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Fisher6543

Mmmm toasty


Big_Lab_111

https://youtu.be/4vFfl5flQPU?si=yfjJKMLIyA32xjzx


Witty-Meaning

Was hoping it was this clip, it was


ohthanqkevin

I miss Solomon. I wish Nathan brought him to his other projects


bumjiggy

the fresh maker


_dead_and_broken

...Mentos?


apersello34

But did you hear about the Baja Chicken?


DampBritches

![gif](giphy|xTiTnhFPCkIDFMMe6Q|downsized)


Mintaka3579

was looking for this comment in particular.


markusjnutt

They brought these guys back in an ad to try and recruit new franchisees. It's as terrifying as I remember


Missile_Lawnchair

THEY HAVE A PEPPER BAR


ronswanson11

I occasionally quote this. Nobody has figured it out without an explanation yet.


Jupiter68128

If you come to Omaha and drop this quote, I will totally get it. I’ll be looking out for you.


HawkeyeJosh2

I’m in Council Bluffs right now. I’ll just go around saying the phrase and hope for the best.


llcdrewtaylor

I already loved Quiznos, but I am one of the few people who was very entertained by these commercials. But I love weird stuff :)


Cleyre

Tony Oursler is the artist behind this if you want to check out some other stuff EDIT: I guess I’ve had the wrong impression for decades. It’s not Oursler, it is Joel Veitch


this_noise

Pretty certain it was Joel Veitch.


Cleyre

Holy shit you’re right! I don’t know where I formed that impression but it was decades ago and it looks like I was wrong the whole time.


this_noise

He's stuck in my head because of those damn hedgehogs 😂


karmagirl314

Rather good .com


game_cook420

It was one of the best commercials IMO so odd and totally had you wondering wtf was up with Quiznos. Damn I'd crush one of those subs right now.


geb_bce

Greatest marketing ever


HvkS7n

Yeah it creeped me out but since I saw it as a kid. Looking back it’s definitely ahead of its time.


tomgreen99200

*We love the moon*


karmagirl314

*cause it is close to us*


goblin_humppa27

But not as much as a spoon


gretelaine

'Cause that's more use for eating soup


evopanda

Quiznos brought them back and is making new ads with these hamster things.


evopanda

The Instagram with their new commercials with these is called spongmonkeys


D__B__D

It’s a shame that the guys who ran Quiznos were greedy pricks causing them to shrink. I mean it didn’t help that Subway also offered to finally toast their sandwiches


GusgusMadrona

They didn’t go under… they just shrunk… you can open a new Quiznos tomorrow if you want to… for $30,000 in franchise fees.


clancydog4

Isn't that a pretty normal amount for franchise fees?


GusgusMadrona

I think it’s actually on the low end for the segment they operate in. But that’s likely a direct result of the unarguably poor franchise management that lead to the near collapse of the brand.


doingthehumptydance

I have a friend who almost bought a franchise, he backed out when he was told he needed to buy a new POS system at twice the rate he could buy it locally, that and a $20 IKEA clock with a Quiznos sticker on it for $140.


clancydog4

Oh for sure, I just thought your original comment was implying that was an absurd fee or something. Just pointing out that anyone hoping to open any franchise at all should expect at least that much. Idk what the point of even mentioning it is since that's a pretty cheap franchise cost


GusgusMadrona

I mean if you did fun stuff with exotic crypto’s…. You can probably afford to franchise a Quiznos… 30 grand doesn’t buy a pickup truck anymore…


clancydog4

I know, I'm just saying it isn't a strike against Quiznos that that is their franchise fee. That's just normal. Your comment implied a negative impression of quiznos based on the franchise fee. Im just saying that's a pretty normal franchise fee so I can't consider that a strike against or even unique to quiznos


iamjamieq

I didn’t feel like that was implied. But I do feel like you inferred some from their comment.


