Salad for Dinner? Crisp & Green Expands to Meet Demand
The Minneapolis-based fast casual restaurant chain adds 10 franchise stores in Florida.
Crisp & Green CEO Steele Smiley set a 2021 goal of reaching 40 locations for his fast-casual salad and grain bowl restaurant chain. “I never envisioned we’d be at 38 by the second week of February,” he said.
The Minneapolis-based company just inked a deal with a franchisee who will open 10 stores in Tampa and Orlando, with more to come in Florida. Currently, seven Crisp & Green locations are up and running in the Twin Cities as well as one in Dallas. Beyond Florida, another 21 are planned or under construction in Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Texas. All of those deals came together during the pandemic.