BEAVERCREEK — The newly constructed DiBella’s Old Fashioned Submarines store at 2544 Zink Road in Beavercreek will open its doors Jan. 24, more than two months ahead of schedule, according to officials with the Rochester, N.Y.-based restaurant chain.

The area’s first DiBella’s Old Fashioned Submarines restaurant opened nearly a year ago at 1191 Miamisburg-Centerville Road (Ohio 725) in Washington Twp. The chain is considering adding one or two more locations in the Dayton area in future years, although no additional store openings are scheduled for 2013 in the Dayton area, DiBella’s officials said.

DiBella’s operates two Columbus-area restaurants as well as a Blue Ash location and is scheduled to open a second Cincinnati-area restaurant at 265 Calhoun St. later this year.

“Dayton has been great for us,” Jim Paladenic, DiBella’s chief operating officer, said in a news release. “We’re really excited to have this new store; it will really help us show more people what the best subs around are like.”

The new sub shop will open with about 50 employees, and seats up to 130 diners. Company spokeswoman Jill Ayres said favorable weather helped push up the construction timetable of the new restaurant.

The sub chain’s second Dayton-area restaurant will offer a doorbuster special of sorts: the first 30 customers served after the doors open at 10 a.m. Jan. 24 will receive 52 certificates, each good for a small sub sandwich. Ten more customers picked at random from visitors throughout the opening week also will win 52 certificates for a free small sandwich, DiBella’s officials said.

The chain’s sub shops offer hot and cold subs, ranging from traditional Italian cold-cut sandwiches to buffalo chicken subs, in an atmosphere that evokes a 1940s-style corner restaurant theme.