Established in 1973
Closing july 22nd 2022
About Us
Grinders 13 History
We are coming up on 50 years at Grinders 13 and it's time say goodbye. We will be closing for good on July 22nd. Our hours will be shorter next week as we plan on only staying open until 3pm. It's been a wonderful journey and would love to hear from everyone about your stories of working eating and just being around Grinders 13. Email your stories and pictures to grinders13wv@gmail.com We will post the good times on our brand new Instagram account at instagram.com/Grinders13WV. Thanks for all the wonderful years and to a beautiful future!
Our Brief History
In 1972, Maurice (Moe) and Sylvia Girouard moved from New Hampshire to Salt Lake City to be near some of the greatest skiing on earth. After a year in the Rockies, they missed those killer subs from back east and decided to bring them to Utah. In 1973 two brothers, Moe & Roger Girouard started a small sub shop on State Street – across from the old South High School, but after a couple of years Roger decided to move his family back to New Hampshire. It was first known as The Original Sub Shop, which is still on the logo, but the name was officially changed to Grinders 13 in 1975. The number “13” was simply a reflection of how many different sandwiches they had on the menu at that time, though there are a few more now. Moe and Sylvia ran Grinders 13 for 45 years up until Syl's passing in 2016. Moe remains steadfast at the helm still serving up the best cheese steaks in the city for close to 50 years.
At one point Grinders had two spots on North Temple and a location up in Midvale across the street from Hillcrest High School. The West Valley Store - 2125 South 3200 West is our lone remaining flagship location with Moe still at the helm. The original Sub Shop State Street location was sold to Curtis a long time employee of Grinders 13 and has made been rebranded into his very own Gaetano's Sub Shop.
Moe is still the only one to make the meatballs from scratch and the spaghetti sauce is their old family recipe. All deli meats are sliced fresh, right down to slow cooking the roast for roast beef sandwiches and hand trimming and slicing the steaks for their famous Philly steaks, cheese steaks and pepper steaks.
Come on by and join them for some east coast classics like the Cheese Steak, Meat Ball or Italian Meats or dig into some fresh cooked french fries with that Utah favorite.......FRY SAUCE!!
Hope to see you before we close for good July 22nd.
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