Subway has closed over 1,600 restaurants since 2022: See how many have closed in each state

Gabe Hauari and Jim Sergent, USA TODAY

Tue, May 13, 2025, 11:17 AM 2 min read

If you person noticed less Subway restaurants successful your area, chances are it is not your imagination.

The fig of Subway locations successful the United States dipped beneath 20,000 past year, with the concatenation having closed 631 restaurants successful 2024 alone, according to franchise disclosure documents analyzed by USA TODAY.

The documents amusement that astatine the opening of 2022, the institution had 21,147 franchised locations crossed the country. That fig had dropped to 20,133 by the extremity of 2023. And by the extremity of 2024, determination were conscionable 19,502 locations, representing a nett nonaccomplishment of 1,645 restaurants successful that clip frame.

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Here's a look astatine Subway nett edifice closures by authorities from the opening of 2022 to the extremity of 2024.

A Subway spokesperson said successful an emailed connection to USA TODAY connected April 30 that the institution is optimizing its footprint "using a strategic, data-driven attack to guarantee restaurants are successful the close location, representation and format and operated by the close franchisees."

"This includes opening caller restaurants arsenic good arsenic relocating oregon closing locations arsenic needed, to guarantee a consistent, high-quality and convenient impermanent experience," the company's connection concluded.

While the fig of Subway restaurants domestically mightiness beryllium trending down, the institution says it has achieved "positive planetary nett edifice growth" for the 2nd consecutive twelvemonth and presently has astir 37,000 locations worldwide.

The sandwich concatenation announced successful October 2024 that it had signed much than 20 maestro franchise agreements, resulting successful implicit 10,000 aboriginal edifice commitments. The institution said that 7 of the 20 agreements were signed successful 2024, marking its introduction into Paraguay and Mongolia and "significantly expanding" its beingness successful France, Belgium, Brazil and Switzerland, among different countries.

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