Firehouse Subs Menu With Prices (Updated October 2026)

Firehouse Subs Menu Prices at a Glance

Firehouse Subs does one thing no other national sub chain does, and it is the reason the sandwiches taste different from the ones next door. The meat and cheese go through a steamer before they hit the bread. Not toasted on the sub, not warmed on a griddle, steamed hot and then piled on a toasted roll. That is why a Firehouse sub arrives soft and wet in a way a Subway or a Jersey Mike’s does not.

Two brothers who were both firefighters, Chris and Robin Sorensen, opened the first one in Jacksonville, Florida in 1994. The firehouse theme is not decoration bolted onto a sandwich shop. The company has run a public safety charity since 2005 and the pickle bucket by the door is part of it.

Firehouse Subs Sizes and Which One to Order

This is the part worth reading before you order, because Firehouse prices its three sizes in a way that quietly rewards going up. The small is 4 inches, the medium is 8 and the large is 12. The medium is exactly double the small in both bread and filling, and the large is triple.

Where the small earns its place is as half of a combo, or with a cup of chili, or when you genuinely want a light lunch. At 360 calories a small Hook and Ladder is one of the lighter hot sandwiches on any chain menu.

Firehouse Subs Hot Specialty Subs

This is the core of the menu and where the steamer does the work. Hook and Ladder is the one the chain is known for, smoked turkey breast and Virginia honey ham with Monterey Jack, and it is the sub most people order first and keep ordering.

Calories on the hot subs run from 350 for a small Engineer up to 1,500 for a large Smokehouse Beef and Cheddar Brisket. The lighter end of the specialty list is the Engineer at 350 small and 700 medium, Hook and Ladder at 360 and 720, and New York Steamer at 360 and 730. The heavy end is the brisket, the Italian at 470 small and 930 medium, and anything with meatballs on it.

Build Your Own Subs

These are the single meat subs, served the same way with the meat and cheese steamed and your choice of toppings. They run a little cheaper than the specialty list and they are where you go if you want to control exactly what lands on the bread.

The Veggie at $8.39 medium is the cheapest sub on the whole board and at 730 calories for a medium it is not the lightest, because the cheese and the dressing carry most of the number. A medium smoked turkey at 680 is lighter than the veggie and costs $1.60 more.

Cold Subs

Two of them, and they are the only things on the menu that skip the steamer entirely.

The tuna is the heaviest sandwich on the menu relative to its size, at 910 calories for a medium and 1,550 for a large, which is more than the brisket. That is the mayonnaise, not the fish.

Snackers

Snackers are half of a large sub sold on its own at a flat price, and they are the cheapest way to eat a real sandwich at Firehouse. The lineup is separate from the main menu and does not overlap with it.

At five dollars flat a Snacker undercuts every small on the menu and gives you more food than one, because half of a large is 6 inches against the small’s 4. If you are ordering on price alone, this is the section to read first.

Chopped Salads

The plain Firehouse Salad at 130 calories is the lightest thing on the menu by a wide margin, and adding a protein roughly doubles or triples it while adding $1.60 to the price.

Those calorie figures are before dressing. Firehouse serves dressing on the side in a packet, and a full packet of ranch or Italian adds 100 to 200 depending on which one, so a Hook and Ladder Salad eaten with everything poured on lands closer to 400 than 250.

Soups and Chili

The soups are worth knowing because they are the only hot item on the menu that is not a sandwich, and a cup with a Snacker is a full lunch for around nine dollars.

Soup rotation varies by restaurant and by season, so not every location carries all three on the same day. The chicken and dumpling at 120 calories a cup is the lightest hot item Firehouse sells.

Sides

Fries are not at every Firehouse. They rolled out across the chain rather than launching everywhere at once, so a location that has been open a long time may still not have a fryer. Call ahead if the fries are the reason you are going.

Kids Combos

Every kids combo is the same price and includes the sub, a side and a drink. All four are steamed the same way as the adult subs.

Desserts

Cookies and brownies, baked in store, and the bundles are the only real discount on the menu that applies without an app.

The 12 piece bundle at $14.99 works out to $1.25 each against $1.69 bought singly, and the 6 piece at $9.99 is barely a discount at all. If you are buying more than three, skip straight to the twelve.

