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...The model helped Subway to grow from about 16 sandwich shops to more than 37,000 stores globally....
...Younger diners turn their noses up at processed sandwich fillings in favour of more natural ingredients. Subway did more than $9bn in global sales last year....
...Structuring the ideal sub To get the $9.6bn leveraged buyout of sandwich chain Subway over the line in today’s market, private equity firm Roark Capital will turn to a relatively obscure corner of financial...
...When the FT paid a visit to Sandwich Hub, Chourasia joked about the shop’s branding, but wouldn’t immediately comment on the Trafigura case....
...Users with Amazon accounts could walk in, pick up a sandwich and walk out again, letting the store’s cameras and sensors track them and charge their account....
...But clothes stores, restaurants and coffee shops in China’s most populous city remain closed for in-person shopping and dining....
...Chip-and-pin credit cards had only arrived a decade after their adoption in Europe, while New York’s subway system just moved in 2021 to express contactless payments at barriers with your phone....
...Karina UrbachIn the shop window. Lilah RaptopoulosJust to reiterate, it’s 1949, four years after the war....
...He rips apart the third sandwich, a Wigmore cheese, tomato and basil concoction, and hands me a portion....
...Many cities have no money to innovate, as the pandemic has ravaged revenue sources such as taxes and subway fares....
...The ambitious private equity-backed group behind Arby’s sandwich shops and Buffalo Wild Wings is in talks to acquire Dunkin’ Brands for nearly $9bn....
...Subway, the sandwich chain, and Spar were among the first companies they struck partnerships with....
...There are feature walls and courtyards full of subtropical plants, subway tiles, murals and breakfast bars with chrome appliances and vividly coloured Spanish fish tins....
...Subway, the sandwich chain, struggled with poor app ratings for years before its score jumped from 1.7 stars to 4 stars within two weeks in early 2018....
...“It’s important to us because obviously we have shops right across the country.”...
...His mother finished the four-year programme in three years, while running her shop and raising three small boys....
...A healthier New York has emerged in recent years between the bagel shops and bottomless champagne brunches....
...“A tragedy is no more acceptable at an independent than a chain shop,” he said. Food outlets hope that technology can help....
...They tap their credit cards against subway turnstiles or shops’ card readers and wait for something to happen. Nothing does....
...Last year, it confirmed that it saw its first-ever net reduction of sandwich shops in America in 2016, shuttering hundreds of stores after years of aggressive expansion....
...Behfar Jahanshahi, whose professional services company Interworks employs 230 people around the world, first met Mr Weinzweig at an Inc magazine event for America’s 500 fastest-growing companies....
...When the service launched a few years ago, Uber boasted it could bring lunch to a customer waiting in line at a sandwich shop before he or she had even reached the front of the queue....
...Like its smaller rival Lyft, Uber wants to replace privately owned vehicles by making its app a one-stop shop for ride hailing, bike and scooter sharing, car rentals and public transit....
...Corporate partners include McDonald’s, Popeyes and Subway....
...A version of this article was first published by the Nikkei Asian Review on February 26, 2019. ©2019 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
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