Peter Buck, whose $1,000 investment in a family friend's Connecticut sandwich shop in 1965 provided the genesis for what is now the world's largest restaurant chain — Subway — has died. He was 90. Buck, a nuclear physicist who was born in Portland, Maine, in 1930, died at a hospital…
At the age of 17, the other co-founder of Subway asked Peter Buck, how he could make some money to help pay for college. Buck s answer? Open a sandwich shop. At his death, let s have a look at his journey to a billion-dollar sandwich chain.
Peter Buck, whose $1,000 investment in a family friend's Connecticut sandwich shop in 1965 provided the genesis for what is now the world's largest restaurant chain—Subway—has.