Salad and Go Files for Bankruptcy and Closes All 70 Restaurants

Salad and Go, the Arizona-based drive-thru salad chain, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and closed its remaining restaurants on Wednesday, according to ABC15 Arizona and Arizona’s Family. The company operated 70 locations in Arizona and Nevada.

The company announced the shutdown on Tuesday. “This is a painful day for everyone who built, worked for and loved Salad and Go,” chief executive Mike Tattersfield said in a statement carried by both stations. The company said it was unable to overcome “sustained pressure on consumer demand,” Arizona’s Family reported. Its founders, who now run a different restaurant company, Angie’s, and left Salad and Go in 2021, called the closure “heartbreaking.”

Salad and Go opened its first restaurant in Gilbert, Arizona, in 2013 and grew into a national chain. The fall came after a long retrenchment. In September 2025 it announced the closure of more than 40 stores nationwide, and in January it closed all of its Texas and Oklahoma locations to focus on Arizona, the stations reported. The company was sold to new owners about five years ago.

The shutdown arrives during a large outbreak of cyclosporiasis, a parasitic intestinal illness. Michigan’s health department has counted more than 10,000 cases, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has linked the outbreak to a lettuce supplier to a fast-food chain, CBS Detroit reported last week. Salad and Go was not involved in the outbreak, Arizona’s Family reported, but the company said the episode “weakened confidence across the industry.” That is the company’s own account, and weak demand and years of store closures preceded the outbreak.

The assets have a buyer. An Oregon-based holding company tied to the founders of Dutch Bros Coffee agreed to purchase the company’s assets, including all of its Arizona and Nevada locations, Arizona’s Family reported. Neither station gave terms of the deal or said how many employees lost their jobs.

On the final day, long lines formed at many Valley locations, ABC15 reported, and at the Gilbert and Guadalupe roads restaurant the line wrapped around the building. Some customers waited as long as 40 minutes for a last meal. “This is a sad thing,” customer Brandy Beer told the station. An employee at one Arizona restaurant told Arizona’s Family it would stay open until the food ran out.