SUBWAY® restaurants began in the summer of 1965 when 17 year old Fred DeLuca graduated high school with aspirations of becoming a doctor. While at a cookout that July, he asked a family friend, Dr. Peter Buck, for advice on how to pay for college hoping that Dr. Buck would just give him the money. Instead, Dr. Buck suggested that Fred open a submarine sandwich shop similar to the one Dr. Buck frequented as a child in Maine so that Fred could earn enough money to pay his tuition. Dr. Buck wrote Fred a check for $1,000 and they became business partners. This was the start of Doctor’s Associates Inc.