Drinks

Most Firehouse restaurants run a Coca-Cola Freestyle machine with free refills in the dining room, and bottles and cans sit in a cooler by the register.

Cherry Lime-Aid is the house drink and it does not exist at the other sub chains. It is also 330 calories in a single cup, which is more than a small Hook and Ladder.

Catering

Firehouse catering is built around two shapes, the platter for a table and the box lunch for one person. Both need ordering in advance and both are priced by the restaurant rather than nationally, so treat the figures below as a working band.

Box lunches are the ones people underrate. A Lieutenant box at $13.99 is a medium sub, a side and a cookie, which is roughly what the same three items cost bought separately, except it arrives labeled with a name on it. For an office order where people want different subs, that labelling is the entire value.

The Hot Sauce Shelf

Every Firehouse has a rack of hot sauces by the drinks and it is not a gimmick shelf of the same three national brands. The one to look for is Captain Sorensen’s Datil Pepper Hot Sauce, made with the datil pepper, which grows almost nowhere in the United States except around St. Augustine, Florida. It is sweeter and fruitier than a habanero at similar heat, and most people have never had one.

Bottles are for sale to take home alongside the open ones for use in the restaurant, and the shelf usually carries a mix of the house sauces and outside brands. Ask for a datil on a Spicy Cajun Chicken or a Firehouse Steak and Cheese rather than on something already sweet.

The Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation

This is the part of the brand that is not marketing. The Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation has been running since 2005 and it buys equipment for fire departments, police departments and emergency services, funds prevention education and scholarships, and pays for disaster relief.

It is funded three ways inside the restaurant. You can round your order up to the next dollar at the register, drop change in the box, or buy one of the empty five gallon pickle buckets by the door for a $4 donation. The buckets are the ones the pickles arrived in, which is why they smell like pickles for a month, and people use them for everything from garden storage to camping. The foundation states that 90 cents of every dollar donated goes directly to its programs.

Why Firehouse Subs Costs More on Delivery Apps

If you compare the prices on this page against what you see in DoorDash or Uber Eats, the app will be higher by a meaningful margin, often a dollar fifty to two dollars on a medium sub. A medium Hook and Ladder that is $9.99 on the counter menu commonly shows around $11.60 in an app before fees.

That gap is deliberate and it is not the delivery fee. Restaurants raise menu prices inside delivery apps to cover the commission the app charges them, and the delivery fee, service fee and tip all sit on top of the raised price. The figures on this page are in restaurant figures. If you are within walking distance, ordering ahead in the Firehouse app and collecting it yourself is the cheapest way to buy the same sandwich.

How to Order at Firehouse Subs for Less

Start with the Snackers at five dollars flat, because half a large is more sandwich than a small and costs less. If you want a full sub, take the medium rather than two smalls, and split a large between two people rather than buying two mediums.

Join Firehouse Rewards before you order rather than after. It runs on points per dollar and it sends a free medium sub on your birthday, and signing up usually comes with an offer on the first order. Ask for your sub Fully Involved so the toppings are free rather than added one at a time, and take the pickle spear, which comes with every sub at no charge whether or not anyone mentions it.

If you are ordering for more than four people, price a half platter against individual subs before you decide. Around five people the platter usually wins, below that it usually does not.

Firehouse Subs Nutrition Notes

The steamer is the reason a Firehouse sub often reads lighter than it eats. Steaming needs no oil, so the meat itself carries no added fat, and a small Hook and Ladder at 360 calories or a medium at 720 is reasonable for a hot sandwich of that size. What moves the number is the cheese, the mayonnaise and the dressing, all of which go on after the steamer. Our calorie calculator shows how a sub and its toppings fit into your daily needs.

The genuinely light orders are easy to find. A plain Firehouse Salad is 130 calories, a side salad is 60, a cup of chicken and dumpling soup is 120, a small smoked turkey sub is 340 and a small Engineer is 350. The heavy end is the large tuna at 1,550, the large Smokehouse Beef and Cheddar Brisket at 1,500 and the large Cold Italian at 1,450. On sodium, the cured meats carry the most, so pastrami, corned beef, the Italian and the ham subs sit well above grilled chicken or turkey.

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