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20233603 No.20233603 [Reply] [Original]

Why did they fail? They had a superior product to Subway, and the other chains.

>> No.20233616

>>20233603
they are still around, i live by one. but they committed corporate suicide with the weird ads
https://www.thedailymeal.com/1449360/what-happened-to-quiznos/
In 2006, the company's senior VP of marketing, Scott Lippitt, was arrested after attempting to solicit an undercover police officer he thought was a 13-year-old girl. Incredibly, Quiznos made a bad situation worse by not immediately firing him (though it did do so eventually). But the fallout reached forward through time when in 2009, the company launched a truly bizarre ad campaign involving a toaster sexually harassing Quiznos employees. The public relations firestorm that occurred over a three year-period from the lawsuits, the sex scandal, the suicide, and the awful advertising (that brought back up the sex scandal) was a cataclysm from which there could be no going back.

Read More: https://www.thedailymeal.com/1449360/what-happened-to-quiznos/

>> No.20233617

>>20233603
Store owners abandoned their stores because profit margins were too low to make it possible to go on.

>> No.20233619

>>20233603
Subway started doing toasted sandwiches too and their stuff was cheaper

>> No.20233620

>>20233616
whats up with sub places and pedos? Subway etc

>> No.20233626

>Why did they fail?
Normie answer: other chains caught-up to "toasted subs" gimmick

Real answer: sponge monkies marketing campaign grossed people out and made investors think management didn't know what they were doing. Also, they fucked over franchisees

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuPTZWhz46M

Yes, this was a real commercial.

>> No.20233628

>>20233626
literally why what the fuck lmao

>> No.20233630

best sub sandwiches in southwest washington. centralia has objectively the best quiznos in the country, and its in an outlet mall so deals for days and delicious sammich.

>> No.20233641

>>20233628
This was peak newgrounds/ebaums/Tim and Eric ironic dogshit meme era.

>> No.20233644

>>20233626
spongkino was before its time
https://youtu.be/I9MZNEXrElw

>> No.20233667

>>20233603
man, I miss quiznos, they used to have some great stuff, now were I live there's only subway and everything is always cold and the bread tastes old as fuck.

>> No.20233675

>>20233667
Subway ruined the one good thing they had the sweet onion teriyaki sauce, also the ones near me are ran by the same Indian family they dont accept promotions a sub is like 15.45 there

>> No.20233678

>>20233675
Subway corporate is now forcing all franchisees to honor all national promotions and coupons. The end is near.

>> No.20233681
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20233681

>>20233603
Blimpie was best

>> No.20233684

I just check Fast Food menu prices and their large subs are still under $10 which is cheaper than I thought, but still like $3 more than whatever Publix sub is on sale this week. Can't imagine franchisees are making any money. They were already getting screwed before Biden inflation.

>> No.20233686

>>20233678
Good riddance to them, that subway shithole sucks.

>> No.20233687

Their mascots were two furry niggers who sang songs that baby boomers didn't understand

>> No.20233688

>quiznos toaster here. and i've got your number
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEgdVjo0NX4
wtf lol

>> No.20233694

>>20233678
Finally, this place legit would take no promotion or coupons like zero. get fucked franchise pajeeets

>> No.20233695

this is ridiculous
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbMd0yEXt0A

>>20233681
they still exist, there's one in ankeny iowa.

>> No.20233697

>>20233687
and the toaster oven that sexually harasses an employee

>> No.20233700

>>20233644
I do not want the people making my food to be ironic and lulzy and "fun". That's what internet shitposting is for. I want the people making my food to be normal and friendly and clean and serious. How you do anything is how you do everything.

>> No.20233703

>>20233697
If she's cute and wearing a short skirt then she deserves it.

>> No.20233705
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20233705

>>20233700

>> No.20233709

>>20233694
>>20233686
The holding group that owns Jimmy Johns recently bought Subway. I believe they bought it to eventually kill it.

>> No.20233710

>>20233697
How the fuck does a toaster over sexually harass an employee, what are you people weirdos?

>> No.20233722

even if quiznos had survived, it would've wound up just as bad as subway anyway

>> No.20233733

>>20233709
Yeah, maybe it was some kind of money laundering operation.

