Miami Subs Expanding Outside Of Florida
The name is changing too — now it'll be Miami Subs Pizza & Grill. Yep, you'll be able to order one of their new specialty pizzas through an online ordering system and have it delivered to your door. The plan: 500 stores in the next five years, including six in the immediate future (three in New York, two in South Florida, and one in South Carolina). The company also just opened an outlet in the Cayman Islands and another in Turkey, while two more are almost ready in Romania. (It'd be interesting to see why the company chose to enter those markets; offhand, they seem kind of odd.)
Five hundred restaurants seems incredibly ambitious, especially given the economic downturn, although it is precisely these kinds of fast-food places that might thrive in the next few years. So maybe it'll work.
For those of us down here for whom the neon Miami Subs signs are familiar, we'll be seeing some changes too, namely the addition of pizza to the menu and "a new store design that we feel will be more attractive to today's fast casual consumer," according to Rich Rudner, the company's director of communications. Which means that they'll update the decor for the first time since 1986. Not a bad idea.
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