If an area is PROFITABLE for you, you’ll find a way to make it work, but it appears Subway was looking for a LEGAL way out of the Far-Left wing shitholes we know as the States of Washington and Oregon.
It’s not to say that there aren’t Conservatives and Commonsense folks living in these two States, but the governance there is NIGHTMARE and a lot of businesses have been fleeing.
What Subway did that most businesses don’t do is leave “abruptly” because you have to remember people even have businesses in Afghanistan, I think people even have businesses in North Korea, Cubans even have businesses, even if you find yourself in socialist shithole, you still have to find a way to survive, however if you can find a way to escape, you will, and that’s what it appears as though “Subway” did here.
Subway abruptly closes 23 locations across two states after bank hacking nightmare
Story by Alice Wright For DailymailSubway has closed 23 shops across two states after a bank hacking nightmare resulted in hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of losses.
The sandwich chain shuttered almost two dozen locations in Washington and Oregon with little warning earlier this month.
The unexpected closures have left around 200 staff almost instantly without work.
Joanne Kennedy, the manager of a Subway location in Gladstone, Oregon, said a closure warning sign on her location’s door was the only information she was given.
‘No warning, no heads up, no transparency, completely and totally blindsided, every one of us,’ Kennedy told KPTV.
Kennedy explained that stock orders she was placing for the shop were not arriving but that she was not aware of what was to come next.
‘There was no communication, there was just, ‘Keep doing your job, business as usual.’ That’s what I was told, business as usual, they’re looking for a resolution for the food order,’ she told the outlet.
‘We were all trading food in between stores trying to keep everyone’s doors open, and then no food came.’
The root of the closures lay in a devastating bank hack that defrauded franchisee Ann Bell of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Bell, who owned the closed locations, told KOIN 6 News that because the incident was considered fraud the funds were not covered by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
‘I thought I could handle it, I thought I could work through it and that money would come. So I borrowed money elsewhere to try to kind of stay afloat,’ she explained.
‘My main concern the whole time was always to pay our employees to make sure employees got paid. And so other vendors and other bills kind of fell to the wayside.
‘Looking back now, maybe I should have changed that up a little bit and tried to kind of spread the money evenly.’The locations were closed down by Subway on August 9 and Bell’s rights to operate the franchise were ended.
‘Our priority is to ensure guests can continue enjoying freshly made, high-quality, delicious food by identifying experienced operators within our system who can quickly take ownership and re-open the restaurants,’ a spokesperson for the chain said in a statement.
Earlier this month Subway called an emergency meeting with the franchisees that run its 19,000 restaurants amid tumbling sales and profits.
All fast food chains have suffered in the past year as inflation-weary Americans have eaten a lot less. McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s have all rolled out $5 meal deals.
But Subway has been particularly badly hit, with sales down 9 per cent – amid complaints of huge price hikes and tired looking shops.
If you know anything about Insurance, you’d know that insurance doesn’t cover counterfeit or fraud, and what goes ignored in the article is LAW-ENFORCEMENT, which is the real problem in both Washington and Oregon, it’s not only the high taxes, it’s also the policing problems.