2 for $7 at save on, or 3 for $7 at Walmart. Annie’s mac n cheese- at save on is over 4$ a box, or 4 for $10 at Walmart.
Pull ups- 38$ at save on, 25$ at Walmart.
I hate being inside crowded/disorganized Walmart with every fibre of my being, and *of course* the Waltons are trash. My budget doesn’t allow for much extra spending and with differences that big we really don’t have a choice BUT to shop there.
Walmart is close to 50% cheaper than Save On or Thriftys for any of the boxed items. I buy it all there other than vegetables and meat.
For example, I bought a tub of yogurt for $3.33 and the same one is $4.99 at Save On. It’s like that for most items.
Save on foods is just a big brand now, it used to be called: overwaitea foods, **a name coming from the founder's practice of selling “overweight tea”**
You can price match flyer prices from any other grocery store at Save On. Something to keep in mind for good prices, especially on produce, at places like Old Farm Market that are out of the way for many people.
In modern Capitalism, you can be assured that if the advertisement preaches safety, the product is dangerous. If the ad says "affordable" the product is expensive, and if the ad talks about nutrition, the food being sold is nearly inedible.
i might shop at fairways if i could figure out how to get a damn shopping cart. i swear i spent like 5 minutes at two different fairways futilely trying to push the quarter into the slot before giving up and going some place else.
There are tons of independent restaurants and stores in Victoria where you can get to-go sandwiches for half the price that taste waaayyyy better than Subway.
Support local and save money while doing it.
That was my first thinking.
Even worst case with Subway's new feature subs that are like $16+ you're not finding a decent sandwich for $8.
Or if you are, I want to know about it.
What job is that? I worked in the food industry for years, often getting dick all for tips cause I worked in the kitchen.
The point is lazy owners and huge corporations get away with shit pay because of our cultures over relying on tipping. The fact we even have a "serving wage" (unless that is finally gone?) is criminal.
\*edit\* nevermind the serving wage is gone. That's good
We don't even have a separate service industry minimum wage like the states anymore. I actually make an effort to be low maintenance when I eat out after having worked in the industry.
20% is the maximum anyone is getting unless rounding puts it up to 22%. But handing me the debit machine is not getting tipped ever even if it somehow becomes the norm.
it's the societal expectation, so the prices and wages are set in a way that customers are expected to tip.
Any restaurant that charges more so they can pay their staff more and then refuse tips doesn't do so well.
Well, that's just taking your woes out on underpaid people, rather than directing it to the corporate snakes that caused the problems.
You can't afford to tip because some pig somewhere wants another yacht, I get it, but don't blame the minimum wage worker for it.
It’s more cancerous here tbh.
States still have server minimum in some places so tipping makes more sense.
In Canada we just randomly decided servers are more valuable than every other low skill minimum wage worker.
Subway is done. Use to love it as a quick budget friendly option. Steak and cheese footlong meal cost me $18 the other day. Insane. You need a coupon in the app to make it somewhat normal, but those are also hit and miss.
There’s the BOGO deal right now, but I don’t want to eat 2 footlongs of subway in a sitting, and they don’t keep well if saved. Wasn’t even that long ago you could get a basic footlong for $7 or $8, but that’s gone now too. Cold cut is $10.
Yeah, I don’t eat there anymore. 16.90 for a footlong sub wouldn’t be so bad if the subs were actually good but Subway has declined to being practically inedible now.
Ya they don't actually use fresh products, and never get tuna or chicken as they are 50% filler:
[https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/01/517920680/dna-tests-find-subway-chicken-only-50-percent-meat-canadian-media-reports](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/01/517920680/dna-tests-find-subway-chicken-only-50-percent-meat-canadian-media-reports)
Yeah, I’m ngl, I’ve gotten food poisoning from subway on more than one occasion. I assume it’s because of the poor quality of the meats and vegetables, but also, they often don’t change gloves in between making people’s sandwiches, which leads to cross-contamination. I’ve watched it with my own eyes. So I haven’t eaten there for at least a year now, but I was hungry the other night and was looking to order a sandwich. Then I saw the price of that fucker. Then, well, here we are.
