We put a GoPro camera on Nathan Wright, second from left, as the three-year veteran of Jimmy John/s sandwich shop grabs a delivery and heads to the courthouseWHOSE VIEW?
Name: Nathan Wright Age: 22 Job: Jimmy John’s delivery driver Wage: $7.25 per hour plus tips Years in the job: 3 Best part: “Giving people food makes them happy.” Worst part: Getting stiffed and finding parking spots
Nathan Wright knows every address in downtown Chattanooga. Name a building, and odds are he’s been there – carrying a sandwich, chips and a drink. The 22-year-old is a Jimmy John’s delivery driver.
Every trip starts in the shop at the corner of Market and 10th streets, where hoards of black-shirted employees build cold sandwiches with frantic focus, tossing ready-to-go deliveries at Wright like a rapid-fire pitching machine while music blares overhead.
Wright snags the deliveries then zips around Jimmy John’s downtown grid in a green pickup truck, dashing from Fraizer Avenue to Central Avenue, from the riverfront to 23rd Street. The grid is tiny by design: that’s why the deliveries are so freaky fast, Wright said. It’s a five-minute drive to anywhere.
In his three years on the job, Wright’s learned a thing or two about sub shipping.