Jersey Shore, meet Oxford Circus. Jersey Mike’s opened its first restaurant in the UK on Monday, in accordance with Nation’s Restaurant Information. It’s the chain’s first worldwide location exterior Canada.
The man operating the present is Peter Cancro. He purchased the unique sub store in 1975 at age 17, constructed it right into a nationwide powerhouse and offered it to Blackstone in 2024. Now he’s again as grasp franchisee for the UK and Eire, the place he sees room for about 300 places. The UK tops the chain’s record of about 14 precedence markets, and the corporate is in talks with potential operators in Mexico, the Center East, Korea and Continental Europe.
The Jersey Mike’s menu throughout the pond largely mirrors the U.S. one — with a number of exceptions. It provides a rooster tenders sub, since turkey isn’t as massive a attract Europe, and a scorching ham and cheese that isn’t offered within the States. The chain, which lately went public, has some catching as much as do with rival Subway, which has greater than 2,100 UK outlets, down from 2,446 in 2019. Is Mike’s sweating it? Fuhgeddaboudit.
