Part of the success of other fast food joints (that are otherwise bad for you) is how you don't even have to leave your car to pick up some lunch. With this convenience, having to stop into Subway can be, and often is, too much of a hassle to want to deal with. The preperation of a sub sandwich doesn't seem any slower than a combo meal from Jack-in-the-Box. Why doesn't Subway start building restaurants with drive-thru windows? I have a feeling a LOT more people would be going there, given the added convenience, and it would create a few more jobs for young folks who are trying to save up for a car while they're still in high school.
2007-03-24 22:32:24 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Dining Out ➔ Fast Food
some of them do, the one up the street from my house is a drive thru
2007-03-24 22:35:59 · answer #1 · answered by Jess 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Drive thru windows are about convenience, not laziness. It can be faster to go to a window. There are Subway restaurants with drive thru windows. Some of you people really need to get facts before you come on here posting inaccurate, disrespectful answers.
2016-03-29 03:31:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why don't Subway Restaurants have drive thru's you ask? The answer is because of the locations that they set up their stores. They set up their stores in shopping centers, inside many Sam Walton Markets (Wal-Mart), grocery stores, gas stations, Casino's, and almost anywhere else a Subway Sandwiches location could even possibly survive, EVEN if there is another one across the street, as it is for many Wal-Mart Subway locations.
I have noticed that many Subway locations that are former Taco-Bell's have drive thru's, but from what I am seeing, those are pretty much the only free-standing Subway locations I can see, most as I have explained previously, are INSIDE locations where a DRIVE THRU could not be arranged for.
You may wish to write Subway Restaurants with your concern, explaining to them the economic benefits of opening locations with Drive Thru's, as this chain is not affraid to open locations right across the street from one another.
2007-03-25 01:35:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Subway across the street from my office had one when they first opened because they had leased a space on the corner that already had one. But it didn't last long before they sealed it up. I think it has to do with the rhythm of their mass production line and the fact that you are communicating step by step with the builder of your sandwich as it is being made in front of you. Just stop and think about just how many separate questions you are asked when going through that line. Just stop to think about someone else injecting an order between yours and another person's in line. It doesn't flow that well. Other fast food places don't have that many options. Think of the number of items that can go on or be left off of your sandwich.
2007-03-25 00:25:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is one in Las Vegas where I live, and trust me it isn't any faster. I went to the drive thru. I was the only one in line and it took FOREVER. All because I wanted it toasted. Some of the appeal of Subway is you can watch them as they make it so there is no mistakes. But yeah, I see where you are coming from. And the sandwich that I got from Subway's only drive thru in Las Vegas? It wasn't that good and kind of stunk bad. Plus its in a ghetto area that I won't be returning to any time soon.
2007-03-25 07:17:24 · answer #5 · answered by unlvraptor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, some of them do; just not most of them. Most Subways are located in strip malls or convenience stores where there is no room to put a drive thru. The thing about Subway is that it is so easy to build them in existing buildings like shopping centers, malls, gas stations, Wal-Mart's, college campuses, etc. which is why there are so many of them, but most of these locations cannot accomodate drive-thru's without extensive remodeling. But there are stand-alone Subways that have drive-thru's; they're just not as common. I know of locations in Longview and Marshall, TX, as well as one in Alexandria, LA, that have drive thru's and I'm sure there are many more.
Personally, I prefer to go inside and watch them make my sandwich in front of me; that way I know they won't screw up my order like most other fast-food places tend to do. That's one of the good things about Subway, is that they make your sandwich in front of you unlike other places. But I agree that the drive-thru format is more convenient. It just depends on which is more important to you; fast convenient service or getting the order right.
2007-03-25 10:05:21 · answer #6 · answered by tibbadoe 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Subway I work at has a drive-thru, Drive-thru's at subway are pointless though and it takes up way too much time.
2007-03-26 11:36:33 · answer #7 · answered by tmk20201 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have a subway drive thru down the street in Huntington Beach, California on beach Blvd.
It is a franchise. Your right, more owners should look for leases in a previously drive thru location.
2007-03-24 22:38:32 · answer #8 · answered by adge222 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A Subway I went to in San Angelo, TX had a drive through. I'm with you, I think all fast food places should have drive throughs.
2007-03-25 03:56:12 · answer #9 · answered by Laura 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since you have so many choices at subway, a drive thru might take too long...I usually call ahead and give my order over the phone.
2007-03-25 02:22:05 · answer #10 · answered by Ellie 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree! Drive thrus would make Subway awesome.
2007-03-25 05:10:20 · answer #11 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