2 new Submarine House restaurants will be chain’s largest

A new Submarine House sports bar and grill in Huber Heights that we first told you about in January is a couple of weeks away from opening, and another new Submarine House coming to Washington Twp. is scheduled to open this fall, Brody Danner, the chain's co-owner, said today.

“Both stores will be our biggest to date and will be designed and constructed along the lines of our new brand,” Danner said. “I think everyone will be pleasantly surprised.”

The Huber Heights bar-and-grill restaurant at 5376 Taylorsville Road near Ohio 202 is hiring kitchen staff and delivery drivers and “is shooting for a Sept. 13 opening,” Danner said. The Washington Twp. location coming to 503 Miamisburg-Centerville Road in the Normandy Square Shopping Center is scheduled to open in November or December, he said. Both are franchise-owned.

The Huber Heights sports pub is nearly 4,000 square feet, with seating for 96 inside and dozens more on a patio. It will employ 40 to 45. Franchise owner Robin McGrath and family also operate the Submarine House in Troy.

The Washington Twp. Submarine House will seat an estimated 130 to 160 and will employ about 40, franchisee Jeremy McDaniel told us in July. It will be located in space that previously housed a Blockbuster Video but which has been vacant for several years.

An existing, smaller Submarine House sub shop five blocks west at 1000 Miamisburg-Centerville Road will shut down when the new Normandy Square bar-and-grill opens.

Founded in 1973 with a location on Brown Street near the University of Dayton, Submarine House opened its first bar-and-grill concept in 2006, and now operates 8 locations, four of them bar-and-grills. Seven of the restaurants are in the Dayton area, and one bar-and-grill is in Hilliard in suburban Columbus.

>> Submarine House looking to add 2 new locations (January 2016)

>> New sports bar coming to Washington Twp. (July 2016)

>> Dayton-based sub chain poised to expand (January 2014)

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