Lee's Sandwiches
"The #1 Vietnamese & Euro-Asian Sandwiches Franchise in the world!"
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| Industry | Food |
| Predecessor | Lee Bros. Foodservices, Inc |
| Founded | 1983 |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California |
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Number of locations
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63 |
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Area served
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United States (California, Texas, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Oklahoma, Oregon, Virginia, Georgia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.) and Taiwan |
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Key people
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Lê Văn Chiêu, Lê Văn Hướng (Founders) |
| Products | Vietnamese-style sandwiches |
| Website | www.leesandwiches.com |
Lee's Sandwiches International, Inc., is a fast food restaurant chain found in the United States and Taiwan, specializing in Vietnamese cuisine. While originally famous for selling bánh mì (Vietnamese sandwiches), the chain has expanded its offering to many other goods, including packaged spring rolls, specialty drinks, desserts, and other food-to-go items. It has many different bánh mì and smoothie selections. The chain's Vietnamese-style sandwiches use French baguette bread. It has its headquarters in San Jose, California.
Lee's Sandwiches was started by the Le (Vietnamese: Lê) family in San Jose, California, after immigrating from Vietnam to San Jose in 1980. After several years of working in a catering truck, Lê Văn Chiêu and Lê Văn Hướng operated their own truck and later began their own mobile catering distribution business named Lee Bros. Foodservices, Inc. They anglicized their surname to "Lee" for business purposes. In 1983, Chiêu and Hướng's parents had success selling bánh mì from their truck, and they decided to open a permanent store originally called Saigon Gourmet. Then in 2001, the family modernized their traditional Vietnamese bakery-cafes to today's concept of Lee's Sandwiches . They eventually expanded to many other cities in California and were the first to franchise the Vietnamese deli-cafe concept.
By 2006, they had expanded into Arizona, Texas, and Oklahoma and continued to focus on areas with significant Vietnamese-American populations. They also had plans to expand in the Pacific states of Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, though the Washington expansion had not come to fruition by 2015.
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