Perth Subway night shifts offered a window into customers’ lives

Wall Street Turkish - International (English) · Oct 22, 2026 · 1m

While studying journalism, I took a job at a Subway in Northbridge, Perth’s nightlife district. For almost two years, I worked from midnight to five every Saturday, baking bread, cleaning tables and preparing fillings. It was more demanding than delivering pizzas, my previous job, but I took pride in being part of the restaurant’s daily work. The late shifts also brought a steady stream of customers: drunk clubbers, bouncers, police, troublemakers and people craving an unusually large amount of jalapeños.

Some encounters were unexpected. One customer was at Subway during day release, while…