On March 7, Jimmy John Liautaud founder, owner and chairman of Jimmy John’s, spoke to Kellogg Executive MBA students in Miami. He shared his life story and how he started Jimmy John’s with $20,000 at age 19 and grew it to the 2,800+ unit chain of sandwich shops it has today. One of the students, […]
A new collaboration between local Jimmy John’s owners and Minnesota Hockey will support multiple initiatives aimed at growing the sport. Among the initiatives supported is Gear Up Minnesota, an equipment grant program that works to make hockey more affordable for players and their families. Another is the Family Mentor Program, which matches seasoned hockey families […]
While other restaurants and chains have inked deals with third-party services to deliver their products, Jimmy John’s is committed to keeping their deliveries in-house. Priding itself on being “freaky fast,” Jimmy John’s isn’t willing to rely on services that can take up to 45 minutes to get to customers. The company’s new ad campaign, “Own […]
While more and more restaurants have been turning to services like GrubHub and UberEats to expand their business and allow customers to order food from their homes or workplaces, Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches is resisting the trend. Just this week, the company launched a national advertising campaign promising to keep their deliveries in-house. “We just […]
Jimmy John’s Gourmet Sandwiches was born out of Jimmy John Liautaud’s passion for food and for entrepreneurship . Liautaud now uses his success to help others follow their passions. Since 2014, Liautaud and his wife, Leslie, have supported Camp Southern Ground, a non-profit project founded by Grammy Award-winning artist Zac Brown, which celebrated its first […]
Every Wednesday is tasting day at Jimmy John’s headquarters and Jimmy John Liautaud is the top taster. Jimmy doesn’t wear a fancy suit to work; instead he looks like a regular guy in jeans and an untucked shirt. This week he’s trying ten sandwiches, six deli meats and new cookies. The first baguette passes the […]
Christmas came early for more than three hundred customers who had items on layaway at Walmarts in central Illinois. On the last day to pick up their layaway items, they were greeted with the news that their bills, totalling $80,000, had been paid in full by a Secret Santa. The Secret Santa turned out to […]
On a Saturday in October, Jimmy John Liautaud flew to Columbus, Nebraska to make his own delivery. He gifted Jimmy John’s driver, Zach Hillmer, with a new Ford Escape after he responded to a call and gave a veteran a ride to the hospital. A few days prior, Lisa Nagengast was flying home to help […]
In Fall of 2018, Jimmy John Liautaud was included on the Forbes list of the World’s Wealthiest People with an estimated net worth of $1.7 billion after selling majority stake of Jimmy John’s to Roark Capital for an undisclosed amount. With a lot of hard work, Jimmy turned a small loan from his father into […]
The past year has been an exciting one for the Jimmy John’s marketing department. In Fall 2017, Jimmy John’s hired its first CMO since 2007, John Shea. John had years of experience in the food and beverage industry, previously working at PepsiCo for 12 years then becoming the head of global markets at Gatorade before […]