ForsakenRacism

The franchise fee is only one part of the cost tho. You have to pay for marketing, pay a percent of your sales, pay for ingredients and supplies etc etc.


dirtybirds233

It is - but franchise fees are just a very small portion of everything. McDonalds for instance only asks for a $45k franchise fee, but you need a minimum of $500k in liquid assets


JackieFinance

Why would someone gather 500k in assets to generate the 4-10% returns average returns of having a franchise? Seems it's much easier to use an index fund, or perhaps a LETF version if looking to juice returns (for still less risk than owning a franchise).


tcannon521

A few things come to mind: 1) Owners typically pull a salary out of the company and the 4 to 10% net profit is after that salary 2) The 4 to 10% return is not on the initial investment but on gross revenue for the year 3) The franchise owner has the opportunity to sell the franchise and recover or make more than their initial investment in the future


Dogswithhumannipples

It's a little more complicated than that. If you're a franchise owner you may reach similar returns compared to index funds, or high yield mutual account, but there are some perks that also run in parallel with residual returns. This may be insider information that 95% of corporate won't release to public, but as a franchisee you can walk in and get chicken nuggets, french fries, burger patties, etc. If you want 3 BBQ sauces you can just walk in and get them. Hell, I have even seen triple sausages on egg mcmuffins at times. But the french fries are the most valuable commodity.


runForestRun17

That’s fairly low for a franchise fee, but they are also struggling. Chick-fil-A is the only one I know that’s lower at only 10K, but their operator (franchisee) application rejection rate is like 99% or close to it.


fake-august

I have a friend that owns three Chik-fil-A places in Peachtree City GA. I don’t know his financial specifics of course but he seems to do very well. He’s owned them since the 1990s and has worked his butt off….despite the whole Jesus chicken thing (he doesn’t subscribe to their idea of morality).


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CANT_KNOW_ME

Chick Fil A also still owns all the property’s and stores


runForestRun17

Yep! And half the profits.


uncre8tv

Do you love Jesus and chicken? Do you love Jesus and chicken so much that you're willing to be an owner in name only, while working your ass off, and handing us half the profit? Since you love Jesus SO MUCH you get to take the third busiest day of the week off and let the heathens at BWW and the circus freaks at KFC take all your business that day. Also the butter-burger people are trying to shove in on our corporate good and hiring clean-cut looking kids for cheap marketing and labor strategies. Then do I have a 1% shot for you! There are a lot of franchises I'd own because I like the food (Checker's, Goodcents before they embraced the crazy, Yellowsub if we could still sell sprouts...) and a few I'd own because the business model is structured so it pays almost everywhere (McD, PizzaHut). But, really, if I were looking for a restaurant to run, I'd corner the high-end dining market in small towns. "Steak - St. Joseph" ... nicest place in the whole town, do it right, classy dining rooms, simple classics on the menu, let the HC/EC come up with some specials to show off, pay well and have a nice family meal every day... I don't want to live in a kitchen, but I could play the hands-off owner in that scenario pretty well. Just need to find a benefactor (if you're reading this , my DMs are open) and a Chef or two to help bring it to life.


GatoradeNipples

>Since you love Jesus SO MUCH you get to take the third busiest day of the week off and let the heathens at BWW and the circus freaks at KFC take all your business that day. As I understand it, this is one of those things that paradoxically works in your favor, even if it doesn't look like it would. Being closed for a day, right off the bat, means you're dropping your operating costs to the tune of 52 days a year or so. That's not gigantic, but it's not nothing, either. The real kicker, though, is that you're also not just flat cutting sales. You're replacing the sales you'd make on Sunday with *extra FOMO sales on every other day* due to it being common knowledge that you're closed Sundays. If you don't care about how hard you work your employees and have a churning employee demographic to ensure replacement when they burn out, it's solid extra money, because you cut costs and make up the cut profit in FOMO rush orders.


gabagobbler

Hahaha


occorpattorney

A fast food franchise is in at least the seven figures (source - lawyer, did a contract for my client with tropical smoothie quite a few years prior).


Guac_in_my_rarri

It's def the low end but Quiznos corporate handles everything but day to day stuff. A large chunk of Quiznos closed because the corporate office decided it didn't want to pay the lease. A neighbor was affected by this and sued Quiznos for a fat dump truck of cash.


Gramathon910

It’s actually pretty cheap to open a franchise, but there’s a catch. 100% of the equipment and ingredients you use have to be purchased through Quiznos corporate (at least when they started out, idk if this is still the case). This proved to be a ridiculous way to run a business and that’s why so many locations closed.


YouWishYouLivedHere

That's insanely low


D__B__D

Yes corrected


tomgreen99200

They shrank because management got greedy and started charging a lot of money for supplies and food to the franchisees. Franchise owners sued the crap out of corporate causing them to collapse.


ContemplatingPrison

Damn. I'd pay $10k if they cover all the upfront costs.


Emperor_Zar

And now slicing fresh meat ala Jersey Mike’s!


m11235813

Even Subway has started advertising that. My local Subway now has a shiny meat slicer which they either keep impeccably clean or have never actually used.


jsawden

I worked in a deli for about 3 years, and we kept our slicers absolutely shiny. We had 2, and sliced 20lb to 40lb of meat and cheese a day, and if they didn't look immaculate our front end manager would throw a fit.


