Potbelly Sandwich Works

Potbelly Corporation

Type	Public
Traded as	NASDAQ: PBPB
Industry	Fast casual
Founded	1977
Founder	Peter Hastings
Headquarters	River Center 111. N.Canal Street, Chicago, Illinois
Number of locations	413
Key people	Aylwin Lewis, Chairman & CEO Bryant Keil, Founding Chairman
Products	Sandwiches, Salads, Soups, Ice Cream
Revenue	$372.8 million (2015)
Operating income	$9.429 million (2015)
Net income	$5.628 million (2015)
Number of employees	7,000
Website	potbelly.com

Potbelly Corporation is a publicly traded restaurant chain that sells submarine sandwiches and other food in the United States, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and Canada. The company is headquartered at the River Center at 111 N. Canal Street, in Chicago, Illinois.

Potbelly Sandwich Shop is a sandwich and food store that was founded in 1977 by Peter Hastings. The original store is located at 2264 North Lincoln Avenue in Chicago, in a retail space that was previously an antique store called Hindsight, also owned by Hastings. Many of the items that decorated the restaurant were taken from the former antique store. In 1996, Bryant Keil purchased the original store. Keil quickly expanded the store. The second store was opened in 1997 and he expanded Potbelly to over 300 stores in several states and the District of Columbia., Investors include Maveron and American Securities.

Potbelly's menu features a variety of sandwiches that are all served hot on regular or multigrain wheat bread. All sandwiches can be ordered "thin-cut" style, in which one third of the bread is cut out. Potbelly began offering salads in February 2007. The menu also includes soup, shakes, malts, smoothies, and cookies. Most restaurants feature live music from local musicians during the lunch hours.

On November 5, 2007, a new Potbelly store in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, became the first to feature a drive-through. A second drive-through store was added shortly thereafter in Waukegan, Illinois.

In 2011, Potbelly opened two franchise stores in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates; these are the first international Potbelly locations. Additionally, Potbelly has the most corporate owned sandwich stores in the US.