It's hard times for what has long been America's favorite sub sandwich chain:

Subway has called a hasty meeting with franchisees of its 19,000 North American sandwich shops as they grapple with faltering sales and profits, The Post has learned.

The fast food giant — which sold itself in April for $9 billion to Roark Capital, owner of Dunkin, Arby's and Baskin Robbins — told franchisees it will reveal plans to improve traffic and win back market share at the Thursday meeting.

The company used to be one of the most dominant restaurant chains in the world. Now it's struggling with "faltering sales and profits" and trying to claw back market share it's lost in recent years.

Some folks, meanwhile, have ideas about why exactly this is happening:

(☝️ That's true though, isn't it? How many people do you know who have a ride-or-die option at Subway? It's just not really a thing!)

I'm starting to think that the big problem with Subway is that it's mostly meh food that recently went greatly up in price!

Meanwhile, if this is true, it'll make me crawl over broken glass to vote for Trump:

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