Restaurant Equipment and Supply for Salt Lake City and the Salt Lake Valley
Salt Lake City cooks food you won't find the same way anywhere else. The first Arctic Circle opened here in 1950 and put fry sauce on the map, Crown Burgers has stacked pastrami on its cheeseburgers since 1978, and funeral potatoes show up at church potlucks across the valley. Ruth's Diner has served biscuits and diner plates from a renovated trolley car in Emigration Canyon since 1930, and The Pie Pizzeria started in a basement near the University of Utah in 1980.
The rest of the valley has its own story. West Valley City is Utah's second largest city, Draper was known as the "Egg Basket of Utah" in the 1940s, West Jordan's Gardner Village is built around an 1877 flour mill, and Murray's Wheeler Historic Farm runs a Sunday market most of the year.
Since 2015, The Restaurant Warehouse has shipped to thousands of commercial kitchens in every state. Salt Lake Valley orders ship from our Denver warehouse, so Salt Lake Valley restaurants get the same low prices and freight delivery right to Salt Lake City, West Valley City, West Jordan, Sandy, and Draper. The most common orders here are reach-in refrigerators, freezers, griddles, fryers, draft beer coolers, and food truck equipment.
Fry Sauce, Pastrami Burgers and Funeral Potatoes
Don Carlos Edwards served his pink ketchup and mayo sauce at Don Carlos Barbecue in the early 1940s, then at the first Arctic Circle, which opened in Salt Lake City in 1950. Crown Burgers opened at 200 South and 400 East in 1978. The pastrami burger idea came from Southern California, but Salt Lake made it famous: the Crown Burger is a quarter-pound cheeseburger topped with pastrami simmered in sauce. Funeral potatoes spread through Relief Society dinners and cookbooks and even made it onto a 2002 Winter Olympics souvenir pin, and Jell-O is Utah's official state snack.
Burger and fry shops run on griddles, charbroilers, and fryers with fast recovery, with chef bases under the line. Caterers baking casseroles by the pan need ranges and ovens, two-door reach-in refrigerators, and freezers for bulk prep.
Pioneer Park Market, the Greek Festival and Salt Lake Food Events
The Downtown Farmers Market has run in and around Pioneer Park on Saturdays since 1992, running from early June through late October, and it draws more than 10,000 visitors a week, according to Gastronomic SLC. Every September, Holy Trinity Cathedral on 300 West hosts the Salt Lake City Greek Festival, which has run for five decades and serves gyros, souvlaki, spanakopita, baklava, and loukoumades to tens of thousands. The calendar also has the Living Traditions Festival every May, the Utah Asian Festival every June, the Indian Food Fair in Liberty Park every August, and Eat Drink SLC at Tracy Aviary and Festa Italiana at The Gateway every September.
Market and festival vendors need food truck equipment, griddles, fryers, and undercounter refrigeration sized for a tight build, with work tables, sandwich prep tables, and countertop display cases for pastries and grab-and-go.
Salt Lake City Craft Beer and the End of the 3.2 Law
Wasatch Brewery opened in 1986 and is called the city's first brewery since Prohibition, and Squatters followed in 1989 as its first brewpub, according to Visit Salt Lake. Epic Brewing opened in 2010, and Fisher Beer, founded in 1884 and closed in the 1960s, came back in 2017. On November 1, 2019, Utah ended its roughly 86-year "3.2 law," so draft taps and grocery stores can now pour and sell beer up to 5% ABV, up from 4%.
Brewpubs and taprooms need draft beer coolers, back-bar coolers, glass merchandisers, and bar refrigeration, plus ice machines for summer patios.
Restaurant Supply Store in Salt Lake City
We ship straight to your Salt Lake City restaurant. Most Salt Lake Valley orders arrive in 1 to 3 business days from our Denver warehouse, with free freight and free lift gate service. Will-call pickup in Denver is available for verified restaurant businesses, but most kitchens skip the drive and let us ship it. The Salt Lake County Health Department permitted 5,204 food establishments in 2023, including 378 mobile food businesses, and it inspects restaurants unannounced at least once a year. Most Salt Lake Valley calls are for a fast replacement, like a reach-in refrigerator that quit before the weekend or a fryer at the end of its life, or for a full equipment package for a new restaurant, taproom, or food truck. Tell us what you are cooking and how much space you have, and we will help you size the line.
