Blimpie

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Blimpie

Type	Private company
Founded	Hoboken, New Jersey (1964)
Headquarters	Atlanta, Georgia
Industry	Restaurants
Products	Sandwiches Salads Other food products
Website	http://www.blimpie.com/

BLIMPIE is a fast-food submarine sandwich chain headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and is the third largest sandwich chain in the United States, behind Subway and Quiznos. Its first store opened in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1964. BLIMPIE currently has nearly 1,600 franchises in the U.S. They briefly had a presence in the United Kingdom but later withdrew.

Since August 2006, BLIMPIE opened five locations in Ontario, Canada; two in Toronto, one in Brampton, one in Vaughan, and one in Barrie. One location, built into a renovated Country Style storefront on Yonge Street in downtown Toronto, has rapidly become a favorite for professionals working in the area. They also sell donuts.

[edit] History

Three friends from St. Peter's Prep in Jersey City, NJ - Tony Conza, Peter DeCarlo and Angelo Baldassare - knew for a while they wanted to start a business together. After lunch at a sub shop in Point Pleasant, NJ, they decided this is what they would do. They settled in Hoboken, NJ, as the place to open their shop. After arranging financing and everything else they needed to open the shop, they finally opened on April 4, 1964, and by the end of the day, had rung up $295 in sales (sandwich prices back then were between 35 and 95 cents).^[1]