Not the food, I love it, but their hypocritical taunting, advertising free 6 inch sandwich for Veteran’s Day, knowing full well no franchise is going to honor it. Just stop. As for franchisee, why not get a customer in the door, who’ll probably pay for chips and drink to go with it, rather than throwing away food at end of day (Dopers, do they? How long do they keep unused food?). Not to mention getting new customers.
Yep. The food waste in this country is an outrage.
My Subway usually honors the deals advertised on TV ads.
Order on the APP you get the best deals that way.
If your local is consistently bad, call corporate. They’ll jerk a knot in their tail.
but what about Veterans Day deal?
Wow. They didn’t honor that??
Yeah, call corporate.
ETA,
Not at all easy to get a live person on their website. But there is a way to register a complaint. I just looked.
Just type Subway contact info into Google, it will take you there.
I, very briefly worked as a manager at a chain Truck-Stop-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named which included a Subway. They didn’t honor ANYTHING coupon wise. If you were stopped for gas at the many pumps, you were considered semi-captive. Few wanted to go out again and drive some distance to the nearest actual place much more substantially off the interstate, so… the chain overlords decided they didn’t want to loose the cash.
Of course, this was nearly 3 decades ago, so who knows now.
Around here (central Oregon) we get mailed a sheet of coupons every so often, (about every 6 weeks, IIRC)… We can thereby get a footlong Subway for $7.99, or multiples for a little less per.
I suspect they would lose customers if they didn’t honor them.
As if we needed yet another reason to boycott Subway.
No shit.
But, dang it, I like a cheap mediocre sub some days.
Oh, @Bumbazine , that’s so quaint. Paper coupons. I swan. 
I’ve always thought the same but assumed they did that trick in advertising where they use exactly the same amount of meat but pile it up right on the edge to look like more.
Okay. I’ll admit that Jersey Mikes and Firehouse Subs both make better sandwiches that Subway, but they’re 40+ miles away. The one that’s 4 miles away is good enough for our purposes. 
And yeah, we’re still living in the last century around here.
Yeah we don’t have those places close either.
I was just teasing you.
OTOH, Walmart deli has a sub sandwich. They are premade, ready to purchase. Granted you’re not getting it “your way”. But, they have a good taste. No condiments on them, which I appreciate.
Add your own. $3
I’d imagine Trump having a problem with this business for one reason in particular that I’m sure most people can guess. 
When I last bought a footlong using the $7.99 coupon, the store manager said, “Oh! The good coupon!” Since the regular price is $12.99, the five dollars off is indeed a good deal. But $12.99 is pretty high for a footlong, although some of their premium subs are pretty good (or good enough).
Those premade subs are available in most supermarkets, the Hudson News stores in airports and lots of other places probably. And yes, no condiments, probably because they would get soggy.
I can’t say I’m a connoisseur or that I’ve tried all the places that make subs, but I know my way around a sub sandwich. Of the big national franchises (subway, jimmy johns, jersey mikes, and firehouse), I would rank them in this order, from best to worst:
- Jersey Mikes
- firehouse
- Jimmy Johns
- Subway
with there being a BIG gap between 3 and 4. Subway is at its very best mediocre, and at its worst inedible.
You may get the best deals, but I’ve consistently found that the sandwiches that are made when I order ahead of time are of a much lower quality than the ones I order when I’m standing there watching them make it.
I hate my local Subway because they get pissed at you for making them stop smoking meth in the parking lot to make your sandwich. I wish I was creative enough to have made that up.
As someone who is really out of touch with a lot of everyday American stuff, for a lot of reasons, I need help to understand what this is about.
I think I can guess the first part - am I correct in assuming that:
- The Subway corporation runs TV ads saying vets can get a free 6-inch sandwich on Veteran’s Day
- Subway is largely a franchise operation, and franchisees are not required to honor corporate promotions, so a lot of people might go to Subway thinking they could get a free sandwich, only to be told, “oh no, not here.”
But then the OP goes on to say that this means food will be thrown away at the end of the day. Which sounds like outlets will have made the promotional subs but not distributed them, and thus have to discard them.
This makes no sense, so I am pretty sure I don’t understand. Can someone explain it to me, recognizing that I don’t watch TV, never eat at Subway, and lived most of the last four decades in developing countries? (A note of scorn for my evident stupidity is fine; I know I’m ridiculously clueless.)
Actually, the OP asked if food is thrown away at the end of the day.
But in answer to your question, no, Subway has not made those promotional subs in advance. What the OP is speculating (I think!) is that a Subway franchise should honor the promotion, because they probably would be throwing away the ingredients anyway, so making and giving away those promotional sandwiches isn’t really losing money. And selling chips and drinks with those promotions actually would make money for the store.
An aside: McDonald’s also has a similar promotion today, but it’s up to the local franchise. And the store in my small town isn’t honoring the promotion. The chatter on FB is, uh, not very complimentary of said store.
Ads for free things or deals at franchise restaurants like McDonald’s or Subway typically include the disclaimer “At participating locations.” The only sandwich shop I frequent with any regularity is Jimmy John’s because it’s right by work. If Subway or some other sandwich shop was closer I’d probably go to that one. I don’t hate Subway I just don’t like it either.
Subway does have a reputation for chicanery and make some tomfoolery as well. When they were sued for selling foot long sandwiches that weren’t a foot long they had the gall to argue no reasonable person would believe Subay actually sold foot long sandwiches.