Blimpie serves large, fresh sandwiches at locations all over the country.
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Blimpie announced it would match the reward, increasing the total to $20,000.
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She was heading to her job at a Blimpie sandwich shop on the base.
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Blimpie announced it will match the FBI's reward, increasing the total reward to $20,000.
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Blimpie makes me think of an astronaut getting a blowjob: Jack In The Box. Bagels?
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Founded in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1964, Blimpie is a franchised sandwich chain known for its large subs.
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A few months before that, another of his plays, "The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie," had an acclaimed Off Broadway run at the Astor Place Theater.
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The chain's most popular item is perhaps the Blimpie Best, which contains a ton of meat (ham, salami, capicola, and prosciuttini) as well as tomatoes, lettuce, onion, vinegar, olive oil, and oregano.
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Billie had been missing since September 18, when she didn't show up for work at a Blimpie sandwich shop on the Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story or for culinary classes at the Art Institute of Virginia Beach.
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"Blimpie Plans Winter Image Push". Adweek's Marketing Week. p. 7. Blimpie system sales reached $132 million by 1993, and Blimpie International earned $1 million on $12 million in revenue.
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This disagreement led to a split between the two. In 1976 Blimpie was divided into two entities, with both retaining rights to the Blimpie trademark. DeCarlo became head of a new, completely independent company, Metropolitan Blimpie (later Blimpie's of New York, Inc.), which controlled franchising rights in New York, New Jersey, and other parts of the East Coast. Conza retained control of the original company, which was incorporated in 1977 as International Blimpie Corporation.
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In 1989 Blimpie began testing a new low-calorie menu. It was called Blimpie Lite, and included a variety of tuna, crab, chicken, and turkey-based items, in both salad and pita-bread sandwich form. The following year, the company launched another test: gourmet salads sold under the name 'Blimpie Fresherie'. Blimpie began tinkering with its prototype restaurant design around this time, incorporating the company's signature lime-green and yellow colors into an updated look for new outlets.
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In the spring of 1993, Blimpie began trading its stock on the NASDAQ exchange.Howard, Theresa (February 22, 1993). "Now on Deck for Blimpie: NASDAQ, New Ad Campaign". Nation's Restaurant News. p. 16.
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The first Blimpie store opened on May 16, 1964, in Hoboken, New Jersey. By mid-2002, there were about 2,000 Blimpie outlets in operation, located in 47 states and in 15 other countries. Blimpie does not own many stores corporately, but relies on revenue from franchises. In addition to traditional free-standing locations, Blimpie can also be found in a variety of non-traditional sites, such as inside convenience stores, gasoline station food marts, schools, office complexes, hospitals, and sports arenas.
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"Rekindling the Entrepreneurial Fire". Fortune. p. 112. Blimpie reached two major milestones in 1995. One was that the chain passed the 1,000-outlet mark that year. Blimpie International opened its first international location in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Conza remained chairman and chief executive officer of Blimpie through January 2002.
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"Blimpie Is Trying to Be a Hero to Franchisees Again". Business Week. p. 70. As the 1990s continued, Blimpie devised a new concept that aimed to grow the company even more. Blimpie's franchises began appearing in nontraditional locations.
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By 1990 Blimpie had recovered, with system wide sales reaching $120 million per year.
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The number of Blimpie locations declined by over 60% through 2011. A key area of growth is in the development or acquisition of other brands. In 1999, the company launched Pasta Central, a franchised chain within the "home meal replacement" category featuring Italian-style pasta and pizza; the concept was exclusively a vehicle for co-branded Blimpie/Pasta Central outlets. Two years earlier, Blimpie International acquired majority control of Maui Tacos, a Mexican quick-service restaurant chain.
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Hamstra, Mark (November 10, 1997). "Blimpie Goes Hawaiian, Buys Mexican Chain". Nation's Restaurant News. pp. 1, 143.
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"Several decades later, the Hoboken Terminal distinguished itself as the nation's first centrally air-conditioned public space." The first Blimpie restaurant opened in 1964 at the corner of Seventh and Washington Streets.Kleinfeld, N.R. "Trying to Build a Bigger Blimpie", The New York Times, December 13, 1987. Accessed December 30, 2014.
