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It's official! There are more Subway sandwich shops in the world than McDonald's, according to the Wall Street Journal. "At the end of last year, Subway had 33,749 restaurants world-wide, according to a Subway spokesman, compared to McDonald's 32,737," reports the paper. The sandwich company is about to open its first location in Vietnam. [WSJ]