Grinders Submarine Sandwiches — Restaurant in Oakland

By far the most expensive sandwich I’ve ever had!! 💵 💵 💵 I thought $15 or $16 for a sandwich was expensive. But $31 dollars???? This is a one time mistake and I will not be back a second time. Save your time and hard earned money 💵. It is not worth it! The place was a mess. Looked like a storage room. I peaked in and had to ask if they were open. I thought maybe they were closed and were in the process of restocking and cleaning up. This is the lowest rating I’ve ever given. I gave 2 stars for customer service due to the ladies that were making the sandwiches, they were nice. The sandwich 🥪 was fine. But definitely not good enough to justify charging $31 including a soda. For $31 you can buy an XL pizza 🍕 somewhere else and feed a whole family!! Not a fan of the tall skinny man there either. He might be the owner. I asked him for hand sanitizer, he wouldn’t even provide that! No apologies nothing! Everybody gives you hand sanitizer, it’s a basic necessity! I find him cunning....

Had a bummer of a time here yesterday afternoon. The owner greeted me with "it's been a long day." I ordered a 9" turkey sandwich with avocado, and he charged me $15.29. (Menu pricing is hard to decipher, but as far as I could tell, no 12" sandwich w avocado was over $12, so this didn't make sense.) When I asked him why he charged me $15, he explained to me that I had ordered a 9," which was "basically a sandwich and a half, and a normal sandwich is $10." I didn't press him, I just hoped the ingredients would be great. Sadly, it was more or less a Subway-quality sandwich at double the price. I want to support small businesses (especially the food and restaurant business), but I don't recommend this place given the over-priced, mediocre, surly...

Solid sandwich place. Perfect for customization. Guy at the register walks you through your options to help you build your sandwich the first time. Some simple yes or no questions (bacon? avocado?) or some choices, like which kind of cheese or mustard. And there are a lot of options you can choose from. They run through all these choices on a computer and print out your order to make sure it's right, and it sounds like they store it for any future orders too. I wish more places were run like this.

Can be a little easy to miss going past. There is paid street parking on the street right out front, or a lot behind the nearby Safeway. The only seating around is the benches on the sidewalk...