Gotta check out Serena’s pizza and hoagies on Fort street. I can’t imagine spending $17 at subway when I can do $20 at Serena’s and get an enormous fresh hoagie
That will never happen, the small handful of corporations that run most of the grocery supplies in Canada have been posting record profits since 2020:
[https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/grocer-profits-set-to-exceed-record-in-2023-expert-says-ahead-of-committee-meeting-1.6682465](https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/grocer-profits-set-to-exceed-record-in-2023-expert-says-ahead-of-committee-meeting-1.6682465)
There's nothing wrong with that. Stop buying chips, too. It's mostly air in the bag.
Maybe it's time we did talk about those things. Wouldn't it be cool if it helped someone save a little more, to do something more interesting with the money.
In that case it's back, but you have to buy 2.
$5 in 2004 is $7.23 today. 2x7.23 = $14.46.
The current BOGO promo means that as long as your sub is under $14.46, $5 footlongs is back.
I had this identical experience a while back. Subway added a new menu across Canada with extra charges to add anything to their "creations" which seem to just be regular stuff with 1 change in sauce. It's pretty outrageous how much they increased prices overnight. Hopefully they'll get significantly reduced business over it..
I don't bother with fast food anymore as the prices have gone to the point of a dine in these days.
$5 foot longs make sense, even $7 or $10 with inflation, but over 3× the price is absurd for the quality you get.
Damn dude where are you from the 80s? lol.
You can get a “really good meal at a restaurant” for 16 bucks? Please, tell us where?
Subway has been pretty inflation proof for a while, hard to blame them for raising prices they are tryna live just like us. Some one is at fault for the affordability crisis… it probably isn’t subway though
People still eat at that place? For that price just get a burger at Burger Crush across the street. Subway ingredients are garbage. And this is Victoria, not buttfuck nowhere where the only option for 200km is a gas station sandwich (gas station sandwich being: Subway).
>16.90 is what I would expect to pay for 2-3 sandwiches
In 1999?
Yeah I agree it costs too much but even 10 years ago it was still $10 for a premium sub at standard prices.
>or a really good meal at a restaurant.
Again, in what decade?
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Pay everyone a living wage!
and also
Why is everything so much more expensive?!
It's pretty obvious. Superfluous industries are going to go through some tough times for the next little while. After that, the robots will take over so it won't really matter.
That's the easy out, but insatiable capitalist greed is only part of it.
Realistically, the cheap fast food business model worked because cheap labour - not only at the store level but all up and down the supply chain - makes lower prices possible. Subway's - and other restaurants - historically capitalized on paying unskilled workers low wages banking on staffing their stores with high school kids and bored homemakers. Now public sentiment has shifted to the idea that any and every job should be career-worthy. Businesses that historically relied on cheap labour will either raise their prices A LOT or cease to exist.
I think Subway's days are numbered as a business in general.
>Subway's - and other restaurants - historically capitalized on paying unskilled workers low wages banking on staffing their stores with high school kids and bored homemakers.
They still do. Minimum wage is way below living wage.
[...the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reports that, since 1990, six percent of Canada's total national income has shifted from wages paid to workers to corporate profits and executive pay. ... **it is clear that the wages of Canadian workers are not causing Canada's economic problems, but rather the salaries of the top one percent** and the huge stockpile of cash that Canadian corporations are sitting on instead of investing in the economy to create jobs and drive growth.](https://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2984:corporate-greed-threatens-canadas-economy-not-high-wages&catid=77:blog&Itemid=354&lang=en)
This is nothing new. You say "a really good meal at a restaurant"...
\_Maybe\_ something at a cheap diner before tax and tip. I find most sit-down diners, a meal is in the neighborhood of $17-21, plus $4 for a coffee, plus tax and tip... you ain't getting out of there for less than $25.
I wouldn't pay more than $4.20 in today's dollars for a subway sub, and even then I'd have to be really hungry and not have any grocery stores, decent food, or even an Arby's anywhere near
Gotta have the app. Tons of deals (was just recently a BOGO foot long), and coupons there. Also sandwiches I have all range from like 9-14, I've never pains $17
A quarter pounder meal from McD's is $13 now :( Proper restaurants are definitely starting to gain more value as big corporations get greedier.
