Like many Americans, Chic Young taught his son Dean the "family" business - only this "family" touches the lives of over 280 million people daily through the circulation of 2,300 newspapers worldwide.  The success of the Blondie comic strip is a result of the Young family's 75 years of love, passion and commitment to creating an entertaining strip that has universal appeal.  There are no aliens, spaceships or talking animals in the Blondie strip...only down-to-earth people in everyday situations that connect to people's hearts and minds.

Dean Young's personal love, passion and commitment for the Blondie strip did not evolve over night and was no accident.  As a child, when Dean would wander into his father's art studio, Chic would put him on his lap and give him a glimpse into the magic he was creating on the easel.  Most children grew up hearing the traditional fairy tale stories like Mother Goose and the Three Little Pigs; but Dean grew up with Blondie and Dagwood.  Dean loved his father's stories, especially ones about Dagwood and his sandwich.

Chic Young has passed on, but Dean Young is carrying on the Blondie legacy.  The strip and its characters have truly become a part of him.  Indeed, Dean has often said that Dagwood truly lives inside his head and heart, often referring to Dagwood has his "alter ego."  Dean and Dagwood are inseperable.  When Dean dreams about it, Dagwood talks about it.

For years, loyal Blondie readers have seen Dagwood's passion for sandwiches demonstrated in countless strips...now they can taste it. 

Dagwood's obsession with sandwiches is echoed in Dean's own passion for quality, wholesome, scrumptious sandwiches, manifested in the "treasure trove" of thousands of sandwich recipes that Dean has been creating over the years in his own kitchen.  In fact, Dean had dreamed of opening a sandwich shop for decades in the "Blondie" comic strip, so has Dagwood.

Dagwood's Sandwich Shoppes are the closest one might ever get to witnessing a comic character step out of his strip and live in the real world.

Dean Young's vision is to create a truly extraordinary chain of sandwich shops.

Dagwood's Sandwich Shoppes offer guests the opportunity to take a break from the "regular world" and enter into an engaging and rewarding experience - embraced by Dagwood's friends and family and surrounded by the colorful, entertaining fun that characterizes the strip.

And at the heart of it all - the food.  The food is truly king at Dagwood's.  The devotion of quality, the fabulous flavors, the attention to detail and the dedication to authenticity that characterize Dean's "treasure trove" of recipes have been translated into the menu of out-of-this-world sandwiches served at Dagwood's.

Unlike other QSR chains that have named their restaurant chains after people, characters or personalities (think Popeyes, Wendy's, Roy Rogers), Dagwood is actually involved with Dagwood's Sandwich Shoppes.  When guests walk into Dagwood's Sandwich Shoppes they will feel, smell and taste Dagwood's passion for sandwiches.

Passion for sandwiches.  Dagwood has it.  People across the globe have it.  Dagwood's Sandwich Shoppes epitomizes it.  This passion is an emotional chord that is repeatedly struck with everyone who experiences our brand.

Fundamentally and instinctively, when it comes to "all things sandwich", people totally trust Dagwood.  When Dagwood says "I know my sandwiches", we absolutely believe him.