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Sam LaGrassa's makes freaking delicious pastrami and has a line out the door for those three hours. They are a legend in this town and deserving of it, anyone on the wrong side of that shop should worry their patrons will rise up and riot demanding blood and a pickle wedge.

In one episode of an Anthony Bourdain show, he pointed out that if there’s a restaurant that sticks around despite not appearing to do enough business to pay rent - it likely means that the restaurant owner owns the commercial space and doesn’t pay rent.

They charge $20 for a sandwich and companies/people are more than willing to pay. That’s how.

Sam lagrasaas has a large corporate catering business.

catering, bro.

Can't verify, but seems true.

There aren’t that many kinds of businesses interested in renting those spaces. There’s no one around outside of business hours and they’re too small to be offices themselves.

Sam's is closer to $30 these days (and the quality is seriously downhill) :/

Archie’s looks to be open 5:30-2:30 which was the same pre-pandemic. Love that place.

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They also own the building.

There’s a 5:30 in the morning too.

Owning property doesn’t mean that you can afford to live / work there without having a viable income.

Jesus Christ. $30 for a sub?

Look at their prices LOL

Equity and more specifically equity growth is that viable income.

>Owning property doesn’t mean that you can afford to live / work there without having a viable income.

Eliminating the single largest overhead expense has a huge impact on what “viable” means.

You can survive on a lot less when it’s a family business and the building could be paid for, or at least secured via mortgage.

They make all their money off of people who can expense their lunch to their employer, have been leaning into this for a while

Corporate catering mostly.

Facts. The CEO of my company is from the New York area and claims Sams is better than any NYC sandwiches place. So he gets catering whenever hes in town. Ends up being hundreds of dollars for like 20 sandwiches.

Ever have a yahoo with bacon? Keep it simple

Let’s not lump Sam’s and Archie’s together from a price perspective. Archie’s sandwiches are still $10-$12.

I was gonna say Archie’s has appropriate prices. Sam Lagrassas is out here blowing smoke up our asses charging a god damn arm and a leg for a sandwich

Sure. If someone has no mortgage / owns it outright. But assuming the owner of Sam lagrasaa’s isn’t a fool, they wouldn’t operate a money losing business just because they own a building.

Catering and finance & biotechnology companies with lots of money to burn

I’d be seriously impressed if the owner of Archie’s own that sky scraper and still works the grill.

I used to work for a company that did sam's catering every month for our department (other departments might have had it too). The last recent time I got it was also through work. The sandwiches are much smaller than I remember them being.

It’s not that bad….if you shit gold

No just a sandwich.

Owning multi-million dollar property that you bought decades ago for next-to-nothing allows you to do a lot of things.

And selling $30 sandwiches to a corporate crowd for 3 hours a day (because that’s the only goddamn time folks eat lunch) is one of them.

Have you tried ordering a sandwich, chips and a soda there? More than my monthly cellphone bill

Shrinkflation

Archie's is back!?

It is not better than any NYC sandwich places. Especially not at that price.

Love Sams cuban sandwich and their pastrami

And/or that they are engaged in money laundering ;)

well hes payin and i likey da sammich

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