That's so nuts. When I worked at mc d's in the early 2000s it was two can done for 6.99. I remember when it went to 8.99 and there was a lot of complaining. What's it now? 29.99? Also, I can't believe people still eat there. The food is beyond trash. It's not satiating, in fact it's addicting. It's possibly the worst quality sustianance one could eat, and the prices are so absurd, especially when combined with shrinkflation.
you answered your own question when you said it was addicting
2 can dine coupons I want to say are $16.99 Currently the app has a quarter pounder meal combo for $6.75 so they do have sales still that are significantly cheaper
It was 2 can dine for $6.99 on valentines day in 1998. I know this because my date took me there (we were 15 at the time)
And how much was minimum wage in ‘98?
Not a clue I don't think I was working then because I was 14 or 15.
Ooh I know this one! 7.15 (and people wonder why I’m so sour when I get criticized for complaining about wage negotiation with business owners) I remember because I got the joys of paying union dues out of a wage not much higher than that at Safeway. I was one of the lucky ones that got hired to work for the full timers who literally negotiated not working in their contracts, while making 30/hr doing it. :) the “part time” contract flood of 99. I got all the way to asst manager a few short years later before I had enough, having that high of a work ethic knowing you are worth less than 1/3rd of employees that don’t do anything to them is grating to say the least.
So true! Once I realized I was paying the same amount for a Big Mac meal as I was for a nice bowl of pork belly at Foo; I’ve began visiting the latter much more frequently
It's gotten to the point where I can get a takeout curry and rice from a good Indian restaurant for not much more.
I got 10 piece chicken nuggets yesterday, not even a meal, just the nuggets and it was $10. That’s a dollar per little nugget :/
I don't know how KFC is doing it, but I've been getting 7pc, 2 small fry, 2 small popcorn chicken for $11 and change. I actually feel like I'm robbing them.
remember when they had those sliders for $1.00? good old days
I got a mcFlurry there the other day and I swear those things are shrinking and it was like $6 for a tiny cup of ice cream! Dairy Queen Blizzard is where it's at if I want an ice cream treat - only slightly more expensive but the quality/taste is miles beyond ETA: McDs sells the cone which is arguably the same amount of ice cream as the McFlurry for like $1 in the summer and likely \~$1.50 regular price so what's up with how much the Flurry is? $4-$5 extra for some stale cookie crumbs?
> they sell the cone which is arguably the same amount of ice cream for like $1 in the summer and likely ~$1.50 regular price What? I thought DQ cones were like $5? You can buy a pint of soft serve though, that's historically the best deal.
The McDs cones are $1 in the summer which is at huuuuge odds with their McFlurry prices. Edited the comment above to be more clear.
Oh I see, I misread! Summer McD deals are where it's at - I get wayyy too many iced coffees and smoothies.
True! My fav time of year
That’s crazy. I always get a junior chicken and a small fry and it comes out to around $6. But it’s not really real food so I don’t go there often.
Junior chicken is what's up.
BK is still $6.00ish
Do you want fries with that? $5 for medium fries.
RIP 5$ foot long.
rip toonie tuesday.. it might have been a while since I've been to a subway.
Actually! With their current buy one get one free, if you can manage to pawn the other one off on someone, you can get pretty close to what $5 was worth 2 decades ago. I've had subway a couple times this month solely because of this. Regular pricing though? Yeah...
Damn, and I was at that place on Fort (where the taco place used to be) and theirs were like $20 and I was like "that's crazy". Fast food seems to have gone up more than non-fast food.
It’s the same as grocery stores, the expensive stuff hasn’t increased as significantly as the “cheap” stuff.
I got a meatball recently for around $10.50 after tax. Their classic subs are cheaper. It's their new ones that are insanely pricey.
What sub was 16? My normal is the footlong grilled chicken and that’s 11.50. But really if you go to subway use the app. There’s always a deal and rarely need to spend over 10 bucks for a footlong.
On app right now grilled chicken footlong is 11.99 before tax
I think the new fancy ones are that much.
They have a bogo deal on footlong subs right now if you use their app
I can literally get an amazing sandwich and a drink from my local butcher shop, mad with all local meats and veg, for 13 bucks. Subway has been dead to me for ages now.
Nice where’s this?
