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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Quick Service Restaurants |
| Genre | Fast food |
| Founded | 1977 |
| Founder | Ron Vickers and Les Warfield |
| Headquarters | , USA |
| Products | Subs, Salads, Soups, and Catering |
| Website | submarina.com |
Submarina is an American chain of fast-food restaurants. Founded in 1977, the chain specializes in sub sandwiches. [1]
Submarina was founded by Ron Vickers and Les Warfield of Reno, Nevada. They opened their first shop in Poway, California (a suburb of San Diego) and later opened the first official franchise shop in 1988.
Today there are 20 franchised Submarina locations with the headquarters in San Diego, California. Some locations are in Guam.
Randy's Donuts is a bakery and a landmark building in Inglewood, California which is near Los Angeles International Airport. It is built in a style that dates to a period in the early 20th century that saw a proliferation of programmatic architecture throughout Southern California. This style had its heyday from the mid-1920s to the mid-1930s. By the 1950s however, the trend of designing structures in the shape of the product sold there had changed to focus on signs rather than architecture itself. Randy's is represented by a giant doughnut on the roof of an otherwise ordinary drive-in that is a dedicated doughnut bakery. The building was designed by Henry J. Goodwin.
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Wahoo's Fish Taco is a U.S.-based restaurant chain that offers Mexican food mixed with Brazilian and Asian flavors. Categorized as a "fast casual restaurant", the quality and preparation time of its food is between that of a fast-food restaurant and a more formal restaurant. Wahoo's provides many vegetarian and some vegan options, such as tofu, banzai veggies and brown rice, and also provides a kids' meal menu. They serve wahoo fish in their tacos, as well as Mahi-mahi.
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