Peter Buck, a co-founder of the Subway sandwich chain. (Photo Courtesy of Subway IP LLC) (AP/FOX 5 NY) - Peter Buck, whose $1,000 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 Nov.
18, Subway said in a statement. The cause of his death was not disclosed.At 17, family friend Fred DeLuca had asked Buck how he could make some money to help pay for college.
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