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Peter Buck (1930–2021), Subway restaurant co-founder

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Peter Buck was the co-founder of the Subway chain of sandwich shops.Buck hadn’t planned to be a restaurateur – he was a nuclear physicist who designed nuclear reactors.

But when a family friend, Fred DeLuca (1947–2015), asked Buck for advice on how he should pay for college, he suggested the young man open a sandwich shop.

The two were inspired by a visit to a restaurant in Maine that Buck had often visited as a child. With a $1000 loan from Buck, DeLuca opened Pete’s Super Submarines in Bridgeport, Connecticut, named for Buck.After the 1965 grand opening, Buck and DeLuca formed the holding company Doctors’ Associates, which still owns Subway today.

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