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History & Timeline:

1930 : Birth of Peter Buck in South Portland, Maine USA

1947 October 3: Birth of Fred DeLuca in New York City, NY USA

1965 17 years old Fred Deluca meeds Peter Buck
who gives him the money to open a Sandwich store

1965 August 26 opening of the Restaurant
Pete's Super Submarines

851 Main Street à Bridegport Connecticut USA

The restaurant is not an immediate succes
but Fred DeLuca and Peter Buck try to improve the concept

The name of the restaurant gets simplified to Pete's Subway.
The name get's simplified again to become Subways.

1973 There are 13 Subway Restaurants

1984 Opening of the first International Subway

1996 January 17 registration of the Subway.com domain

2021 Opening of a Cookie Pop Up Store in New York

2022 Sep 1 Opening of a Cookieway by Subway Pop Up Store at Cremerie de Paris N°1

2024 Sep 20 Opening of a Deliway by Subway Pop Up Store at Cremerie de Paris N°9

Today there are 41.600 Subway Restaurants
among them 315 in France
making Suway the World's largest Restaurant chain .

Source : reserach by VB.com and info provided by Subway.com