Penn Station (restaurant) Penn Station (restaurant) Penn Station is a chain of restaurants specializing in what it calls "East Coast subs." Locations are found throughout the Midwestern United States. The first restaurant was opened in 1985 by Jeff Osterfeld in Cincinnati, Ohio. Currently, Penn Station has over 300 locations in 15 states. The concept for an East Coast sub restaurant came to Jeff Osterfeld soon after he graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. In 1983, he opened "Jeffrey's Delicatessen" at the Dayton Mall in Dayton, Ohio. It was during a trip to Philadelphia that he first realized the popularity of the cheesesteak
Jamie Oliver 2008, Oliver launched a restaurant called Jamie's Italian, his first high-street business venture, in Oxford, England. At peak, there were 42 "Jamie's Italian" restaurants in the UK. The brand has been franchised and includes branches in the UAE, Australia (which Oliver part-bought back in November 2016 after its founders went bankrupt), Canada, Cyprus, Iceland, Ireland, Russia, Turkey, Singapore and Hong Kong. In January 2017, Chief Executive Simon Blagden announced the closure of six restaurants in the UK affecting 120 jobs, at sites in Aberdeen, Cheltenham, Exeter, Tunbridge Wells; and in London at Ludgate and Richmond. In January 2018, as part