Background
Buck was born in South Portland, Maine, in 1931 He was graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, in 1952.
entrepreneur restaurateur Businessperson
Buck was born in South Portland, Maine, in 1931 He was graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, in 1952.
Bowdoin College; Columbia University.
He co-founded the Subway fast food restaurant chain. He then earned master’s and doctoral degrees in physics at Columbia University. Subway They named the restaurant after Buck, calling it "Pete"s Super Submarines".
Together Buck and De Luca formed Doctor"s Associates to oversee operations of the restaurants as the franchise expanded.
Though neither the first nor the second restaurants were financial successes, they continued to expand their operations. By 1973, they had 16 locations throughout Connecticut and, in 1974, they began franchising out the restaurants.
They also introduced Subway"s current logo and changed the name of their operation from what was then "Pete"s Subway" to "Subway Sandwiches". Among Buck"s philanthropic works, he donated the Carmen Lúcia Ruby to the gem collection at the Smithsonian Institution"s National Museum of Natural History and gave a grant to Bowdoin College in 2009 that completed its capital campaign.