Subway sandwich chain co-founder Peter Buck dies at 90
By The Associated Press Troy Warren for CNT #Foodie DANBURY, Conn. — Peter Buck, whose $1,000 investment in a family friend’s Connecticut sandwich shop in 1965 provided the genesis for what is now the world’s largest restaurant chain — Subway — has died. He was 90. Buck, a nuclear physicist who was born in Portland, Maine, in 1930, died at a hospital in Danbury, Connecticut, on Nov. 18, Subway said in a statement. The cause of his death was not disclosed. At 17, family friend Fred DeLuca had asked Buck how he could make some money to help pay for college.…
