Subway 'set to open double number of new restaurants' in huge expansion

Subway announced successful a merchandise past week, that it had signed much than 20 maestro franchise agreements successful the past 3 years, which person resulted successful much than 10,000 aboriginal edifice commitments

Subway has issued an update connected caller store openings arsenic it is acceptable to unfastened much caller locations this year.

Subway announced successful a merchandise this month, that it had signed much than 20 maestro franchise agreements successful the past 3 years, which person resulted successful much than 10,000 aboriginal edifice commitments. This equates to implicit 40% of Subway's restaurant openings successful 2024. The sandwich chain said it was expecting to motion adjacent much maestro franchise agreements earlier the extremity of the year.

Subway operates nether a franchise model, which means it allows an autarkic concern proprietor to tally an idiosyncratic store utilizing its branding, concern exemplary and intelligence property.

The planetary sandwich chain- which has astir 2,300 locations successful the UK - confirmed plans to unfastened caller sandwich shops successful Paraguay and Mongolia for the archetypal time. Subway besides confirmed that it planned to "significantly" grow its beingness crossed France, Czechia, Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Brazil, El Salvador and Guatemala. The update said the concatenation was connected way to unfastened "more than double" the fig of outlets globally this twelvemonth arsenic it did successful 2019.

Mike Kehoe, planetary main improvement serviceman astatine Subway, said: "Subway’s planetary maturation strategy of partnering with well-resourced, experienced multiunit operators is proving to beryllium successful. By moving with the close partners, we are making important strides successful modernizing our marque representation with some caller and remodelled restaurants, improving our wide impermanent experience, and increasing integer sales.”

Subway has implicit 37,000 stores crossed 100 antithetic countries, making it the largest single-brand edifice concatenation successful the world. In England, determination are astir 1,800 locations, with 202 successful Scotland, 107 successful Wales and 99 successful Northern Ireland. Last year, it was announced that the sandwich concatenation had been sold to backstage equity steadfast Roark Capital for a reported £7.3billion. When it was announced successful August 2023, Subway main enforcement serviceman John Chidsey said the woody would "help dispersed tens of thousands of caller locations astir the world".

In June, Subway confirmed it was introducing caller "self-service" kiosks to UK stores. The kiosks let customers to spot their bid utilizing a integer surface which is past sent to the room alternatively of ordering implicit the caller nutrient counter. The planetary sandwich concatenation said the caller kiosks would assistance "improve bid speed, prime and accuracy", with each UK Subway store acceptable to person 1 by the extremity of the year. Subways told the Mirror astatine the clip that "no jobs" would beryllium impacted by the introduction.

The Subway spokesperson said: "Kiosks are designed to heighten the guest’s ordering acquisition and make efficiencies for the franchisee’s squad members. They are not intended to regenerate immoderate facet of the existent process of ordering astatine Subway."