Subway’s party boy

Antics of chain’s late founder

The late Fred DeLuca, known for building Subway Restaurants into the biggest fast-food chain in the world, was a hard-partying boss who pursued franchisees’ wives and posed half-naked for a company calendar, according to a report.

DeLuca (pictured), who co-founded Subway in 1965 and largely ran it up until his death in 2015, distributed a company calendar in 2000 complete with Subway male executives posing partially naked.

The January model was DeLuca himself, “grinning and shirtless in a dim office with a navy towel slung seductively over his shoulder,” holding a glass of champagne, Insider said.

The report claimed this was just one aspect of a socially active atmosphere at Subway that sometimes went overboard.

DeLuca was also known to pursue the wives of Subway franchisees, according to the story, which included an interview with Fred’s former daughter-in-law Ana DeLuca.

“He always felt that he could go and he could approach any woman” at Subway conventions “because he was responsible for their husbands’ success in stores,” Insider reported, quoting an anonymous source.

Subway didn’t return a request for comment.

In the early ’90s, Fred moved to Florida to reduce his taxes, while his wife, Elisabeth, stayed in Orange, Conn., the exdaughter-in-law said. The moment Elisabeth left his side, “other girls came around,” Ana DeLuca told Insider.

Fred’s partying ways were accepted inside Subway because many there saw him as a “demigod,” the report said.

Subway has been on the decline since his death. As The Post reported this week, the company angered franchisees with new contracts requiring them to remain open all but one day of the year.