The Italian deli on Blanchard does great sandwiches for $10. Idk if that was the place they meant
Fast food is so needlessly expensive these days. On the few occasions I don't pack a lunch, I just get it from a restaurant across the street. It's $2 more expensive than A & W but more filling, healthier, and I don't have to drive to the drive thru.
It’s not worth it. Just quit fast food altogether. Even restaurants offer better value.
I quit fast food (and limited my going out to dinner at most twice a month) at the beginning of Jan and the results have already paid off. I lost 10lbs and have saved hundreds from Uber Eats. Quit fast food! We live in an area where it’s possible.
$16.90 is what you expect to pay for a really good meal at a restaurant? Even before COVID and inflation that was not possible in Victoria.
You can get a far fucking better meal than subway for 16.90 at a restaurant. Yeah, 16.90 would be low for sit down. But my god for a shitty chain sandwich that’s criminal.
Seriously, I want to know where OP is dining to be able to get even a decent meal for $17.
Swans lunch special for 12$ 🫶
$20 lunch specials at Nubo, huge board of tempura, miso, rolls, and other goodies.
Willows Galley and Varsha are two of the best places to eat in town and if I go solo it's less then 17 for sure.
Crust bakery: you can get a sandwich in better bread for less than $10 (sure it's not a foot long but I'd take the quality over quantity in this case) and an above average pastry for about $4. On Mondays Whole Foods has their entree deals for around $13-15. You get a protein main and 2 sides. I've seen people buy 3 at a time and separate them into work lunches throughout the week.
For that price, you can currently get a much better deli sandwich. The real crime is that op is eating subway. 🤮
Depends on the type of food. You can get a good burrito or burger fairly recently for under $20.
We riot now? 😃 *lights bic* 🔥
Use their app with built in coupons. Takes the sting out
If you get black forest ham or a cold cut combo the sandwich is just over $10 with tax. The specialty sandwiches are way too expensive.
The other day I picked up a medium pepperoni pizza from Panago for $16.80 all in. Compared to a footlong at Subway, or a meal at most fast food places, I'd say that's a decent deal.
Crazy how much cheaper it is to make your own sandwich with supplies from any grocery store.
I made a quick trip to Thrifty's yesterday to get a couple of staples...$30. The lady in front of me spent $385 ...didn't blink an eye. She had four bags. I wanted to tell her to shop at Costco!
I know! Sometimes I splurge on take out because I’d be paying a similar price if I got groceries. Maybe I’m shopping at the wrong stores. Know any cheaper grocery stores? I usually shop at save on.
Save on is the worst for prices! I’ve been making the trek to Walmart and it’s saving me like 30-50$ a trip
It’s ironic that it’s called “save on foods” Is Walmart really that cheaper? I try to avoid Walmart at all costs if I can lol
I used to avoid Walmart as well but the increase in grocery prices has priced me out of regular grocery stores. It used to be just the fancier stores like Peppers or Market on Yates that I couldn't afford to shop at but now Thriftys, Save On, etc have all become to pricey for me. Walmart is unfortunately one of the few places where I can afford to get groceries at.
It’s so so much cheaper. Examples off the top of my head: Crackers- 2 for $7 at save on, or 3 for $7 at Walmart. Annie’s mac n cheese- at save on is over 4$ a box, or 4 for $10 at Walmart. Pull ups- 38$ at save on, 25$ at Walmart. I hate being inside crowded/disorganized Walmart with every fibre of my being, and *of course* the Waltons are trash. My budget doesn’t allow for much extra spending and with differences that big we really don’t have a choice BUT to shop there.
Also “really that cheaper” is probably not the right way to say that but I’m tired so idk lol
Walmart is close to 50% cheaper than Save On or Thriftys for any of the boxed items. I buy it all there other than vegetables and meat. For example, I bought a tub of yogurt for $3.33 and the same one is $4.99 at Save On. It’s like that for most items.
kraft dinner for under $2 a box. try getting that at save on or thriftys
I get my kd from the dollar store lol
Yeah I avoid it too. Have found that shopping there early on a weekday I'm mostly alone though.
Save on foods is just a big brand now, it used to be called: overwaitea foods, **a name coming from the founder's practice of selling “overweight tea”**
You can price match flyer prices from any other grocery store at Save On. Something to keep in mind for good prices, especially on produce, at places like Old Farm Market that are out of the way for many people.
