Rudino's Pizza & Grinders - Southern Pines

The term Grinder can be traced back to the Eastern Region of the United States. Italian immigrants worked in the shipyards setting and "grinding" rivets in the huge ships. Their wives would come at noon with lunch for the men who worked down the line with freshly-baked bread filled with meats and cheeses. The foreman or person in charge would yell "Grinders - Lunch!" and all the men would sit, eat and talk with their wives. Hence the word "grinder" become known as the delectable combination of meats, cheeses and vegetables served on our one-of-a-kind freshly made oven bread. The tradition has continued at Rudino's. Here, we pile on the meat, vegetables and cheeses. Every grinder is served on bread made from scratch on-site daily.