Subway

World's largest chain of fast-food restaurants.

Headquarters:
325 Bic Drive
Milford, CT 06460
Employees: 300,000+
President: Fred DeLuca

Subway is the world's largest fast-food chain with over 36,162 restaurants in 98 countries including 15,000 located outside the U.S. Subway specializes in custom-made sandwiches and also sells breakfast sandwiches and salads.

Subway has over 8,000 restaurants located in "non-traditional" locations such as convenience stores, college campuses and schools, hospitals, airports and department stores.

Italian BMT, Tuna and Subway Club are some of Subway's most popular sandwiches. There are more than 2 million sandwich combinations on the menu including toppings. Subway also bakes its own breads which include Italian, Wheat, Italian Herb & Cheese, Parmesan Oregano and Honey Oat.

In May 2008, Subway introduced an Every Day Value Menu with seven footlong sub favorites for $5.00. The subs on the "Every Day Value Menu" are: Meatball Marinara, Cold Cut Combo, Spicy Italian, Veggie Delite, Black Forest Ham, Oven Roasted Chicken Breast, and BLT (bacon, lettuce, tomato).

Subway began offering a breakfast menu nationwide in April 2010.

The restaurant chain was founded in 1965 by Fred DeLuca, a 17-year-old college freshman, and family friend Dr. Peter Buck. The first restaurant opened in Bridgeport, CT, on August 28 and was called Pete's Super Submarine. The first franchised Subway restaurant opened in 1974 in Wallingford, CT.

Doctor's Associates is the owner and franchisor of Subway restaurants and has 1,000 employees in Milford, CT and at regional and country offices.

Subway had revenue of $15.2 billion in 2010.

Through the opening of more than 2,100 restaurants worldwide, including 1,000 new locations just in the U.S. and Canada alone, the Subway restaurant chain added approximately 21,000 new foodservice job and career opportunities in 2011. Subway expects to add another 25,000 positions in 2012 with the opening of 2,500 outlets — and this doesn’t include jobs in ancillary fields, such as construction, logistics, equipment manufacturing, food processing, maintenance, etc.

Benefits

For corporate workers, the following benefits are offered:

- Medical and dental benefits, disability and life insurance and paid time off after completion of a 90-day orientation period.
- These benefits are contributory, with the company and employee each paying 50% of the premiums.
- 401(k) plan after one year of service. The company will match employee contributions at $.75 per dollar up to 4% of their annual salary.
- Other benefits include, free breakfast & lunch, free movie screenings, direct deposit, credit union membership, discounts on tickets & memberships, in-house computer training classes, weight-loss programs, company sponsored sports teams, business casual dress Monday-Thursday & "dress-down" on Friday, summer picnic, holiday parties, franchisee welcome receptions and various services (i.e. ATM, film developing & dry cleaning).

Updated February 2, 2012

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