Subway Shuts Hundreds of U.S. Stores
- Sandwich chain’s domestic store count dropped 1.3% in 2016
- U.S. sales fell, but company expanded international business
Subway Closes Hundreds of U.S. Locations
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Subway Restaurants closed hundreds of domestic locations last year, marking the biggest retrenchment in the history of a chain that spent decades saturating America with restaurants.
The company lost 359 U.S. locations in 2016, the first time that Subway had a net reduction. The store count dropped 1.3 percent to 26,744 from 27,103 in 2015, but Subway remains the nation’s most ubiquitous eatery. (McDonald’s Corp. is No. 1 by sales.)