FOOD DEAL: Potbelly to offer 40% off sandwiches for its 40th birthday

Potbelly Sandwiches is offering 40 percent off all original sandwiches from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, June 1. SUBMITTED

Potbelly Sandwiches is offering 40 percent off all original sandwiches from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday, June 1. SUBMITTED

Potbelly Sandwich Shop is celebrating its 40th birthday in style by offering 40 percent off any original sandwich.

The offer is good from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, June 1. Customers "just need to mention the birthday offer in shop and pay in shop," according to a Potbelly release.

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The Chicago-based chain operates restaurants on Brown Street near the University of Dayton, at The Greene Town Center in Beavercreek, at Liberty Town Center, and on Mason Road in Deerfield Twp., according to its web site.

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We reached out to a Potbelly spokesman to make sure our local Potbelly restaurants were, indeed, offering the deal, and were assured they were. “All Potbelly locations are participating in the promotion, including Dayton-area Potbellys,” the spokesman said.

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“There’s no better way to turn 40 than by rewarding our loyal customers and inviting them to celebrate with us,” Aylwin Lewis, Potbelly’s chairman and CEO, said in a release.

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Future Potbelly birthdays will be celebrated by a different CEO at the helm, however. Lewis and the restaurant chain announced yesterday, May 30, that Lewis will step down as the chairman and CEO of Potbelly in early August, according to the trade publication Nation’s Restaurant News. Lewis has been with the Chicago-based sandwich chain for nine years.

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