Pret A Manger sandwich retail chain is British.

He said one company, the Subway Restaurants' sandwich chain, has aggressively courted health-conscious consumers.

As a result, "the sandwich chains aren't getting the growth they were hoping for," Mr. Paul said, "so there's more of a need to call attention to themselves."

Now it has more than 1,600 and is by far the nation's biggest sandwich chain.

In the end a sandwich chain was enough to save Chuck.

On a swelteringly hot day, my wife and I stopped for lunch at the local outlet of a sandwich chain.

At many popular sandwich chains, you can unwittingly gobble up a diet disaster - unless you know how to order.

Blimpie, the third-largest sandwich chain, has about 1,800.

Several advertisers, like the sandwich chain Subway Restaurants - are also successfully taking that approach, he noted.

It says it has partnerships with 2,000 takeout and delivery outlets across the country, many of them Togo's, a sandwich chain.