{"id":935,"date":"2015-03-21T03:23:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T03:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=935"},"modified":"2015-03-21T03:23:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T03:23:44","slug":"starbucks-passes-subway-in-u-s-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/starbucks-passes-subway-in-u-s-sales\/","title":{"rendered":"Starbucks passes Subway in U.S. sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.allcateringmenuprices.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/starbucks.png\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>USA Today reported this afternoon,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With almost $12.7 billion in U.S. sales in 2014, Starbucks pulled away from Subway and claimed the No. 2 slot for the first time, according to the report. Subway, which is privately held, does not generally report its U.S. sales, but it informed Technomic that its 2014 U.S. sales were $11.9 billion. McDonald&#8217;s remains far-and-away No. 1, with U.S. sales of $35.8 billion in 2014.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From an analytics standpoint it is not hard to see why this is. \u00a0Starbucks is the definition of a customer centered service business. \u00a0From the warm atmosphere from the moment that customers step in the door to the barista calling out the customer&#8217;s name when they&#8217;re drink is ready- they excel at personalizing their customer service.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is not hard to see why they are the second leading fast food service in the nation and with their quick easy and relatable sales approach it would not surprise me if they continue they&#8217;re rapid ascent for at least a few more years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; USA Today reported this afternoon, &#8220;With almost $12.7 billion in U.S. sales in 2014, Starbucks pulled away from Subway and claimed the No. 2 slot for the first time, according to the report. Subway, which is privately held, does not generally report its U.S. sales, but it informed Technomic that its 2014 U.S. sales [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}