The Sparks on Fire team from Poteet made of members from the Poteet Strawberry Smokers BBQ team competed in the inaugural Texas DPS Troopers Foundation. They won third place in chicken. Pictured are, from left, Kevin Sparks, Rachel Sparks, Hannah Camarillo, Syrena Alaquiñez and Briana Garcia. COURTESY PHOTO The inaugural Texas DPS Troopers Foundation Burn
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…
At the age of 17, the other co-founder of Subway asked Peter Buck, how he could make some money to help pay for college. Buck s answer? Open a sandwich shop. At his death, let s have a look at his journey to a billion-dollar sandwich chain.