Salisbury House (restaurant)

Salisbury House of Canada Ltd.

Type	Privately held company
Founded	1931 in Downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Headquarters	Winnipeg, Canada
Number of locations	20
Key people	Earl and Cheryl Barish and Burton Cummings
Employees	500+
Website	http://www.salisburyhouse.ca/

Salisbury House is a restaurant chain based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Known locally as "Sals," the chain is considered a Winnipeg institution.

The restaurant has twenty locations in Winnipeg and employs over 500 people. In 2001, it was bought from its then Montreal owners by a group of local investors, among them musician Burton Cummings. The majority owners are Earl and Cheryl Barish.

Salisbury House is well known for their "nips" (hamburgers) as well as its breakfast platters, wafer pie, red velvet cake, and house coffee. The chain recently introduced a complete line of hot dogs, known as a "WINNI."

History

The first Salisbury House restaurant was founded in Downtown Winnipeg in 1931 by Ralph Erwin, who named the venture after the salisbury steak. Erwin disliked the term 'hamburger' so named his burger a "nip" to market his hamburgers as a small 'nip' or bite of Salisbury steak.