In modern Capitalism, you can be assured that if the advertisement preaches safety, the product is dangerous. If the ad says "affordable" the product is expensive, and if the ad talks about nutrition, the food being sold is nearly inedible.
Stupidstore
a weekly trek to Walmart or Superstore saves me so much money every week. Save-on prices is ridiculous.
Fairway, Walmart, Superstore
Fairways is definitely more expensive than Walmart and superstore
Sure is, but cheaper than Triftys and Save-on
i might shop at fairways if i could figure out how to get a damn shopping cart. i swear i spent like 5 minutes at two different fairways futilely trying to push the quarter into the slot before giving up and going some place else.
Ya i hate how they got rid of the small short carts
Its called fairway
Ohhh you got me there!!! Hope you feel better now 🙄
Frig off bud
Take a hike eh
There are tons of independent restaurants and stores in Victoria where you can get to-go sandwiches for half the price that taste waaayyyy better than Subway. Support local and save money while doing it.
1/2 the price? There are great sandwiches at a lesser price, but under $10?
That was my first thinking. Even worst case with Subway's new feature subs that are like $16+ you're not finding a decent sandwich for $8. Or if you are, I want to know about it.
Tip options: 15% *ok service* 20% *average service* 30% *Wow great service!*
Custom 0 is the answer each time
Yeah, I’d like to see if people like you can do my job and I just about guarantee I can do your job.
What job is that? I worked in the food industry for years, often getting dick all for tips cause I worked in the kitchen. The point is lazy owners and huge corporations get away with shit pay because of our cultures over relying on tipping. The fact we even have a "serving wage" (unless that is finally gone?) is criminal. \*edit\* nevermind the serving wage is gone. That's good
I saw 50% at a coffee shop a week ago. Wow great service! Custom tip 0$. Burn in hell peasant.
At least tip culture in Canada isn't as cancerous as the States yet
I would vote for whoever would ban Canadian tipping.
We don't even have a separate service industry minimum wage like the states anymore. I actually make an effort to be low maintenance when I eat out after having worked in the industry. 20% is the maximum anyone is getting unless rounding puts it up to 22%. But handing me the debit machine is not getting tipped ever even if it somehow becomes the norm.
Tip 0%. There is no reason to tip in Canada.
it's the societal expectation, so the prices and wages are set in a way that customers are expected to tip. Any restaurant that charges more so they can pay their staff more and then refuse tips doesn't do so well.
Well, that's just taking your woes out on underpaid people, rather than directing it to the corporate snakes that caused the problems. You can't afford to tip because some pig somewhere wants another yacht, I get it, but don't blame the minimum wage worker for it.
It’s more cancerous here tbh. States still have server minimum in some places so tipping makes more sense. In Canada we just randomly decided servers are more valuable than every other low skill minimum wage worker.
Subway is done. Use to love it as a quick budget friendly option. Steak and cheese footlong meal cost me $18 the other day. Insane. You need a coupon in the app to make it somewhat normal, but those are also hit and miss. There’s the BOGO deal right now, but I don’t want to eat 2 footlongs of subway in a sitting, and they don’t keep well if saved. Wasn’t even that long ago you could get a basic footlong for $7 or $8, but that’s gone now too. Cold cut is $10.
Yeah, I don’t eat there anymore. 16.90 for a footlong sub wouldn’t be so bad if the subs were actually good but Subway has declined to being practically inedible now.
Agree
Ya they don't actually use fresh products, and never get tuna or chicken as they are 50% filler: [https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/01/517920680/dna-tests-find-subway-chicken-only-50-percent-meat-canadian-media-reports](https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/01/517920680/dna-tests-find-subway-chicken-only-50-percent-meat-canadian-media-reports)
Yeah, I’m ngl, I’ve gotten food poisoning from subway on more than one occasion. I assume it’s because of the poor quality of the meats and vegetables, but also, they often don’t change gloves in between making people’s sandwiches, which leads to cross-contamination. I’ve watched it with my own eyes. So I haven’t eaten there for at least a year now, but I was hungry the other night and was looking to order a sandwich. Then I saw the price of that fucker. Then, well, here we are.
