Utah Spotlights
Salt Lake County
Local businesses and founders in Salt Lake County, from downtown SLC to Sugar House, Millcreek and Draper.
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Ruth’s Diner: A Cabaret Singer, a Trolley Car and Nearly a Century of Biscuits in Emigration Canyon
In 1930, a former cabaret singer named Ruth Evans opened a hamburger joint downtown. When her building was torn down, she bought a trolley…
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Sweet Candy Company: Five Generations of Taffy, Cinnamon Bears and Orange Sticks in Salt Lake City
Leon Sweet started selling candy from a horse-drawn wagon in 1892. Today the Sweet family is in its fifth generation of candy making in…
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Crown Burgers: How a Greek Family From Crete Gave Salt Lake City Its Pastrami Burger
Since 1978, Crown Burgers has been piling hot pastrami on cheeseburgers in downtown Salt Lake City. Here’s how a Greek immigrant family turned a…