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Top 25 Open-faced sandwich shops worldwide
RevenueBase identified 1,308 open-faced sandwich shops worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 39,789 professional contacts across them, including 1,524 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and New York the largest hub.
This list covers open-faced sandwich shops worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for open-faced sandwich shops follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest open-faced sandwich shops worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 14,490 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “THE SANDWICH OF SANDWICHES℠ At Jimmy John's, we don't make sandwiches.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 3,603 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 1989, McAlister’s Deli® is a fast casual restaurant chain known for its genuine hospitality, sandwiches, spuds, soups, salads, desserts and McAlister’s Famous Sweet…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 2,710 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Potbelly is a neighborhood sandwich shop that has been feeding customers’ smiles with signature oven-toasted sandwiches, soups, hand-dipped shakes, cookies baked fresh daily and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,413 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Inspired by great fresh ingredients, our small neighborhood bakery on a corner in downtown Chicago began creating artisan breads and freshly baked sweets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 1,161 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Einstein Bros.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 1,147 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our Driving Force: Food is Our Story Newk's is an express casual dining experience in a refreshing and stylish atmosphere with an emphasis on freshness and flavor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 1,144 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1978, Au Bon Pain (“from good bread”) has grown into an internationally recognized leader in the fast-casual restaurant category.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 635 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Mendocino Farms, we turn creative sandwiches, salads and more into your favorite food experience.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 486 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since our founding in Wilmington, Delaware in 1976, Capriotti’s Sandwich Shop has done things differently, creating flavor profiles unmatched in the fast casual segment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 406 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Wooden Bakery was founded in Jal El Dib Lebanon in 1969 by Mr.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 389 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cheba Hut has been escaping the established and getting “toasted” since 1998.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 366 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DiBella’s began in 1918 as a corner grocery store located in Rochester, NY.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 321 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Depuis plus de 40 ans, la success story Pomme de Pain repose sur de vrais points de différenciation : sandwich préparé à la commande, qualité et générosité des ingrédients…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 289 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TooJay’s Deli • Bakery • Restaurant offers the classic recipes and flavors of a New York deli served with lots of love and amazing hospitality.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 281 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1972, Port of Subs has been making subs the right way, sliced fresh, made to order, and crafted with care.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 225 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The first Macado's restaurant was opened in 1978 by Richard Macher in downtown Roanoke, Virginia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 215 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Atlanta Bread Company is a bakery café chain that was originally established in 1993 in the Atlanta suburb of Sandy Springs, Georgia.The bakery café concept serves a variety…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 197 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “The sandwich is one of America's favorite meals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 187 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “In 1762, John Montagu, the fourth Earl of Sandwich, came up with the ingenious idea of putting meat between two slices of bread.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From its humble beginning in 1967 with its first store in Ballwin, Missouri, privately-held Lion’s Choice has grown to a chain of over 25 corporate and franchised quick-serve…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 160 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Pickleman's-the new standard for Elevated Fast Casual.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 152 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in Boulder, Colorado in 1996, Snarf’s Sandwiches has grown from a small neighborhood shop into a beloved national brand with almost 60 locations in Colorado, Texas and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The History of the Groucho’s® name is a story unto itself and one that can only be told as follows.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 30 years, Raybern's has taken pride in preparing delicious and hearty sandwiches.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: open-faced sandwich shops. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names open-faced sandwich shops.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of open-faced sandwich shops, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name open-faced sandwich shops. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Open-faced sandwich shops worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among open-faced sandwich shops, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for open-faced sandwich shops are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “open-faced sandwich shops”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names open-faced sandwich shops), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among open-faced sandwich shops, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,524 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Open-faced sandwich shops by location
3 lists · largest firstEvery Open-faced sandwich shops list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names open-faced sandwich shops, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many open-faced sandwich shops are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 1,308 open-faced sandwich shops worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Jimmy John's, headquartered in Sandy Springs, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most open-faced sandwich shops?
The United States leads with 582 companies, followed by the Netherlands (82) and the United Kingdom (76). Every open-faced sandwich shops list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most open-faced sandwich shops?
New York leads with 17 headquartered companies, followed by London (14) and Sao Paulo (13).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,524 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,308 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.