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Seeing little benefit in being a publicly traded firm, Blimpie joined the growing ranks of restaurant companies fleeing the public market. In October 2001 a private investor group led by Jeffrey K. Endervelt, owner of the 44-unit Blimpie of California subfranchise, agreed to buy Blimpie International for $25.7 million. The transaction was completed in January 2002, whereupon Endervelt took over as chairman, president, and chief executive officer, and Conza, a partner in the investor group, remained in an advisory capacity. In 2006, Kahala Corp.
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O'Dwyer, Gerard (December 11, 1995). "Blimpie Develops a Swede Tooth". Crain's New York Business. p. 17. As the 1990s continued, the company looked for more new ways to sell Blimpie sandwiches, including vending machines, outlets in supermarkets, and new types of carts and other mobile product-delivery systems. With the opening of new outlets in the US slowing and with overseas growth occurring at a slow pace (there were only 61 overseas locations in 15 countries by 2001), Blimpie launched a new diversification effort in the late 1990s.
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While Conza was turning his attention away from subs, competitor Subway, which was founded a year after the first Blimpie's was opened, was beginning an expansion drive that pushed it far ahead of Blimpie as the world's foremost submarine sandwich chain.Keegan, Peter O. (September 5, 1994). "Under New VP, Blimpie Int'l. Eyes Nontraditional Growth". Nation's Restaurant News. p. 7.
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The Blimpie chain continued to grow steadily through the early 1990s. Much of this growth was fueled by the company's area developer program, in which franchise rights were sold for an entire area to a developer, who then subfranchised those rights to individual operators. The company continued testing new products throughout this period. In 1991 Blimpie unveiled its 'Quick Bite' menu.
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By 1967 there were 10 Blimpie restaurants in the chain, four of which were owned by the founders. Despite the chain's growth and good sales volume, profits were difficult to make, and the partners sold the four stores they owned and began to concentrate primarily on franchising. By the mid-1970s, Conza wanted to introduce Blimpie subs to the South. DeCarlo, however, was against the move.
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After almost two years of in-house development, Blimpie launched Pasta Central in 1999. Unlike Maui Tacos, Pasta Central was not a standalone concept but was created as a co- branding vehicle, coupled with Blimpie Subs & Salads. Co-branding emerged as a growth vehicle in the late 1990s and involved the placement of two (or more) restaurant brands within a single unit.Zuber, Amy (April 19, 1999).
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The company also began testing pizza at a handful of locations in an effort to expand its dinner business. Conza's attempts to improve franchisee relations continued as well, which included a franchisee convention, the first in 1991. By the beginning of 1992, there were Blimpie restaurants in 27 states. That year, the chain passed the 500-unit mark and the company changed its name to Blimpie International, Inc.
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"Blimpie Eyes Higher-End QSR, Opens Pasta Central". Nation's Restaurant News. pp. 1, 6. A third new concept was 'Smoothie Island', which was launched through Maui Tacos in 1998.
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The "Blimpie kiosk" was a movable, condensed restaurant that could fit into a area. The kiosk, which could serve four types of sandwiches, drinks, and side orders, was designed for use at stadiums, fairs, and other events. Other new concepts included a special refrigerated case for convenience stores (an expanding market), and the 'Blimpie Bakery', offering a variety of baked goods aimed at boosting early morning business.Richman, Louis S. (February 21, 1994).
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In 2005, Fields formed Led Blimpie, a Led Zeppelin tribute band. Thor Fields currently lives in the Hell's Kitchen district of Manhattan, New York City with his wife, singer Julie Reyburn.
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Early plays still considered obscene and difficult like Earthworms, Urlicht and Wisdom Amok were published with Gemini and Benno Blimpie in a volume titled Bizarre Behavior. Coming of Age in Soho, Gemini, and Benno Blimpie appeared in a collection called The Best Plays of Albert Innaurato. After a 25-year absence from the New York stage, his play Doubtless, premiered at the 59E59 in 2014; its use of nuns is a reference to John Patrick Shanley's 2004 play Doubt.
