Quiznos

Quiz Holdings, LLC
Quiznos
Company typePrivate
IndustryRestaurants
GenreFast food
Founded1981; 43 years ago (1981)
FounderJimmy Lambatos
Headquarters,
United States
Number of locations
  • 148(United States)
  • 183 (International)
  • 331 (Total)
[1][2]
Area served
North America, Europe, South America, Middle East, Asia
Key people
Tim Casey (CEO)[3]
ProductsSubmarine sandwiches, Salads, other food products
RevenueUS$170 million (2017)[4]
OwnerHigh Bluff Capital Partners
ParentREGO Restaurant Group
Websitequiznos.com

Quiz Holdings, LLC, doing business as Quiznos, is an American franchised fast-food restaurant based in Denver that specializes in offering toasted submarine sandwiches. It was founded in 1981 by Jimmy Lambatos and sold to Rick and Richard Schaden ten years later. It then grew to nearly 5,000 restaurants; by 2013, Quiznos was the second-largest submarine sandwich shop chain in North America, behind Subway.[5] It filed for bankruptcy in 2014; by 2016, it had dropped to ninth place,[6] and the number of Quiznos locations in the United States fell from a 2007 high of 4,700 to just 400 a decade later.[7][8]

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  6. ^ "2016 Top 500: Sandwich Chains". Restaurant Business Online. June 21, 2016. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
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  8. ^ Maze, Jonathan (June 13, 2018). "A brief history of Quiznos' collapse". Restaurant Business. Retrieved July 29, 2020.