Groucho's Original Deli

Trademark Subs and Salads Since 1941 The History of the Groucho's? name is a story unto itself, and one that can only be told as follows. Harold "Groucho" Miller came to Columbia, South Carolina in 1941 with a handful of original recipes for potato s...

Trademark Subs and Salads Since 1941 The History of the Groucho's? name is a story unto itself, and one that can only be told as follows. Harold "Groucho" Miller came to Columbia, South Carolina in 1941 with a handful of original recipes for potato salad, cole slaw, and various salad and sandwich dressings, most of which were thought up during his childhood in a Philadelphia orphanage. These humble beginnings, along with the idea that "quality is the most important ingredient in a sandwich" are only where this story begins. Ivan Miller, recollected in an interview with the Columbia Record in 1986, "When Pop first opened this store, Columbia was a small town, and everything had a label. Here he (Harold Miller) was this really crazy kind of guy. Always, joking. Always had a big cigar. A mustache. He looked like Groucho Ma