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Around that time, the company began to more aggressively advertise than it had in the past, doubling its marketing budget to about $2 million per year. A new advertising campaign was launched, including television, radio, print, and point-of-purchase. This campaign marked the introduction of the chain's new tag line: "Simply Blimpie for fresh-sliced subs." Some television spots featured people on the street struggling to repeat the tongue-twisting phrase, "Simply Blimpie."Grimm, Matthew (September 2, 1991).
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However, by the turn of the 2000s, Blimpie International was struggling. Net income had fallen steadily throughout the second half of the 1990s. A main factor in this decline was that the subfranchiser rights to the Blimpie Subs chain had largely been sold by the mid-1990s, thus bringing a halt to what had been a steady stream of income. As Blimpie's struggles continued, investors showed little interest in the company, and the price of the company's stock sagged.
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Blimpie International, Inc., is an American submarine sandwich chain based in Scottsdale, Arizona. It was founded in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1964, by three friends, and has since endured three ownership changes.
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He scanned a dictionary until he found "Blimp", a word that sounded to him most like a sandwich.Kleinfield, N.R. (December 13, 1987)."Trying to Build a Bigger Blimpie". The New York Times.
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He then assembled a group of managers and drew up a list of "101 Small Improvements". Delegating to his senior staff much of the day-to-day managing he had always done himself, Conza went on the road in an attempt to open up the long-closed channels of communication between Blimpie and its franchisees. Next, Blimpie launched a quality-control program aimed at cleaning up its 140 New York restaurants, which had long been subpar."Blimpie's Starts Quality Drive in Manhattan".
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Smoothie Island's menu featured beverages blended with frozen yogurt and fruit. In addition to opening standalone units, including airports, health clubs, and grocery stores, Blimpie also planned to co-brand Smoothie Island with both the Maui Tacos and Blimpie concepts—both in dual-branding and tri-branding formats. By mid-2001 there were 80 Smoothie Island units located in the United States, Puerto Rico, and four other countries. Blimpie's logo from 2005 until 2009; it is a refresh of their 1970-2005 logo.
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He has partnered in legendary restaurants including Tribeca Grill, Carlos'n Charlie's, Spice Market, and Maui Tacos (sold to Blimpie). Gordon and Roy Yamaguchi were the Outback Steakhouse franchisees for Hawaii, and are now partnered in Humble Market Kitchen at the Wailea Beach Resort.
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Blimpie has been referenced several times in media, but, most notably, was a recurring joke on the TV sitcom 30 Rock. One of the characters, Lutz, was a fan of the restaurant, and often picked it on the days in which he chose lunches, much to the other writers' dismay.
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Accessed June 29, 2010. The original Blimpie store was a hit, and, before long, customers began asking about franchises. The first franchise was sold to a friend in western New York for $600 during the company's first year of operation. In 1965 Baldassare left the company and Conza and DeCarlo expanded into New York City with a store on 55th Street in Manhattan.
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In March 1998, Bayliss and Browning met a sandwich at the local Blimpie restaurant. During the meal, Bayliss taught Browning how to use the PA system that Umphrey's was using at the time, a simple 8-channel Crate mixer with adjustable gain, bass, and treble only. As Browning had no prior mixing experience, Bayliss's lesson was put into layman's terms by showing which channel, for example, to kill in case of microphone feedback.
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Brands; and Domino's Pizza, a pizza chain known for popularizing home delivery of fast food. Subway is known for their sub sandwiches and are the largest restaurant chain to serve such food items. Quiznos a Denver-based sub shop is another fast-growing sub chain, yet with over 6,000 locations it is still far behind Subway's 34,000 locations. Other smaller sub shops include Blimpie, Jersey Mike's Subs, Mr. Goodcents, Jimmy John's, and Firehouse.
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For student recreation, it offers multiple pool tables, ping pong tables, air hockey tables, as well as multiple large flat screen plasma televisions equipped with Xbox 360 game consoles and a 12-foot projection screen for student use. In addition to the Main University Food Center the University Center snack bar features pizza, Chinese cuisine, breakfast burritos, and American grill food stands, as well as Starbucks, Chick-fil-A, and Blimpie Subs and Salads.
