‘It Worked For Me!’: Pennsylvania Man Shows How To Get A Footlong For $6.49 At Subway. Then He Shows How To Get 6-Inch Sub For $3.99

One Pennsylvania man is showing the world how to get nearly free food at Subway. Because who doesn’t like a free lunch? And failing that, who doesn’t like a cheap lunch?

“We can get a six-inch meal, any six-inch meal we want, for just $6.49,” explains TikToker “Coupon Daddy” (@couponingdaddy) in a TikTok video that’s been watched more than 343,000 times.

And no, he’s not talking about the $6.99 “meal of the day.”

“We’ve got a much better deal,” he says while standing in front of an “employees only” door at a Subway.

What To Do

On the Subway website or in the app, “All you have to do is add the sub, the chips, and the drink to your cart—all separately. Do not click make it a deal” he explains.

Then, when you go to pay, add code, “649meal.”

It’s not hard to do, but it is specific.

The procedure for getting an $8.99 footlong is the same. The code is “899meal.”

A Couple Of Exceptions

While he’s walking you through the process for buying your next lunch, the TikToker does point out a few things:

1. There are some exclusions. However, it’s not clear what those exclusions are.
2. The deal runs until Oct. 11, 2025.
3. Not all stores are participating.

Another Deal

Sometimes though, you don’t want or need an entire meal. And there’s a Subway solution for that, too. If you don’t want a meal, you can enter code “sixinchsub,” and snag a sandwich for $3.99.

If you want a footlong sub, just enter “FTL699” and BOOM, lunch is solved!

Does It Work?

In the comments section, lots of people are talking about the cost-to-benefit ratio of sandwiches. Some are remembering $5 dollar-footlongs. Others say they only eat Subway when there’s a deal.

“Nah fr,” says @crispycrocies “I get foot longs for 50% off everytime and haven’t paid full price in years, I won’t pay $15 for a freaking foot long.”

But others expressed their appreciation for the popular TikToker, who boasts 140,000 followers. “Not all heroes wear capes,” user @seemerktwerk wrote.

Her comment is backed up by several people who’ve successfully used the Subway coupon. Another TikToker said, “Thank you for sharing. I did have to do 3 separate transactions for my family and I but it doesn’t matter cause it worked.”

Of course, there are those folks who have run into franchises that are seemingly not accepting the coupons. But it’s still worth a try, right?

Incidentally, we tried and were able to get all of the deals to work. Though oddly, the $6.49 deal was priced at $6.99. It’s still a deal, though.

How Did A Boat Become A Sandwich?

As you’re eating your favorite sub (or grinder, hoagie, or hero), you might find yourself pondering the origins of the loaded sandwich in front of you. One legend says that as the United States was ramping up for WWII, a shopkeeper in New London, Connecticut, named Benedetto Capaldo invented the sandwich. He was feeding the workers of the nearby Navy shipyard and submarine depot.

Initially he called his gigantic sandwiches “grinders.”

But “Once the sub yard started ordering 500 sandwiches a day from Capaldo to feed its workers, the sandwich became irrevocably associated with submersible boats,” Bon Appetit reports.

However, as nice a story as that is, the Oxford English Dictionary would like a word. According to the OED, “the first printed record of   ‘submarine sandwich’ dates to a January 1940 phone book for Wilmington, Delaware.” There, a restaurant was selling “submarine sandwiches to take out.” That’s two years before American entry into WWII, effectively sinking the shipyard origin story.

It’s easy to imagine, though, that like so many culinary trends, the subway sandwich started with one purveyor and was quickly adopted by others.

$1,000 And A Dream

Subway is possibly the most visible descendant of this 1940s food invention. It is the brainchild of a 17-year-old kid trying to find a way to pay for college and a nuclear physicist. In 1965, per Subway’s company story on its site, “Fred DeLuca asked his family friend, Dr. Peter Buck, a nuclear physicist, for advice on how to pay his college tuition. With an idea to open a submarine sandwich shop and an initial $1,000 investment from Dr. Buck, the two formed a business partnership.”

60 years later, we’re still eating Fred’s sandwiches.

BroBible reached out to Coupon Daddy on his TikTok account. We’ll let you know if he’s got any more tasty coupon codes.