Quiznos
Sign in to saveQuiz 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. It filed for bankruptcy in 2014; by 2016, it had dropped to ninth place, and the number of Quiznos locations in the United States fell from a 2007 high of 4,700 to just 400 a decade later.
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- Company.name
- Quiz Holdings, LLC
- Company.logo
- Quiznos Logo.svg
- Company.type
- Private
- Company.genre
- Fast food
- Company.trade_name
- Quiznos
- Company.founder
- Jimmy Lambatos
- Company.location_city
- Denver, Colorado
- Company.location_country
- United States
- Company.area_served
- North America, Europe, South America, Middle East, Asia
- Company.key_people
- Tim Casey (CEO)
- Company.industry
- Restaurants
- Company.products
- Submarine sandwiches, Salads, other food products
- Company.revenue
- (2017)
- Company.owner
- High Bluff Capital Partners
- Company.parent
- REGO Restaurant Group
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- Restructuring
- Bankruptcy
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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. It filed for bankruptcy in 2014; by 2016, it had dropped to ninth place, and the number of Quiznos locations in the United States fell from a 2007 high of 4,700 to just 400 a decade later.
==History== ===Early history=== thumb|right|The first Quiznos Subs restaurant The first Quiznos restaurant was opened in 1981 in Denver, Colorado, by founder Jimmy Lambatos and his partner, Todd Disner. Lambatos was an experienced chef, having worked as an executive chef for the Colorado Mine Co. Steakhouse and founded the Italian restaurant Footers in 1978.
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