Subway Restaurants plans to open 1,200 North American locations in 2012. The chain recently hit the milestone of 25,000 U.S. locations.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the Subway franchise system is the world's largest restaurant chain, in terms of number of locations. Since this past January, the sandwich chain has opened 900 new stores in 58 countries, 42 U.S. states and seven Canadian provinces.

"To continue to provide career opportunities to entrepreneurs and offer our world famous submarine sandwiches, which includes a wide range of healthier meal options, to an ever increasing consumer base, more than 100 Subway developers, field staff and leasing specialists from all across North America will be attending the event," says Chris Kan, Training and Business Promotion Specialist for Subway Real Estate, LLC. "We will be looking for sites and ready to make deals."

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