Subway Restaurants, the sandwich chain with some 50 outlets in the UK has passed McDonald's to take the title of the largest number of outlets in the United States.

At the end of 2001, Subway ran 13,247 outlets in the United States, ahead of McDonald's 13,099 at the close of the same period.

Subway

opened 904 restaurants in the United States in 2001 and plans to open a similar number this year. McDonald's opened 295 restaurants in the United States last year.