Salad and Go files for bankruptcy and closes all locations permanently

Say “sayonara” to your diet.Salad and Go, a made-to-order fast-casual spot dishing up salads, wraps and breakfast options, has filed for bankruptcy and revealed all locations will close down today.The company — which also owns another restaurant called Angie’s — announced the “bittersweet” shutters on their Facebook page.“Today is a bittersweet day for us.

Thirteen years ago, we started Salad and Go with a simple belief that great-tasting, good-for-you food should be affordable for everyone.We dreamed that anywhere there was a McDonald’s, there would also be a better and healthier alternative that people could afford,” the post read. The co-founders of Salas and Go and now owners of Angie’s, Tony and Roushan Christofellis, exited back in 2021 after selling to an investment firm.

Salad and Go filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 4 and typically offers the company a chance to reorganize — usually involving a corporation or partnership.However, the closures seem to indicate the chain is coming to an end.The drive-thru salad chain has locations all across Arizona and Nevada and sent emails to customers notifying them of the company’s end.Angie’s owners, the Christofellis, said the closures will not impact their current business as “The mission was never just about salads.

It was always bigger than that.It has always been about making great food affordable for everyone.

That is Angie’s — The New Fast Food.”“While Salad and Go earned the support and loyalty of a deeply passionate community, the business was ultimately unable to overcome sustained pressure on consumer demand, past strategic growth challenges and rising costs,” the company told multiple outlets.“A Cyclospora outbreak in July, in which Salad and Go was not implicated, weakened confidence across the industry and compounded these challenges.”The Post reached out to Salad and Go but has not heard back.The Arizona-based company’s closures may have come as ...