Subway & Little Caesar 'S, Letter To Parents 2016: Fill & Download for Free

When I order a subway sandwich, fully loaded with every option available, how do they make any profit at all from me?One of my good friends owned two Subway stores in town. Every time I’d go in there and he was in the store, he’d give me my sandwich for free. I felt bad for that, and I told him so.He waved me off. “These things cost me pennies to make,” he said.He wasn’t entirely accurate in terms of actual dollars and cents. In actuality, it only costs about $2 in ingredients to make a Subway sandwich. But Subway still needs to pay for other things, like rent, electricity, and salaries for employees. Anyone who has been an avid watcher of Restaurant: Impossible or any such “save my restaurant” show knows that a simple formula to determine retail price of a plate in a restaurant is three times the actual product cost. So that Subway sub should be selling for about $6. It costs a Subway franchise well over $4 all in for each sandwich, and so the math works: $6 is reasonable, factoring in reasonable profit, not just break-evenness.Which is why the $5 Footlong promotion nearly bankrupted Subway.There is a big disconnect between Subway corporate and its franchisees. It’s almost like they don’t want their franchisees to make any profit at all.

Train and subway rides.Here is Moscow urban rail - quiet trains made by Siemens, with air conditioning, free Wifi, bike racks and toilets. And you can pay for the ride with Apple Pay if you’d likeUnderground lines are also air conditioned and have free WiFi and cell coverage. Fare is flat $0.5, service interruptions are rare. Train intervals are as low as 90 seconds on rush hours.And stations are stunning:Now compare that to Amtrak or NY subway.

Unfortunately, although they’re still getting built, subways are largely an obsolete technology. And I love subways.Subways are really expensive to construct. As such they only make sense if:You don’t have a lot of surface spaceLocal traffic is heavyPopulation density is high.In many cases, they’re not even faster. Heavy subway trains take time to speed up and time to speed down. That means if you put the stations close together they rarely get up to speed. If you put them far apart, people need buses to get to them.If I were bulding a transit system today, I would go with a light rail system. You can build about 10 times more surface light rail than you can buried heavy rail, and even if you do some tunneling, it’s still cheaper than subways. Light rail trains can generally be run closer together because they stop faster. The damage is generally lesser even if there is an accident.And many Texas cities are going with light rail system. Texas cities tend to be low density on generally flat land and if you build them early enough you can give them their own rights of way.Greater London south of the River Thames has always been a problem for subways because the ground is sandy and not condusive to tunneling. They’ve built a lot of tramways on old railway lines as a result.Many cities have also found the trick of running the trains on tunnels in some places, but on the street in others.Buffalo Metro Rail, which runs in tunnels through the suburbs but at street level downtown.Montreal, which has an excellent subway system, is investing heavily in light rail now, even as they plan a brand new subway lineThe REM (light green lines) mostly replace poorly used commuter rail lines and also provides direct service to the airport.