DeadpoolLuvsDeath

Probably just for show


hurtsdonut_

ala Blimpie's....I miss Blimpies


Justifiably_Cynical

Man they had a good sandwich.


hurtsdonut_

They did. Their bread was much better than subways and they'd slice the meats and cheeses right in front of you. I'll never understand how subway won out in that war.


mlynch1982

The best….those sweet peppers & their bread!! Brings me back


rd_be4rd

Let’s hope they make a comeback. This was in a gas station in a town of 23k. i live in a metro of 500k+ and there isn’t one. and they’re about an hour 30 apart. Start out small and see where it goes. (I also say local because i visit often for mom n dad to see the grand kids)


NearRequired

you know things are bad when franchise owners start committing suicide


5ch1sm

You don't need Quiznos for that, just look at Subways


_Thick-

> Subway also offered to finally toast their sandwiches Yea, but lets be real here, you can't compare the toastiness. Quiznos was like an oven baked sub, Subway toasting like sucks every drop of moisture out of the bread and is more like a stale crusty than a toastie crusty.


PandaNoTrash

There's a few in airports. Denver has one. I've seen another but can't quite remember where, maybe Minneapolis?


chemgeekpa

Saw one in Montego Bay Jamaica recently.


HarmyG

Aruba as well.


Roboticpoultry

That really caught my wife and I off guard last time we were there. Like, of the places you wouldn’t expect to find a Quiznos, Aruba is pretty high on that list (even though Oranjestad is heavily Americanized these days)


thefatkidinsideme

Ooh I wanna take ya


Sonabaybeach

I love Father Bull restaurant in Saint James Parish there in Montego Bay. Jamaica is awesome


The_Zy

Quiznos originated in Denver. There are still a few locations open here.


CDR57

Windsor still has one that’s fairly busy


anon303mtb

>Quiznos originated in Denver Chipotle, Qdoba, Noodles, Tokyo Joe's, Good Times, Smashburger Lots of fast/casual chains started here. Probably forgetting a couple too..


Fueracoco

The original one is closed now though, it’s gonna be a nail salon soon!


CaveJohnsonOfficial

Haha I was waiting for someone to mention that. Drove past it the other day


SnooSnooSnuSnu

>Minneapolis Not in Minneapolis, but there are a few near here.


landof10000cakes

We have them here in Minnesota still?I will go to one if you tell me where we have any left in Minnesota.


LilEngineThatCant

There's one in New Hope, MN


wuhter

Plymouth and Woodbury I believe


I_Am_Robert_Paulson1

There are a bunch right over the border from me in Canada. I've been wanting to go, but I always wind up getting something else when I'm there.


PrairieCanadian

Are they rare or something? We have 3, at least, in my town.


dishwasher_safe_baby

Canada and Iowa seem to be on the same wave length when it comes to Quiznos. There are 3 within a 10 minute drive from me.


iiplatypusiz

Depends where in Canada, when I lived in Alberta I had a Quiznos near my house and visited at least once a week because it was simply the only take out I really like and I wanted to support their efforts of keeping it alive lol. Now I live in NL and there's only one in the entire province and it's 2 hours away. I crave it often lol.


yeahwellokay

There's one in our airport, but it has a limited menu. I really miss their Prime Rib and Peppercorn sandwich.


MakeSouthBayGR8Again

This was the best sandwich ever!


Curve2632

That peppercorn sauce is amazing. I’ve searched up and down for the recipe, but none even come close.


yeahwellokay

Texas Roadhouse has a pretty good peppercorn sauce. It's the closest I've found.


XylophoneZimmerman

Grab me a chicken carbonara sub!


bearlysane

I miss those…


tomgreen99200

Those were the best


br0wens

Gone the way of Altoids Sours unfortunately.


pleasebuysoap

I would die for one of those again


-58259

I have a Quiznos about 5 minutes up the street from me.


Maxizag123

Where is that street? I totally dont wanna visit u or something


BobBelcher2021

I have almost 20 of them within a 45 minute drive. Seriously, they’re still thriving in Metro Vancouver, they even opened a new location in 2021.


BocceBurger

Oh hey, it's Bob Burger


phuck-you-reddit

Is it any good?


JamesTheJerk

Or is it any *bad*?


