Jersey Mike's Subs opening four shops in Maine
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Jersey Mike's Subs will open stores in Bath, Saco, Topsham and Windham this year.
Jersey Mike's Subs will open stores in Brunswick, Saco, Topsham and Windham this year, as the chain becomes more of a factor in northern New England.
The four new stores will join the one Jersey Mike's in Maine, at 550 Gallery Drive in Scarborough. The Scarborough shop, owned by franchisees Jeff Martin and Steve Cascio, opened in May 2020, one of 210 the chain opened last year. The Manasquan, N.J.-based company has close to 2,000 shops either opening or in development in the U.S. and 2,500 worldwide, according to a company fact sheet.
According to Restaurant Business, which ranked Jersey Mike's 40th in its Top 500 chain restaurants for 2021, the company had $1.59 billion in U.S. sales in 2020, from 1,854 shops.
The new Maine stores, owned as franchises, mark a recently explosion of openings in Maine and New Hampshire.
The Topsham store will be owned by Chris Brown, of Bedford, N.H., doing business as J.M. Bedford LLC, which owns nearly 50 Jersey Mike's franchises in eight states. The 1,900-square-foot store will be a a new build, on pad space at the Topsham Fair Mall in between the former Ruby Tuesday's restaurant and Norway Savings Bank, at 49 Topsham Fair Mall Road. Brown will lease the space from mall owner Four J LLC.
John Larson, of Four J LLC, told Mainebiz that people keep asking him about the Jersey Mike's, which is expected to open in early October. "People are really excited," he said. "It's a national franchise with a lot of buzz."
The Topsham space will have seating for 12, including an outdoors patio, and the focus is on takeout. There will be a drive-through lane for pickups, and dedicated parking for 12 cars.
Jersey Mike’s Subs also leased an 1,812 square feet standalone retail building at 172 Bath Road, Brunswick, in the Cook's Corner shopping mall, from Katz Properties Retail. That franchise will also be owned by Brown.
The other two franchises will be at 507 Main St. Saco, in a former Pizza Hut and 975 Roosevelt Trail, Windham, in space most recently occupied by Payless Shoes. Information on who the franchisees are wasn't immediately available, nor was information on when the shops, as well as the Brunswick shop, will open.
Brown has also opened, or is opening, several Jersey Mike's in New Hampshire. He moved to New Hampshire from Savannah, Ga., in 2018, and last year opened stores in Keene and Hudson, N.H. He recently bought a former Friendly's in Manchester, where he will open another. One of Brown's Jersey Mike's Subs is slated to open in Plaistow next week, and future sites are in Bedford, Concord, Nashua and West Lebanon, he told the New Hampshire Union Leader.
Another franchisee, Mike Goyette, opened a Jersey Mike's in Exeter, N.H., this past spring. He told Seacoast Online it's one of close to 50 Jersey Subs that has opened, or will soon open, in New England.
The chain began in 1956 in New Jersey with one Mike's Subs shop, and began expanding as Jersey Mike's in 1987 under new owner Peter Cancro.
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