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Podcast: A Deeper Dive
Episode: How Subway franchisees view some of the chain's recent moves
Description: Subway could avoid some problems if it consulted more with its franchisees. Or so says the head of its biggest association.
This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast “A Deeper Dive” features Bill Mathis, a Subway operator out of Minnesota and chairman of the North American Association of Subway Franchisees, or NAASF.
Subway remains the largest restaurant chain in the U.S. by unit count, with some 20,000 stores domestically. But thousands of those locations have closed over the past decade.
NAASF represents much of that franchisee base. The association rarely speaks public...