The Home Team examines how Quiznos grew from a small sandwich chain into a nearly 5,000-location competitor before suffering one of the restaurant industry's largest contractions. The central business lesson is simple: franchise growth isn't sustainable if operators can't make money. Quiznos reached roughly 4,700 U.S. locations around 2006–07, but many franchisees struggled with low sales and high costs. Restaurant Business reports average unit revenue around $400,000 in 2007 while operators increasingly challenged the company's economics. Quiznos' decline involved more than competition with Subway. Industry reporting points to weak franchisee profitability, high food costs, rapid expansion, the Great Recession and hundreds of millions of dollars in debt from leveraged transactions as major pressures on the system. The timing matters: Quiznos' collapse was already well underway before Subway's Jared Fogle scandal erupted in 2015. Quiznos had restructured debt in 2012 and filed Chapter 11 in March 2014, while Fogle wasn't federally charged until August 2015.