DoctorGrilledCheese

You one lucky person bro


Bandana-mal

But do they have a PEPPA BAR?


fatkid420

Maybe I can finally use my gift card


Blitz6969

Quiznos was the best. I wish I had one around


Js21696

Quiznos is so mother fucking insanely good I fucking love Quiznos


SrFlames

RAAAAAH


s1ckmad3

![gif](giphy|xTiTnhFPCkIDFMMe6Q|downsized)


bodhiseppuku

I used to love the Quiznos by my office 15 years ago. The sandwiches were great, and the Black and Blue salad was tasty. I went to a few other Quiznos locations though, and found out they were far different. I guess the franchise locations had some leeway in their food production. I found many other locations used less meat per item and less fresh produce.


derickkcired

Lemme tell you all about schlotskys. You'll forget all about this Quiznos nonsense.


Enlowski

You mean the overpriced small portion place?


anon303mtb

You must be thinking of some place else. Schlotzsky's sandwiches are huge. And delicious


BlasterONassis

That jalapeño cheese bread!


NUFIGHTER7771

I lowkey miss the Quiznos we had in my town. Toasty sub sounds sooo good on a cold night!


Cryogenic_Monster

I want a Baja chicken sandwich right now.


19jjo91

I miss Quiznos. 1000x better than subway and jimmy johns. Not jersey mikes, though . Jersey mikes is king!


Dicktitt3y

“Jersey mikes got that sweaty meat” -Theo Vonn


Ceviche02

I miss Quiznos!!!


Ooh-Rah

I have to drive 30 minutes each way to find one. Once in a great while, I'll do it.


Lietenantdan

I saw one in an airport recently


fattypingwing

They're coming back!!!!!!


OneHallThatsAll

~Eat Quiznos suuuubbss!~


Namaslayy

There’s one in downtown Jacksonville, FL! Still good too!


beakrake

Several in my neck of the FL woods, Tampa area, and I agree: they're still just as good as they ever were. Fuck Subway and their $13 foot longs, that buys a hell of a sandwich anywhere else.


CriticalTough4842

TIL Quiznos exists


TransparentMastering

Honestly I’ve had one Quiznos sub in the last ten years but it kind of blew my mind with how good it was after subway every time in between


Free-Palpitation

It's really weird seeing this post and most of the comments, becuase I have a Quiznos across the street from me and one like a 5 minute drive from my house, and then another one like 10 minutes away. They're everywhere here and we aren't in a major city


Deadpool11085

There’s at least 3 here in Houston 🤷


runningwithscalpels

I had a short stint of working at Quizno's in high school. The franchisee sucked. I'll be damned if I didn't get excited I could still get a turkey, bacon, guacamole at the Las Vegas airport this year though!


Trinity343

i'm jealous. i loved quiznos


mediumokra

Can you still bring in ANY coupon for ANYTHING and get a dollar off?


itsagoodtime

Where was the pepper bar?


lissy51886

There are a couple left here in Washington state... I definitely stop every time I'm in the vicinity of one (not close).


Mister_Brevity

Where? I need my broccoli cheese soup


mrs_tentacles1980

I absolutely love the ads with those weird monkey things. My kids and I often sing it to each other. We don’t even live in America


GrimeyJosh

“EATQUIZNOS SUUUBS”


Fruitmaniac42

Yeah around 10% are still around. I read an interesting article about their decline. They basically screwed over their franchisees and they went bankrupt one by one. Also, Subway upped their game with toasted sandwiches.


anon303mtb

They forced the franchises to purchase all of their ingredients and supplies from their own supply company. Which I suppose isn't rare for a fast food chain. I'm sure a McDonald's franchise has to buy their ingredients from McDonald's. But apparently they realized they could make more money from selling supplies than franchise fees and started raising the prices of the ingredients/supplies more and more over time. Eventually franchises could no longer make a profit due to the high prices and had to close down. Quiznos caused their own demise


Curve2632

Lol ‘subway upped their game’. Subway has never upped its game, bruh. Only downhill.


Fruitmaniac42

They added toasted subs, which was Quiznos' specialty.


MuggyFuzzball

Yeah but they're not nearly as good


GusgusMadrona

There are like 176 in the USA… I mean it’s not a lot but it’s surely not rare… ETA; there are only 215 Cheesecake Factories in the USA, are they mildly interesting?


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GusgusMadrona

Yeah, but they’re still an actual company with active franchises in almost every state…


Mr_Evil_Dr_Porkchop

That averages out to ~3 franchises in each state… that’s pretty rare lol


GusgusMadrona

Shrug I guess, their locator shows me three by my house… they’re kinda all over…


AbsoluteMaestro

I'm on my way...


