Huge restaurant chain’s curious origins

A New England Historical Society article tells of the very unusual partnership that created the Connecticut-based Subway restaurant chain.

The article starts:

“Peter Buck was a 35-year-old Yankee with a Ph.D. in physics. Fred Deluca was an Italian American teenager who grew up in a New York City housing project. They lived 40 miles apart. In 1965, they formed a business partnership that became Subway Restaurants.’’

Here’s the article:

https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-unlikely-duo-behind-subway-a-physicist-a-teenager-and-a-1000-check/