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Rosemary De Angelis was born on April 26, 1933 in Brooklyn, New York to Francis and Antoinette (née Donofrio) De Angelis. She made her film debut at age 41 in Columbia Pictures' For Pete's Sake in 1974. She appeared in The Last Detail that same year and the PBS television special, Monkey, Monkey. In 1977, she played the role of the Mother in the play The Transformation of Benno Blimpie at the Astor Place Theatre in New York City.
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By 1988 Conza realized where his focus was, and he exited the Tex-Mex business. Seeing the tremendous success of Subway, Conza redoubled his efforts in the sandwich arena. He began to address the Blimpie problem with a more systematic approach than he had used before. The first step in Conza's revitalization program was to identify four fundamental problems plaguing the business: a lack of goals, poor use of financial resources, low employee morale, and procrastination.
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There are 2 vacant anchor stores that were once Jenny Jon and Fairway Market. The property is owned by Willner Realty of Pennsylvania. It has a gross leasable area of International Council of Shopping Centers: Fashion Center , accessed September 21, 2006 and is considered small by modern standards, with less than 15 stores at its peak. Due to highly restrictive blue laws in Bergen County, with even stricter limitations in Paramus, the Fashion Center is closed on Sundays, except for Applebee's and Blimpie.
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A controversy ensued in 1999 when the Blimpie restaurant at the Potter Building's ground level decided to place outdoor seating on Nassau Street, which had recently been converted from a weekday-only pedestrian zone into a full-time pedestrian plaza. Residents of the Potter Building complained that the seating violated a city ordinance on sidewalk cafes. In 2005, the Potter Building was designated as a contributing property to the Fulton–Nassau Historic District, a National Register of Historic Places district.
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The arena features 39 corporate suites, 1,100 Club Premiere seats, standing room space for 200, The Zone restaurant (overlooking the arena), as well as a Blimpie franchise among the nine concession stands. The arena is physically connected to the Grove Hotel at the corner of Front Street and Capitol Boulevard; the main entrance is from the Grove Plaza. There are two scoreboards and a Daktronics ProStar videoboard. The Grove Hotel has of meeting and convention space in addition to the of arena floor space.
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After the Border Café's initial success, Conza opened two more of them in 1986, one in Woodstock, New York, and the other on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. However, the Border Café idea was a money loser. Despite $4.5 million in revenues for 1987 (its largest total yet), the company showed a net loss of $347,800 for the year. That year, only 30 new Blimpie restaurants were opened, and company stock was in free fall, bottoming out as low as 15 cents per share.
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Also in 2008, the first international development agreement was signed for South Korea. In June 2015, Quick-Service Restaurant Franchisor Kahala Brands purchased Tasti D-Lite along with smoothie chain Planet Smoothie. Kahala Brands is owned by the Serruya family of Canada and is the franchisor of about a dozen fast food, treat and sandwich chains such as Blimpie and Cold Stone Creamery. Together, the 128 Tasti D-Lite and Planet Smoothie locations will now be run from the Kahala Brands corporate headquarters in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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William M. Thomas Terminal has five gates: 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 (Gate 6 is on the ground level), and houses all commercial flights at the airport. The terminal also contains an Omni Goods gift shop and a Blimpie restaurant. Features of the terminal include a rotunda with compass point floor design and a scaled model of Spaceship One (which flew out of Mojave about east of Bakersfield). It is also constructed on a hill, which allows for all passenger services to be on the second level, while airport services are on the first.
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The first Blimpie sub shop opened on May 16, 1964, in Hoboken by Tony Conza, Peter DeCarlo, and Angelo Baldassare, former high school friends and classmates at Saint Peter's Prep in Jersey City. Inspired by the successful Point Pleasant operation Mike's Submarines (later Jersey Mike's Subs), the three speculated that a similar restaurant would do well in Hoboken. The store's name came about because Tony Conza preferred not to call the sandwiches subs, which he felt sounded like a greasy spoon. Conza preferred the term hoagies, but Hoboken residents were unfamiliar with the Philadelphia term.
