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d/b/a Quiznos Sub Type private Founded 1981 Headquarters Denver, Colorado Key people Dave Deno, CEO

Rick Schaden, Chairman

Brandon Turner, CFO Industry Restaurants Products Subs, Salads

other food products Revenue ? $130 million USD (2004) Website http://www.quiznos.com/

Quiznos is a fast-food restaurant franchise. As of 2005, it was the second-largest submarine sandwich shop chain in North America, after Subway.

There are over 5,000 shops located in the United States, 300 in Canada and 100 more scattered across twenty other countries including Ireland and the UK. Contents [hide] 1 History 1.1 International 2 Sandwiches 2.1 Nutritional information 2.2 Advertising 3 Controversy 3.1 Denver District Court rules franchise owner termination was wrongful 3.2 Alleged unfair treatment of franchisees 3.3 Suicide of a franchise owner 3.4 Bad publicity 3.5 Profitability 4 References 5 External links //

History Quiznos turkey sandwich.

In 1978, Terrell Braly, along with a group of investors converted a closed Sinclair gas station in Denver, Colorado[1] into a sandwich shop called "Sandwich World". Hussain "Jeff" Jaffarie, the store manager at the time and originally from Iran began the practice of toasting sandwiches in a pizza oven that had been provided by Tombstone pizza. In 1979, a competing restaurant opened across the street[where?] from the converted fuel station. Trading as Footers Restaurant and owned by Jimmy Lambatos and Todd Disner, this business offered to buy the larger and better located Sandwich World operation. The take-over was accepted in early 1980.

The new owners of Sandwich World changed the name to Quiznos and began a franchising operation.

As of 2008, Quiznos is currently a privately held Limited Liability Company. Schaden remains as Chairman with his family controlling the company.

International

In 2002, Wendy's acquired the rights to the brand for franchises in Australia (and later, New Zealand) but were unsuccessful in launching the chain in either country. Quiznos no longer operates in either country.

Sandwiches

Quiznos did not originate the concept of toasted sandwich, but many competitors followed suit. Subway began offering toasted "subs" in 2004; Boston Market in 2005, and Blimpie in 2006. All of Quiznos' sandwiches are served toasted by default, although they will be served untoasted at the customer's request.

Nutritional information

After not releasing their nutritional information until recently[when?][citation needed], it is now available at Quiznos Sub stores as well as on the menu pages of their website (beside each menu item). Also online and in store are calorie intake charts and Allergen Information. While it is to be noted that Quiznos has not yet released full nutritional content of