Jersey Mike’s Founder Makes $100K for No Kid Hungry

Earlier this month, Jersey Mike’s Subs founder and CEO Peter Cancro assembled a $100,000 sub for No Kid Hungry, an organization committed to ending childhood hunger.

Cancro was fulfilling a pledge he made in March while speaking at an industry conference where he unexpectedly made an onstage announcement in front of thousands of attendees. Cancro promised that he would donate $100,000 to the charity if Tom Nelson, president of No Kid Hungry/Share Our Strength and David Jobe, president of Winsight Events, joined him at his company’s Jersey Shore home to make subs.

After a sub-making lesson in early August, Cancro presented the check for a donation that will provide one million healthy meals for kids in the U.S.

Since 2010, Jersey Mike’s locations throughout the country have raised nearly $13 million for worthy local charities and have distributed more than one million free sub sandwiches to help numerous causes. This year, the company’s 5th Annual Jersey Mike’s Month of Giving in March raised more than $3 million for 150 local charities throughout the country.

Jersey Mike’s, a fast-casual sub sandwich franchise with more than 1,500 locations open and under development nationwide, believes that making a sub sandwich and making a difference can be one and the same. Jersey Mike’s offers A Sub Above®, serving authentic fresh sliced subs on freshly baked bread – the same recipe it started with in 1956 – and is passionate about giving back to its local communities.