Sell Your Sub Shop Quickly!

Do you want to make a quick and seamless transition out of the sub/sandwich shop business and you don't know where to start? WBAR specializes in the acquisition and remarketing of these business assets to maximize the resale value. This allows us to compensate you in an expedited manner while also ensuring you receive top dollar in the process. Our expects will provide you with a valuation and can get a check in your hand in as little as 72 hours. We have the manpower to quickly and efficiently remove the business assets to help reduce ongoing expenses.

We provide both value and convenience. The process of selling business assets can take months to complete and can lead to costly expenses such as lease and utility payments. With WBAR, leave the hassle of cleaning, moving, taking pictures and finally finding buyers to the professionals. 

When opening a new sub shop, owners must consider local trends for both food options and dining options. Consider whether the area needs a new breakfast sandwich stop, perhaps a lunch shop with quick serve options for business lunches and those in a hurry. Most sub shops focus primarily on take-out options, café dining styles or even outdoor dining on the veranda with smaller café tables or bar-height for larger parties and comfortable chairs to encourage a more relaxed dining experience. Many rely on food delivery services like Uber Eats, GrubHub, Postmates or DoorDash for their deliveries as having the added expense of a delivery driver doesn’t always make sense for their business model. Consider offering additional options like craft beers or light spritzers or mixed drinks, or specialty beverages like coffees, teas or lattes. Even offering larger deli sandwiches or boxed lunches for businesses, creating a specialty dessert, or offering quick grab baked goods options in a bakery case or deli refrigerator for easy to-go business for your cherished customers. Outdoor dining options can increase sales for warmer climate markets and covered outdoor dining helps for those variable weather markets, too. Counter service is most prevalent in sub shops so having a large, clean area with multiple quick-serve options and the use of sneeze guards to ensure the safety of your guests can increase sales. Consider having a countertop merchandiser near the cash register / checkout counter for quick smoothie or specialty drink grab-n-go impulse buys.  Many sub shops understand the importance of accessibility for their guests and customers with food allergies such as wheat, nuts, gluten, eggs, dairy, soy, etc. so catering your menu to those needs should be thought of. Offering options besides subs and sandwiches such as crepes, salads, rice bowls, pho, noodle bowls, ramen, wraps and roll-ups can increase business. Because many grocery store retailers and bakeries offer subs and sandwiches it is important to find your niche. If your state allows smoking inside or on the patio, consider having a strict non-smoking section available for guests with small children, health or breathing issues, or simply because they would rather utilize that space while eating.

 

The average cost to open a sub shop in the US is $685,000.00. When opening a brand new sub shop it should be mentioned that you should expect at least 18 months before beginning to see a profit - possibly longer considering higher wages associated with labor shortages, food shortages resulting in increased costs, higher security deposits or lease terms since landlords and owners of properties or shopping malls / strips that rent to restaurateurs have experienced a higher incidence of eviction or court costs or simple business abandonment due to losing money instead of making any profit. In addition, the owner needs to consider whether they will continue their previous employment while awaiting the business to generate enough profit to properly pay them for the many hours they will be putting into the business. Anyone who has ever owned a sub or sandwich shop or any other type of food establishment knows that working twice as hard for half as much is almost a given, usually working for the simple reward of a business that makes enough money to make up for all of the time and energy they have poured into their family business or franchise.

 

The oldest sandwich and sub chain in the US is Blimpie, started in 1964 in Hoboken, NJ, who boasted sales of $1.2 million in 1990 and 670 locations in 1993. They are still currently operating with a total of 156 locations in the US. The world’s largest sub ever on record was 2,411 feet, 5 inches long, and was created in Beirut in 2011. The largest sandwich on record was 5,440 lbs and was made by Wild Woody’s Chill and Grill in Roseville, Michigan in 2005.