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Doctors Associates Inc. (Subway Restaurants)

Jump to Doctors Associates Inc. (Subway Restaurants): Alerts;

• Doctors Associates, owner of Subway restaurants, is the second largest fast food chain.
• The company has been accused of aggressively marketing its franchise with little concern for the success of individual locations.
• Subway has been criticized for rejecting the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' fair labor demands.
• As documented in "Fast Food Nation", Doctors Associates leases Subway rights without regard to proximity or market saturation, leading to diminished sales and lower performance for individual store owners.
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-- Profile Updated 02/07/2011
About Doctors Associates Inc. (Subway Restaurants)

Doctor's Associate owns Subway, the second largest fast-food chain behind McDonald's. Subway has more than 26,500 locations in 85 countries, almost all of which are franchised. In 2006, Doctor's Associates reported 150,000 employees and $9.05 billion in worldwide sales.
Affiliates
There are no known affiliates associated with Doctors Associates Inc. (Subway Restaurants).
Contact Doctors Associates Inc. (Subway Restaurants)

Doctors Associates Inc. (Subway Restaurants)
Milford, CT 06460-3072 USA
Phone: 203-877-4281
Alerts
Ethics and Governance
According to Eric Schlosser's 2001 exposé of the fast food industry, Fast Food Nation, Doctors Associates leases Subway rig…
-- Fast Food Nation, 07/01/2005
Source URL: none available

Human Rights
A former Subway employee named Robert Hickman sued after he was fired due to his HIV positive status.…
-- PinkNews, 12/20/2006
Source URL: www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-3331.html

In July 2004 members of the Disabled Rights Action Committee (DRAC) protested in front of a Subway in Salt Lake City, which they c…
-- Deseret Morning News, 06/17/2004
Source URL: none available

In 2003, Hardip Singh Brah, a Canadian Subway franchiser filed a lawsuit against the company and complained to the Alberta Human R…
-- Worldwide Religious News, 11/11/2003
Source URL: www.wwrn.org/article.php?idd=3910&sec=67&con=5

Health and Safety
Despite Subway’s marketed image of being the healthy alternative in the fast food industry, several of its products include questi…
-- Subway, 02/02/2011
Source URL: subway.com/subwayroot/MenuNutrition/Nutrition/frmUSIngredients.aspx

Subway’s often advertised “6” Low Fat Sandwiches with 6 Grams of Fat or Less” is misleading.…
-- Subway, 02/02/2011
Source URL: www.subway.com/applications/NutritionInfo/Files/NutritionValues.pdf

In 2003 , a Subway franchise in Salem, Connecticut was sued over the death of a teenager who was killed in a car accident alleged…
-- Franchising Business & Law Alert, 05/01/2003
Source URL: none available

In July 2001 an 8-year-old Seattle boy who contracted Hepatitis A and needed a liver transplant after eating at a Subway sandwich …
-- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 07/04/2001
Source URL: none available

Labor
Subway has been criticized for rejecting a fair wage campaign launched by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a group of Sou…
-- Coalition of Immokalee Workers, 04/23/2007
Source URL: www.ciw-online.org/images/BK_Campaign_Analysis.pdf

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