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Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes

Food

Menu innovation accelerates

By Patricia Cobe on Jul. 07, 2020

Renewed R&D is powering menus forward after the pandemic slowed things down.

Financing

The owner of Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes files for Chapter 7 bankruptcy

 By Jonathan Maze on May 15, 2020

Garden Fresh Restaurants opts for liquidation rather than reopening its buffet-centric restaurants due to coronavirus restrictions.

Financing

Why the downfall of Garden Fresh Restaurants is so maddening

By Jonathan Maze on May 08, 2020

The owner of Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes was investing in units and planning an expansion. And then the coronavirus hit, says RB’s The Bottom Line.

Financing

The owner of Souplantation and Sweet Tomatoes plans to declare bankruptcy

By Jonathan Maze on May 07, 2020

Garden Fresh Restaurants has hired bankruptcy counsel and says it sees “no way to operate” given FDA recommendations that buffets not open.

Financing

Is this the end of the buffet?

By Jonathan Maze on Apr. 27, 2020

As restaurants reopen, many regulations explicitly forbid buffets and self-service. That could require massive changes at buffet concepts, or their end altogether, says RB’s The Bottom Line.

Top 500 Chains

Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes

May 03, 2019

Get Top 500 data: sales, units and YOY change, average unit volume, and company/franchise units, as well as Technomic’s analysis, growth forecast and more.

Food

8 new menu items for the new year

By Patricia Cobe on Jan. 15, 2019

Restaurants aim to feed consumers’ often conflicting desires as 2019 begins.

Top 500 Chains

Souplantation & Sweet Tomatoes

Jun. 19, 2018

December 2008 Menus

By Restaurant Business Staff on Dec. 12, 2008

Menus from restaurants featured in the December issue of Restaurant Business magazine.

Food

Giving salad a fresh spin

By Restaurant Business Staff on Oct. 01, 2012

The 50-foot salad bar at Souplantation/Sweet Tomatoes is a big draw for guests who come to create customized salads. But the 125-unit chain also offers four varying “recipe” salads tossed fresh every 20 minutes in exhibition kitchens at each location. The most recent of these is the Grilled Steakhouse Salad.

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