>> No.20233736
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20233736

>>20233705
>some who-gives-a-shit foreign language
Eat shit, worldies. Don't care

>> No.20233745

>>20233705
I've never seen a black working at a subway, it's always pajeets and they're to be avoided at all costs.

>> No.20233757

>>20233745
https://youtu.be/S1MW66Eg17s

>> No.20233763

>>20233709
There can't be money in subs anymore. The market was flooded in the 00's and 10's with two many upstarts trying to grow too fast
>Subway
>Quiznos
>Blimpies
>Firehouse
>Jimmy Johns
>Jersey Mike's

Meanwhile, they're not even the sandwiches that people actually like in the US. Top of the list is always the true delis known for sandwiches, not "sub shops"

>> No.20233787

>>20233603
Subway had the clientele, and installed ovens. Quiznos kept introducing great sandwiches, and scrapping them for lesser grub. The peperoncinis became the only decent reason to go to Quiznos... I bet they scrapped those too.

>> No.20233791

>>20233705
What in the name of Iberian Creole is that?

>> No.20233901

>>20233620
rhymes with booze

>> No.20233936

>>20233763
Yeah, but out of all of those places, I'd actually want to go to Jimmy Jong's. I'd still go to a good deli or sub shop first, and I know where every good one is in town but I do like jimmy jong's

>> No.20233939

it was me. it was 2003ish and i found out you could just eat the extra condiments like jalapenos. i ate a lot of them.
big jalapeno took them out instead of me

>> No.20233951

>>20233695
>ankeny iowa
I've never been to Ankeny Iowa, I'll have to sometime even if just to check out the Blimpies.

>> No.20233954

>>20233791
Alberto Barbosa

>> No.20234298

>>20233681
Should have just named it "Fat fuck sandwiches" instead of the blimp implication.

>> No.20234536

>>20233954
He shouldn't have shaved.

>> No.20234574

>>20233620
the truth is probably that a giant portion of society are pedos and just never get caught

>> No.20234627

>>20233620
Everyone likes sandwiches.

>> No.20234635

>>20233616

No one cared about any of this. They overleveraged on debt, they started squeezing franchises by overcharging them for food, franchises shut down.

The end.

>> No.20234737

>>20233763
Meanwhile in leafland we have
>Subway
>Firehouse
>some Quiznos
Give us Jersey Mike's

>> No.20234807

>>20233628
>>20233626
It was a shot at achieving meme status in the primordial proto-meme era of the internet. In the same year/time period Numa Numa, Star Wars kid, "O RLY?", demotivational posters & Youtube poop gained popularity online via 4chan, SA & other sites. In that context it's not completely retarded a marketing idea but they were probably one of the first major corporations to openly try viral meme marketing, only they did it way too early before a critical mass of normies took to the internet with social media.

>> No.20234816

>>20233745
>be me
>there are 3 subways in town & I start getting sandwiches from 2 of them because they're close to my work/commute
>both places are staffed by Indian guys wearing sandals, polo shirts and jeans who don't make eye contact with you
>get diarrhea every time I eat it
>swear off of Subway thinking it's the bread making me shit my guts out
>try the third place one day when I forgot to pack a lunch
>it's staffed by whites, a cute girl makes my sandwich and chats with me
>don't get diarrhea
Can someone help me figure this out, bros?

>> No.20234884

>>20234816
Same as my area. One is owned by some villainous looking pajeet who skimps on everything. The other is a couple cute white girls and some white guy. The pajeet one never accepts coupons or deals, the other does. It's a night and day difference of how they are ran.

>> No.20234945

>>20233626
Ahead of their time. I used to love quizno's.

>> No.20235079

They forced their franchisees to buy from their over priced supplier. Nobody could make a profit so they all closed. My city went from having a shitload to having two. Funny enough I think one of the two was the first one to open in my city.

>> No.20235080

>>20233603
pepper bar was too expensive to maintain

>> No.20235081

>>20233603
failure of corporate leadership made franchises unprofitable

>> No.20235152

IIRC franchise owners had to pay massive royalties so it wasn't profitable.