Fred De Luca

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Fred DeLuca is the co-founder of Subway sandwich restaurant. DeLuca is an alumnus of Central High School in Bridgeport, CT and the University of Bridgeport.

Seventeen year old Fred DeLuca borrowed $1,000 from family friend Dr. Peter Buck to start his first sandwich shop. He was trying to raise money to pay for college. He chose a mediocre location for his shop, but by noon on the first day of the opening, customers were pouring in. On the radio advertisement they had promoted the name as "Pete's Submarines", which sounded like Pizza Marine, so they changed the name to "Pete's Subway", eventually it was shorten to "Subway", as we know it today. As of 2006, the company counts with over 25,000 franchised locations in 84 countries and produces US$ 9.05 billion sales every year. In 2007, Forbes magazine named DeLuca number 242 of the 400 richest Americans with a networth of 1.5 billion dollars. Forbes.com