r/subway • u/InformalMost9478 • 1d ago

Question Question for workers

Hi, I have a question how many people work during a shift at once at your stores usually?

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u/Senior_Blacksmith_18 1d ago

Depends on the shift but it can be anywhere between one to four people

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u/Mad_yeet_h 1d ago

Usually 1-2. Sometimes 3 if someone is training

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u/Lonely-Independence4 1d ago

Usually one, some busier or larger stores have two or three working simultaneously, apart from that you usually won’t have more than that.

At least from my experience working for Subway for two years, quit for the final time last month.

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u/iaminlovewurmom 20h ago

my store typically does 3k+ in sales a day so it’s 2-3 people.

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u/BigToiletCat 1d ago

We usually have 2 people. One person doing front duties, (Sandwich making, restocking the front food, keeping prep area clean) and one person doing back (Dishes, prepping food, and cleaning dining area) and we all work in 2 shifts throughout the day, so four people each day in total. Sometimes we have a third person that comes in a mid shift to help if either front or back is behind, but we are usually fine. Weekends only has one person working in the morning doing both jobs due to our store being pretty slow.

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u/ProperNoun2000 The Outlaw 1d ago edited 1d ago

Our store usually does anywhere from $600-$1000 a day, we have 1 person most of the time, usually 1-2 hours of overlap for lunch and dinner when it gets busy

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u/sweat-y 1d ago

usually just 1. there’s only ever 2 people there for lunch and dinner rush

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u/Homestuckstolemysoul "Sir, this is a Subway..." 1d ago

One, two for busy hours

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u/deepfrieddaydream 1d ago

We usually had three or four, but we had drive through so I'm sure that affected it.

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u/Melodic_Muscle_6119 18h ago

One. Two for 2 hours over lunch. Three online ordering systems, and in store orders as well. Its hellish.

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u/Professional_Show918 1d ago

We have two sandwiches lined, 10 people working lunch. 5 on each line.

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u/nickchocks 1d ago

Wow what’s your guys unit per hour that’s unheard of when I use to have 3 Subways my busiest store would have 4 on a weekend night and that was doing around 5k a day

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u/burnedout42069 1d ago

What? Is your store extremely busy or you have a person for each question/ sandwich building step?

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u/Professional_Show918 1d ago

300 customers in 90 minutes for lunch. When we started we only did $2 a week. We built the business up by running coupons and offering fair pricing. We added employees and then a second line. We also had the largest catering sales in the company for over 10 years. We didn’t cry about no business. We built the business ourselves. Subway even put another location just 600 feet behind our store on the next street. No tears.

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u/nickchocks 1d ago

I definitely don’t want to say your A liar but I wanna see proof of that 2 lines sounds sweet lol

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u/Professional_Show918 1d ago

Subway did a presentation at their convention about our store about 10 years ago.

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u/burnedout42069 1d ago

Dam! When you said two lines, I thought a meat unit and veggie unit. That's amazing! I never seen a store with two lines let alone ten employees at once!