Why Salt Lake City Restaurants Buy From The Restaurant Warehouse
Every piece of new Atosa equipment we sell is run-tested for 24 hours at the factory before it ships. It carries Intertek's ETL Sanitation and cETLus listings, which certify it to the NSF/ANSI food equipment standards and US and Canadian safety standards that inspectors from the Salt Lake County Health Department look for. Refrigeration comes with a 3-year parts and labor warranty and a 5-year compressor warranty, gas cooking equipment comes with a 1-year parts and labor warranty, and extended warranties are available.
- Free freight on qualifying orders, no lift gate fees
- Built for scrappy startups, food trucks and independent kitchens
- Founder Sean Kearney answers calls, texts and email at (206) 419-5801 or therestaurantwarehouse@gmail.com
Serving Salt Lake City and the Salt Lake Valley
Salt Lake City is our hub for Salt Lake County, from downtown to Draper at the south end of the valley. Restaurants across the valley get the same equipment, free lift gate freight, and warranty, and they talk to the same team.
Salt Lake City
From Pioneer Park and Crown Burgers' downtown corner to the restaurants around the University of Utah, operators searching for a restaurant supply store in Salt Lake City usually need a fast replacement, so we ship reach-in refrigerators, freezers, sandwich prep tables, and fryers.
West Valley City and Taylorsville
West Valley City counted 140,230 people at the 2020 census, second only to Salt Lake City in Utah, and its Hispanic and Latino population grew 29% from 2010 to 2020. Next door, Taylorsville grew sugar beets from the 1890s and incorporated as a city in 1996. Family restaurants and food trucks here order griddles, charbroilers, and freezers.
West Jordan, South Jordan and Riverton
Archibald's Restaurant opened inside Gardner Village's 1877 flour mill in West Jordan in 1990, and the West Jordan Sugar Factory processed valley beets from 1916. The Pie Pizzeria's stores reach as far south as South Jordan, according to the company, and Riverton, first called Gardnerville, grew alfalfa, wheat, sugar beets, and tomatoes and had its own canning factory. Pizzerias and family kitchens here order pizza prep tables, ovens, undercounter refrigerators, and ice machines.
Murray, Sandy and Draper
Salt Lake County runs Wheeler Historic Farm in Murray, where the Sunday market goes from late May to mid-October and moves indoors from January to April. Sandy is home to La Caille, a longtime French-style destination restaurant, and Draper eggs were marketed coast to coast in the 1940s, and its co-op supplied troops in the South Pacific during World War II. Its old poultry and egg plant on Pioneer Road joined the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. Restaurants and caterers here order back-bar coolers, reach-in refrigerators, chef bases, and work tables.
Salt Lake City Restaurant Equipment FAQ
Do you ship restaurant equipment to Salt Lake City?
Yes. The Restaurant Warehouse ships commercial restaurant equipment to Salt Lake City and the rest of the Salt Lake Valley by freight, with lift gate delivery to your door.
Do you deliver to West Valley City, West Jordan, Sandy and Draper?
Yes. We deliver across the Salt Lake Valley, including West Valley City, Taylorsville, Murray, West Jordan, South Jordan, Riverton, Sandy, and Draper.
How fast is delivery to Salt Lake City?
Most Salt Lake Valley orders arrive in 1 to 3 business days from our Denver warehouse, depending on item availability and carrier routing. Contact us if you need equipment urgently.
Do you offer free freight?
Yes. Free freight is available on select models and qualifying orders. Contact us to confirm freight options for a specific item.
Do you charge lift gate fees?
No. We do not charge lift gate fees.
What types of restaurant equipment do you sell?
We sell commercial refrigerators, freezers, prep tables, griddles, charbroilers, deep fryers, ovens, ice machines, bar refrigeration, and food truck equipment, plus many other categories for professional kitchens.
Can I get help choosing the right equipment?
Yes. If you can't find what you need, call or email us and we'll help you source the right product for your kitchen.
Can I pick up my order?
Yes. Verified restaurant businesses can arrange will-call pickup at our Denver warehouse. But why lose a day renting a truck, strapping it down and unloading it yourself? With free freight and free lift gate service, most Salt Lake Valley orders arrive at your door or curb in 1 to 3 business days. Call (206) 419-5801 to set up either option.
Up I-15, our Ogden page covers Layton and northern Utah, and south over Point of the Mountain our Provo page covers Orem and Utah Valley.
Restaurant Equipment Across Utah and the Mountain West
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