

You’ll get plenty of sodium, but hey, you’ll sweat that out anyway.īasically, sticking to the leaner meats like roast beef and turkey, nixing the mayo, and letting them scoop some bread out of the middle of the top half (which is standard operating procedure) will get you the most nutrition for your buck. You won’t find any healthy sides if you need a little variety, since your choices are chips, cookies, or a dill pickle, the last of which is your best bet. As you go down the list, they get bigger and start mixing the meats together until you get to the Gargantuan, which is basically every option on the menu crammed into a French bread bun, which clocks in at 1,135 calories and 54 grams of fat. Gargantuan, in the standard styles using ham, roast beef, turkey, tuna salad, and Italian cured meats like salami and capocollo. Their French bread is baked every day, timed so it’s no more than four hoursįor good eats, you get to choose from sandwiches categorized as Slims, 8-inch Subs, Giant Clubs, and the J.J. raised with no hormones-with minimal ingredients, none artificial, that are sliced fresh daily. Stores are locally owned, and they strive to gather vegetables from local sources and use only quality cold cuts-all U.S. Today Jimmy John’s is known for fast and efficient delivery and satisfying, stacked sandwiches. The shop has since grown to almost 3,000 stores-with plans to build up to 5,000 in the near future-and Liautaud is still the chairman of the board. Fresh out of high school in 1983, Jimmy John Liautaud started a sandwich shop in an Illinois garage.