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Planet Smoothie is the third largest American chain of smoothie stores serving smoothies. The company was founded in 1995 by Martin Sprock in Atlanta, Georgia, and currently operates more than 100 locations. In November, 2011, Planet Smoothie was acquired by Tasti D-Lite LLC who also operates Tasti D-Lite stores. In June 2015, Quick-Service Restaurant Franchisor Kahala Brands purchased both Planet Smoothie and Tasti D-Lite in a deal that brings their 128 locations into the portfolio of about a dozen fast food, treat and sandwich chains such as Blimpie and Cold Stone Creamery owned by the Serruya family of Canada.
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Hoboken is the birthplace of the first Blimpie restaurant, and home to one of the headquarters of publisher John Wiley & Sons. In the 20th century, Union City was the "embroidery capital of the United States", the trademark of that industry appearing on that city's seal.Union City 2000 Calendar, 2000, culled from History of West Hoboken and Union Hill by Ella-Mary Ryman; 1965 and "The Historical Background of Union City" by Daniel A. Primont, William G. Fiedler and Fred Zuccaro, 1964"Little Havana (Miami) & Little Havana on the Hudson (Union City, New Jersey)" BarryPopkik.com; August 15, 2006 Weehawken is home to the headquarters of NY Waterway,Contact, NY Waterway.
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The Transfiguration of Benno Blimpie, which provided James Coco with one of his best roles and earned Innaurato another Obie and a second Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding New American Play, has been produced twice off-Broadway. A production Innaurato directed at Playwrights' Horizons starring Peter Evans won a rave from critic Frank Rich. It was staged in London, where Innaurato directed, Italy, Spain, and Israel. Additional theatre credits include Passione at both Playwrights Horizons (where Innaurato directed) and on Broadway (directed by Frank Langella), Magda and Callas, Coming of Age in Soho (directed by Innaurato twice at Joseph Papp's Public Theater), Gus and Al (given two runs at Playwrights' Horizons), and Dreading Thekla.
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Concord was noted for being used as a filming & production location, especially within the racing industry given the close proximity to most NASCAR teams. Some of the notable movies & shows filmed at the facility included: 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story & Shaq Vs. (as the opening show of season 2 where Shaquille O'Neal held a match race with NASCAR star & former Concord regular Dale Earnhardt Jr.) Many commercials were filmed at Concord as well, among the companies & brands that used the track included: Allstate, AAA Insurance, Blimpie, Coors Light, ESPN, Gilette, National Guard, Mountain Dew, Pizza Hut, TBS (promotion featuring country music duo Brooks & Dunn for the Coca-Cola 600 in 1998) & Wrangler Jeans. Among video games, Concord was included in several video games. Most notably of those is iRacing.
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Quiznos has been the target of several lawsuits related to its treatment of franchisees, including lawsuits in New Jersey and Wisconsin. It has faced more lawsuits from franchisees than bigger chains, such as McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, and even its sandwich competitors Subway and Blimpie, according to an analysis by the legal research firm Thomson West. In February 2007, Quiznos franchisees filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status in Michigan. One lawsuit (filed in New Jersey and seeking class-action status) said that the astounding growth record of Quiznos was merely a mirage. In 2003 and 2004, Quiznos said it sold 234 "trade areas" in the state of New Jersey to franchisees, collecting the $25,000 franchisee fee, but none of these locations ever opened, according to the lawsuit.
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During the late 1970s, Conza sold franchises anywhere he found an interest. Blimpie began selling franchises both for individual stores and for territories. Many of these new franchises were rather isolated from the rest of the chain, and some benefits of franchise arrangements had little effect in those locations. Although the chain was growing rapidly, several of the newer stores failed. By 1983, International Blimpie's annual revenues were approaching $1 million, and Blimpie's franchises totaled 150. Conza took the company public that year, with an initial over-the-counter offering of 90 cents per share. Conza felt that there was little potential in submarine sandwiches, and in 1984 opened Border Café, a tablecloth restaurant serving southwestern cuisine on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Although the Border Café did reasonably well at first, this shift in focus did not do the company much good.
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