Lennys Grill & Subs®, formerly Lenny's Sub Shop®, is a quick serve sandwich

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of Philadelphia-style sub shops focused on

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s and

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es. Lennys is based in

Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the seat of Shelby County in the southwest part of the state; it is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, Memphis is the second-mos ...

, and has about 100 locations, mainly throughout the southeastern United States. Len and Shelia Moore opened the first Lenny's Sub Shop on September 16, 1998, in

Bartlett, Tennessee Bartlett is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. The population was 57,786 at the 2020 U.S. Census. History Bartlett, originally called "Union Depot", first served as the last major Tennessean depot along the westward stagecoach rou ...

. Within a year, they had expanded to five locations. Franchising began in 2001.

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* Submarine sandwich restaurants Fast-food chains of the United States Restaurants established in 1998 Companies based in Memphis, Tennessee Bartlett, Tennessee 1998 establishments in Tennessee {{US-restaurant-stub simple:Cousins Subs