Co-founder of Subway sandwich shop chain Peter Buck dies aged 90

The qualified physicist went on to become a billionaire after investing 1000 US dollars in his friend’s sandwich shop in Connecticut.

Peter Buck was the co-founder of the Subway sandwich shop chain (Subway via AP)

By Associated Press Reporters

Peter Buck, whose 1,000 US dollars (£750) 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 November 18, Subway said in a statement. The cause of his death was not disclosed.