A Subway worker sees a sophomore boy walk into Subway every day at around 12:30 p.m, but she doesn’t ask questions. 

“He comes here everyday, takes two, three sandwiches, and leaves. That’s all,” a Subway employee said.

Sometimes, the kid orders as many as seven sandwiches. He crams them all into one bag and five minutes later he is out the back door. He bikes down the street with a helmet on his head, one hand clinging to the handle bar and the other clenching the plastic Subway bag, so as to not tip the sandwiches and damage the evenly-spread sauce for the multiple students awaiting his arrival back at MVHS. At the basketball courts, the boys halt their dribbling and shooting, grab a foot-long and eat.

The Subway customer is sophomore Benjamin Chang, amateur business man. He bikes 2.8 miles a day down the road, which means 481.6 miles a school year. He earns about $5 a day, pricing $1 more than the menu price per customer, averaging about $860 each school year, give or take for breaks and discounts. All this for doing what? Using 15 minutes of lunchtime to exercise and eat Subway.

It seems like part ingenious plan, part interesting idea, part imaginative scheme, and part innovative project. How did a sophomore come up with such a complex business plan?

“I went to Subway everyday and people would ask me to get them something. I got mad and started making them pay [extra],” Chang said. 

While Chang makes it seem simple, he must have something up his sleeve to do with $860. 

“I don’t know. Save it — to buy stuff, I guess. Like games.”

He must have some propaganda plan to urge people to participate.

“I don’t promote it at all,” Chang said.

He must be a determined, strong man that will go through a tornado to get people the Subway they pay for.

“I don’t feel like [delivering Subway sandwiches] when it’s raining, if it is Club Day or I have homework to do,” Chang said. 

Perhaps it is not something all that extravagant after all. Chang is simply a hungry boy who decided to make money off of something he was going to do anyway. 

Next time you are sick of the same-old Cup-a-noodles and cafeteria pasta, cough up an extra buck, enjoy a Cold-Cut Combo, and support a future business man’s quest for success.