Press release from Subway:
JAMESTOWN, N.C., December 2, 2016 – SUBWAY® restaurant owners from across North Carolina had the recipe for success: caring people and a community cause, combined with a sweet treat. The 2016 “Cookie for a Cure” campaign yielded $28,525 for the state’s Susan G. Komen® affiliates to help in the fight against cancer.
Western North Carolina SUBWAY® restaurants contributed $3,000 of the total $28,525 raised statewide to the local Komen affiliate.
Just in time for National Cookie Day, representatives from SUBWAY® sub shops and Komen met today to enjoy a cookie and celebrate the campaign results. During October in the statewide effort, local NC SUBWAY® restaurants served a special raspberry cheesecake cookie with a percentage of cookie sales going to Komen.
“At SUBWAY® restaurants, we believe it is important for us to be involved in the communities where we live and work,” said Timothy Mann, chief operating officer of NC SUBWAY® Group Inc. “We want to express our appreciation to everyone who bought a cookie during the campaign, and supported our effort to give back and hopefully save lives.”
Each year Komen affiliates award grants to local health organizations for breast health education, screenings and non-medical treatment support. Seventy five percent of the funds raised for Komen will stay in the local community, and the other 25 percent will support breast cancer research.
SUBWAY® Global Baking Specialist Mark Christiano maintains that the SUBWAY® cookies, with their unique proprietary recipes are the best cookies in the industry and are a great fit to pair with a worthy cause.
For National Cookie Day, here is some SUBWAY® cookie trivia:
SUBWAY® restaurants sell more than 1 billion cookies a year
The brand uses about 122 million pounds of cookie dough a year
Chocolate Chip, by a large margin, is the most popular cookie choice
The manufacturing of SUBWAY cookies requires the services of 46,602 busy hens working around the clock. The average hen lays an egg once every 26 hours, or 309 eggs per year and it takes 14.4 million eggs to net the required 1.6 million pounds of eggs needed to make enough dough for a year’s worth of SUBWAY cookies.
We started baking cookies in store in about 1984 when we started baking bread in the restaurants
Because Australians really don’t eat (potato) chips with their meals, cookies complete the meal. Cookie sales in Australia are about double of that in the U.S.
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