The Subway Closure Committee Is A Debt-Service Extraction Mechanism
Subway has closed over 8,000 units since 2015. The franchisor’s response — a 98-hour operating mandate, a 98% delivery uptime requirement, and a committee-gated closure review — is not standard system management. It is designed extraction executed against a captive operator network under acute private-equity debt-service pressure. Naming the extraction is the prerequisite to refusing it.
