28 - Jersey Mike's Peter Cancro

Peter Cancro's success story is unlike any other in the restaurant industry. When he was just 17 years old, Cancro purchased the sub shop where he worked on the Jersey Shore, and he transformed it into a thriving sandwich franchise that now has more than 1,700 U.S. locations that do over $1 billion annually in sales. But the numbers don't paint the whole story; Jersey Mike's has also been renowned for the ways in which it takes care of people, both in its communities and in its franchise syst...