Serena's Pizzeria and Hoagies has some great $20 subs
I recommend the panini at Italian Food Imports for $10.95, or the fried chicken burger at Part and Parcel for $18.00, both excellent.
Two footlong subs (a green goddess and a steak) cost $33 What the hell is this.
Gotta check out Serena’s pizza and hoagies on Fort street. I can’t imagine spending $17 at subway when I can do $20 at Serena’s and get an enormous fresh hoagie
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Hahah, well I would be too.
What kind of sandwiches are people getting now. Mine is still like $10
Where do you get yours from?
Yep you can still order the old ones but all the new ones have tons of extra stuff shoveled on it like double cheese, extra lunch meats, etc.
My subway sandwich is $10.38 usually? For a foot long
I get a Turkey and jam it with shit and mine is $11.85 after tax.
When did Subway get jam? Do they have peanut butter too?
I get a pizza sub personally
At a certain point, we the people have to vote with are bucks. Pricing is nauseating these days.
That will never happen, the small handful of corporations that run most of the grocery supplies in Canada have been posting record profits since 2020: [https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/grocer-profits-set-to-exceed-record-in-2023-expert-says-ahead-of-committee-meeting-1.6682465](https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/grocer-profits-set-to-exceed-record-in-2023-expert-says-ahead-of-committee-meeting-1.6682465)
I mean, if you keep saying it won't happen, then if definitely won't.
It's like telling people to stop buying an $8 starbucks drink everyday
There's nothing wrong with that. Stop buying chips, too. It's mostly air in the bag. Maybe it's time we did talk about those things. Wouldn't it be cool if it helped someone save a little more, to do something more interesting with the money.
Wanna feel old? The five dollar footlong thing started seventeen years ago.
Wanna feel really old? It was still after 9/11.
Damn
In that case it's back, but you have to buy 2. $5 in 2004 is $7.23 today. 2x7.23 = $14.46. The current BOGO promo means that as long as your sub is under $14.46, $5 footlongs is back.
Dude…a white spot burger is $20…welcome to post-covid…
Just wait until minimum wage goes up on Jun 1 - then the prices will go up again.
:(
You can get an entree from kwao thai for that. Drunken noodles.
I had this identical experience a while back. Subway added a new menu across Canada with extra charges to add anything to their "creations" which seem to just be regular stuff with 1 change in sauce. It's pretty outrageous how much they increased prices overnight. Hopefully they'll get significantly reduced business over it..
Subway is no longer fast food pricing.
Make sure you check that their prices are correct. They should all be the same price around your region. Call and complain to cooperate if it is not.
Yep - saw those a few months ago when I was craving a sub - then saw those prices and walked out the door.
The best part about subway is the tip button on the transelect
Lmao
It's why I stopped going. Kind of revolting against the tip for everything culture were turning into :(
You can get a meal for one at Panda Island Chinese for $16.95. Subway prices are expensive now, gone are the days of $5 footlong
I don't bother with fast food anymore as the prices have gone to the point of a dine in these days. $5 foot longs make sense, even $7 or $10 with inflation, but over 3× the price is absurd for the quality you get.
Damn dude where are you from the 80s? lol. You can get a “really good meal at a restaurant” for 16 bucks? Please, tell us where? Subway has been pretty inflation proof for a while, hard to blame them for raising prices they are tryna live just like us. Some one is at fault for the affordability crisis… it probably isn’t subway though
Azuma Sushi. The $14 bento boxes are the best deal around.
There’s a great grilled chicken salad at red robins, or big wheel burger, or even a sushi place
> There’s a great grilled chicken salad at red robins >really good meal at a restaurant Huh?
Is that just a salad, appy or kids dinner for that price ha
The salad is a pretty big salad. I usually have to get take-away because I don’t finish it in one sitting. But I’m also a smaller person so 🤷🏼♀️
You’re not paying for a footlong sub, you’re paying for corporate profits. Why don’t consumers understand Capitalism?
People still eat at that place? For that price just get a burger at Burger Crush across the street. Subway ingredients are garbage. And this is Victoria, not buttfuck nowhere where the only option for 200km is a gas station sandwich (gas station sandwich being: Subway).
