[bats_fanfilm]

...drive-thrus? 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.

[Jess]

some of them do, the one up the street from my house is a drive thru

[adge222]

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.

[cookingpancake]

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.

[Jacques M]

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.

[hoagie]

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.

[x_taintedlie]

They do in some places. There's one around where I live and it's very convenient. It takes longer to wait when their making it, but it's still fresh. And you can't beat that. [:

[BigWade]

Some of them do. The one in our town has one.

[marko2529]

How are you gonna get teh cars down the stairs to the subway station?

[Laura]

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.