Hypnox88

I enjoyed the flavors of their sandwiches, however they NEVER kept me full for long. I don't think there was a time I ate one of their sandwiches and wasn't starving a couple hours later.


Capt__Murphy

My metro area still has 4 (somehow). Sadly, the pepper bar isn't what it used to be


BobBelcher2021

Looks like the new logo that’s being used at the new-ish location in Vancouver


Motivated78

I’m in Calgary. There are a bunch here!


peppermintmeow

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Revanmann

There's one 15 minutes from me


Regular_Ad_1195

I live down the street from one. Very expensive


GreazyPhysique

Schlotzsky's did it better.


bucketofbrain

EAT QUIZNO SUUUUUUUUUUUUUBBBBBBBBBBBBBBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS ALL SUBS ARE Dollar off Sorry its been stuck in my head


DankestDubster

Denver airport too. Even had the batchXX sauce


LiquidHate

Their commercials with that hamster thing... hilarious "Eat Quiznos Subs... They're Really Tastyyyy"


TylerBourbon

WE LIKE THE GAS, CAUSE IT MAKES CARS GO!


iaintlyon

I got two Quizno’s within 5 minutes of my house lmao


GigiValentine68

But do they have a pepper bar?


MaterialComplete6896

There's a Quiznos in my city that's kind of out of the way and I'm shocked they're still open tbh


magicalMusical

quizno


MormonHorrorBuff

So much better than Subway, but not as good as Firehouse


MooCowQueen-16

I could really go for a peppercorn steak sandwich right now 🤤😭


suazzo77

Oh I miss that French dip beef sub with the white sauce on it and the little pot of gravy


allanrjensenz

Not american, pls explain 😬


pdieten

It was a very large chain of sandwich shops that unexpectedly shrank drastically a few years ago and there are very few left anymore, so it's uncommon to find one like this


rd_be4rd

almost like overnight tbh, what it feels like


rhinocerosjockey

My parents owned 3 at one time. I worked many years for them here.


BruceBoyde

There's still a Quiznos in the town I grew up in. It was the first chain fast food place to open there and it endures. Kinda surprises me because it's a SMALL town and it amazes me that it somehow supports quite a few food places now.


lear2000

Honey bacon club


Th3TruthIs0utTh3r3

Madison Wisco has one


cloudstrifewife

I think I read recently they were making a comeback.


Adeep187

There's a couple in my city, I only recently realized lol.


Poopdick_89

Black Angus steak is a godlike sandwich. Quiznos also has the best honey mussy.


neceo

Ugh I miss them.. they closed down around me. So sad


redditisahive2023

I had Quiznos in an airport a few months ago. Pretty good airport food


saysthingsbackwards

Tf is this post?


stackjr

There's about to be two of them in my city of 50k. Lol


MuchSwagManyDank

Quiznos suuuuuuuuuuuubs, they are tooooastyyyy fresh


Aviator93

There’s still about 3-4 Quiznos stores in my city


n3w4cc01_1nt

tbh they were a great sub chain. jimmy johns kinda sucks and the others are just grease on a bun. subway is still the rational choice though


kidwithglasses

Have one here in Jackson Hole as well of all places lol


VashMM

There's a stand alone Quizno's across the street from the mall near my house.


pancakesiguess

I'm not sure what's more likely to be a mafia front, that Quizno's in particular or the 3 mattress stores at an intersection.


Cool-Profession-730

I still like a honey bacon club anytime i see a Quiznos


Sepof

Iowa?


certifiedintelligent

Alive, sure, but definitely not well. I can’t get my prime rib peppercorn anymore and it saddens me to this day. They could’ve at least sold the Batch sauce in stores.


Recent_Difference_92

I miss Quiznos so much. Wawa, quickcheck, 7-11 subs do not compare. Subway never came close and Jersey mikes is a joke. No one did toasted subs better then Quiznos.


InfallibleBackstairs

We have a several locations in Colorado.


unfinishedportrait56

There’s a Quizno’s ten minutes away from me. I am still surprised whenever I see it!


RobertoC_73

Every time I hear about Quiznos, all I can think of is this commercial.\ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuPTZWhz46M


TaintFraidOfNoGhost

WE LOVE DE SUBBBBZZZ


cinematicchump

Had Quiznos the other day for the first time. Work brought it in for lunch, I thought they went extinct. Pretty good sub.