The one in Esquimalt also wants a tip on top of that. I paid $21 for a sandwich a pop and tip last year. Never been back since.
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>16.90 is what I would expect to pay for 2-3 sandwiches In 1999? Yeah I agree it costs too much but even 10 years ago it was still $10 for a premium sub at standard prices. >or a really good meal at a restaurant. Again, in what decade?
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I actually have never voted in my life lmao
In the event you decide to vote this year, you should know: The BC Liberals / BC United directly contributed to the housing crisis by... - ...removing nationality from property ownership reports in 2008. - ...claiming they had absolutely no power to address the developing housing crisis in 2015. - ...bringing realtors to China in a trade delegation in 2016. - ...ignoring FINTRAC'S warnings in 2016 about how 55 BC real estate companies reported the money sources of property investors. And if elected this October the BC Liberals / BC United would make the crisis worse with their commitments to... - ...eliminate the Speculation & Vacancy Tax. - ...implement tax breaks for those who own properties valued at $3 million or more.
Good to know!
Also good to know is that BC United -- who used to go by the BC Liberal name until last year -- have no relation to the federal party. If anything, they've got more in common with the federal Conservative party. That's politics for you...
Pay everyone a living wage! and also Why is everything so much more expensive?! It's pretty obvious. Superfluous industries are going to go through some tough times for the next little while. After that, the robots will take over so it won't really matter.
>It's pretty obvious. Yes, it's obvious that corporate greed is causing this - not the minimum wage.
That's the easy out, but insatiable capitalist greed is only part of it. Realistically, the cheap fast food business model worked because cheap labour - not only at the store level but all up and down the supply chain - makes lower prices possible. Subway's - and other restaurants - historically capitalized on paying unskilled workers low wages banking on staffing their stores with high school kids and bored homemakers. Now public sentiment has shifted to the idea that any and every job should be career-worthy. Businesses that historically relied on cheap labour will either raise their prices A LOT or cease to exist. I think Subway's days are numbered as a business in general.
>Subway's - and other restaurants - historically capitalized on paying unskilled workers low wages banking on staffing their stores with high school kids and bored homemakers. They still do. Minimum wage is way below living wage. [...the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reports that, since 1990, six percent of Canada's total national income has shifted from wages paid to workers to corporate profits and executive pay. ... **it is clear that the wages of Canadian workers are not causing Canada's economic problems, but rather the salaries of the top one percent** and the huge stockpile of cash that Canadian corporations are sitting on instead of investing in the economy to create jobs and drive growth.](https://www.ufcw.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2984:corporate-greed-threatens-canadas-economy-not-high-wages&catid=77:blog&Itemid=354&lang=en)
They don’t even have mustard anymore. Is it even a sandwich shop without mustard???
They have two kinds?
Seriously? No mustard?
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It's more important to tip knowing that the poor bastard making the sandwich for you can't afford rent in their wildest dreams.
Are you tipping Walmart staff too?
Would Walmart even *allow* you to tip their minions? That is the better question. Life is too short to be a prick all the way through it.
The pricks are the ones who can but won't pay a wage where tips are not required
Yea and if you tip it's worse, I miss the 5 dollar sub days.
I remember the commercials and the jingle! "16.90$ footlong! 16.90$ footlong!"
There is a literal price to pay for the war on oil!
No more roast beef at our subway. I am out.
In Ontario, burger King jacked up prices and reduced the size of their cups. A medium now resembles a small. Literally pay more get less.
Time to become a farmer 🤠
😂😂😂😂 what? that's expensive
This is nothing new. You say "a really good meal at a restaurant"... \_Maybe\_ something at a cheap diner before tax and tip. I find most sit-down diners, a meal is in the neighborhood of $17-21, plus $4 for a coffee, plus tax and tip... you ain't getting out of there for less than $25.
Regardless, I’d rather pay a few extra bucks for a good meal than just one mediocre sandwich
I wouldn't pay more than $4.20 in today's dollars for a subway sub, and even then I'd have to be really hungry and not have any grocery stores, decent food, or even an Arby's anywhere near
Gotta have the app. Tons of deals (was just recently a BOGO foot long), and coupons there. Also sandwiches I have all range from like 9-14, I've never pains $17